Valve said they want SteamOS to work on every PC. My guess is, they will release a more PC friendly version some time soonish after Steam Machine releases.

There is also Jackify, which is a tool to download and configure Wabbajack modlists. https://github.com/Omni-guides/Jackify

One of the nice things with Xbox 360 controllers were the rechargeable battery packs. By default, the controllers used 2 AAs, but you could instead use a battery pack. Just remove the AA battery cover, pop in the rechargeable battery, and that’s it. You could then connect a cable to the controller to recharge the battery. And, if the battery happened to be empty (or dead because of old age), you could just replace it with 2 AAs, and continue playing. Some of 8bitdo’s controllers uses (or used) the same design, but they come with a rechargeable battery pack in the box.

There is a fix coming for the Nvidia performance problem. It’s going to take some months for all the pieces to fall in place. See this video for more about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpXINAMaljA

Thanks for the link. Tried to find the article before posting, but couldn’t.

I mostly agree with that, but the problem with Bazzite and CachyOS is that they are made by small teams. Distributions made by small teams might die because of some small problem, like a key member of the team being unable to continue with the project. Bazzite team, for example, earlier this year said that they would stop maintaining the OS if a proposed change to Fedora would go through, because their team wouldn’t be able cope with the change.

SteamOS on the other hand, being developed by a company with a lot of money to throw into things, is much more resilient OS, and I think that makes it better for larger masses of users.

I’d say there’s a big difference between “90% of all games” and “90% of top 1000”. 90% of all games might be playable but if the top 1000 are unplayable, that’s not very good.

I guess I just wanted to add a couple data points to the discussion. One is that even though the article is about “all games”, it so happens that “top 1000 games” (measured in some way) happen to share the same number. And I didn’t want to round it because that would have been a reporting error.

The other point being that out of the “top 10 games” (measured in some way), only 6 are playable on Linux. What I didn’t say is that one of the other 4 games cannot be played at all. Those are not numbers I want to see. I want all top 10 games to be playable.

“All games” type of lists aren’t necessarily very useful, considering the amount of shovelware that exists. ProtonDB’s Dashboard visualizes the data they have. You can change the category to, for example, “Top 10” or “Top 1000” games measured by peak concurrent players. Out of the Top 10 games, 60% gets a silver or better rating, while out of the Top 1000, 89% gets silver or better.

It probably already has the necessary drivers, but there’s just some configuration issue.

See if using nomodeset helps. If you can get it working well enough to be able to install and boot Mint, you can then troubleshoot the problem.

You also mentioned having similar problems with Ubuntu. Consider giving LMDE a try. It stands for Linux Mint Debian Edition, and should have similar user experience as normal Mint. Normal Mint is based on Ubuntu.

Looking deeper into this, the problem might not be related to that “EFI stub” message at all. It might be a GPU driver issues. As the other commenter already said, it’s probably easiest if you try another distro. If you want to stick to Mint, maybe try the previous version of it, or LMDE. ROG being a gaming related PC, Bazzite might be a good choice for you.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2675837&sid=5ba3c4e04b4dfedb0fcb7567579c73c7#p2675837

Try disabling those EFI settings.

MO2, in this situation, is just another Steam “game”. You just add MO2 as a non-Steam game to your Steam library. Set your favourite Proton flavour as the compatibility tool for it, and then figure out how to configure the Proton prefix to make everything work.

Another possibility is to use Jackify to install a modlist for Skyrim. Will be easier, but costs one month’s Nexus Mods Premium subscription. Jackify also supports flatpak versions of Steam.

That is entirely valid reason to not using a modlist. Little reason paying 10 euros to install couple tens of mods.

It took me quite a lot of fiddling to get Wabbajack working on Linux, even though I used an installation script for it. Almost gave up, but eventually managed to install Nordic Souls with it. Jackify, which is an evolution of that very same installation script, is waaaay easier.

I am not the OP of the other post. But they did find another solution that worked for them (SteamTinkerLaunch + Vortex), and edited their post with the information.

Maybe add [SOLVED] or something to the post title so that others know you found a working solution.

I’d say the main reason to spend the money is simply the sheer number of mods available. For example, say you want to improve the graphics to bring it closer to today’s graphical quality. How many mods do you need to install? You need mods for models, textures, animations, and you need them for characters, enemies, animals, buildings, terrains, etc. Then you also need ENB or Community Shaders, and all the required mods. That’s easily tens or hundreds of mods just to make the game look prettier. Are you going to investigate what all mods you should install, and then download, install and configure everything one by one? With a modlist, that’s 10 euros and one click, and you get more than just prettier graphics.

