I've been dabbling into Linux for a bit now on my laptop, mainly with Mint. And with the sorry excuse of an "OS" that windows is becoming, I've decided to just fully migrate to Linux on my main PC (runs a 9070 XT and an 15-14600KF).

I'm mainly gonna game on it, so I don't worry much about compatibility problems with productivy software. Although I know online games don't like Linux much, as they can't run their spyware rootkits disguised as anticheats on it, but thats a given when migrating to Linux.

What I wanted to know is if there are any pro/important tips to getting the best and cleanest setup to get going on my fresh installation, for eg: specific programs or tinkering.

And also, which distro would fit my case the best? I've been thinking about 3 options: Mint, Bazzite, and CachyOS. What would you guys recommend of the three and why?

And as one last small question, will I have any problems with my CPU's E-cores and P-cores thing going on? As from what I understand those are built for windows 11 specifically.

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Hello guys so i am in search of games that are competitive some games i play right now are war thunder and albion but i dont really like mmorpg because they are always p2w

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On the latest Fedora version. Playing Medal of Honor: Allied Assault from GOG through Heroic on Flatpak using the latest Proton-GE. Every key I press is interpreted by the game as "pause". Any known cause?

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Hi, I installed Bazzite on my laptop with an RTX 3050 a few days ago, and I want to use Lossless Scaling on Plague Tale: Requiem for now. I am playing the game using Lutris.

I own LS on Steam, and I changed the beta branch to linux_testing. I installed lsvk gui using ujust get-lsfg (or whatever the command was; I don't remember anymore, but it worked). It installed an lsfg gui, and I pointed it to the Lossless Scaling folder from Steam for the DLL.

Now I am stuck. I don't know how to use it in actual games. Please let me know how to use it in Lutris AND Steam games.

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Overall I would NOT recommend this OS.

ujust cantdoanything

Hardware: Ryzen 5 5600x, 3060ti

Recent OS experience: Ubuntu 18/22/24, Mint 22, Windows 10/11, Nobara 42

Perspective: Daily driver OS

General use: Gaming, Development

Gaming: Steam and linux native work well, anything non-native is a challenge. All pre-installed taskbar programs are unreliable (Bazaar never installs a flapak without failure, just use terminal)

Development is clunky (scope: Python for data/analytics). Package management is limited with immutable OS. Constant issues with path even in venv (forever ModuleNotFoundError)

Discord community is generally helpful but overly political. Never assume user has OS/Linux knowledge or experience. Don't ask technical questions, and expect to get banned.

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So I was playing Spider-Man Miles Morales, and it's running pretty good on high settings without ray tracing(Always higher than 60 FPS). However, when I turned on ray tracing(RT reflections: High, RT geometry: High, RT shadows: Off, Object range: 5 or 6), it runs at more than 60, then after 1:30 minutes, it drops below 30. I tested that with Spider-Man Remastered, and it had the same results. My config is: AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS, RTX 4050 Max-Q 6GB VRAM, 24GB DDR5 RAM. Now before you say it's your config's problem, I finished Spider-Man Remastered on Windows 11 with RT on, and it was running more than 60 FPS. Is this because of Nvidia driver's issue, or the game's own problem? And also if there is a fix for that? I tested it with the latest proton 10, proton experimental, GE proton, but none of them seems to work. If you can help me, please let me know.

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What should my config file look like for Picom? I'm using i3wm and have adaptive sync enabled but I'm sorta confused as to what exactly the vsync setting does for picom besides cause steam to glitch out lol.

Here's my config:

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# Core settings

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shadow = false;

fading = false;

frame-opacity = 1;

corner-radius = 0;

blur-background = false;

dbus = true;

daemon = true;

backend = "glx";

vsync = false;

glx-copy-from-front = false;

#glx-no-stencil = true;

#glx-no-rebind-pixmap = true;

dithered-present = false;

detect-rounded-corners = true;

detect-client-opacity = true;

detect-transient = true;

detect-client-leader = false;

use-ewmh-active-win = true;

use-damage = true;

xrender-sync-fence = false;

log-level = "warn";

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# Unredirect

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# NVIDIA + VRR works better with this OFF

unredir-if-possible = false;

Should I change anything?

