So I got this setup:
Acer Nitro AN515-55
Intel® Core™ i5-10300H
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
16GB RAM

I'm running Fedora Workstation version 44 right now and I enjoy it, but I was dumb and didn't check more detailed information regarding GNOME and apparently it can have some overhead compared to KDE due to heavier resource use. And according to someone KDE is the gold standard. I have usually used KDE but this time I wanted to try GNOME since my experience with it has been limited. I wonder if reinstalling Fedora KDE version would be worth it given my hardware isn't the best. I have PC with Ryzen 7 and RTX 4060 but it has RAM problems so I need to rely on this laptop for now.

Gaming hasn't been problematic given I mostly play older titles but would KDE benefit me in games such as Cyberpunk? Or is GNOME fine as it is?

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Basically I am linux noob. I installed bazzite but I really need lg tv companion which is lg tv buddy app for arch in github. I cant edit terminal commands so I normally copy paste commands. The tv buddy app uses sudo so wont work on immutable or I cant get it to work. I couldnot convert it to work on bazzite. Cachyos handheld mode is not recommended for desktop. Basically, I need the experience of bazzite but based on arch and mutable so I can run arch sudo commands. Many things might not have made sense to linux pros but I hope you understood what I meant. Thanks for any help.

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Ok so I'm about ready to give the penguin a whirl, and I've been thinking of trying a few different distros out before I commit.

I've been considering Nobara, CachyOS or Bazzite (if you've got other suggestions I'd be interested), and was wondering if I could just use a VM rather than dual booting to try them out.

I'm aware that I'll lose performance this way, but just as a quick way to distrohop and check that my software works as expected, would this be a good way to gauge game compatibility, or will the VM be unable to utilise my GPU so I can test games this way?

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Took me several hours and too many chatgpt prompts to figure out why does my laptop only see 6gb of ram instead of 8gb, despite both 4gb sticks being perfectly fine. Turns out, as per title, that my lappy was dedicating 2gb by default instead of taking as needed.

What I'm not sure about is if it's fedora's doing or laptop in general, since the setting had to be changed from BIOS . I'm not discarding fedora as culprit because this wasn't an issue back when I was using windows.

I'm still relatively new to Linux, only really changed because f*ck Microsoft, but I'm damn proud of myself for figuring this out! :D

Now I I can actually play my MMO again <3

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I’m seriously thinking of switching to Linux because I’m starting to hate using Windows. The only thing holding me back right now is gaming. I mainly want to play Forza Horizon (planning to get FH6 on Steam when it comes out), and I’m not sure how well it’ll run on Linux, especially with things like Proton and compatibility. I’m completely new to Linux gaming, so I’d really appreciate some guidance: Will Forza Horizon games run properly on Linux (performance, online, etc.)? Which distro is best for gaming right now? Is it worth switching, or should I just stick to Windows for now? Would love to hear from people who’ve actually tried gaming on Linux.

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can somebody make a gui program to open a downloaded workshop mod's folder? this would help people who want to mod a mod without having to look at their workshop folder because the folders use the game id and then mod id and it is a pain having to find a specific mod

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Hi all — anyone here running Pascal GPUs (GTX 1080) got Helldivers 2 stable on Linux?

Setup:
- GPU: GTX 1080
- Driver: nvidia-dkms (around 580.xx)
- Distros tested:
- CachyOS → Proton-CachyOS
- Arch → GE-Proton 27
- Fedora 43 → GE-Proton 27
- Display: 4K TV @ 60Hz (HDMI 2.0), also tested at 1080p
- Wayland + X11 → same behaviour

Issue:
Game launches fine, solid FPS on the ship, menus all good.

On mission:
- If the area is quiet → lasts a couple of minutes
- If there are explosions / stratagems → crashes almost instantly

When it crashes:
- System hangs for ~5 minutes
- GPU fans spin down completely
- Then system recovers

Lowering graphics settings makes no difference.

Notes:
- Same behaviour across all 3 distros
- Other games run perfectly (ESO, Skyrim, EVE, No Man’s Sky, Elite Dangerous)
- Feels GPU/driver-related rather than Proton

Anyone seen this or got Pascal working reliably with this game?

