I'm going to build a PC but I'm going to use it only for emulation (including PS3) and playing older boxed games with no online steam activation, etc. (I really hate digital distribution, the exceptions are gog and icho) and the hardware will have Windows 8 and Linux (I don't know which one. choose at the beginning) what components do you recommend for emulation (including PS3), playing old games (95% from before 2015) and indie games and, above all, which Linux to choose next to Windows 8, thanks in advance

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its been a while since ive played minecraft and wanted to download on arm linux, however every launcher i come across requires me to purchase it from the google playstore but on windows i could download it with my microsoft account, any launcher on arm linux that can do the same?

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I have a completely fresh installed OS, linux mint. Everything works perfectly fine, now i have the problem that Apex won´t launch on steam, i tried every proton disabled all the shaders... Did everything but it still won´t work.

I´m pretty frustrated for multiple hours and would appreciate any help a lot!

I use this Launch option: DXVK_ASYNC=1 gamemoderun %command%

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I have a razer blade 14 with 4070 gpu, i game mainly on it, I mix old titles and new titles. I dont play online games anymore, I mainly play rips etc and if the games really good I tend to buy on steam.

Just wondering if I am the type of person who should switch to linux? I have a steamdeck so I have some experience with linux gaming etc and know I did strugle tonget some titles working.

I have 2 reasons I want to seitch.

1. I sold my mac and kinda miss messing around in a new OS.
2. Windows really annoys me...

Anything Microsoft pisses me off.. like I could not log into my laptop because all of a sudden my pin wouldnt work and I kept getting an error.. like so much bloatware on windows, my other dedicated gaming PC has ghost spectre on it to get rid of some of the bloat.

What ya guys thinking? Worth fully swapping or just making a bootable drive?

Also can I make a dual boot without partition as I only have single 4tb drive

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I have a problem with my laptop config. Accordingly - when laptop is running UI via Intel iGPU (KDE or GNOME) or running a game through XWayland - it does have always half the refresh rate... I mean, UI with VRR renders at 48-84 fps, games with V-Sync run at 72-84 fps max and if I'll set the larger framerate, it extremely stutters and lose frames.

I'm running Fedora 40; in 39 release, Wayland worked pretty well with environment variables such as KWIN_DRM_NO_AMS=1 and KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1, but since KDE 6 it does not work.

Should I wait for Explicit Sync patches in plasmashell/mutter/xwayland, or fix it in other way?

I'm using now X11 with enforced NVIDIA-only GPU, but it is not the thing I want - I'm using also laptop on battery and NVIDIA GPU is power-hungry.

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I'll be as concise and descriptive as possible with this issue. I've tried to go fully Linux about a few weeks ago, and ended up abandoning this and returning to Windows 11 due to a single game having issues.

Now, to preface, Ace Combat 7 is listed on ProtonDB as Platinum, with everyone saying that the game works and runs smoothly out the box. I personally don't play the singleplayer campaign (though I should, heard it's good) as I was gifted the game by a person I'm real good friends with, and we just play multiplayer lobbies together.

However, whenever I would try to play Ace Combat 7 multiplayer on Linux, the game ends up having stutters so bad and frequent that it's unplayable. It's smooth as butter on Windows...

I have attempted various solutions through distro hopping, DE hopping, etc. (courtesy of GloriousEggroll's Discord and the knowledgeable people there):

• Arch (April 2024 rolling release), Fedora 40, both Wayland.
• Zen 6.8.5 kernel, also tried stock 6.8.5 kernel
• Tried both GNOME and KDE. Last attempts were trying to run AC7 in Gamescope.
• Game was on a Btrfs partition, said drive is an NVMe SSD. Drive is mounted with default mounting parameters.
• Tried `gamemoderun %command%`.
• Tried different Proton versions, ranging from 7, 8.0-5, and even Experimental, as well as Proton-GE.
• Running latest Mesa drivers, do not specifically remember what version.
• Ensured RADV is installed and used instead of AMDVLK.
• Disabled shader pre-caching through Steam, and through an entry in the game's settings config stored in the environment's %AppData%
• Used CoreCtrl to ensure both CPU and GPU are always running on High Performance mode
• Tried running AC7 with just my primary monitor plugged in to my GPU.

