Noob question. I recently got a RX 550 after my 580 broke. Can I play modern games with this GPU and does it support modern AMD drivers?

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Hello (sorry my english is not good)

I'm determined to leave Windows behind, but I'm looking for a Linux distribution dedicated to gaming. I've already researched some that seem suitable for beginners or aren't too difficult.

As I mentioned before, I'm looking for one dedicated to or optimized for gaming, but I also want to learn Linux. That's why Bazzite, being somewhat "closed," is discouraging me.

I also read that Linux doesn't work very well with Nvidia, except in some distributions, and also with newer hardware.

I want to have one SSD with Linux and another with Windows for online gaming.

I saw that Mint is stable but is a bit behind in terms of drivers.

Here are my specifications:

R5 7600

4070TI SUPER

4TB NVMe SSD split into 2TB and 2TB

Distributions I researched that caught my attention:

Cachy OS

Linux Mint

Pop OS

Zorin OS

Bazzite

Endeavour

I'm looking for help. I expect to reset my PC next week to make the changes.

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Disclaimer: I'm a programmer but I am also lazy and I just wanted something that worked, so this tool is entirely vibe coded. I did check and review the contents, but I'm just being upfront and honest.

I often play games on Linux using a capture card (switch, xbox, PS5, etc) to directly tap into the video HDMI out of my consoles. This is because I prefer to play on my PC even if I have consoles, and it also makes it easier to stream and capture gameplay to share with friends.

My old setup used a convoluted bash script that fed the video and audio into mpv and tried to keep it as low latency as possible. It worked, but I wasn't happy with having to run video-playback software rather than some gaming-specific software (although I love mpv).

So I decided to just write my own wrapper and application around ffmpeg, so I can just run a single binary and it will capture the video and audio (actually, the audio is routed via pulseaudio so it's not quite there yet).

Later I also added some simple CRT shader for my retro consoles (dreamcast).

I'm just sharing it here in case people find it interesting. It's written in rust and you have to build it yourself (in release mode!):

https://github.com/Morgawr/michadame

WARNING: This software's purpose specifically is for myself. I made it because I needed it. It works well on my machine, but I have no interest in testing it for other setups as well. I'd gladly accept patches if people send them to me, though. If you find that this works well for you, that's awesome. If it doesn't... well I'm sorry to hear, still let me know and maybe we can figure it out.

Here is a screenshot of a Switch visual novel running on it, with a CRT filter added on top because why not?

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I would wanna move to Linux as it's just, better, but I can't ignore the games I can't play such as Fortnite, BF6 and such, anyone knows any convenient workarounds to help with that? KVM isn't an option due to the ban risks and me having 1 GPU, and dual boot splits my storage along with it not being particularly convenient to restart when I need to play 1 game.

Basically I'm asking what are my options to make it as seamless as possible if there's any

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I've got an itch to make some fun environments, fill them with baddies to fight, and share them. Something of at least Quake's level of fidelity (i.e. fully 3D) or better.

Most of my gaming is done on my Steam Deck and I'd like to do the editing there as well so I can iterate and profile faster. So far I've found TrenchBroom (https://trenchbroom.github.io/) for certain Quake Tech lineage games, but I hope someone could recommend other games and level editors that work well.

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Básicamente eso,con una distro como Ubuntu o fedora,no podría correr medianamente bien Sober(Roblox) en mi nintendo switch?

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Hi everyone,

I recently bought an HY300 projector, but I can’t get it to work with my PC running Nobara Linux. The problem seems related to the EDID or the resolution, though I’m not entirely sure.

I’ve tried lowering the resolution so the projector could work, but that didn’t help. It also made my monitor go black and display “Input not valid” or something similar.

Does anyone have a solution for getting this projector to work on Linux? Or any general tips for using projectors with Linux in the future?

Thanks in advance!

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Whenever I try and load a ROM (from the r/Roms megathread) it either freezes on that white screen or closes melonDS. I have tried multiple different ROM's, but none work.

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Hi! First off, I recently installed Fedora KDE 43 and I love it so much, but I'm having trouble running at UW and trying to enable HDR in some games (essentially UE games like Stellar Blade or Assetto Corsa Rally).
My rig is a rtx 3080 (currently with a 6800xt, swapped with another pc I have), 32gb ram, 5800x3d and the screen is an Oled LG C3, in the desktop I've enabled HDR, Adaptive Sync, Freesync with VRR is enable on the tv settings, and running games at 4k looks great. Some games the HDR option is greyed out, so I've installed vk_hdr_layer to enable it, and it works.
But the thing is, while I used my screen in Windows, instead using the res at 3840x2160, I've put it at 3840x1600 in 21:9 (fedora says is 24:10, maybe is the correct format, idk), were I was very comfortable using it, I have this option to use it in Fedora, but locked at 60hz, can't use it at 120hz, so I left it at 4k, every game still shows the 1600p option, until I use the method to enable HDR, where I put the compatibility to Proton-cachyos or proton-ge, this command:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 %command%

...at 3840x1600, games looks like this:

https://preview.redd.it/zvm8ns7agp4g1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=b866e12f3098293175211f8f848e6f62a87a9e2f

This occurs when I put the command PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1, same with Silent Hill 2, Doom Dark Ages, and Stellar Blade.

