Requirements:

• Passable sound quality (doesn't have to be amazing)
• A mic (passable, doesn't have to be amazing)
• Ideally, a USB 2.4ghz connection (I don't really want to rely on Bluetooth, and I've had issues with Bluetooth headphones not showing up in the list of audio devices in Discord despite being connected to my system)
• Something that is reliable on Linux
• Affordable (no more than $200 USD, and ideally -- less)

I want to play games on my TV rather than my desk, so it's not really convenient for me to get an external mic and a pair of headphones. Hoping this sub can help!

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Hey so there is a problem with my steam apparently. I tried to get some help in git valve software but they said it isnt a steam issue and dismissed me so the next place is Reddit. I use Omarchy OS based on Arch and it is not my first time using it but it is my first time having a problem with it. So i start Dead Cells ( for example ) and it goes into running and crashes after some tweaks to the Proton ( like changing to Proton 10.0-5 or Proton 8.0-5 excuse me if the numbers are wrong it should be like this ) i get this message:

SDL_Init failed: waylandx11 not available
Called from hxd. $System.start (hxd/System.hl.hx line 99)
Called from hxd. $App.constructor (hxd/App.hx line 45)
Called from $Boot.constructor (Boot.hx line 452)
Called from $Boot.main (Boot.hx line 115)

And these are my specs from fastfetch
┌──────────────────────Hardware──────────────────────┐
PC: 20AWS1CH00 (ThinkPad T440p)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210M (4) @ 3.20 GHz
GPU: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller @ 1.15 GHz [Integrated]
Monitor: 1366x768 in 14", 60 Hz [Built-in]
Space available: 76.18 GiB / 463.74 GiB (16%) - btrfs
RAM: 2.51 GiB / 7.45 GiB (34%)
Swap RAM : 415.66 MiB / 3.72 GiB (11%)
┌──────────────────────Software──────────────────────┐
 OS: Omarchy 3.3.3
󰘬: master
󰔫: stable
: Linux 6.18.3-arch1-1
: Hyprland 0.53.1 (Wayland)
: kitty 0.45.0
󰏖: 1489 (pacman)

I tried everything from 5 different Protons to reinstalling Vulkan and wayland but nothing worked tried with ai integrated into my system ( CLI ) but it couldnt do it. Also tried like 8 different launch options for the game and steam from the terminal still nothing.

This is what i got from the git guy:
Hello @, SDL is accurately telling you that you manually set SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER or SDL_VIDEODRIVER to waylandx11 somewhere and that's an invalid option. I'd expect this to be a comma separated list or even better, for it not to be set at all as SDL's defaults should be the best option. This is unrelated to Steam or the Steam runtime.

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Hey guys, i've recently got a second 3090 to help with running some exercises and workloads.

However when i plug the second 3090 into my pc ARC Raiders starts crashing on launch.
The same happens for Transport Fever 2 and Avowed. All the games work fine with only a single GPU plugged in.

If i change the rendered GPU with KWIN_DRM_DEVICES=/dev/dri/card2:/dev/dri/card1 in etc/environment, i can see the desktop and other apps change to the secondary GPU, but the games still crash on startup.

If i use DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_UUID="" %command% with he UUID from vulkaninfo | grep deviceUUID, the 3 games crashes with a warning about DX12 not being supported.

So far i seem to have tracked this down to the fact that the second GPU appears as GPU 0 in the list.

Do any of you have any experience with multiple Nivida GPUs?
Btw i'm using Bazzite with the KDE environment and Driver Version: 590.44.01, also any help and ideas would be apprechiated as i'm currently stuck on how to get games to run with two gpus.

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I can't get nvenc working in Steam game recording in Linux, either in Mint or in CachyOS. It works fine in OBS for recording my game screen, but Steam's game recording has some convenience features which would be nice to have. After a bunch of Googling I found several people asking the same question and no hard answers or any claims from anyone saying theirs is working.

