When I was playing Overwatch yesterday, not only my game, but Steam too kept crashing. I would experience a stutter in my game, and then I would get shunted out of the whole application, and Steam would be closed as well. This hasn't happened on my laptop, which I've had this same mirror of Arch on for at least a month, and I'm wondering if it has to do with my desktop's hardware or something like that. I'd really rather not have to mess around with dual booting for Windows just so I can play Overwatch when it works perfectly fine on my laptop. Is there something I can do to fix this?

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so i have an old A1465 Early 2015 Macbook Air Specs:

Linux Mint 22.3 (Display Compositor disabled)

i5-5250u 2c/4t

Intel HD 6000 IGPU

4gb lpddr3 RAM

120gb PCIE SSD

1366x768p 60hz Screen.

got Subnautica running at like 20+ average fps on 768p lowest but i think i can do better, looking for advice on how i can improve my existing setup, as of now i have cleaned + repasted the cpu, and am using a cooling pad (not sure if that helps since the bottom shell has no holes in it.)

When i start up i run this large homemade "maintenance" command:

redshift -O 4220 (makes screen warmer)

sudo cpupower frequency-set -g schedutil (set cpu governor to schedutil)

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt autoclean

sudo apt autopurge

sudo apt autoremove

sudo apt check

sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=100M

rm -rf ~/.cache/thumbnails/* (these last 8 update everything and clean away old stuff that isn't needed)

pkill -f thunderbird; pkill -f firefox; pkill -f telegram; pkill -f brave (these last 2 should free up performance, but im rather ignorant of linux compared to others since i havent used very long)

sudo sync && echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

As for the game itself here's what ive done thus far: using Steam with performance saving settings on and the shader cache disabled along with starting in Library so Store pages dont load in, i'm using latest version of Proton GE, ive installed the Performance Booster & Geyser Performance Fix mods (along with a few other popular QOL ones)

i have the following set in the Launch Options PROTON_NO_ESYNC=0 PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp=n,b" DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=/home/gusthewizard/.config/dxvk.conf gamemoderun %command% -screen-fullscreen 0 -screen-width 1366 -screen-height 768

Sorry for the wall of text but i wanted to provide as much info as possible, would greatly appreciate advice from the veterans, Thanks!

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I used to use Medal.tv on windows which was very convenient. I am using GPU Screen Recorder but I can't find an easy/quick way of editing and compressing clips down to <10MB for discord.

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so i download oversteer for my Logitech g290 and say no devices and it kind not of making sense because there is not all video show install properly for my operathing system which is nobara kde

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all detalle is up there

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when i try to login to microsoft on prism launcher it sends me to a browser page and when i login it asks to sign in to prism launcher and nothing happens when i hit continue, ive logged in the same way on devuan and it worked just fine butt im on artix now and it just wont let me log in for some reason. can anyone tell me how to fix this

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I can't imagine many people have come across this, but I figured there is no harm in asking anyway. I am a bit of a Linux noob. Switched from Windows 11 to Bazzite initially, but now run Fedora 43 KDE Plasma instead.

My lifelong addiction and favourite game of all-time is Final Fantasy XI. And for those familiar with the game, I am one of those "The level 75 era was the golden years" types, so rather than playing on retail, I play on the Eden XI private server, who, allows dual boxing. Which is something I do pretty often.

I didn't have any issues on Windows, but now, running the game on Linux using Lutris with Wine-GE-8-26, I seem to have run into a very interesting and probably niche issue. I use an Xbox One Wireless controller, connected via Bluetooth.

Let's say I have both instances of FFXI running and I am on instance A, playing character A. If I move the camera or character, then alt+tab to instance B (character B), that character or camera also starts moving, even though I am not holding the joystick down anymore.

I have done some testing to see if the controller is sending input to both windows at the same time, and it does not. It also doesn't affect any other buttons on the controller, only character and camera movement using the two joysticks.

I've asked many AI LLMs and tried all of the "fixes" they recommended, such as trying to use Gamescope, remapping the controller to keyboard inputs (which hilariously results in the joystick typing "WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" into the chat bar after alt+tabbing), downloading XpadNeo and a bunch of other things I forget.

Has anyone run into this issue before and managed to fix it? I'd love to know how you did it. Thanks!

EDIT: Forgot to add, one suggestion from our AI overlords was to use a wired controller. I haven't tried it yet, because I don't have one, and don't particularly want to go spend money on something just because an LLM told me so.

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Hey,as the title says I have an old pc (like 9 or 10 years old)and I’ve been wondering if I should switch from Windows 10 to Linux (don’t know which version) or if I should throw this pc? Also could it be possible to play any game on this pc?

