I've been testing Debian 13 recently (tried ubuntu before that, and lots of distros over the years) with the latest Nvidia drivers and found that while Wayland technically works, gaming performance wasn’t great and I had to revert to X11. I’m looking for an Ubuntu/Debian-based distro that’s well-suited for gaming, office, and media use, with native Wayland support, modern Nvidia drivers, fractional scaling, GNOME or KDE, and a focus on privacy, security, and open-source values.

I am trying KDE Neon and Pop!_OS. Has any one had wayland + Nvidia gaming performance on these or other distros compared to Debian? Any other recommendations?

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I am running Ubuntu in a dual boot system as a first Linux Experiment. I installed steam and proton as well as phasmophobia. When change the start options for ingame sound to work, after I join a lobby, I get the steam is not working message with the game running and my teammates running around. I cant get rid of the message (it reappers) and cannot make inputs

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I've been distro hopping since 2006 and have a great amount of experience in getting Linux setup on desktops/laptops. I recently moved away from a desktop to a laptop and thought "let's give Cachy a try on this". Everything went as expected, I was vibin' - until it was game time. I fired up a benchmark and noticed performance was low. I expected a 20-30% loss vs Windows is DX12 but this was something more. The fans barely kicked in too. So I checked powermizier and watched as my TGP was locked to 80w...out of my 175w max on the 5080.

20 minutes later I was back to Windows. I'll never buy an Nvidia GPU again, and this reminds me of all the shortcomings of laptops vs desktops. Alas, I needed the mobility so it is what it is.

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I'm trying to get American Truck Simulator to work with my Quest 3, but I can't get it to launch with WiVRn. I'm using Fedora 43.

Things I did:
- Set up WiVRn server and connect from headset
- Properties > Betas > oculus - Oculus+OpenVR+OpenXR - 1.57
- Properties > Compatibility > Force Proton 9.0-4
- Set launch options to PRESSURE_VESSEL_IMPORT_OPENXR_1_RUNTIMES=1 VR_OVERRIDE=/run/host/usr/lib64/opencomposite/runtime %command% (recommended by WiVRn)

Those launch options work for Beat Saber, but not ATS for some reason. Adding -openxr to the end of that makes ATS open in VR mode on my PC (doubled view), but nothing is seen in the headset. Does anyone have a clue how to fix this?

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Looking for a mechanical keyboard (full size, hell, even with extra macro keys, media buttons, etc) that's UK layout and can be configured within Linux. I managed to find some mechanical full sized keyboards that can be configured in linux (keychron) but can't find ones that are UK layout. Any Ideas?

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As a Linux noob i tried pop!_os but jesus that shit was awful Had to watch multiple tutorials to use my second disk(where i have my games in steam and epic) plus the shop was slow af Didn't even try the epic emulator(if not an emulator)

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Hello everyone,

​Windows 10 is coming to the end of its support, and I am determined to migrate to Linux for my daily use. I need an OS that is solid for college work (Word/Excel, etc.) and handles Steam games well. I have narrowed down my options to Pop!_OS and Zorin OS.

​My Current Scenario: Main Use: University productivity (Lots of web, documents with LibreOffice/Office Online) and Gaming. Critical Game: My only multiplayer game is Helldivers 2 (I know it uses nProtect GameGuard, and I've seen it work well with Proton, but I'd like to know if one distro is more stable than another). Hardware: Currently 4GB Radeaon graphics card, 16GB RAM, Ryzen 2600x ​Future: I plan to upgrade soon to an Rtx 3060 12GB graphics card, as well as the rest of the components (ryzen 5700x, 32gb of ram) ​My Specific Question: As a first option, which distribution should I go since I have never used Linux?

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I tried to install Linux mint on my family’s computer to revive it from windows XP and when I booted into Linux all was good until I restarted the computer and then the image I’m showing appeared and I think it’s cooked and words of advice would help

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I noticed that when I limit my FPS in games that have frame generation enabled, the frametime becomes extremely unstable. However, if the game lets me enable V-Sync, like Final Fantasy XVI where I can have V-Sync with frame generation enabled, the game runs incredibly smoothly. But in Cronos: The New Dawn, for example, where I can't have V-Sync with frame generation enabled, there's a lot of stuttering and an unstable frametime, causing the game to have very high latency, more so than on Windows, at least as far as I can remember. I don't know if there's a way to enable V-Sync globally, like you could in the Adrenalin software, to see if that might help.