Steam game recording works with CPU encoding, but at 4K only records around 5-10fps and is unusable. I verified via nvtop that nvenc is not being used. Whereas with OBS / ffmpeg / etc. I can see nvenc encoder % utilization, and OBS can record at 60fps.

In the Steam options I have Video Recording > Enable GPU hardware encoding enabled, and I tried both Enable HEVC enabled and disabled as well as different quality / fps settings. Under Interface, I have GPU accelerated rendering in web views and hardware video decoding both enabled.

I'm running CachyOS with a 9950X, RTX 5090 and these software versions, all should be relatively up to date: Kernel: Linux 6.18.3-2-cachyos DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.4 WM: KWin (Wayland) Nvidia Driver Version: 590.48.01 Proton runtime: proton-cachyos-10.0-20251222 steam linux runtime Steam Version: 1766451605 Steam Client Build Date: Mon, Dec 22 7:48 PM UTC -05:00

Other things I've tried: Changing the Proton runtime (tried proton-cachyos-10.0-20251222 native, Proton experimental, and Proton 10.0-3)

Installed/updated lib32-libva, libva-nvidia-driver and libva-utils

Adding the env strings PROTON_NVIDIA_NVENC=1 LD_PRELOAD="" %command% to the game settings.

Enabled the proton log via PROTON_LOG=1 and searching the logs for "nvenc", "h264", "hevc", "libva", "vaapi" all shows nothing in the logs.

Let me know if there is another log or diagnostic that would be helpful. Thanks!

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Currently im data limited in my country and redownloading everything would cost too much and take too much time, any solution

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Hello,

Arc Raiders runs perfectly, then crashes after approximately 30 minutes. There is no consistency to what causes the crash sometimes within a battleground or in the menu but always after about 30 minutes.

System: Void Linux X11 AMD 3600 AMD 5700 XT

I have tried: Different proton versions: GE-proton10-13, Proton Experimental, Proton 10 Increasing ulimit, increasing vm.max_map_count, clearcpuid in grub.

What else can I try?

Obviously it’s hard to diagnose because it takes 30 minutes to test any changes. dmesg shows no issues when crashing, and although I have a background in cybersecurity and am somewhat familiar with assembly, static analysis of the steam.log folder doesn’t seem to point to anything glaring. Im pretty sure I have ruled out any potential cpu, ram and vram issues.

Any help would be appreciated as I can’t seem to find anything online about the consistent crashing on Linux.

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Im using nobara and i was looking for a way to play genshin in nobara but i saw a lot of different ways like proton AAGL lutris wine twintail etc but i don't know the most easy way to download and play genshin i was trying with AAGL but i saw a lot of people saying that proton and steam is better or lutris with wine is better i tried with lutris before AAGL but i get some issues because i need to use the launcher hoyoplay and the launcher open but the genshin dont open so i just want the easiest to use and mainly for genshin or hoyoverse games (also i just play genshin of the hoyoverse games)

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My base OS is Proxmox and I'm running games inside of VMs using PCI passthrough for my GPU. I have two VMs with identical resources assigned - one EndeavourOS and one Windows. I have a handful of games that run perfectly in the Windows VM, yet if I run them in the EndeavourOS VM I get poor performance with a ton of stuttering. With the performance overlay on I can see that my CPU utilization, GPU utilization, GPU memory, and RAM usage are all at acceptable levels, yet the game performance seems terrible.

My hardware is fairly old (Ryzen 5 1600 [CPU shares prioritized to gaming VM], RTX 2060 [PCI passthrough to VM], 64GB RAM [32GB assigned to VM]) but clearly capable of running these games since it works fine in the Windows VM.

Specifically the games I'm messing with now are WH40k Rogue Trader, Battlesector, Darktide, and Dyson Sphere Program. I've reviewed the ProtonDB entries for each of these and tried various tweaks which don't seem to have any effect.

Where do I start troubleshooting to figure out what the problem is?

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I'm wondering if there is any way to implement stream delay on GSR (somewhere in the range of 1 to 3 minutes). This could be useful if someone is streaming a tournament or a cs2 scrim and does not want to give the other team info on the current round.

