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Can you promote on r/linux_gaming?
Allowed Its rules allow sharing your own work.
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A subreddit for discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck).
What its rules say about promotion
Regarding self-promotion, personal projects, and AI assistance
You’re welcome to post about Linux-gaming-related reviews, HOWTOs, videos or websites you’ve created as long as you’re willing to tell us more about them. Low-effort and link-only self-promotion may get removed. Code projects: Please be upfront about AI use. Substantially AI-assisted projects should have had 2+ months of dev history. Use them yourself first; make sure they work. Exception: thoughtful non-promo posts about technical aspects (related to Linux gaming, not AI) you’re dealing with.
What its rules say about AI and bots
No LLM-generated posts
Please take the time to use your own brain to talk to us. Nobody wants to have a conversation with an unconscious stochastic text generator. Machine translation (like Google Translate) is alright if you don’t speak English well enough. Please **do** translate non-English posts. Reddit only auto-translates posts when using the mobile app.
Regarding self-promotion, personal projects, and AI assistance
You’re welcome to post about Linux-gaming-related reviews, HOWTOs, videos or websites you’ve created as long as you’re willing to tell us more about them. Low-effort and link-only self-promotion may get removed. Code projects: Please be upfront about AI use. Substantially AI-assisted projects should have had 2+ months of dev history. Use them yourself first; make sure they work. Exception: thoughtful non-promo posts about technical aspects (related to Linux gaming, not AI) you’re dealing with.
All 7 rules of r/linux_gaming
- Respect other users
Heated discussions are fine, unwarranted insults are not. Remember you are talking to another human being. - Well-crafted tech-support requests only
While r/linux_gaming is not primarily a tech-support forum, well-crafted support requests are welcome. Tech-support requests should be readable by and useful to others. What exactly did you do, and with what version of what installed from where? How have you tried to troubleshoot the problem? This [guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/wiki/howtoaskforhelp/) can help you write useful tech-support requests. Vague/low-effort tech-support request may be removed. - Please read the FAQ/use the “Getting Started” thread
Please read the [FAQ](https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/wiki/faq) and, unless you have specific needs/circumstances and are willing to describe them, keep commonly asked questions like “which distro should I use?” or “or should I switch to Linux?” to the pinned thread “Getting started: The monthly-ish newbie advice thread!”. - No low-effort, off-topic & drive-by posts
No sensationalist/misleading titles, spam, memes, X-vs-Y playground fights, duplicates, random screenshots, uninformative gameplay videos, paywalled/login-walled content, screenshots of text better linked to directly, links to sales or blog posts that merely summarise an original source, overly general computing news, and reviews/news about games without Linux support. (The developers actively supporting Wine/Proton play counts as Linux support for the purposes of this rule.) - No LLM-generated posts
Please take the time to use your own brain to talk to us. Nobody wants to have a conversation with an unconscious stochastic text generator. Machine translation (like Google Translate) is alright if you don’t speak English well enough. Please **do** translate non-English posts. Reddit only auto-translates posts when using the mobile app. - Regarding piracy
Discussions about piracy as a concept, its history, whether it’s ethical or not… those are alright if there’s a Linux connection. But r/linux_gaming is not the right place to ask for help with Fitgirl repacks or whatever. Links to pirated software or associated tools aren’t welcome, either. There’s already an active subreddit for that. If you have a tech-support question that just so happens to involve pirated software, make it about the tech, not the piracy. - Regarding self-promotion, personal projects, and AI assistance
You’re welcome to post about Linux-gaming-related reviews, HOWTOs, videos or websites you’ve created as long as you’re willing to tell us more about them. Low-effort and link-only self-promotion may get removed. Code projects: Please be upfront about AI use. Substantially AI-assisted projects should have had 2+ months of dev history. Use them yourself first; make sure they work. Exception: thoughtful non-promo posts about technical aspects (related to Linux gaming, not AI) you’re dealing with.
What the written rules don't show
- Unpublished minimums. Many communities remove posts from new or low-karma accounts through AutoModerator settings that are not on the rules page, often before a moderator sees them.
- Reddit's own filters. Reddit's site-wide spam filters can remove posts from accounts that mostly share links to their own site, in any community.
- The community's norms. Many communities see themselves as peers, not an audience: post where you already take part, and make the post worth reading without the link.
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