I am a newbie Linux gamer and I used to have Linux Mint (Which is Ubuntu based I believe?) on my 1050ti card. Other than Minecraft it worked horribly and nearly double as worse than Windows 10 did. I figured it's because I used an old nvidia gpu. Now I have a Vega 56 and an I5-10400f and I want to try again after rage quiting windows once more. Yes I want to game on it. I looked around the subreddjt and everyone is recommending Bazzite or Endeavour or Catchy or even Nobara but nobody is mentioning anything Ubuntu based. Why? From what research has told me Ubuntu has the widest range of supported software in their appstore thingy and kbuntu also exists with it's Discover app so I figured it would be awesome for a newbie gamer. So is Ubuntu really that bad that nobody is even recommending it?

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Hey fellow linux users I am thinking of switching from windows 11 to linux mint but my concern is that would I be able to play fps games like counter strike , warzone and any other fps games on linux mint ?

Edit- I am not familiar with linux so I am not familiar with a lot of phrases or words.

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With the recent news of the work being done to fully support old GCN chips in the AMDGPU driver, I decided to dust off an old HD 7750 that I used back in the day. To my surprise, it managed to run this native Vulkan game notably faster than I could ever get it to do on Windows, scoring 12% higher in the inbuilt benchmark once I got past the hurdle of making everything fit within the measly 1GB memory capacity.

And I must say, The Talos Principle still holds up. I couldn't have asked for a better showcase of this piece of antiquity in action. Shoutout to Timur Kristóf for breathing life and making this come true.

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Yesterday i downloaded Bazzite as my main OS. Yeah, it's hard to use, but I'm ok for that.

But I've got some issues and some of them may not get solved as of now:

1. First and the main problem is that using Proton will cause a performance loss when redirecting from DX12. It's not something that can be fixed now, and this is the main reason I wanna switch back. I'm using a NVIDIA GPU, and the loss is visible compared to Windows. I consider that I'll be playing a lot of games that natively only support DirectX and this disturbs me.
2. Stuff related to NVIDIA is really hard to configure. Firstly it's that i can't find a method to set my screen color depth to 10 bits for my HDR to work better. Secondly it's that i can't set up the latest framegen version by swapping dlss (Only tried doing that in The Finals so far, tells me to turn on HAGS.). There is no NVIDIA App, no control panel, nothing (aside nvidia settings panel which has almost nothing in it) that could help me configure the settings i want.

I think i was too hasty when deciding to install Bazzite... It seems to be too unfinished to me right now. While the second point is tolerable, the first one seems to be really obstructing...

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Seems the Nvidia driver borked on a bunch of these, falling back to NVK on some systems and even llvmpipe/lavapipe on one. Poor 1080 Ti, so many eggs...

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Looking for recommendations for pre-buit AMD RDNA4 gaming PCs for 1440p high/ultra, ideally in a smaller form factor like mini ITX.

Is there anything out there or do I need to build it on my own? Have no price limit but should not be bad value for money either ...

Thx in advance.

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Everything was working perfectly fine yesterday. But when I tried opening steam today I got this, I don't know what's happening. If anyone has got any information or advice, I would appreciate that.

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I got a GTX 1060 for free to replace my old RX 550. Using AMD, I had no problems with games or programs. After installing all the drivers, I launched the first game I had installed, Counter-Strike 2, and... The game flickered so much that it was impossible to play. Then I launched the latest version of Minecraft and encountered the same problem: when I turned on the shaders, the game flickered.

After that, I was advised to uninstall the old version of the drivers and install them using a script from this GitHub repository (Frogging-Family/nvidia-all). It downloaded the TKG version of the drivers for me, but the problem remained.

I tried to fix the Xorg (X11) settings myself, but nothing helped. What should I do?

OS: Arch Linux

Kernel: 6.17.8-1-catgirl-edition

TWM (Tiling Window Manager): SwayFX (fork Sway)

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I have now had the Intel B580 for over a year. It has been awesome (and surprisingly good). But, as many of us now, I’m switching from windows to Linux as my main OS. (Fedora and/or CachyOS)

But that experience has not been the greatest.. to say the least. Unstable in games (newer games), lots of visual glitches, not being able to see my bios anymore unless i use HDMI(???). Im this close now to switch to the 9060xt. Question is; stay, or order the AMD card?

