I’ve seen a few people mention 4K120hz with 4:2:2 instead of 4:2:0, via HDMI, How do you achieve this? Using Fedora Kinoite (KDE) and when I set it to 4K 120hz with 8bit color (which I was under the impression is what is needed for 4:2:2, instead of 10bit) it still does 4:2:0. My tv supports 4:2:2 8bit at 120hz, as the PS5 does it fine.

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I'm new to Linux and have recently installed Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.2

I recently installed a game on Steam on my hard drive. When I try to open it from my desktop, it opens Steam, but because my HDD is in sleep mode, Steam thinks the game isn’t installed and can’t find the hard drive. Is there a way to make Steam wake up my hard drive automatically when I open a game installed on it, instead of having to manually wake the drive first and then run the game? Or are there any better solutions?

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So ive been trying to use my Earbuds on my laptop with CachyOS installed. The manufacturer claims that they support LC3 Low energy, and my laptop bluetooth card is supposed to support it as well, but when i use them, i swear i can detect the slightest amount of latency. Ive messed around with the bluetooth setting in etc and set the kernel iso to experimental and set bluetooth to le. Am i missing something?

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I've always liked Linux, even if I didn't really use it every day (except maybe via my android phone), but I never really gamed with it much. Back when I used it on my desktop in 2008 it ran the few games that actually worked in it noticably worse than windows.. but well proton-valve changes things.. and not in the most obvious way..

While I have an rtx card in my main PC and enjoy it (when it's done well), the idea of games requiring ray tracing to even run is infuriating to me.. I'd been building computers in my spare time to kind of make money on the side and since I had a tower without an os (and a non amd GPU on hand) I decided maybe I should try out this "ray tracing emulation" done only on Linux and only with AMD gpu's, apparently with proton and the mesa drivers..

Let me just say.. it was amazing. The quality was set to low, because after all I figured with it emulating both the windows back-end and the absolute minimum requires amount of rt to play Indiana jones the great circle even if it worked I expected it to be lagging, slow, something.. (also the video of the rx 480 playing it.. while functioning, had noticable issues). Well, apparently the rx Vega 56 oc I had did not have those issues. I could've have turned the settings up but honestly I was just amazed it was running at a locked 60 fps (vsync was on I guess)..

So yeah gaming on a Linux.. totally viable. Not just viable, you can literally do something on there that's impossible to do in windows.. PLAY A GAME THAT REQUIRES RT ON A GPU THAT MOST DEFINITELY DOESN'T SUPPORT RT! AND NOT JUST THAT, IT PLAYS IT AT LEAST 6X BETTER THAN A RX 6400 OR AN ARC A380 (the cheapest ray tracing hardware available)..

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Howdy, I was thinking about twitching Tekken 8 on Steamdeck to get the best possible input lag with stable 60 fps. I'm talking about proton stuff, and heavy unreal engine modifications. Anyone got this game working flawless on the system? (Ofc I know that game can looks like poop, but input lag and being stable are the most important parts for me).

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I bought a Redragon keyboard and a Kysona mouse. I saw that both have Windows applications, I tried running them via Wine but they didn't work.

If I create a VM with Windows 10 and install both programs, will it work and will the VM recognize the peripherals?

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Intel arc Meteor lake integrated gpu (Msi claw ultra 5) CachyOS handheld edition (exactly same results on bazzite) low settings 720p xess performance.

I know this gpu doesn’t run well on linux, but I wonder if there’s any fix considering its running at very low clock speeds. It’s running around 1300 mhz on windows with the same settings.

Changing tdp setting and clock speeds in steam have zero effect. Can’t get handheld daemon to work on cachy, but it was set to full tdp on bazzite with the same problem.

Is there any way to check what tdp I’m actually running? Or any way to set a fixed clock speed on my gpu?

Doom 2016 seem to run a bit better with like 50-60 fps high settings 1080p openGL.

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Question everyone, I just picked up the 8bitdo ultimate 2 (purple) and connected it to my bazzite steam machine. It's works right out the box no issue buuuut there is something that is driving me nuts. I am playing ghost of tsushima and some button prompts are wrong. Fast travel/standoff, the on screen prompt tells me to press X but I actually have to press Y (which corresponds to triangle and which is the correct button). R2 for picking up items shows up as a question mark and so does the menu button for privacy settings. Now I know the question mark means there is no mapped button, but in the R2 instance, when I press R2 it actually works. The fast travel thing is also not a remap settings since in combat, the X button actually works as intended.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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TL;DR: I'm running Linux Mint 22.2 (Noble base). The pro tool refused to work. I temporarily edited /etc/os-release to mimic Ubuntu 24.04, enabled esm-apps, and then immediately reverted the file back to Linux Mint defaults. I successfully pulled 25 security patches (ffmpeg, imagemagick, etc.) from the ESM repo. apt seems happy, but is this a bad idea?

Is this "spoof and revert" method safe for my system long-term, or am I setting myself up for dependency hell later?