Of note, Gamescope did reduce the stuttering some, and so did trying to run AC7 on Fedora 40 with GNOME. I've changed graphic settings from Ultra to Low, and it had no effect on my stuttering.

Hardware:

1. Ryzen 7 5800X3D
2. Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 XT
3. 32GB DDR4-3600 RAM
4. Gigabyte Aorus X570 Elite mobo
5. LG 32" 1440p 165Hz monitor (primary)
6. Samsung Odyssey G5 27" 1440p 144hz monitor (secondary)
7. Acer Nitro 32" 1080p 240Hz monitor (tertiary)

• This is why I stick to Wayland as much as possible - due to my multimonitor setup

Any leads and assistance will be appreciated. I'm currently in the process of setting up dual boot with Linux Mint and Windows 11, if anyone wants Proton logs, I will migrate AC7 again and provide upon request.

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Just wanted to leave my quick thoughts/review after using Bazzite for a week, and why I'm ultimately not sticking with it yet.

I'm on a full AMD system (Ryzen 5600 + RX 5700XT). Coming from EndeavourOS and Windows 11.

Bazzite does get a lot right here, and I was very impressed when I first installed it. It includes a lot of things that are otherwise just annoying to setup in immutable distros in my experience, and that made getting up and going with games and media consumption a breeze. Things like media codecs that I'd want in Fedora Kionite are there by default instead of requiring me to install them myself, goverlay + mangohud are there, AMD overclock/undervolt support is enabled and has an app to configure with no further setup required, etc. It has made Bazzite probably the best immutable distro I've tried so far in terms of functionality.

KDE 6 works well and I had no major issues that were the fault of the distro itself in that regard. Lots of great upgrades from 5.27, no wayland issues, etc.

Package management is fairly simple, and the welcome tool to help you setup some basics is nice to have. I also really love the inclusion of the ujust command to make doing a lot of general tasks much easier and user friendly.

I love that this works with secure boot and TPM disk decryption without too much hassle. This is honsetly the primary reason why I haven't been able to use Nobara and why I initally considered bazzite. I had to do a bit of tinkering to figure out how exactly to get my keys to work as it didn't work out of the box, which was an annoying process, but once it was setup there were no issues. They outline steps on their github for secure boot, but not for auto decryption. Could be good to see that included, or for it to even be done automatically if possible.

On the bad side though, I've ran into just a few too many annoyances to want to stick with this.

Firefox appears to not work with the plasma-browser-integration addon due to being a flatpak, so my system would constantly attempt to turn off the display while watching videos. This is fixable, but annoying and shouldn't be an issue with the out of the box browser install.

Sunshine + Moonlight is something I use quite often, and I had a ton of issues with getting this to work. It's included in the welcome tool but the first 2 installs I did of bazzite (yes I've reinstalled multiple times trying to get stuff to work), it just didn't want to auto start on boot. It was being installed for the user instead of the system I think. Sometimes it just wouldn't install right at all and I had to reinstall it a few times. The flatpak version (which I know is not recommended) also didn't want to work.

The ujust command has a tool for setting up sunshine that wasn't very helpful for this either. Once I found a way to fix that and get the systemd service to enable, I realized that it was only going to start when I logged in, making it functionally worthless when I'm...away from my computer lol. There's probably a great way to fix this, but I'm not experienced with it and I've not had these issues getting it setup on other systems.

The best I could do in the couple hours I looked at it, is to set my system to auto login, then lock itself again right after to get the service to start. And even then it still doesn't work if my screens turn off, neither will VNC. Again there's probably a better solution for this, but it's a bunch of fooling around I don't want to do.

If there's any suggestions in the comments for fixes on this then I'm all ears!

