My YouTube is full of recent videos making claims of people abandoning windows in droves - mostly gamers reaching for gaming distros, there are also reports of daily Linux users now exceeding 3%.

Is this really it? Are we finally breaking the ice?

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I, uh, have an nvidia card but my laptop doesn't have a mux switch so it routes the GPU signal through the igpu. Like how well would it work? It's a 4050/i5. I played like 500 sessions of overwatch and 100 sessions of marvel rivals.

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I have been banging my head against this for about 2 hours.

In CS2, the menus work fine. However, I can't aim passed where my cursor is hitting the border of the screen.

I just installed Fedora KDE Plasma earlier today, and CS2 is the first thing I'm trying to get going. Drivers are all installed and the game itself is seeming to run great (other than not having a true fullscreen mode in game no matter what I do?)

This is my first time touching Linux since Ubuntu 15 years ago, so I'm feeling pretty noobish :)

I have tried to google it any way I can think to word it, but I just keep finding 1-2 year old reddit posts with no relevant information. I've also bounced the idea off of a few LLMs with no luck. There's gotta be a way right haha right?

I'm using gamescope to stretch 16:9 to my 21:9 monitor if that matters.

Edit: It seems running the game at native 21:9 solves this issue. Is there some other way to achieve the stretch, or anyone know a fix to this issue? I gotta have my stretchhhh

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About Distro

I'd recommend trying gaming-focused distributions like Nobara Linux. I gave Nobara a shot and it worked brilliantly! However, over time I ran into some issues with dnf updates and package conflicts. That's why I switched to CachyOS, which I'm currently using. But hey, if you'd rather stick with your current distro, that's totally fine – this is just my personal take!

Installation Methods

You can try using Lutris to install Genshin Impact. If you encounter errors during setup and don't want to dive too deep into troubleshooting, PortProton on Flathub is worth checking out as an alternative.

Cloud Gaming Option

If you want to jump right in without dealing with complicated setup steps, GeForce Now might be your best bet.

Troubleshooting

Anti-Cheat Issues

One common problem when playing Genshin Impact on Linux involves anti-cheat detection, since Wine environments aren't identical to native Windows. You'll notice this when clicking "Start Game" in HoyoPlay – it closes but doesn't launch Genshin Impact, and HoyoPlay just reappears. The simplest workaround right now is to temporarily disconnect from the internet. While you're in HoyoPlay, disable all your device's internet connections (WiFi, Ethernet, etc.), then hit "Start Game." Once the game loads, you can reconnect to the internet. You'll need to repeat this process each time you launch the game.

HoyoPlay Won't Start

There are various possible causes, but first, if you're using a power-saving mode, try switching to Balanced or Performance mode. I'm not entirely sure, but on my system, HoyoPlay won't launch when Gnome's Power Saving mode is enabled.

A Quick Note

These are just my personal experiences and observations, so there might be some gaps or inaccuracies. Also, since English isn't my strong suit, I've used AI to help with the translation – please forgive any shortcomings! I hope you find this helpful!

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Pop or Nobarra i also want to know which one runs wine better

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Hi, I'm new to Linux, and I use Debian with KDE-Plasma.

I have an 8BitDo Ultimate 3-mode Controller for Xbox that has worked great on Windows 11 using the included 2.4ghz receiver. After my switch to Linux, I've found that it's only picked up as a "Generic Xbox Pad" instead of an 8BitDo controller. Meaning I am unable to use certain features like the share button. Even when connecting over USB.

Doing some research, I tried installing xpad, xone, and xpadneo (separately, of course). But unless I did it wrong, none of them seemed to have worked. The only way Linux will recognize the controller properly is if I connect it via Bluetooth, in which case it worked perfectly. (but obviously Bluetooth isn't that great).

Any suggestions?

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I dont want to disable my igpu in my bios (in the event that my gpu for some reason). Is there any other way?

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I am using a Fedora 43 (Gnome) almost fresh install and every time I try to play with discord on its seems fine until anyone starts a livestream, enters the call, leaves the call or exit my live stream I got a HUGE frame drop for a second, anyone has this problem?

I tried to use Equibop, Vencord, Legcord and Discord without hardware acceleration seems to have the same problems.

SPECS:
OS: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition)
KERNEL: 6.17.10-300.fc43.x86_64
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE (radeonsi, navi31, LLVM 21.1.5, DRM 3.64, 6.17.10-300.fc43.x86_64)
GPU DRIVER: 4.6 Mesa 25.2.7RAM: 48 GB

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I use my Thinkpad X1 Lunar Lake 268v for gaming cuz it plays everything I own just fine. Black Ops III, Star Wars Squadrons, my two main gaims, they get 60fps on 1080p max graphics in Balanced power mode.

(I'm impressed, it plays these games perfectly and temps hover around 55-65C to boot.)

However, if I plug in my OWC Thunderbolt 4 dock which connects my big monitor and sound system, with the laptop lid closed I get 50fps, and with it open, it drops to 20-30fps.

Same monitor, when plugged in via a generic USB-C to DisplayPort plug, exhibits no FPS loss at all, even with the laptop screen on.

What would be the culprit here? The kernel, or Mesa driver? I'd like to raise the issue with the devs if that's a viable path to resolution.

(No, I can't turn the laptop up to Performance mode cuz it gets super hot, throttles bad, and will shut down after a few hours of doing that.)

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I've been using this minecraft bedrock launcher from flathub for running minecraft bedrock on arch btw (garuda linux) and now, for some reason, it randomly freezes in any part of the game, most times when a item is dropped or if i do a fast camera movement.

Is there a way to fix this? i'm tired af.

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Es mejor Usar Bazzite SteamFork Arch CachyOs o que uso??

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Seems like there was an update that broken several games via Proton. I'm getting DirectX errors on any games I try to launch. Running Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and Steam 1763795278

Anyone else seeing this issue?

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I'm just putting this solution out there in case anyone encounters this issue.

TL;DR: Corrupted Steam runtime. Delete everything in ~/.local/share/Steam/ except steamapps, restart Steam to rebuild.

I had an issue where randomly out of nowhere I couldn't run native games like Song of Syx, Project Zomboid, or even Melvor Idle. I would start them, and it would instantly crash. The game wouldn't even log anything because Steam itself wasn't launching them.

I tried disabling the Steam overlay and Steam game recorder and neither worked. I knew the games themselves weren't the issue though because I literally went into the installation folder and ran the executable from the terminal.

I checked what steam was logging by running it from the console

steam 2>&1

For each of these games it said something along the lines of

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/gamer/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

I fixed it by going to the Steam installation folder and deleting everything EXCEPT for "steamapps"

When I started it again from the terminal, Steam reinstalled everything by itself and I could run games natively again.

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hi, i just joined the linux community and im using arch as my first distro (i know stupid for a beginner like me) but i wanna know how to control my nvidia graphics cards digital vibrance and global graphics, please.

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