So um i was thinking about moving to linux but i have tried some distros and gave up because the performance was very low or maybe i didn't set up correctly. Can anyone please help me choose a gaming distro like the one which is totally optimized for gaming and my specs are also not the top end.

My specs:

Core i5 1145g7 (11th gen)

32 gb Dual channel ram

Intel iris xe graphics (80 EUs)

And an nvme ssd.

Please suggest me a distro for these specs.

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Hi! So I’m very new to pc and my friend helped me install Linux mint cinnamon.

But I have a question!

I have a laptop that I bought two games on, Minecraft and stardew valley. I did not buy these through steam, rather I just used the AppStore on my laptop. Would I be able to transfer these games from my laptop to my pc? From researching it looks like I need a hard drive. Could I use the same one I used to install Linux?

Is it even possible for me to Transfer the games not bought from steam to my pc that’s got Linux?

I’m sorry if this seems like a dumb and easily answerable question but I really need help.

Thanks in advance!

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I'd like to play Bloodborne. I'm on Arch Linux. I have an Intel i5 and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER graphics card.

I downloaded BB Launcher from Nexus mods:
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/194?tab=description

I got the game to run, but once I get past the character creation screen, the screen goes black and it freezes. I have to force stop the game.

Any idea why? Thank you for your time and support!

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Has anyone managed to play for any significant period of time with DLSS enabled? I've tried on both Ubuntu 24 and Fedora 43 and both of them crash after 10-15 minutes of play with a bugsplat error.

The higher I have DLSS the faster it crashes but it doesn't seem like it's possible to play unless I disable it completely.

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Ive tried reinstalling and everything, this shows every time. Im using Bazzite and i installed through flathub please help

https://preview.redd.it/bfr6dfzt6prg1.png?width=1297&format=png&auto=webp&s=738e434f8d9103bae50c33e77485bfbc10e11442

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From this commit by lead Wine developer Alexandre Julliard:

ntdll: Add heuristics to prefer native dll based on the version resource. For now checking that CompanyName isn't 'Microsoft'.

How it works: The update adds a heuristic to ntdll that triggers when Wine is deciding whether to use a "builtin" (Wine-provided) or "native" (application/microsoft-provided) DLL.

If the CompanyName is not "Microsoft," Wine assumes the DLL is a custom library provided by the application developer (like a game engine component or a specific middleware) and will now automatically prefer it over the internal Wine version.

This eliminates the need for manual WINEDLLOVERRIDES for many games and apps that ship with their own modified versions of DLLs (commonly used with ASI Loader and BepInExPack). It’s a huge win for getting modded games to work out-of-the-box.

Link to the original MR:
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/6527

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I've been working on a small nostalgia project and decided to rebuild one of my old favorite CS 1.6 Zombie Mod servers from the mid-2000s — the kind many of us grew up on.

This isn’t the modern type of zombie server with classes, props or RPG-style systems.

I wanted to recreate the panic-style gameplay a lot of us remember from 2006–2009:

•Classic bunnyhop movement — zombies show real skill by chaining jumps, air control and timing to break into survivor camps

•Parachute + air acceleration — experienced zombies can glide, angle and redirect mid-air to reach survivor spots newer players can’t

•Classic knockback behavior — rifles give light push, shotguns deliver strong knockback just like the old servers

•Humans never run out of reserve ammo, but you still have to reload (no endless spray)

•Clean 1–3 weapon menu

•No added soundpacks, no extra visuals, no modern effects — just the oldschool aesthetic with the original Biohazard feel

It’s been a fun “digital archaeology” project — fixing HLDS quirks, compiling old AMXX modules, updating configs, and tuning movement + knockback to feel exactly like the 2006–2009 ZM era.

If anyone played classic zombie servers back then, this might bring back memories.

I'm not sure if posting server details is allowed, so feel free to DM me if you want more info.

