Hello,

I recently built couch gaming, steam machine like, PC with Ryzen 5 5500 and Rx 6700xt,

I originally went with bazzite for steamos experience, but I'm getting some issues like:

- games crashing when PC gets unsuspended and my tv "flicks" input (when my soundbar activates, my input changes for a moment, since soundbar is eARC)

- mangohud not visible out of sudden, no matter which preset i pick from QAM, it just doesn't work and i need to reboot.

- green flickering in top part of the screen when mangohud is enabled

Those are not deal breakers, and I'm fairly technical, and i know Linux (use it privately for over 5 years exclusively now, and also my career is Linux related) s i could probably fix those, but I'm looking for best out of the box experience and flexibility which is hard to achieve on bazzite since it's immutable.

Don't get me wrong, it's really solid distro, but i just want too explore my options now.

So my question here is,

What are other handheld like distros?

Steamos is no go for me, because I want to be able to oc my gpu etc. Easily

I know about cachyos handheld, but is it really seamless experience? I use arch (btw) on desktop so im not afraid of cachy.

Is there any other distro like those three?

I want to have exclusive gamemode session like on steamos, and also be able to control my PC for 99% using gamepad.

Thanks for every suggestion

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Hello, I'm not very familiar with Reddit nor Linux so I apologize for any errors in this post. If someone has time to spare, I would please like to know your recommendations (based on your knowledge/experience) for the different versions (or other ways they are called) that Linux has. I have grown tired of Windows to the point that I removed all the windows from my apartment, and I heard that Linux has a somewhat great system as of today for gaming. I mainly play Arc Raiders, Fortnite and Valorant. Are the anticheats and games working fine in that system or does the version affect it somehow? Thanks in advance, have a great month.

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I had spent few hours yesterday doing benchmarks, testing desktop environments. Despite I'm dualbooting I tried CS2 on my Fedora Linux, and got shocked how poorly is this native port optimized? I think I tried everything and nothing. Maybe it is Wayland issue? I hadn't tried X11 and I think shouldn't lol.

Did anyone had the same issue? If yes, how did you manage to fix it?

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(9070xt, Ryzen 5 9600x)

Basically as the title says, I switched over to Nobara for gaming from windows 11, my most played game is path of exile and has been my most recent, now on windows when I dropped to like 70-90fps in really juiced areas it feels fine, but when I dropped to that fps on Linux it feels so much worse, is there something I’m not seeing here, missing or what. I tried Minecraft as well, Linux was much more stable and actually gained me about 40-50fps. But path of exile just feels like shit, also a general sluggish feel in path of exile but I may just be imagining this. If you have any insight please let me know :)

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People tell me Nvidia GPUs aren’t that good on Linux, and I’m also told BF6 is not supported.

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I activated Proton GE and put the command line in Steam.

I can enable HDR then but the screen goes to full screen and I can select only 3 resolutions with the biggest being 1024x768. But if I set to Borderless Window I can choose all the resolution upto 5k2k but I lose HDR.

Any solution for this?

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I‘m farely new to linux and i love it so far but sometimes when i play games my pc randomly completely freezes and i have to restart my pc i never had that problem before and i don‘t know how i could fix that.

Specs:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8XxTdD

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Bir adet babayiğite ihtiyacım var mobile2 oyununu linuxta çalıştırmayı başaracak. Oyunun sitesinde windows için indirme linki var https://mobile2.global/tr/download bir kaç gündür deniyorum ama bottles ile bir türlü çalıştıramadım.

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I'm writing this post for me and for others that want to play these old games because it's still a problem for many people to get this game running as it is on Windows.

First, some information:

1. At this point of time when I'm writing this post, I'm running Fedora 43 with GNOME (Wayland compositor, X11 no longer supported).
2. The version of the game I am installing is the non-enhanced edition, this is the "original" version which I believe can be acquired through GOG if you bought the Enhanced Edition.
3. You'll need Heroic Launcher installed.
4. You'll need Wine-GE-Proton 7.43 and latest Proton-GE available (I used my manually downloaded GE-Proton10-26).

