Hey all,

I ran Linux for years before switching back to Windows a few months ago, and now I’m itching to come back—but I’m totally stuck on which distro to pick. I know I’ll miss something the AUR eventually, so I’m almost certain I want an Arch-based distro… but I really don’t want to deal with with a clean Arch install this time.

Some important things:

• NVIDIA GPU (4060 TI) - I know Nvidia drivers have made decent progress recently, but not much more, been really out of the loop recently. But I would like to have access to some overclocking/undervolting software.
• HDR Support is a must - Which means I'm stuck with Wayland, I guess?
• Gaming + general use - My PC is primarily a gaming rig but also does everyday tasks—so i don't know how some of those more gaming oriented distros would work really.
• Voice noise suppression - Since Nvidia Broadcast isn’t available on Linux, I’d like to be able to run rnnoise or a similar noise-cancellation tool easily. (If i remember correctly, either pipewire or pulseaudio doesn't really like rnnoise, so there's that.)
• Windows apps i use that would probably need some alternatives
  • Razer Synapse (mostly for RGB lighting)
  • Wallpaper Engine
  • DLSS Swapper

With these all of that in mind, what would you guys suggest I end up with? I'm open to discuss, so please share your thoughts.

Thanks in advance!

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Been having random, sporadic crashes happening lately. This is new: hasn't happened at all before. Running Bazzite on an i9-11900 with an AMD RX7800XT, 32GB ram, 2TB NVMe SSD, 1TB SATA SSD. All of it is running off an EVGA 650W PSU. Crashes happen to a black screen randomly. Sometimes while just sitting in the Steam menu idle, sometimes while running Cyberpunk. Funny thing is, I have never had it crash while playing Jedi Survivor or Tomb Raider or Space Marine 1. The crashes always happen while either idle or playing Cyberpunk. This makes no sense to me.

As a part of investigating I pulled the logs and found this:

'''Jul 02 14:43:49 bazzite.attlocal.net kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Failed to export SMU metrics table!

Jul 02 14:43:49 bazzite.attlocal.net kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: SMU: response:0xFFFFFFFF for index:18 param:0x00000005 message:TransferTableSmu2Dram?'''

seems to be something to do with the GPU?

When I googled it people are talking about melted power cables and stuff, which I can confirm I do not see.

The other two possibilities to me are: 1) GPU has somehow gone bad, but its not even 4 months old, or 2) The PSU is a little underpowered and cannot handle sudden spikes in power draw (I see minimum recommended for the 7800XT is 700W). This is also odd, since this has NEVER happened before and I cannot think of anything that has changed recently.

Help?

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I purchased Disco Elysium from the summer sale and installed on my Fedora 42 Workstation laptop. It installed a lot of proton versions too. Finally i got it working with Proton 7 but the temps are running too high. It goes till 99 deg C. This didn't happen on windows with much more demanding games. Anyone knows why this is happening on linux.
SPECS : Ryzen 5 5600H ; GTX 1650 ; 8 GB RAM.
Proper nvidia drivers are installed and the game utilizes the GPU.

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Hi, all.

The last couple of weeks I have been struggling to get wow to run on Linux Mint. I have an MSI GT70 laptop which has a GTX870m gpu. So old hardware.

I used to play it through lutris and it worked fine for the most part. I've done 2 fresh installs of linux mint. I've tried the lutris, bottles, and steam way.

Closest I got was installing battle.net as a non steam game. I was able to get battle.net and wow installed but then was getting "your 3d accelerator is not supported" error. Just too old now?

If someone has it running, could you share your setup? Would a particular distro or runner be more compatible?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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I'm trying to run RPG Maker MV on linux via steam (system package version) but it's not working. It crashes and closes as soon as the window appears on the screen.

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I'm using RTX 2080ti on Arch Linux with nvidia-open. Steam proton 9.0. On the RE graphical settings it reports I have 9.6gb vram when the card is actually 12gb. Is this a known thing? Is it just cosmetic or am I really being limited?

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Today I needed to go play Nuclear Throne together with my friend, but oh no I have an unfinished PEAK run and the game doesn't have saves or pause!... That didn't stop me from pausing the game...

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So I bought some indie games recently, and a lot of indie games lack proper control configuration, including inverting mouse for first-person games.

So my question is, can something be done in Linux or Steam to override this?

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Probably going to get some biased opinions, but I have a steam deck and it’s made me want to switch back to pc gaming and stop buying into consoles.

In the future I’ll build a PC. I have steam, but also would use GOG (Heroic Launcher).

I hate windows, but I know some stuff generally just work with windows correct? Like if I have an 8bitdo controller, I’d need a driver through windows correct?

And what about drivers for computer hardware? Like if I buy an AMD processor, or use an Asus motherboard?