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I have no problem with moving to linux as I am an experienced Soft Developer so I know basics of linux and I have the specs for it too (5600x, 9060xt). It just sad that apollo's key feature aka virtual display isnt avaliable in linux via sunshine.

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im very very very new to linux and got nobara now i have to learn how to run a flatpak and cannot figure it out for the life of me the hytale page gave me a flatpak and thats it i assumed i should just click on it to run it but no dice unless i have to use something with it. could use some help please and thank you

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I'm planning on installing Nobara on a free SSD this weekend and giving Linux gamining a try for a month or so. Win 11 will remain on a different SSD in case I want to go back and I'll just change the boot drive in the bios. My Steam library is on a third SSD (NSFT). My question do I point my Linux Steam install at this library or set up a new library on the Steam install. Drive space is not a concern, I'm more concerned with stability and performance

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I just upgraded from a 7900xt gpu to rtx 4090 nvida seems to work very well,

i added the nvidia repo and i installed driver currently i use the open driver the 4090 crushes my 7900xt in performnce i get double the fps in meny games. Is there eny reason to use the propritary driver over the open one?

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Hey there!

I’ve got my twitch stream set up. I can get my discord out out and my game output working, but I cannot for the life of me, get OBS to pick up my mic for twitch.

I have my audio sources set up in a group so I can edit out audio in recorded vids. Recordings get my mic with no issue.

I’ve created a “desktop audio” source and given it every channel in an effort to get the mic input, but no success.

Any tips?

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I have dual booting with windows 10 and linux mint cinnamon for 2 weeks now and it has been going pretty good on my low end laptop (1tb hdd,ddr4 4gb ram and intel i3 7th gen) and time spent on windows has been reduced a lot I use linux now for everything cuz faster startup and better performance overall on desktop. However gaming is another issue which I don't understand I tried minecraft on linux and it ran smoothly but when I tried need for Speed Most wanted (2012) it was laggy and stuttery compared to when i ran on windows. Same goes for assassins creed 1 and brotherhood

Can anyone explain which is better for gaming linux or windows and why the difference exists (I used lutris for everything)

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Distro: CachyOS

Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x
GPU: RX 6650 XT
RAM: 32GB 3200mhz

I'm sure this has already been posted before and I'm wondering if there's a fix that's been made so that I could enjoy this game without having to worry it crashing my gpu

Whenever I try to play this game for a bit, it'll freeze, show a previous frame that had already happened like 20 seconds ago (or if it shows any graphical artifacts instead) and it freezes my entire desktop. It's like a ticking time bomb that I have to be aware of. I can prevent it by restarting the game occasionally so that it doesn't crash, but I forget sometimes and it slaps me in the face.

I've tried methods of turning down the quality to the lowest, even just setting the texture quality to low, turning off mesh lod, changing ini files from a steam guide that gives you better performance on AMD cards. Still nothing! It's making me a little mad because I absolutely love this game and have been able to put 50 hours in it, but as of now it's getting to me because the crashes are more frequent.

Is it because of recent mesa versions that's been causing this? CachyOS's version of Proton? Proton in general? I just want to know if this is an issue that anyone who plays Darktide on linux using CachyOS or any other distro is facing this problem.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

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I've noticed with the influx of new people to Linux lately, we have quite a disparity in experiences.

It seems people with basic literacy and intelligence, who are guided to an easy to use distro, pretty much uniformly love it. But of course there's also regular posts of people saying nothing works, and ignoring the fact that the common factor between nothing working, is them.

But one thing that surprises me, I've never seen on any Mac sub or forum, people complaining about games not working on Macs. Mac gaming absolutely sucks beyond anything, and yet people just accept it.
Linux on the other hand, has like 5 popular, DRM ridden games that won't work, and it's the end of the world.

Meanwhile any Apple device costs twice as much as it should, while being entirely locked down. Yet somehow it doesn't face anywhere near the ire of people complaining about its lack of compatibility.

What gives?!

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