Hi, I migrated to from windows to Arch with KDE plasma few months ago, I have figure out most things that I need, with the exception of a few quality of life stuff, being one of them macros.

I have a logitech G502 wireless, in windows I used GHub to make macros, in linux I know there is piper, but it only allows keybinds not macros.

I also found some alternative to AutoHotKey, but as far as I know it does not work on wayland, I remember there was some project that was trying to "translate" it to wayland but it never worked for me.

So, I would like to know from those that use macros what do you guys use or advise?

As an extra note, sense my mouse is disintegrating, I am looking for a new one if you have any recommendation for a wireless mouse with some extra buttons that already has some linux compatible software for macros. It was always annoying that G502 extra buttons are not even detected for example in games to use as keybinds.

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steamvr on linux just shows these errors i can give logs if someone can tell me which of these files it is

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I am a casual linux user (mainly debian/ubuntu) but I use linux only for my office/media/server needs.
I dont know much about bash/kernel/packages etc but I know enough to be dangerous, so to speak, like I know my way around and can follow manuals but I am too lasy to actually study things deeply enough to master them :P

I want to move my main gaming PC (RTX 3090 AMD 5950x ) to linux and I am seeking for a manual/guide (or a series of guides less than 5 or so ) to

A) achieve maximum performance and lower latency when gaming.

B) have all the packages streamlined so that I dont have to manually change stuff when something new comes out.

C) setup up everything related to game compatibility (especially this is the field I know the least about, I mean I know there is proton and stuff but I never touched it)

C2) same thing but for other type of games in general e.g best emulator experience (prefere one to be able to change "cores" or whatever the lingo is for many systems so that I dont run multiple different emulators unless there is a performance reason to change to a separate emulator for a specific system then name that too please , and I am not talking just console games but also DOS and older windows game and android.

Please dont just google and paste stuff here I can do that too I am looking to get 2cents from guys that have done this exact thing and used a particalr guide/manual/website to set up something and can vouch that it workd fine for them.

Thanks a lot for reding this kinda wall post :) have a nice day ^_^

P.S: if you dont have any experience by yourself you still can help by sharing this post to someone you know and think he or she can help :)

PPS: No bazide cachyOS and all the new "gaming" Distros I want something that is made for actual general PC US such as an arch or manjaro ubuntu etc

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Introduction

Hey all, a few days ago I decided to move on from Windows and install Linux on my PC. I read a bit what would be a suitable distro for me and installed Pop!_OS. While most things work out of the box, there are some problems and quirks that annoy me so I want to try something else.

I use my PC mainly for playing games on Steam, playing Minecraft, using Discord, basic browsing stuff. I use a 50-series Nvidia GPU, I sometimes do machine learning things so CUDA stuff is also needed and a tolerable developing experience.

Pop!_OS Experience

As I mentioned - most things in Pop work out of the box but I had some strange experiences and problems from the start. I installed the 24 LTS version which uses COSMIC and comes with an Nvidia driver out of the box. Installing Steam, trying out games like Cyberpunk e.g. was great, all RTX and DLSS things seem to work great and have good performance. The problems that I encountered are more with the day to day usage and lead me to think Pop with Cosmic is not yet very stable:

• when monitors turn off after a few minutes, moving the mouse most of the time wakes up only the Display Port one, the HDMI monitor 4 out of 5 times turns on but shows a black screen and after a few seconds turns off again. The only way to fix this is by either enabling/disabling the monitor in settings or unplugging/plugging the cable
• sometimes when turning on the PC, no monitor shows image, I have to hold down the power button to force shut down and then try turning it on again
• the desktop environment is quite easy to break - sometimes at random or while installing things the dock, top panel and context menus (right click) would break as in - not reacting to any click or context menus and dropdown menus disappearing immediately so you can't click on anything. The only fix when this happens is to log off or restart.

While these problems are not the end of the world, I find them quite annoying and I think that the environment shouldn't be so fragile on a fresh install.