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I'm on Nobara 43, but this also happen on Cachyos(Already try that distro). In windows I can change RT option to ON or OFF. I wonder why this happen only on linux? Is there a way to fix this? Because I want to use MAX preset but disable the RT. This RT also normal on Resident Evil 2 Remake even on linux.

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Was gifted an HP T630 and wanted to set it up for emulation. I have to flash a new OS onto it, and I read that Linux is best for something like this. Free is best, but cheap is okay too!

Specs are

AMD GX-420GI quad-core APU

8gb ram

128gb ssd

This is my first PC so any help is greatly appreciated.

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Decided recently after off and on dabbling in Linux to finally go all in this time. I've experienced a bit more issues this time around than my last though, and I could use some advice.

I had read online that I should mount my second nvme drive, the one I keep my games on, in /var. So I sudo mkdir /var/mnt/*drive name*. Then, I ran sudo chown $USER:USER /var/mnt/*drive name* and steam worked fine there. I was able to run WarThunder natively.

I ensured the drive mount point was correct in KDE partition manager and double checked in /etc/fstab as well.

However, in fauguslauncher, I installed battle.net to play WoW and in the prefix it seems I cannot see my /var/mnt/ folder. Only /var/cache, /var/lib, /var/pressure-vessel, /var/run, and /var/tmp are visible.

Well, that's fine then. A quick google search said I should avoid mounting to /var/ anyway and instead make a directory to mount to in /mnt/ instead. So I copied all of my previous steps and remounted in /mnt/*drive name* and removed the directory in /var/. I am able to see my drive and game in the prefixed battle.net now and play WoW. HOWEVER, despite being able to see my drive and games in steam, I can no longer launch my steam games. I've tried reinstalling them, and while WarThunder will launch with Proton, it crashes soon after. I'd rather run the native build anyway.

Any help?

EDIT: Seems to be a permissions issue. I installed faugus launcher through CachyOS's repo and im unsure how to give it access to the /var/mnt/ directory I made.

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Can you tell me how long it takes for the USB drive to boot? It's the first time I've ever installed Linux and the screen has been like this for about 10 minutes.

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I know that Marvel Rivals uses kernel level anti cheat on Windows but I am curious if it's the same level on Linux.

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I'm gonna put my head through a wall I just want the thing to turn on an axis. I've tried installing this: https://github.com/niansa/UnofficialEGGMouseConfig but I keep encountering errors and honestly I don't know what the hell I'm doing. Any help would be appreciated

I'm running Linux Mint btw

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I’m getting things ready to switch to Linux and it seems that Bazzite is the best distribution for my needs.

I do have a Meta Quest 3s that I plan on using with Steam Link to play some PCVR games. Will that all work as expected on Bazzite or are there any special things I should expect?

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While researching for new9er) parts to improve performance, I came to a startling revelation. My current PSU is a little under the recommended rating for my current hardware. I have an i5-7400 CPU, a GTX 1050 Ti, 32 GB DDR4 RAM, and a 2 TB SATA HDD. According to the Newegg pc power supply calculator, the suggested wattage is 392 watts!! Could this be a reason why my PC's gaming performance is a little crappy sometimes, aside from the other hardware I mentioned, even with Linux?

Update: The reason I am researching this is because I am window shopping for parts to improve my PC's performance that do not require a PSU upgrade because my current PC is an Acer Aspire TC-780 from 8 years ago , I don't think finding a replacement PSU is realistically possible, so I am thinking that replacing my SATA HDD (old school spinning magnetic platter hard drive) with a 512 GB NVME M.2 Gen3 (The best generation my mobo supports) SSD will give me a performance gain, or am I wrong?

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