Part 1: Installing Baldur's Gate 2: Complete Edition

It's simple yet easy to botch, I found this comment on Heroic Launcher github by username "mvanthoor": https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/discussions/2752#discussioncomment-14819216

These are things you need to do before you install the game:

1. Install/download: Wine-GE-Proton 7.43 (not Proton-GE, but: Wine-GE).
2. On "Settings" > "Game Defaults" add on to the "Environment Variable": WINEARCH = win32 --- this step will ensure that the game installed will have the correct older 32bit prefix which older game need. Remove it after the game installed.
3. Install the game, pick Windows version, not the Linux version. It will work like it should be on holy 800x600 resolution.

Part 2: Installing Icewind Dale 2

1. Make sure the winearch variable already removed from game default option (this is because EE mod requires newer 64bit prefix!)
2. Install the game normally, pick windows version and install using Proton-GE.
3. The game will works and "playable", but your mouse will flicker and your keyboard will not be detected. Open the game once to generate a prefix.
4. Download the enhanced edition mod: https://github.com/RedChimera/IWD2EE
5. Download cnc-ddraw: https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw (this will make the game rendered correctly, not jittery and slow).
6. First, extract the IWD2EE files to the game folder (you can do this by clicking the three dots menu and pick "browse file".
7. Open the game setting, the button on the left of the three dots, and "run exe on prefix".
8. Install by picking "setup-iwd2ee.exe". Follow the installation instruction on the terminal pop up.
9. After EE mod installed, open the launcher setting again, pick "advanced" tab and select alternative EXE to run, you choose the "IWD2EE.exe" and pick launch option "Icewind Dale 2", this will replace the exe file with the enhanced edition mod one.
10. Launch the game once just in case, you'll notice the different, but when you start a campaign it will be slow and jittery, this is why we need cnc-ddrawfix.
11. Extract cnc-ddrawfix to the game file.
12. using "run exe file on prefix", open the cnc ddrawfix config file, click ok to the pop up and then enable vsync if it hasn't enabled.
13. Play the game, it should work now like Lathander intended, with smooth cursor and holy 800x600 resolution.

The end. Hopefully this is useful for somebody out there.

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Thought of waiting for the steam machine for a while but I don't think i can buy it cos it's going to have alot of wait time even if it comes to my country. Uses will be mostly 50-70% gaming and rest for work. My main spend is for the CPU. Monitors and keyboard and all that I can just buy cheap/affordable no issues. Would it be possible to build from scratch for under USD $1000 or maybe $1200?

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On Windows I just used the Nvidia app to select the game rendered resolution when using DLSS, for example I prefer Quality with 75% instead of 67% so that it renders from 1080p in my 1440p monitor.
How can you achieve this on Linux? I can't find anything on the Nvidia Settings app

Thanks

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As title really. Bedrock launcher is becoming unreliable. Not the devs fault. I believe Microsoft keeps breaking it. Now I have a spare phone that I could boot up to run it. Can I cast from my phone reliabily to my bazzite install.

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Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, Ryzen 5 3600x, RTX 2070, 32GB RAM, SSD nvme.

Hey, I'm using Linux Mint for some months and I never could open the Steam ingame-Overlay since my first install, reinstalled Mint one time some weeks after the first install and the problem persisted.

Already reinstalled steam, reinstalled games. I'm using the official package of my distro, which I assume is the same from ubuntu.

Ran Steam on terminal and got these outputs when tried to Shift+TAB ingame: (only the relevant parts)

02/01 03:59:03 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)/tid(11802) 02/01 03:59:03 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 02/01 03:59:03 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(20260121171226)/tid(11803) 02/01 03:59:03 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)/tid(11803) reaping pid: 11792 -- gameoverlayui reaping pid: 11799 -- gameoverlayui reaping pid: 11800 -- gameoverlayui reaping pid: 11801 -- gameoverlayui [2026-02-01 03:59:46] Background update loop checking for update. . . [2026-02-01 03:59:46] Checking for available updates... [2026-02-01 03:59:46] Downloading manifest: client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12 [2026-02-01 03:59:46] Manifest download: send request [2026-02-01 03:59:46] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish [2026-02-01 03:59:47] Manifest download: finished [2026-02-01 03:59:47] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1769025840, installed version 1769025840, existing pending version 0 [2026-02-01 03:59:47] Nothing to do reaping pid: 11802 -- gameoverlayui reaping pid: 11803 -- gameoverlayui