Helldivers 2 on the other hand goes like this, with or without any command or any proton, like is still forced at 16:9 in 1600p or even at 2560x1080 (I've pressume this happens because the desktop is running at 4K):

https://preview.redd.it/rbw53bvfpp4g1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=ede4c1a571e228baa6f2de3fccffd01cc7f33e4f

The only one that worked with UW and HDR was DL: The beast. I've tried using Gamescope and putting the right settings, which gives me the same result, other protons compatibility, and lastly setting at 1600p in the desktop and forcing 120hz on gamescope, hdr is greyed out and still have 60hz. I've tried it before with my RTX 3080, thinking it was a driver problem, changing the HDMI cable to HDMI to DP, still the same (same goes with AMD).

The only thing I havent tried is another distro to check is Fedora, but I wanted to know before if there's something i'm skipping to install or configure, even if I can fix the Hz at 1600p, that would solve all of it.

TL;DR: Fedora works great generally with AMD and NVIDIA, I used UW with HDR and the screen is not centered and no black bars if running at 4k 120hz on desktop, 1600p has 60hz locked.

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Specifically Team Fortress 2, I'm running the native Linux x64 version of the game. I doesn't work on Discord nor Vesktop but my RPC is enabled and works fine. I'm ot sure what to do to fix it, all of the guides I looked up haven't helped, it's mildly infuriating.

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I am testing Minecraft on my Linux install and I find that while the framerate is high, it just feels really choppy. It lacks the smoothness of playing on Windows and also seems to have issues with screen tearing. I don't want to use vsync but even with it on the issues are not resolved. Force Full Composition Pipeline seems to help a bit with the screen tearing, but not the choppy feeling. I am currently using the Fabulously Optimized modpack on Modrinth with a few extra small mods.

System: Kernel: 6.14.0-36-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 Zara base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82XT v: LOQ 15APH8 serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: LOQ 15APH8 serial: <superuser required> Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76463 WIN serial: <superuser required> part-nu: LENOVO_MT_82XT_BU_idea_FM_LOQ 15APH8 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: LYCN43WW date: 10/07/2024 Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 61.6 Wh (98.9%) condition: 62.3/60.0 Wh (103.9%) volts: 16.5 min: 15.4 model: COSMX L22X4PA0 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: full cycles: 14 CPU: Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen 4 rev: 1 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 16 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 2849 high: 4996 min/max: 400/5137 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3408 2: 1100 3: 4011 4: 3992 5: 3855 6: 3404 7: 1100 8: 1100 9: 3762 10: 1100 11: 4996 12: 4352 13: 3551 14: 1100 15: 3664 16: 1100 bogomips: 121360 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia v: 580.95.05 arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-9,eDP-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:28e1 class-ID: 0300 Device-2: AMD Phoenix1 vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, DP-7, DP-8, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15bf class-ID: 0300 temp: 45.0 C Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b7b9 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu,nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 530x301mm (20.87x11.85") s-diag: 610mm (24") Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-0 note: disabled pos: primary model: VG248 serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 dpi: 92 size: 531x299mm (20.91x11.77") diag: 609mm (24") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480 Monitor-2: eDP-1 mapped: eDP-1-0 note: disabled model: AU Optronics 0xe3a1 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480 API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau drv: nvidia drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: nouveau device: 2 drv: radeonsi device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.95.05 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2System: Kernel: 6.14.0-36-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 Zara base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82XT v: LOQ 15APH8 serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: LOQ 15APH8 serial: <superuser required> Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76463 WIN serial: <superuser required> part-nu: LENOVO_MT_82XT_BU_idea_FM_LOQ 15APH8 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: LYCN43WW date: 10/07/2024 Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 61.6 Wh (98.9%) condition: 62.3/60.0 Wh (103.9%) volts: 16.5 min: 15.4 model: COSMX L22X4PA0 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: full cycles: 14 CPU: Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen 4 rev: 1 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 16 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 2849 high: 4996 min/max: 400/5137 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3408 2: 1100 3: 4011 4: 3992 5: 3855 6: 3404 7: 1100 8: 1100 9: 3762 10: 1100 11: 4996 12: 4352 13: 3551 14: 1100 15: 3664 16: 1100 bogomips: 121360 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia v: 580.95.05 arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-9,eDP-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:28e1 class-ID: 0300 Device-2: AMD Phoenix1 vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, DP-7, DP-8, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15bf class-ID: 0300 temp: 45.0 C Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b7b9 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu,nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 530x301mm (20.87x11.85") s-diag: 610mm (24") Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-0 note: disabled pos: primary model: VG248 serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 dpi: 92 size: 531x299mm (20.91x11.77") diag: 609mm (24") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480 Monitor-2: eDP-1 mapped: eDP-1-0 note: disabled model: AU Optronics 0xe3a1 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480 API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau drv: nvidia drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: nouveau device: 2 drv: radeonsi device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.95.05 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 submitted by /u/Regular_Low8792
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My cousin has been wanting to move from their ancient ThinkPad laptop to a proper desktop for gaming, but are on the Windows 11 hate train, so I'd like to pick out a Linux distro for them to try.