(Have in mind, i do game at 1440p with XeSS, and that feature does not work in linux at this point).

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Just did a fresh install of Fedora 43 KDE. Followed the RPM fusion guide:

sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing sudo dnf @update --setopt="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin sudo dnf install intel-media-driver sudo dnf install libva-intel-driver sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld

Installed Lutris, set the Wine runner to use GE-Proton Latest and installed battle.net from the Lutris add game menu. I was able to successfully install battle.net but when I launch it, after entering my password, it crashes. I've had something similar happen in the past, and went about looking into my GPU/Vulkan drivers and I"m getting an error.

vulkaninfo --summary WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Received return code -3 from call to vkCreateInstance in ICD /usr/lib64/libvulkan_dzn.so. Skipping this driver.

Vulkan info seems to indicate both RADV and llvmpipe are being used?

vulkaninfo | grep GPU WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Received return code -3 from call to vkCreateInstance in ICD /usr/lib64/libvulkan_dzn.so. Skipping this driver. GPU id = 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) GPU id = 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) GPU id = 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) GPU id = 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) GPU id = 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) GPU id : 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) [VK_KHR_xcb_surface, VK_KHR_xlib_surface]: GPU id : 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) [VK_KHR_xcb_surface, VK_KHR_xlib_surface]: GPU id : 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) [VK_KHR_wayland_surface]: GPU id : 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) [VK_KHR_wayland_surface]: GPU0: deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU GPU1:

Though admittedly I'm a bit new to this. Could llvmpipe be the issue? Any ideas why it would be used?

PC specs:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 43 KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0 Qt Version: 6.10.1 Kernel Version: 6.18.5-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 20 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700KF Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.2 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP Manufacturer: ASRock Product Name: Z790 Lightning WiFi submitted by /u/Burine
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Has anyone experience this issue? I cannot prove if Bluetooth is the problem but every time the match starts the game crashes and so does the whole desktop environment. The game works fine if I don't have them connected, it's weird and I'm confused. I've looked up many fixes and they don't work either. Does anyone know what the problem could be?

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Been getting more familiar with my CachyOS install, trying to set it up the same way my win10 LTSC setup works; I have an app that saves display profiles so that I can quickly switch from the monitors at my desk to my 4k 144hz TV. I've been figuring out how to make a kscreen-doctor script that can emulate this, but I noticed I wasn't allowed to set my TV to 4k 144hz (I'm restricted to 120hz); after some brief reading I discovered that it's apparently some proprietary HDMI spec BS that's causing this arbitrary restriction.

I saw rumblings in that short research that there are DP to HDMI adapters that can bypass the restriction, but I honestly have no clue how to search for that. Does anyone know of ones that work or what I should look for to find them? My GPU is a 9070XT.

I know 24hz really isn't a huge deal, but I just want near feature parity with windows so that I can eventually completely ditch it.

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https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton10-29

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Has anyone tested to see what the performance difference is in games that have native Linux support but running with proton instead?

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Ive been trying to play mass effect legendary edition and it worked for a little bit but now it won't even launch i previously launched it with proton experimental but now it just won't even open.

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I've been struggling with some advanced 3dcg software lately and this inspired me to create a new subreddit designed to improve/fix/generalize what WineHQ/ProtonDB does and adapt it to modern web realities (such as search indexing, LLMs and the general habit of searching things by typing "reddit my question" into search engine).

Address: r/works_on_linux

Why use it when there are resources like WineHQ and ProtonDB?

Because WineHQ is dying and doesn't even include older versions of Wine in their reporting form and ProtonDB is, while good, focused solely on Proton (also, I don't think you can have questions/discussions there). And in this new community we have general-purpose all-encompassing subreddit designed to be indexed by search engines and parsed by LLMs for future reference.

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