Btw just to be sure idk anything Linux and I’m so sorry about my bad English

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what is the best way to convert ps2 controller to ps4 controller on linux? i need to do this to be able to do remote play on my ps4

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I want to preface this by saying that I was really looking forward to moving away from Windows and learning Linux and hopefully running it as my daily driver. However, I unfortunately can't really see myself doing that. For the past week or so, I have been tinkering and having to fight against my PC for various things. For context, I am using KDE Plasma on the non LTS kernel of cachyOS. I update daily with cachy update. I have a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 3080, and 32gb 6000mhz ram.

One of the issues is for whatever reason, when I turn on variable refresh rate to "automatic" on my main monitor (MSI 321URX), whenever I would take a screenshot with Spectacle it would make my entire screen go black for about 3 seconds. The same thing would happen whenever I would be watching a youtube video in Fullscreen and upon exiting the Fullscreen video my monitor would go black for 3s. This didn't seem to happen with VRR turned off.

Another issue was when using Brave browser, if I tried rebooting the PC without fully closing Brave beforehand, upon starting Brave up I would always get a warning about Brave crashing unexpectedly. On top of that, it would also just straight up crash randomly for no apparent reason. I also would not be able to autofill my passwords from Bitwarden for whatever reason.

A really weird issue I had was with some obscure font that I was using on one of my Discord servers for the channel names. It took like two days to figure this out as I was testing this with other cachyOS users and some of them were seeing this font correctly, while others were not, it had turned out I was missing some "gnu-free-fonts' package that wasn't installed by default on cachyOS for me.

Before cachyOS, I tried out Linux Mint on my living room pc(i7 6700k, 32gb 3200mhz, gtx 960) and Zorin on my main desktop, and those both had their own set of issues, but as to not make this post longer than it has to, I'll just tldr for these two and basically say that for Linux Mint, my BT keyboard didn't work no matter what, but worked flawlessly on cachyOS. As for Linux Mint, I tried running resident evil 4 (2005) and couldn't get it to run until I forced proton to use openGL, which I found strange as the game has a platinum rating on protondb and my drivers were all up to date. For Zorin, it wouldn't switch the login screen to my main monitor even tho I had my monitor set as main, resulting in me having to login on my vertical monitor with the image still in horizontal mode. No matter what I tried this would still happen.

All in all, I had to spent about 20 hours over this past week just constantly tinkering with my OS just to make things work the way I wanted. I really wanted Linux to work for me, but it is really exhausting to have to do all this. Yes I know Windows has it's own bugs and issues, but for the most part, I never had to deal with so many bugs and issues like this in a row just to use my PC. And I can't imagine how much more I'd have to keep fixing going forward. I'm at my wits end... I think the best I can do is just continue running Linux Mint on my living room PC as I have been, and then run Windows on my main desktop.

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Hello me fellow linux nerds this is mostly for the admins because I could not find anything in the rules saying no, but Id also not like to break them.

I am a first time indie developer making a very old-fashioned terminal based Ascii RPG
the game is meant to be open source and will always remain that way.

It is meant to only run on linux thus why im here and not in an indie dev reddit.
my question is am I allowed to share that game here to get any play testers and or people who have advice for input on making the game smoother.
with that said if this is not allowed I apologize and I only ask that maybe you guys could push me towards the right reddit groups because this game is designed for the niche of linux users and ASCii game enjoyers.

best, your fellow nerd

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Hello, I recently switched from Kubuntu to openSUSE Tumbleweed (KDE), because Kubuntu crashed too often and I really like KDE Plasma. However, I seem to have problems with my graphics driver, as I had it before on Kubuntu, where I only had to change it in the settings and everything went smoothly. On openSUSE though, I somehow cant find an option for that in the settings and everything I found on the internet did not help me aswell.

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in some specific games sober just doesn't work, I don't know what kind of bug happens, it just crashes my entire pc, even though it apparently doesn't even use many resources, I use AMD and have never had any problems with vulkan, it must be about 10 to 15% of games that behave this way for some reason, does anyone know any solution or alternative?

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I have a i3 10th gen with uhd graphics. It CANNOT game. The least it can run is minecraft at 60 fps. By using mods like sodium i run it at 120 fps. But now I am bored of normal minecraft. So I tried modpacks but they run at 30-40 fps with a lot of fps drops. Should I switch to Linux for better fps? I am very new to this I don't know what and where to download. Please help.

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i used the flatpak steam version before and thought the reason it wasn't working was bc of flatpak so i switched to the rpm version of steam and im still going through the same problem. yes i switched through experimental and hotfix and nothing changed. whenever i go click on find a lobby i just get stuck in a endless loading loop and theres no way for me to check if anything is happening. i even had left it loading for a good hour and nothing happened.

idk what flairs to add so dont worry about it if its the wrong flair.

im not too sure if i messed something up bc i been having some internet problem internally with the operating system where sometimes it would randomly disconnect me and reprompt the password for it. im using Fedora KDE Plasma version.

if needed more detail on the operating system lmk.

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