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I got it working again. The mounting of my drives changed, I don't know how, but they were originally located in the /run/media folder, then they were in the /mnt folder. I only found them there because they were no longer auto-mounting at boot up. I don't know enough yet to understand if it was an update or something I did. For your situation I'd say give Bazzite or Nobora (as LucShep suggested) a try for DCS. And try installing and running DCS through Lutris. This process has work with getting it running for me: https://github.com/ChaosRifle/DCS-on-Linux For the steam edition they're only suggesting this: X: right click the game in steam > Properties > General and set your launch options to WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES='wbemprox=n' %command% --no-launcher X: go to Finalizing install, you are now nearly done!

I wonder if this a Proton runner issue. Recent updates may have broken something maybe. Have you tried running DCS through Lutris? Edit ... I hate it when I'm right ... just received some kernel updates, now I'm getting the same issue I have stand-alone DCS and running it through Lutris.

Is your copy of DCS a native Steam build, or did you install the stand alone version of DCS using steam?

Hmmm ... looks interesting. It's amazing the number of Linux distro's that are out there, we're really spoilt for choice.

I would recommend Bazzite as it's more of a "guarded" OS, and the devs focus on gaming, making the OS more gamer friendly over other distros. The best part of Bazzite is Steam is integrated very well and has Wine and Lutris ready to go out of the box. I am however running CachyOS because Bazzite was too well locked down at the kernel level, and I needed some VM and development tools installed which wouldn't install on Bazzite. But for just gaming and general tools like word processing, art, streaming etc it's great imo. Just note, on both Bazzite and CachyOS, I found if I had lot of my modules installed, the main menu will stutter after loading. It would stutter for a couple of minutes and I haven't found explanation as to why, but it settles and DCS then runs flawlessly. Edit: Having thought about it, I might actually go back to Bazzite as it is a REALLY user friendly OS

Everything else is working in Linux ... the last piece of the puzzle. https://au.pimax.com/blogs/blogs/pimax-play-roadmap

Despite not have any recent updates, it may still work.

I don't know what I did but I somehow deleted the reply I had for you ... Anyway ... VoiceAttack for Linux: https://gist.github.com/vsTerminus/bf4f0247d75b7c0b747ab04bb34a0999

Linux Track supports TrackIR v2 to v5 https://github.com/uglyDwarf/linuxtrack/wiki https://github.com/uglyDwarf/linuxtrack/wiki/Input-Devices

That's the next hurdle I'm looking into. Head tracking in Linux exists via OpenTrack: https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack As for VR, this guy appears to have got VR working in DCS and Linux but I suspect this will be specific to VR make and model:

Turns out WinBoat wasn't needed at all. I'm currently using Bazzite v42 and DCS World runs fine on Lutris and it recognises my WinWing HOTAS and Skywalker pedals without any issues. There is mention online that Linux is limited to 80 buttons however that limit only applies to older kernel versions ** apprently **. I'm still looking into this. If it helps anyone, Bazzite is a fork of Fedora, you can install the fedora joystick-support package using the rpm-ostree package system via command terminal: rpm-ostree install joystick-support Also I'm getting better FPS than I was on Win11

Windows will remain the dominant OS for the foreseeable future. However there is also the "fact" there has been a consistent shift towards of Linux for gaming month on month for some time now. As you pointed out about the STEAM survey from Sep 2025, yes the results show Windows at 95%, but you can't discount Linux's market share has steadily grown. Windows 11 has now over taken Windows 10, but "Windows" as a gaming OS has been in decline. Yes its averaging a less than 0.5% decline, but that is equating to approx 640k PCs / month - that's not a small number. The primary driver of the Linux uptake has been from Steam's own investment and development of SteamOS, and it's roll out of the SteamDeck using SteamOS. And while SteamOS isn't officially supported for desktop PCs ( I'd say because they don't want a war with MS game titles ) you can customise a Linux distro like Bazzite to operate just like a steam deck on your PC. https://bazzite.gg/ https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/valves-steamos-is-slowly-but-surely-replacing-windows-11-for-gaming-as-more-users-make-the-big-shift https://www.tweaktown.com/news/106795/steam-data-reveals-pc-gamers-shifting-from-windows-to-linux/index.html https://windowsforum.com/threads/pc-gaming-os-shifts-in-2025-windows-decline-linux-rise-what-it-means.368883/ As it is, I haven't had any issues running my steam games on Linux, so far, and I have been able to get DCS to run, and I've just started working through VR and HOTAS support, for which there have been some advancements. https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/26403/solved-winwing-orion-2-on-linux-only-80-buttons-detected/10

Microsoft has made Windows a data mining OS rather than an OS for the user. The litany of under the hood (and under handed imo) functions that make up the OS clearly demonstrates they're more interested in making money off their users data than making the OS actually better, and the kicker is we pay for the "privilege". I mean going to the audio settings you literally have go 2 or 3 menus deep to actually get the settings you want, but they shoe horn Copilot seamlessly into task bar. While you can turn off and disable many of these invasive spying features, as a user of an OS I paid for I shouldn't have to. Its ridiculous that I need to use registry hacks and/or third party software to get the OS to function the way I want. I've been experimenting with Linux for the past 2 months and have had success in getting DCS to run. The quest now is to get Pimax and Winwing to work. Its funny because I came into the forums today looking for more Linux info because the latest windows update screwed up my audio set-up and killed the UEFI dual boot loader. Yeah I'm done with Windows.

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If anyone is hesitant on Win 11, you can still run Windows 10 until 2032 with official security updates by using Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-iot-enterprise-ltsc-2021 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-10-enterprise