I'm pretty comfortable with linux myself (my primary comp has run openSUSE for years) and I like to tinker, but my cousin is NOT a techy person, so once I've done the installation and initial setup I want them to be able to use the OS with minimal fuckery (or texting me for tech support) required.

Right now I'm looking at either Bazzite or PopOS. The computer itself is cobbled together from some of my old hardware, as my cousin isn't really a hard-core gamer--they mostly just want to run Minecraft. It has an older nvidia GPU, which I hear complicates things.

So, all of that background out of the way: what do you guys think? What would probably run Minecraft and maybe some Steam games most smoothly and with the fewest hiccups? And, more importantly, which of the two offers the most Windows-like experience for someone completely new to Linux?

(Sidebar, I know the desktop environment is the bigger factor, so input on what the most Windows-y DE is would also be appreciated. I mostly use KDE but iirc PopOS ships w gnome by default, is changing that fairly easy/does it effect the distro's performance at all?)

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I had Epic installed using Faugus, and it was working fine, but it needed to update and then it stopped working. I uninstalled Epic, but when I try to re-install it, it goes through the motions, but says "Epic Games was not installed!"

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I have a Ye Olde gaming laptop that i just switched from Windows to Linux Mint a few days ago, its got a 7th gen i7-7700HQ and a GTX 1070.

So far, i have tried the Steam Linux Runtime v1.0, v3.0, Proton 10.3, Experimental, and Hotfix
Launching it with DX11 and Vulkan, and different graphics drivers

DX11 crashes the game before it even loads into a window
Running the Nvidia driver also results in a crash before the window loads

I had the most luck with Nouveau and Vulkan as the game launches and starts compiling shaders but it crashes after hanging at 100%, never reaching the menu.
I tried a variety of launch options but they seem to have no effect on how far it loads.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, thought it was an issue with lack of storage on my primary drive so switched it to a secondary but the same issue persists.
I tried what i found in past threads and other forums but it they all pointed me toward the same solutions that have no solution.

I dont know what is going wrong or where to even begin troubleshooting. Is it an issue with Mint? with Proton? something else entirely? I have Protontricks installed but no idea how to use it and it seems to have issues with my secondary drive.

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hey everyone!, its my second time here asking for more os/questions about linux, so as you may read the title, i want to make a mini minecraft server, just for friends (2-4), and i want a OS to run it smootly because..... its not a good laptop. also AnduinOS its not in there anymore, its using a chrome book related OS.

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First of all, I'd like to make it VERY clear that this is my very first experience using Linux on a personal laptop (before this, I had only used Linux at school), so I KINDLY ask for your patience with someone who is genuinely trying to use Linux for gaming and who hopes to permanently switch from Windows one day (I consider my current stage on linux right now as “test drive”).

Secondly, I’ll try to be as detailed as possible in this post. If I’m breaking any community rules by posting this, I apologize in advance.

The issue: I recently bought a controller called Gamesir T4 Nova Lite to play games both on Steam and emulators. For some reason I can’t figure out, the controller only works in emulators. In Steam, it shows “Unknown Controller Support” on the Linux distro I’m using (AcerOS 25.04, which came pre-installed on the notebook — it’s Ubuntu-based, as far as I know). No matter which game I try, it simply doesn’t work.

Emulators (Eden, PCSX2, etc.) recognize the controller as “Zikway HID gamepad”.I tested the same controller on a Windows 10 machine I have access to, and everything works perfectly there — Steam recognizes it as an Xbox controller, and Windows sees it as an Xbox 360 controller.

I tried the online suggestion of switching it to “Xbox mode” or something like that by pressing Home + B, but it didn’t seem to make any difference (tried playing afterward and it still didn’t work).

I don’t know what firmware version the controller is running because when I open the GameSir app, it immediately asks me to update the firmware at the firmware screen (which I declined for now).

Once again, I hope I’m not breaking any posting rules here. I read some of the pinned posts and saw that threads like this often get downvoted it’s sad to know that. I’m just trying to understand what I can do to make Steam recognize this brand-new controller.

I will properly mark the post as tech support, as I believe that's what my request entails.

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https://github.com/dillacorn/smtty

Made a video showing smtty in action after multiple revisions and updates. It's in a good spot and works well for my wants/needs now.

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It now show control buttons(minimize, maximize, close), also the titlebar works as a window moving handle.

Discord running in KDE Plasma

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I just got CachyOS and I can’t get my games fullscreen, what would this be?

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