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im new to linux and have bounced off multiple times but im always trying to give it a go. what distro do you usually use i have tried arch garuda and mint since they all have the cinnamon desktop environment. wanna hear your thoughts

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Hey so I picked up this rx 9070 and paired it with my ryzen 7 5800xt, and msi b550 mATX mobo running nobara linux.

After about 20 mins after boot I start getting frequent frame drops in stutters, doesn't matter what im doing could be looking at my wallpaper or playing a game.

My temps seem ok and never get super hot.

the gpu cables are a little bent because of my smaller case but its nothing crazy.

I am just curious if anyone else has had this issue? or know of a fix

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Hello. Today I tried to connect my old steam controller to new PC with Arch Linux. Device connected via BLE but when I rebooted PC SC not recognised. I tried this on other laptop with arch but result is the same. Device connected once but when I reboot not connected anymore without pairing. Is this normal?

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i have arch linux with gnome and thrustmaster t300rs (pedals are in normal mode not inverted), i have installed hid-tmff2, in evtest it detects every axis correctly, in oversteer it detects throttle, brake and clutch correctly but in every game (assetto corsa, carx drift, jdm) on steam using proton it detects only clutch, i have disabled steam input and i tried multiple versions of proton, i tried reconnecting usb and i tried restarting system, i tried it on normal linux kernel as well on linux-zen, i installed in game prefix official thrustmaster drivers. i have no idea what im doing so if you could explain it like i am 5yo. btw in forza horizon 5 it doesnt even recognize that i have wheel connected

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I staring having weired crashes lately mainly while playing darktide(other games dont crash). The reason why I'm confused by this picture it puts out it looks like some faulty ram or drivers but other games work well(baldursgate3, mechabellum, farcry5). And it seems to crash my i3 WM. And throws me back to xorg server log and I can use startx again to start up i3 again. So my question is how do I prevent this from happening so I can finally enjoy darktide again. If more information is needed I will add it here and in comments. Steam command: gamemoderun LD_PRELOAD="" %comman% Tested with and without gamemode both crash the same way.

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I recently migrated to Linux, and I was going to install the Bedrock Launcher for Linux, but the Launcher insists that you need a Google account (since it works via Minecraft from the playstore), is there any other Launcher or way to play Minecraft Bedrock with a Microsoft account on Linux?

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Hey guys!

I am trying to setup syncthing for my SteamDeck and PC's savegames to be syncee. I am using Proton 9 on the SteamDeck's Flatpak based Lutris installation.

I cannot, for the love of it, find where Proton's prefix is, because it clearly does not see my documents.

I would either want to find out where it (Proton through Lutris on Flatpak) keeps the game save files or, even better, know how to make it default to the Documents folder (as is the convention).

I knew something when I chose not to use Flatpak at all on desktop, lol.

Thanks for reading!

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If you truly care about gaming on linux, you should not sign this. Companies will drop linux support in favor for kernel-level anti-cheat since they won't be willing to spend more money on their own server-side logic (as they will be forced to give them up). Already there are games who purposely ban gaming on Steamdeck and this campaign will just make everything much worse.

in a client-server architecture, especially in a game that is heavily tied to server-side decisions (gacha or mmo games for example), you HAVE to give up your server logic, at least part of it so that people can run a server where they are able to play. SKG is expecting companies to begin developing their games with the assumption that this server-side logic will be shipped to the public (at least a library or a binary executable) once the game support ends.

Companies will push for more client-side development because of that. Why bother developing good server-side logic and anti-cheat when you can take over the kernel and do the stuff there (which is the preferred way currently, sadly).

So SKG is only saving games for Windows systems which is not exactly what I would call a consumer-friendly operating system at all. And not a huge win.

Instead, kernel-level spying from Windows systems is a huge issue. Maybe with SKG you're saving the money that was used to purchase your games, but you're not saving the money the companies are taking off of you from playing those games even when they're out of support. Look at Borderlands 2 giveaway example. This is not good for customers, this is not good for privacy.

A good business model for a company from now on would be to release their online-only game, prepare for publishing of the server if the game becomes out of support. The game comes out of support, but they are releasing the server and patching the client with a huge EULA that gives them acces to your data and giving them profits even when they're not spending on servers anymore!

So SKG is ignoring the real problem. If game clients did not use any kernel-level sh*t like Denuvo or something, and they always shipped a Linux version of the game, developing a server-emulator from the community would be a lot easier. The company wouldn't have to ship anything. And customers would not get their privacy and data compromised.

We instead should push for companies to always ship their games on Linux (which does not cost anything as every game engine out there already supports compiling to Linux, and more cheaper than shipping their standalone server). That would be a easier law to pass as EU is already ditching Windows for Linux systems.

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