Recommendations

This is where I need your help, I read about other distros and at this point I am a bit lost what to try. I read about Nobara, Mint, Cachy OS, Fedora KDE Plasma. On my laptop I tried sometime ago Omarchy but I'm not sure how much I liked it, too

I have a few requirements on what I want the distro to be capable of (forgive me if some are stupid and work on everything but I just have to mention them):

• come with Nvidia driver out of the box or to easily be possible to install the official Nvidia driver
• Steam, Proton, Discord, Browser easily installed and working out of the box
• be able to install CUDA, Python, Vscode for development
• full disk encryption during install and the option to later easily encrypt a second drive and set it up to auto unlock with the main one during login
• Bluetooth working to use an Xbox controller (I also have the wireless adapter but I couldn't get xone to work)
• out of the box usage of external devices like camera, microphone, external hard drive etc.

Bonus question - I have no idea how to back up stuff on Linux, currently I don't have anything important on my PC but someday I might have. How do you back up and then restore if/when things mess up? Is this something you set up during install with partitions, is it something you do later?

Thanks a lot in advance to anybody who answers, cheers!

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I’ve tried Discover overlay on my Arch Gnome distro and for some reason the app just doesn’t work (AUR or Flatpak). Like it doesn’t start up at all. Unfortunate I’m unable to copy the output as I’ve moved on to KDE which seems to work with the app.

My question: anyone else has the same issue with getting discover overlay working on latest Gnome/Wayland and has a solution for it or a working alternative?

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Hello!

I play games in Big Picture mode on my Fedora 43. For some reason, the Steam overlay doesn't open on top of the game when I press Shift+Tab or the Home button on the gamepad. Also, achievement notifications don't appear, although there is a sound when I receive them. Disabling the "Render using GPU" feature in Steam solves the problem, but then Steam itself runs terribly slow. The strangest thing is that this problem doesn't exist on KDE. How can I get it to work with Gnome?

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Problem: Severe FPS drops and frame-skipping in Geometry Dash on Arch Linux with GNOME Wayland. Game runs perfectly on KDE Wayland. Using Proton Experimental.

System:

- OS: Arch Linux

- Kernel: 6.18.6-arch1-1

- DE: GNOME 49.0 (Mutter on Wayland)

- GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1050 Mobile (NVIDIA proprietary drivers)

- CPU: Intel i7-7700HQ

- Game: Geometry Dash (Steam, Proton)

What I've tried:

- Confirmed issue is specific to GNOME Wayland (KDE Wayland works fine)

- Tried Proton Experimental and several stable versions

- GameMode enabled

- Verified NVIDIA GPU is active via `nvidia-smi`

Observations:

- Framerate counter shows drops from 60 to ~40 FPS

- Visual stuttering and frame skipping makes game unplayable

- Occurs in both fullscreen and windowed modes

- No such issues on KDE Plasma Wayland session

**Question:** Is this a known Mutter/NVIDIA/XWayland issue? Are there specific compositor settings or environment variables that could fix frame pacing in GNOME?

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Hey everyone. I hope y'all have great day. So I've been using linux for a while now, jumping from one distro to another, started with bazzite then jumping to linux mint, now thinking about cachyos and pikaos. But one issue that I always faced regardless of distro, is when my vram usage hits 100%,the fps starts to drop to single digits, and the game becomes unplayable. Fyi, I use RTX 4050 6GB. I never had this issue with Windows 11. No fps drop even after hitting 100% VRAM usage. Is there a fix for it? Please let me know in the comments.

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Is there any fix in the works for NVIDIA having worse DX12 performance in Proton/Wine? I'm asking because I have a 4090 and wanted to know, but I didn't find an answer.

NVIDIA is already very good on Linux; all that's missing is the DX12 fix. I have had a much better experience with NVIDIA than with AMD, especially in terms of fps at same graphical settings. I gained over double the fps when I switched from a 7900 XT.

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I downloaded Sonic Mania on Pop!_OS using the Hydra Launcher with the Xatab font, and I've already tried downloading the game with the same font on other Linux distributions and it doesn't work at all, only on Cachyos and Bazzite.

I click play, it loads some things and then the play button reappears (I use Lutris, but I've already tested it on other launchers like Heroic and Faugus Launcher, and the game doesn't even work on Steam, it seems to start a little and then crashes).