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Any way of fixing these? I'm on cachyos, using Mesa-git 26.2 with cachyos proton and a 9070xt, this screenshot was with cachyos proton 10 but I tried updating to 11 and still had the same rendering error. I tried GE Proton 10-34 with the same result and also proton 10 for arm on my retroid pocket 6 with vkd3d 3.0b, so I think it might be a vkd3d issue? but I'm not 100% sure.

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The game crashes for me if I use the wine detection enabled false thing. I saw somebody in Protondb saying that Proton Experimental Bleeding Edge solves it on the latest nvidia driver, but it still crashes on the initial loading screen for me. I'm on EndeavourOS with Nvidia driver 595.71.05 and a 4070Ti Super. I did manage to play Resident Evil Requiem with Path Tracing but this one just refuses to work.

If anyone knows a workaround, I'm all ears! Thanks

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• New:
  • VK_KHR_maintenance11
• Fixes:
  • Fixes and performance improvements for VK_EXT_descriptor_heap
  • Performance improvement for some shader operations on BDA data
  • Allow external buffers and images to be bound to host-visible device-local memory
  • Fix compute shader timestamps to no longer implicitly block subsequent dispatches from starting
  • Fix invalid VkResult values returned from vkEndCommandBuffer with invalid Vulkan video data or API usage

https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver

Would be nice to see if you guys get more fps with HEAP flag enabled 😄

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When I play stray, the cat shows some ghosting

https://preview.redd.it/6zd59is1goyg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=f4cfb90bc997eced86a235a710eb1c172c03a754

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I’ve started doing the base system first, rebooting, then Steam/Flatpaks/Proton stuff only after I know the machine still boots clean. Not every update, but definitely for bigger kernel or Mesa jumps. Curious how many of you have an actual routine now versus just running the whole batch and dealing with it later.

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i am switching to linux soon. I do a bit of gaming and i would like to know what distro has good gaming performance that is arch based. I have used pop pop!_os in the past and it had good performance than later on i switched to arch and it wasn't near as good as pop!_os so if you know any distros plz tell.

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https://github.com/ORGB-DYE/Discord-Audio-Isolation/tree/main

With this NVENC patch (https://github.com/relativemodder/discord-linux-vulkan-video-patcher) working with Vencord (https://vencord.dev/download/) the only thing I was missing was application audio isolation.

Vesktop works for audio isolation, but there is a 1080p30 quality limit and no NVENC.

So with my 0 coding experience, I tried to make a script with AI tools to solve my audio isolation issue. There are definitely issues (listed on the github) with the script, but it serviceable for my needs (streaming my gameplay to friends while listening to a podcast or music that they don't want to hear).

Hoping this helps someone or someone can iron out the bugs and we can have working discord screen share audio isolation with NVENC. I have only tested the script on my set up on CachyOS with a nvidia 3080 on KDE.

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Amd gpu 6800 / ryzen 5800

Arch 16gb me memory.....never had an issue till this dlc launching with lutris ge proton latest release

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Anyone else out there running WoW on CachyOS? I've started getting this issue with Battle.net ... Was running good and then this.. Has anyone found a solution for this issue? Tried a scan and repair and still getting the issue. Thanks

https://preview.redd.it/6hnpvpbtgnyg1.png?width=695&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f3ba4735070fe05a78cfa789a2fb3a089e7d430

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Honestly I tried before and it was just a mess to play windows games (a mi of me having an ok to shitty PC and me don't knowing shit about Linux), I have since started working as a developer for involved with Linux, contributes to a couple of projects.

Tried this last week and oh man, it was amazing frame rate is so freaking smooth, I only care about TLOUS 2 no return and RDR2, but actually tried more than 10 games and ALL OF THEM worked fantastic and even better than windows, still having issues to use proton experimental but I am now using the latest GE proton with Lutris and it could not be an easier experience.

For someone that is not a GAMER, I just want to hit play. Get my controller and have fun for a while, this absolutely convinced me to move fully to Linux.

I am using Fedora 44 btw.

Honestly tries to debloat Windows 11 but it's just too much for the at that point, having to butcher a system so it can work decently is not a good sign for me.

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hi guys it is my first time using linux before (Specifically im using CachyOS) and i was wondering if i can play most games on steam with kernel level anticheat, i was told by a friend that most game with kernel anticheat cant be played on linux so i was wondering if thats true and if so, how can i bypass that? any help is appreciated, thank you!!

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