02/01 04:04:17 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)/tid(13376) 02/01 04:04:17 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 02/01 04:04:17 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(20260121171226)/tid(13377) 02/01 04:04:17 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)/tid(13377)

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. Game Recording - would start recording game 1934870, but recording for this game is disabled Adding process 14425 for gameID 1934870 ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!

I hope someone can help me, thanks!

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Checked new posts and didn't see any posts about this

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So the longer I have this setup the more I question life. I am running a mobile workstation by HP equipped with the frankly insane AMD Ryzen™ AI MAX+ 395 APU.

But there seems to be ongoing issues with Linux and these APU's , In fact If i use anything other than Ubuntu LTS (24.04) with GNOME I get the following issues :

• System lockups apparently the graphical driver stops refreshing frozen mouse on the screen but everything else is still working in the background.
• Launching a game in Proton will lock up the same way as above.
• Issues with the wifi connection due to power management settings (have to use LTS kernels to fix this)
• Various other soft system lockups.

Note that most of the above issues are extremely unreliable and can happen in 3 minutes or 3 hours.

I have tried the following Distros and all have had the issue with varying levels of frequency / seriousness :

• Cachy OS
• Mint
• Kubuntu
• Endeavour

Ubuntu LTS 24.04 works flawlessly with the GNOME desktop. There are various reports of these issues online with solutions ranging from simply switching to X11 to editing the kernel and recompiling it to change GPU/CPU settings but the common thing with all those threads is how it has fixed the issues for some people and not for others.

I have tried the following :

• Change to LTS kernel (helps a bit but does not fix the issues)
• Use X11 and not Wayland (did not change a thing for me)
• Tinker with various power settings (did not resolve the issues)

I am back on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (GNOME) for now but would ideally like to find a solution to this so I can use other distros or if anyone knows a distro that 1000% works on Strix Halo then that would be welcome. I do not mind vanilla ubuntu but there are really more appealing distros and especially desktop environments out there, I am not a gnome fan.

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Thinking about making a switch from window 10 to Mint, and most AAA and AA games I care about seem to run fine, but I play a lot of Ps1 and 2 games on Duckstation and PCSX2, and I'm wondering how's performance on Linux

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New luxtorpeda release is available, version 75. For reference, luxtorpeda-dev allows you to run various native engines, and a handful of Windows Mods via Proton, with all of the downloading and setup done for you.

I've got a new blog post about it here - https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/blog#new-luxtorpeda-client-release-version-75

Main changes are a Godot 4.6 upgrade for the UI, which is mainly just keeping things up to date. As well, some new Proton mod features

including the ability for the package metadata to set a default proton version for a game, for ones that don't work well with newer Proton versions.

new feature that allows for running setup exes for the first launch, for mods that require an installer. This made the ability to setup and use Deus Ex Randomizer possible. This'll allow for even more Windows mods to be usable in luxtorpeda via Proton. This will automatically download the install exe for the mod, run it on first launch, and then remember that we've already ran it, so it dosen't have to be run again.

If anyone has any more ideas about new native engines, or new Windows mods that could be doable inside Luxtorpeda (github releases or public cdn are best), then feel free to let me know and/or open a issue.

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SPECS:
12700k - 4070Ti - 32 Gigs DDR4 3600 MT/S Ram - 1tb Gen 3 SSD.

I have tried running Oblivion Remastered on Fedora, and while it works, the performance is horrid compared to windows. I've tried multiple proton version: GE-Latest, 9.0-4, experimental. Nothing has fixed the performance. On windows, I'd average a stable 70-90 on FPS, with high settings. Now I barely hit 60, on medium to low, with DLSS on performance. The stuttering is awful as-well. Has anyone had better performance on different settings? Looking for any solutions here.

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