My steam download speeds are halved from my EndeavourOS and my windows installs for seemingly no reason. In the ujust command there's a steam download fix that adds the little cfg file to disable http2 and stuff, which is nice to see that I don't have to do that manually like I normally do. But my downloads are still slower no matter what else I did. Nothing else was effected.

I had to use a workaround I found online to change the SDDM wallpaper. Otherwise you cannot change this out of the box and are stuck with whatever the default is. This is I believe an issue with a few immutable distros, but still annoying none the less and I would like to see a fix out of the box. Especially where the default SDDM wallpaper is ugly as shit and doesn't match the desktop default wallpaper in the slighest lol.

I could not for the life of me get the wallpaper engine plugin to work, I have no idea why. I think it may have been disabled with the latest release?

Discord screen sharing with the bundled x11 bridge just...didn't function for me. The tool pops up and I can select what I'd want to share, but no matter what I tried folks in my calls couldn't see anything. This could be a discord issue but it worked last time I tried it in endeavourOS so I don't know what the deal is here. As well, my camera would take upwards of 30 entire seconds after me toggling it, to show up in the call. Not fun.

A lot of my problems here are definitely due to my inexperience with immutable distros and best practices. I'm sure there are a lot of fixes, some of which I'll be informed about in the comments. And TBH, I didn't even really get a chance to try all my apps/workflows in Bazzite. There could be more good sides and downsides here, I know a lot of folks love this distro. However, I used it for the week and just had too many issues with things I need, so even if everything else was flawless it wouldn't change that I can't use it. I just want to install my distro and go, and as far as that's concerned, Bazzite isn't quite there yet.

If my gripes are ever addressed somehow then I can see bazzite being basically perfect for me. Right now it's pretty much 90% of the way there. Mostly usable, but small issues bring the experience down and troubleshooting isn't as straight forward as I'd like.

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got this rpm euro controller for 7 dollars :\ I did some research and found it has 3 modes, dinput, xinput (mimicking xbox 360) and android

when I plug it in it starts in dinput but quickly switches to android mode

the Xinput mode is best it just werks with all games and apps but I have to hold the "home" key to get it into xbox/xinput mode every time

lsusb output:
in xinput mode:

Bus 001 Device 012: ID 045e:028e Microsoft Corp. Xbox360 Controller

in dinput mode:

Bus 001 Device 013:ID 2563:0575 ShenZhen ShanWan Technology Co., Ltd. ZD-V+ Wired Gaming Controller

in android mode:

Bus 001 Device 014: ID 2563:0527 ShenZhen ShanWan Technology Co., Ltd. Game Controller for Android submitted by /u/smartutu
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Hello! I've had my laptop, an asus zenbook ux434 for around 4 years. It's not very powerful. It's got a 10th gen i7, 16 gb of ram and a 10W mx250, all in a 14 inch package. Ever since I've gotten it, any game that I played, from the least demanding, like minecraft or fallout 3, to the more demanding ones (not current gen, more like mid to late 2010's), like gta 5 or wolfenstein 2, they'd all run fine, then the gpu would go down to 300mhz after like 2 minutes and the game would become unplayable, constantly toggling between around 1000mhz and 300mhz, sometimes down to 100mhz(!!). This was on Windows. I tried everything, throttlestop to limit the cpu to an abysmal 7W to give the gpu more cooling room, drivers, gpu tweak, debloating the asus apps. The temperatures on the gpu were fine, they'd never breach 75C, yet for some reason it would just throttle like crazy.

Unrelated, I had to install linux to get some software that I needed since WSL was acting up. I decided to install fallout 3, and low and behold, it could run for hours, hover between 75 and 80C on the cpu or gpu, without any throttling or frame dips for entire hours. With heating on in my room too, so very respectable. Since then, I've literally only gamed on linux because it's my only choice if I want to play almost ANY game without massive throttling. And I get why they did that on Windows, 75C seems like a good target for a thin and light, but they definitely could've done a better job that to constantly switch betwen around 1000mhz and 300 on the gpu. I've played linux games on this laptop for close to three years now thanks to how easy lutris and steam are to use and I've had no issues, temperatures are very stable. I'd be happy to hear stories from other people who have thin and light laptops.