I asked the chat gpt and he said it might be something about the Steam Linux runtime running in the background on Cachyos (which I think is false and has nothing to do with it).

I hope this isn't too confusing and that you can help me (if necessary I'll send the logs).

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Specifically for anyone who doesn't already know what to install coming from Windows. I'm going to focus on 4 main ones out of the bunch that I'm most familiar with: SteamOS, CachyOS, PikaOS, Bazzite, and Nobara

Foreword: Don't focus on performance. Don't pick the OS based off of which one has a 1% better FPS rate. They all do the same thing. Focus instead on the software availability and the methods that you're supposed to use it.

Disclaimer: The Linux kernel has issues with GPUs. AMD has way fewer than Nvidia so expect issues if you're using an Nvidia GPU on Linux. These issues are slowly being fixed but due to the nature of the Nvidia drivers being closed-source, there's only so much the maintainers can do so quickly.

Great news though! A partnership has been formed by a bunch of the major gaming distributions who are working together to unify all of the improvements they've made to their gaming-optimized kernels. This includes Bazzite, Nobara, and Pika, though I'm not sure if I saw Cachy will be joining. This means that from now on, kernel performance will be pretty much the same across all the related distributions. Here's an article you can read more about this: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/open-gaming-collective-ogc-formed-to-push-linux-gaming-even-further/

SteamOS

SteamOS is a fantastic first-party distribution aimed at handhelds, HTPCs, and desktops. It does a great job getting you right into gaming, though fairly feature-limited if you're using it in anything other than a Valve-maintained device.

Should you hold out for SteamOS?

Not really. Everything the SteamOS does and promises to do is already handled exactly and better than SteamOS ever will. SteamOS will always be optimized first-and-foremost for Steam Hardware.

SteamOS also doesn't stay with the up-to-date kernel so it doesn't support the latest GPUs. This is a limitation set forth by the focus on optimizing solely on theirs and partners' hardware. There is also no Nvidia GPU support not limited support like other distros.

It's not a drop-in-replacement for Windows, it's only an OS that you can play on Linux in a Valve-controlled environment that you can ensure your software will run if they say it does. Everything else the SteamOS does is handled by the other OSs.

CachyOS

Cachy is the Arch of gaming distros. Not really, but it is Arch-based. Arch is famous for its ultimate customization and by picking CachyOS you're entering this ecosystem with a bit of assurance. Right of the bat, when installing Cachy you can pick whatever DE you want.

You also gain access to the AUR or Arch User Repository which allows Arch users to openly distribute software for everyone to use. Many of these are binaries that are built locally on your machine even if there is no build available for it.

Pacman is your official package manager but you can also set up your system to use flatpaks or distrobox if you prefer to use those.

Cachy also gives you complete control and you benefit from the thousands upon thousands of Arch-related forum posts and documentation pages that have fixed something-or-the-other on users that use actual Arch.

You also get the plus of being on the same OS that SteamOS uses so a lot of Steam functions are plug and play.

Cachy has both desktop and handheld editions available and has Nvidia support as well.

PikaOS

Pika is a similar flavour to Cachy where they're actually based off of Debian. Debian is pretty much the "definitive" Linux distributions since it's the one that arguably gets the most official software support especially because Ubuntu, the most vanilla distribution is based on Debian. apt is your package manager and you still have access to flatpaks and distrobox for anything that can't or you don't want to run natively.

The great thing about Debian as a base is that it doesn't really do anything super fancy on its own. Still, all the spins are great for picking out just how you want to interact with your computer.

Pika has KDE, Gnome, hyprland, Niri, and Cosmic spins. The only difference is just the DE/WM. Look up videos of how each DE/WM works and looks to make your pick, each has their own strengths and weaknesses and you can't go wrong with any of them!

Nobara

Nobara is pretty much gaming-flavored Fedora. There isn't really anything crazy distinguishing it from Fedora since you interact with it the same way you would base Fedora. dnf is your package manager, and it heavily encourages the usage of flatpaks, something I agree with since they're separate from your system packages.

Nobara benefits from the same kernel as Bazzite but unlike Bazzite you get control over how your system is set up. If you want to change your GPU drivers, you technically can. If you need to replace a kernel, you can do that yourself.