Detailed Steps of What I Did:

1. The Problem: I tried to run sudo pro enable esm-apps, but it failed because it detected "Linux Mint 22.2 (Zara)" which isn't supported.
2. The "Hack": I backed up my release file and then modified /etc/os-release using sed to look exactly like Ubuntu 24.04 LTS:
   • Changed ID=linuxmint to ID=ubuntu
   • Changed VERSION_ID="22.2" to VERSION_ID="24.04"
   • Changed VERSION_CODENAME=zara to VERSION_CODENAME=noble
3. The Activation: With the OS spoofed, I ran sudo pro enable esm-apps. It worked instantly and generated the APT sources/keys.
4. The Revert: Immediately after enabling it, I restored the original /etc/os-release backup. My system reports as Linux Mint 22.2 again.
5. The Result:
   • I ran sudo apt update and verified it's hitting https://esm.ubuntu.com/apps/ubuntu noble.
   • I ran sudo apt upgrade and it installed ~25 security patches.
   • ffmpeg -version now shows 6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm6.
   • Mint Update Manager seems fine since I reverted the OS ID.

Has anyone else run this "Hybrid" setup (Mint OS + Ubuntu Pro Tokens) long-term? Does apt ever get confused between the Mint repos and the ESM repos since I'm technically no longer spoofing the OS ID?

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I swear to god Linux is really bad when it comes to laptops. Anything I set up either my laptop is overheating and I get stutters, if I disable turbo boost on my cpu, the performance is bad. How do you use Linux on your gaming laptops. I plan to have a dual boot system, because I need Windows for a few things.

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Just moved over to Linux Mint Cinnamon, been really good so far but mount and blade just refuses to boot. I tried via lutris AND Proton-GE. It starts up, then immediately offers a pop-up that the program has stopped responding. No idea what to do, i just want to get my band of roving horse archers :(

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P.S. If you find Windows runs to be much smoother than Linux - it's not true. Rivatuner (statistics server) on Windows by default smooths out frametime/fps values, and some users didn't disable it, or didn't know about it (including me at the start of this project).

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Has anyone tested whether they have gotten banned since the latest Proton patch? Was thinking of getting it

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(My computer is a 2013 imac, GT 755m, 32gb)

Im pretty new to linux I have tried mint and cachyos before and they were nice I haven't tried fedora however.

in a operating system I mainly consider, Speed/preformance like overall and in gaming, Ease of installation, good for development, not needing to always tinker everything just to get it working, and a gui/automated option for most things

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I can't open Far Cry 4 or Fallout 4. I'm using the latest version of Proton; it won't open or do anything. I'm using the Linux Mint distribution with a GT 1030 graphics card and a 4th generation i5 processor.

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Hi there, and merry Christmas to you all!

Straight to the point: my brother gave me a Meta Quest 3S for Christmas this year (it’s really cool, by the way — I’ve already been having a lot of fun with it), and I’ve been thinking about developing something for it.

I’m not very familiar with XR these days, but it seems like a growing market, and I’m honestly REALLY impressed with the technology. That said, I’m not entirely sure what the right setup on Linux looks like. There’s a lot of scattered information out there, and it feels like mostly noise.

What I’d like to achieve is something like this:

• A “productivity mode”, where I can set up virtual monitors in AR/VR and do my normal coding work directly in them.
• A “game / XR mode”, where I can run an XR app and test it on the headset.

Ideally, I’d like to switch between these two modes without constantly taking the headset on and off, and without having to rebuild and sideload an APK every single time I want to test something (I’d be using Unity, by the way).

I know a workflow like this is possible on Windows using Oculus Link + Virtual Desktop, but I’ve been a Linux user for years now, and I really don’t want to move to Windows. I’m very comfortable with my current setup and workflow.

For context, I’m currently running Arch Linux + DWM, no compositor and no full desktop environment. I also know next to nothing about SteamVR, Monado, OpenXR, or the whole XR stack on Linux, so any guidance there would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance, and happy holidays!

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error code:10007, error code: 10701 "the app couldnt connect to port 3216, OTHER ERROR CODE:135DEC40:3FBBECD0:00000064:0000000 From the ea app once it loads up but then it just shuts down again im on proton experimental(proton 8 doesnt work, doesnt load at all for me) is anyone else having this type of issue..... I cant load up my sims ,

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Linux Mint 22.2

AMD Ryzen 9 5900x / Radeon RX 9060 XT

Mesa 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2

Tried adding the following to /etc/environment but cinnamon either crashes or boots to a blackscreen

LIBGL_KOPPER_DRI2=1
MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink

Been using this card for a bit under a month since switching from an rtx 3060, had no issues until just a few days ago when I'd start to get amdgpu driver failures playing modded Minecraft, requiring a hard reset to fix, and other previously playable games are crashing within minutes. Been running in circles trying to find bandaid fixes but I haven't been able to make anything work yet.

I am getting the amdgpu: Ring gfx_0.0.0 reset failure error in journalctl when Minecraft locks the system up, no other games are as catastrophic at least, but as of now I'm quite certain my issues lie with OpenGL not playing nice.

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