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KDE is the better choice for gaming

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Is anyone else having this issue or it just me? When I load up certain games like no man's sky or helldivers 2 for example, it either runs for 5 minutes then crashes, or it crashes the moment I turn on instant replay.

I'm using the overlay mode as well by the way not the default mode.

ASUS ROG Strix G18 G814PH-ES94 Linux Mint (Latest as of March 27 2026)

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My monitor has HDR10, but for some reason, Tetris Effect Connected doesn't seem to detect it at all, even when I have HDR enabled in the KDE display settings.

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I recently switched to a vanilla Arch install over Cachy os as i just prefer to have it as minimal as possible, but installed CachyOS kernel and its repositories. Something i notice is that setting "game-performance" does not work now, games wont launch with it. Do i need to do something else? Different command now? Figured using Cachys kernel ect would bring the same functions. I see a command called gamemoderun, does this do the same thing? I'm seeing that game-performance uses power-profiles-daemon but this isn't even maintained anymore? I just want the solution to my gaming to ensure CPU and everything is the same as before on Official Cachy. Or does this even matter?

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I have a pop_os install that I play most of my games on. It usually works great, but RE9 seems to have some issues. The game always crashes on the title screen with any proton version other than 9.0-4. I'm told the likely culprit is the fact that pop_os is still not officially on the Nvidia 590+ branch of drivers due to System 76 having to rework it a bit before moving to it officially. That's fine for playing the vanilla game, but I'd also like to try out some of the mods I've seen, which don't seem to work with proton 9.0-4. Is there a way I can update pop_os to a newer Nvidia driver that would work with these, or how long would I have to wait for the distro to officially move to 590+?

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Their drivers for hybrid laptops are SO incredibly good, I definitely didn't buy this laptop because it worked really good with dynamic power management a few years ago and new drivers and updates didn't completely break everything :))))))))). This link is propaganda don't believe any of what it says

I can't WAIT to have 3 FPS with DLSS 5 making every frame of my favorite games look like sora slop.

Don't do NVIDIA kids

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Made the switch to manjaro a few days ago, reformatted my games drive to ext4, installed all my games and initially deadlock was working but was downright unplayable, i was averaging 30s with insane dips. After not changing any settings, i tried opening up the game again and it just wouldn't open, tried reinstalling, using a different proton version etc. It wouldn't open.

So I installed CachyOS instead, followed the Game setup guide and it still didn't open, I've tried a lot of things atp, I even tried using ProtonGE but that didn't change anything. I experimented with having shader pre-caching on and off and that didn't change anything.

I thought it was a memory issue because of the lines:

1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 80000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 40000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 20000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 10000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 08000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 04000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 02000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 01000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 00800000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 00400000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 00200000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 00100000

In the crash log but vm.max_map_count is set to 1048576 in /etc/systemctl.conf & in the process of installing ProtonGE, I confirmed I had all of my drivers 32-bit libraries installed.

I don't know what to do especially since everyone on Deadlock's ProtonDB seems to have the game run perfectly fine out of the box, it's rating went up from Gold to Platinum while I was still troubleshooting this issue, any help would be appreciated.

Laptop Specs

Proton Crash Logs - https://paste.cachyos.org/p/082ac80.log
Nvidia Driver Version - 580.142
Game Launch Commands - PROTON_LOG=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 LD_PRELOAD="" game-performance prime-run %command

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New to Linux Mint kinda guy. Any advice is appreciated. Every time the Pc starts up I have to manually select the drive with all the games downloaded. It also redownloads the Vulkan shaders every time as well. It never did this on Windows

Have you had a similar experience and what solution did you use?

Thank you 🙏

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So I know steam uses steaminput to emulate DS4's inputs to xinputs. I wonder if there is a way to replicate that for wine games. Any tweak or tips?

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Hello guys like the images shows my games texture look like that low quality but like in the image of my setting in set to ultra RDR2 is just an example for all my games did I do something wrong

I have Rx 6650xt

monitor 180hz

Ryzen 5 7500f

distro arch

using proton GE 10-34

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