I know this sub is filled with these questions all the time but i'm at a loss on what to actually go for here.

I'm currently on W11, i've been messing around with some distros before but i've had some weird issues.

Tried Pop_OS but man, i really really really disliked that distro, it was something with the DE that i absolutely didn't like. I tried to install KDE on it, but after i did that all of my windows that i opened, like the file explorer, steam, games in general, they just shut down for absolutely no reason.
Before i tried to use it as it was i had issues with games not running that well, i'm not really sure as to why. Weird spikes in games happening and it somehow felt "sluggish" kinda. I also had problems with fighting games feeling like they didn't run at the right refresh rate (since they're locked at 60fps and my monitors are 144hz) but i did figure out that i had to get LACT and put a high profile on my GPU which solved the issue.

I've been on Mint as well, i do kinda like it, i'm running Mint on my "craptop" which gave it completely new life. But gaming on Mint was a hassle for me. In some games, especially Dota 2, i had issues with the taskbar being on top over the game which made it hard to play. Counter-Strike 2 just refused to open up on my main monitor and ALWAYS opened on the secondary monitor. I don't know if that was a dual monitor issue or what since i do use two monitors (and this could maybe be an issue on other distros? altough i didn't have that issue on Pop). However, i didn't have the same refresh issue on Mint with fighting games, they just worked with no tinkering of LACT needed.

The taskbar thingy happened in other games outside of Dota as well, i'm one of those people that rather play in Borderless Windowed mode since i sometimes tab out to check stuff on Discord and similar. Sure i could go fullscreen but that means i have to tab out and that isn't ideal in games like CS, Dota, Deadlock and whatnot.

I did try to install Ubuntu for a while but there was just issues with installing stuff, especially Steam for me. I might have done something wrong which i'm not sure about, but getting Steam up and running was a nightmare.

I also tried Nobara really quick, but for some reason all of the games i installed just got uninstalled for some reason after a restart, and yes i did check so my drives was mounting on boot. I have 2 NVME drives, one i want to have mostly for the OS and other stuff, and one drive that is purely for games. After the reboot i did check the other drive where games was installed on and that drive was just completely empty.

I don't only use my machine for gaming, i do sometimes do video editing and i do stream sometimes too, so i want something that works well for that.

My machine is also a full AMD Rig, running a Ryzen 5 5600 paired with a RX 7700 XT so gaming shouldn't be an issue.

I've been eyeing CachyOS for a while but i just want recommendations as to what to go for here.
I don't mind going for something that does require some tinkering since i do like doing that kind of stuff. I do have a Steam deck and the SteamOS in general is super fun to play around with.

The only things i want out of the OS is basically, being able to game on it and being able to video edit and stream.

What would be the best to go for in that case?
Also a question here, what would be the benefits of going for a distro that is immutable versus one that isn't?

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I recently came to enjoy playing dosbox games, but some of the later ones rely on the Glide API. And the only hint at a Linux implementation is the rumored Grover which doesn't seen to exist.

What is your setup for this? Dosbox + Wine + nGlide? How do I set it all up? It's honestly ridiculous.

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I finally got too fed up with Windows and its antics. So I've recently installed Brazzite and it works pretty well but I feel that it's kinda restrictive when compared to other distros. I'm thinking of switching to CachyOS but I want to know about the performance differences and if its as locked down as Brazzite.

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Hey, I'm currently trying to run the latest version of minecraft on my steam deck with shaders. Optifine isn't working on the latest version to my understanding, so i was wondering if there's a newer way to get shaders on linux?

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have an issue related to the nvidial closed driver. Where can i report it

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I've been dual booting for decades, but have finally made the switch to Linux for gaming.

I was pleasantly surprised Dune Awakening works on Linux, but it uses BattlEye.

If I install it on CachyOS, will I forever have kernel level spyware, or will BattlEye only run while playing Dune?

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Where Winds Meet continues to be a big hit on Steam and it works quite well on Desktop Linux but it needs a lot of improvements on Valve's Steam Deck.

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Picked up Fallout 3 GOTY to replace my old DVD and have cloud sync of saves.

On my laptop, like it has for a decade on linux, the game just worked pretty much off the bat. Sure I know to add the large address aware flag when I actually play it, but I clicked install, and it just worked. Using Proton Experimental.

On the SteamDeck, when I do the same thing I get an error about Turning the Windows Feature on for .NET 3.0, and then the install script fails out and it gives me the original DVD autoplay which when you click install complains it can't find the DVD.

I've tried multiple different proton versions, I've tried using protontricks to install .NET3 which won't work in a 64-bit prefix, I've tried running the .NET 3.0 installer manually which fails with the same error, I've tried switching it to WinXP which lets the .NET installer run but seems to never finish.

What on earth is the difference between my SteamDeck and my laptop running Arch?

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I use goverlay with global enable but sometimes games need to be forced through proton for it to work like openGL games and i did tried multiple commands in steam launcher it just crashes the game few seconds after launching

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I've tried to re-calibrate the safe zone, but didn't work as intended. I think the game is thinking that I'm playing on a Steam Deck rather than a desktop, that's why the hud is all maximized.

I've tried looking into ProtonDB too, but no success. Some commands didn't even let my game start.

Any help or tip will be much, much appreciated.

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Using a 1080 i can t use the new open source driver and im being block on the proprietary one wich is the best solution to my knwoledge. The issue is a lot of things break. I try using hdr and my screen often flicker or just go black. I can t change some settings in plasma cause it will go black. I have to use an old driver (475)cause the new one crash every time my gpu go to 100% utilisation.

Is it better to go to nouveau ? Or do i have a better solutions rather than just buying an amd gpu

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Revhead: Update 53 "Pub with Online Leaderboard" released https://playingtux.com/articles/revhead-update-53-pub-online-leaderboard-released?lang=en #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

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Want to know more about the upcoming Blood: Refreshed Supply? You're in luck as we have a fresh developer video from Nightdive Studios.

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SIDE EFFECTS from developer Free Lives takes the idea of Buckshot Roulette and puts a brutal pill-popping spin on it.

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I'm thinking on buying a reddragron he keyboard but for playing OSU and some other games and I am wondering if there is software to configure the keys, I'm buying a reddragron one because it's the most affordable for me and I can't find a Abnt2 80% with the L stiled enter from wooting since I live in Brazil the one that I want to buy is around 370R$ (BRL) and I wouldn't go too much further than that price if anyone can find a wooting keyboard with this configuration thanks, but otherwise is there any piece of software to configure a reddragron keyboard? I want rapid trigger among other things my distro is arch linux

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i manually installed gamescope and mangohud from terminal both flatpak versions 25.08. Lutris is also flatpak. But Lutris fails to detect them. i want to try gamescope mods for full screen resolutions.

I use Zorin OS 18 which uses Wayland.

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