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So I'm playing with the new Candy Con wireless PC controller.. the program qJoyPad got the controller to function as a mouse no problem which is what i was looking for; but if i start a game on Steam the controller wont go into the configuration for said game, the qjoypad configuration remains and it's still just acting as a mouse.. is there any way to make the qjoypad config take a back seat relative to the Steam Input configuration without closing the program qJoyPad??

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anyone else had have trouble opening bottles recently

Had a large amount of updates yesterday on my arch linux, im not sure if the problem is here within one of the updates but today i am unable to open bottles at all. just force closes instantly and i was just wondering if anyone else is having the same experience

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Hi guys! Im quite new to linux gaming and i wanted to play some games i know. For example i installed RDR2 thru lutris and wanted to play it. Im used to play some games by controler (xbox series for now witch bluetooth connection). So it all goes smothly i installed game connected controller and lunched game. But my mapings are all wrong! for example i have switched rb with start rigt swich with lb etc. Any idea how to fix that mappings ? (I have only rockstar luncher version not steam one so steam remaping cant help here) os: kubuntu 22.04.4 lts

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Hi, I've been thinking about this for a while. There are numerous cases that some games stop working on newer proton versions. And I don't quite understand.

New versions fix bugs and land support for previously unplayable games. But at the same time some other games stop working, is this how it's supposed to work? Am I missing something here?

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I have not been able to join any game lobbies in HD2 since I bought the game a few months ago, pushing me to Windows to pay it. I decided to give it another go today, but have experience the exact same error. Everything is fine until I attempt anything online (join lobby, join friends squad, etc). I'm playing the game through Steam.

Things I've tried: IPV6 is disabled (and I've tried with it enabled as well), various versions of Proton (8.0-5, experimental, 9.0 (beta) ge-9-1, reinstalling, verifying game files, running with gamemoderun and under gamescope.

Here are my specs:

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: 6.8.7-arch1-2 Uptime: 29 mins Packages: 1597 (pacman), 80 (flatpak) Shell: fish 3.7.1 Resolution: 1920x1080, 3440x1440, 1920x1080 DE: Plasma 6.0.4 WM: KWin Theme: [Plasma], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3] Icons: [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3] Terminal: konsole CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (32) @ 3.400GHz Memory: 11557MiB / 32015MiB

Here are the proton logs (broken into 2 pastes):

1 - https://pastecode.io/s/uw1sbxn5

2 - https://pastecode.io/s/qogrjpkr

Any advise is greatly appreciated!

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I have a 500GB SSD with my Linux installation on it, and a 4TB HDD that I used for my steam library before switching to Linux. Games without Native Linux support play fine from the SSD (Cyberpunk, Dark Souls, Warframe as examples), and games with Native Linux support play from the HDD (Half Life, Portal, Alien Isolation). The problem is I can't get games without Native Linux support to play from the HDD. Proton and Linux Runtime are installed on the HDD, the HDD is formatted EXfat. I'm at my wit's end and would love some guidance.

Edit: Windows is not installed on either drive. One is for storage only.

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Here's the output

Any help would be appreciated.

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Linux n00b here so bare with me. I would like to try out Bazzite (normally I run Nobara), but in order to use my GoXLR, i need to install a package from https://github.com/GoXLR-on-Linux/goxlr-utility . On Nobara I can install with Discovery, but as Bazzite is Immutable, this isnt allowed as it fails. Is this not possible or can someone walk me through the steps?

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Hi fellow Linux gamers,

I recently wanted to try H:ZD - I have a 4090 using proprietary drivers 550.78 and I'm only able to run it with Proton 7 series - I can't seem to get it working with official Proton nor GE 8 nor 9 - all I get is an issue w.r.t. not being able to initialize the game and send an error report to Geurilla games.

If I use Proton 7 it works ok - (but given the age of VKd3d there are some artifacts).

Is anyone able to run it with recent Nvidia drivers and recent Proton?

Thanks!

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