My PC specs:

Ryzen 7 5700X3D

2x16GB RAM 3600MHz

RX 6800XT

All installed on a 1TB M.2 SSD

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So, me and my brother both use Linux with AMD cards, he uses mint and i use arch.
but for some reason every so often a game will perform terrible, this happens for both of us with extremely high GPU usage even though we are getting 1/5th of the frames we would normally get.
This isn't just a temporary thing like shaders, games just perform horribly until we reboot our PC.
To fix this issue we usually just reboot, but eventually it does come back every so often.
he says it happens to him on all games, though i don't really play a variety of games and have only had it happen to me on overwatch and arc raiders.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

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This issue is driving me nuts. Every time the mouse cursor appears or disappears (shown in the video by opening a comm wheel but also happens when loading into games, moving through menus etc.), there's a what feels like random chance for the game to crash. I've confirmed this in both Overwatch 2 and Marvel Rivals. It happens very consistently on Nobara with any Proton version, I've tried installing CachyOS and it seemed like the problem wasn't there until my game crashed last night for committing the crime of using a voiceline

I have a RX 6800 so it's not an Nvidia issue, can anyone else try this and see if it's just my computer or if there's a more widespread bug?

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aside from worse performance with 50 series GPUs, this is something that is annoying the shit out of me on all of my devices. Whenever I install a new application or game, usually through proton but not always, the windows will usually be extremely small and hard to read, and most of the time the only way to fix it is to manually open proton tricks, open the proton prefix, open wineCFG then raise the DPI under the graphics tab. It's incredibly annoying that I have to do this for almost any prefix that I either am trying to work with or open its own windows. I've done research to try to figure out what else I can do about this problem, such as a way to automatically set the prefix DPI to actually adapt to my display, but I haven't been able to find anything.

As a recent example, I wanted to revisit some MMOs I used to play as a kid this week, and almos all of them opened up a tiny ass windows either out of the game or game that were impossible to read on my 4K display. I even tried Bolt Launcher the native Linux launcher for Runescape and no matter what I try, whether manually setting 1.5x or 2x scaling in flat seal the game is literally unplayable because the icons and UI are too small, even when the game itself is fine in this case. I also wanted to try Fightcade and the scaling thing kind of worked, but the actual in emulator UI was still really small

I don't understand why this is happening. I know a little bit about maybe it have something to do with 11 window scaling or something but that's about all I know. I just want it to work. Is there anyone else here that experiences these problems? I've also tried to set a default DPI in heroic or Lutris but that doesn't seem to be a way to set that either that I've been able to find. Something that has consistently worked is setting the DPI for my overall wine prefix and then executing applications that way, but whenever I have more than a few wine/proton programs installed, the option disappears from the right click context menu and I'm not sure how to execute wine Windows program loader from the terminal or anything. I remember also trying to look into that but not finding anything.

I'm on cachy and endeavouros btw.

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I'm running Zorin, and everything works greta, excpet for Rv there yet? which does not register my controller. it's a xbox one controller.

how can i fix this?

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i have a PowerA Wired Gaming for Nintendo Switch - Spectra Motion Controller ,but it doesn't want to work on sober.i tried running it through steam and it straight up didn't take any input from the controller,while running it without steam barely worked with all the buttons being wrong.i know the controller isnt faulty because i tested it on windows and it worked properly without n issue.i have also tried many work arounds in various ways ,none of wich worked.i am just at a loss right now and dont know what to do.

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So basically i have LG 34 inch ultrawide monitor, and i want to play CS2 in 4:3 stretched to 16:9, is it possible? I couldnt get it to work on windows when I had nvidia, and now im on EndavourOS wich i Singleboot OS: EndavourOS (Arch Based) GPU: RX 9060XT 16GB Kernel 6.17.9 arch-1-1

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GOG have announced today that as part of the 25th anniversary of the series, four classic Total War games are now on GOG in their Preservation Program.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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