It still comes plug-and-play and has both desktop and HTPC and handheld modes that use the Steam Gaming Mode that SteamOS uses. You can get Nobara in Official KDE, Gnome, and default KDE flavours for the desktop too. It also has Nvidia support.

Bazzite

I'm biased. This is what I believe most gamers should use when coming over from Windows unless you really like to tinker or are not extremely averted to it. It's also what I personally use for my desktop.

Bazzite is known as an immutable Linux distribution. Like Nobara, it is based on Fedora, but it specifically based on the Fedora Kinoite spin that is atomic. Atomic implies that the OS prevents you from overwriting system packages. You wouldn't be able to easily swap out your kernel without difficulty along the way.

The benefit of this is that your system can safely auto-update itself in the background and always be in tip-top-shape and that it will always be in its most stable state. The atomic system also creates backups of your OS. If you updated from Fedora 42 to 43 this year and faced issues and couldn't boot, the Fedora 42 version is still saved as a separate boot option that you can go back to until the issue is resolved.

Bazzite comes in desktop and Gaming Mode flavours with the Gnome and KDE desktops for both. It also has Nvidia support bar the same issues.

What I use

I use Bazzite on my desktop and HTPC. The atomic nature means that system packages, other than the OS itself, can be handled without my input when I'm not using the computer.

For my HTPC, it means I don't need to worry about updates that much, and on my desktop it means my computer is always ready to go.

I prefer the atomic desktop, even as a developer, because the workflow of using Flatpak and distrobox instead of system packages is safer in general. If Bazzite uses a specific version of Python, the one I use for development won't cause a conflict on my distrobox that's specific for development. Applications like Discord can also not inject random dependencies they want into my system and if I delete them, they don't leave anything behind. Flatpaks can also be completely sandboxed and you're always aware of what permissions they're using and who's maintaining them.

Hosting systems are already set up for you if you ever wanted to use those extra cores on your 8-core CPU for some actual work and it comes pre-installed and configured with Lutris so you can just plug-and-play your old games with that.

On my all-AMD system I've not had any graphical or performance issues, so I can recommend it safely for all team-red gamers.

I specifically use the KDE version because it's more traditional desktop as opposed to Gnome that has its own style. It's also much more customizeable by default but they both pretty much do the same thing.

Just pick the one you like, and if you don't like it, try the other one. Don't force yourself to use a system you don't like!

Terms I Used You Might Not Know

What is a flatpak

A sandboxed application. Similar to how a web app works, it includes all its dependencies and functions within itself so your system stays clean from dependency issues.

What is a DE/WM

It's how you interact with your system. Arguably this is the more important decision than the OS itself since this is really all that matters for you as an end-user. OS only matters for software availability or in the case of Bazzite stability.

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I recently switched to Linux from Windows. When opening a GUI (inventory, chests, etc) in Minecraft, the cursor is meant to appear in the middle of the screen, which it does properly in the video. But when I move my mouse, the cursor blinks to a different spot. The place the cursor blinks to is the same every time.

I'm using Linux Mint. I'm very new to Linux so I apologise if I left out any important information or if I explained this poorly.

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The demo only dropped two hours ago, but this seems to be a common issue facing Linux users at the moment.

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It started about two weeks ago. Something's broken it, despite it working before. I've tried Wayland, I've tried .deb, I've tried Flatpak, I've now tried the same all on x11 after switching to the last LTS for Ubuntu... I'm absolutely stuck.

I'm starting to think it can't just be me...

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Hello everyone, this is probably my first post but I need some help. I have switched to CachyOS and tried a couple games and my controller doesn't seem to work, what I mean is it keeps going around on my right thumb stick moving (no it's not stick drift) it was great on Windows 11 but on CachyOS it is giving me a problem. I installed Joystick to try to fix it and found out it's showing both right and left back buttons as well giving me the issue with right thumb stick. But after changing it with is Axis 3 & Axis 4 on my controller it seems fine on Joystick but when I play games it always does this. If anyone knows how to fix it that would be very nice.

My controller is: Scuf Envision Pro

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