The easiest way to mod Skyrim on Linux is to install a modlist with a tool called Jackify. See my other comment for a guide. Downloading modlists will cost one month’s subscription fee to Nexus Mods, but it saves a lot of time and effort.

Mods typically have very limited scope: they often do only one small thing. And they have dependencies, and the dependencies might have dependencies. To install a mod, you need to install all the dependencies, and then you need to set them up correctly. You’ll end up reading a novel’s worth of install instructions and spending hours upon hours of your time for all of that.

Using Jackify configures the Wine/Proton prefix so that the modlist, Skyrim and ModOrganizer2 works more or less correctly. Modlists can contain hundreds of mods, and all you need to do is pay the subscription fee and Jackify takes care of the rest.

I briefly tested Jackify, and it seems to be a great tool. I’m not able to fully test it because I don’t have Nexus Mods subscription. But, I was able to test it with my old Nordic Souls files.

Guide to modding Skyrim on Linux by using a modlist:

1. You need Nexus Mods subscription to download modlists.
2. You most likely want to have Anniversary Edition of Skyrim, otherwise modding will be challenging because many mods requires it.
3. Launch Skyrim normally, and if you have Anniversary Edition, let it download all Creation Club Content (CC Content). Do not Alt-Tab out of Skyrim, or it will interrupt the download. The game will claim it downloaded everything, but you’ll miss some of the CC Content. If you get any errors about files that have the letters “CC” in them, this is your problem.
4. Once the CC Content is downloaded, close Skyrim.
5. Head over to Jackify Releases. Download the latest Jackify.AppImage.
6. You might need to give it executable permission. You can typically do this by pressing the second mouse button over the icon, go to Properties -> Permissions and look for the option that says executable. Or use chmod +x /path/to/Jackify.AppImage.
7. Place Jackify.AppImage where ever you want to and launch it.
8. Go to Modlist Tasks -> Install a Modlist.
9. Select Skyrim as the game, and pick one of the Modlists. If you are out of ideas, and you have a decent computer, try Nordic Souls. Note, that you cannot combine modlists, but you can install more mods if you want to.
10. Change install and download directories, so that they have the name of the modlist in them (create new folders, for example).
11. Under the Nexus API field, there is a link. Click it, scroll to the bottom to Personal API Key section, hit the Request API Key button and copy-paste it to the API Key field. You might want to read the warning on the Nexus site, and decide yourself if you want to trust Jackify. Jackify team is planning to implement a better way to do this, but it is what it is for now.
12. Click Start Installation button, go brew some coffee, make a dinner, wash your clothes and come back to see if the installation is finished.

Once the installation is complete, Jackify adds the modlist to your Steam Library and configures the proton prefix. Make sure you are using Jackify 1.6.2 or newer, or the prefix configuration will likely fail. When you start the modlist, it will launch ModOrganizer2. Hit the big Play button to launch the game.

Nordic Souls defaults to ENB for its graphic improvements. On my old Nordic Souls, it doesn’t seem to start, or it takes a very long time. Nordic Souls also comes with Community Shaders, which does the same thing. In the latest Nordic Souls version, there is a separate profile for ENB and CS. Change it from top left corner of MO2.

If you get “too many open files” error during modlist installation, you need to edit /etc/security/limits.conf and add this line to it: your_username hard nofile 524288 and then relogin, or restart.

Once you start a new save file, avoid changing the mod and plugin load orders (left and right side lists) in MO2. Doing so might break your save file, and fixing it will be difficult, because you probably won’t remember the old order. Also, never uninstall or upgrade a mod, unless you are sure doing so is safe. This too can break your save file. Re-installing a mod once something has broken might not fix it.

You can install more mods using MO2. Always read the instructions given by the mod author, and follow them to a T. Pay attention to things like dependencies, incompatible mods, load orders. If the mod author doesn’t mention which of the two load orders they mean, it’s most likely the mod load order (left side).

If a mod comes with different versions for AE and SE (Anniversary Edition, Special Edition), you most likely need AE version of it, if you are using AE. Otherwise, SE and AE are the same, and both should work for AE.

Some modlists, such as Nordic Souls, will downgrade the Skyrim version to something like v.1.5.97. If a mod has versions for different versions of Skyrim, pay attention to this. Check the Skyrim version from the main menu of Skyrim.