In the time since I created this thread, I have moved over to Fedora 40 completely and am really enjoying it. Thank you for the suggestion. There were some annoying issues with the KDE Plasma version shipped with Debian 12 which appear to be totally fixed in Fedora's version.

In doing this I did ...

I experience the same problem in 2.0.9 on Linux. Mouse buttons 4 and 5 do nothing. Middle click does work.

Remapping the mouse buttons to number keys in KDE gets it to work again, but that breaks the mouse buttons in every other application.


0.000 2024-10-23 17:48:33; Factorio 2.0.9 (build ...

I can confirm that the game does not crash when running on Fedora 40.

I find this a little surprising since I had heard that Intel's Arc graphics drivers on Linux were tied to the kernel version, and Fedora 40 ships with an earlier kernel version (6.8.5-301.fc40.x86_64) than the Debian Bookworm ...

For what it's worth, I was able to get the game to run on the same machine by booting into Windows 11.

1. What did you do? Start the game from Steam
2. What happened? The game crashes with the following log
3. What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway! I expect the game not to crash when I start it.
4. Does it happen always, once, or sometimes? Always, so far ...