Hi guys, I'm trying to switch completely from Windows to Linux (Kubuntu). So far, there’s a lot I like, but I’ve been having trouble finding solutions to control the RGB on my PC.

OpenRGB seems to be the solution from what I’ve seen, but it didn’t work very well with my components. My componentd were all detected and I could set the lighting, but the RGB wouldn’t actually change, and some fans' rgb would turn off. I have 7 Lian Li fans with an AIO connected to a hub, 3 Arctic fans, and RGB on the motherboard. I installed the program from Discover, so that might have been part of the issue.

But the main problem is that after a while my PC started showing DRAM errors and stopped posting. I had heard of similar issues linked to the program. I eventually fixed it by switching to my spare non-RGB RAM kit and uninstalling OpenRGB. After that, the PC posted fine again, even with my RGB RAM installed.

Now I’m kind of lost because there doesn’t seem to be any alternative software on Linux besides OpenRGB. I can control the RGB for my Arctic fans since they’re plugged into the motherboard, but not the Lian Li fans since L-Connect needs to run at startup. I’m willing to try OpenRGB again, maybe I installed it wrong or was missing dependencies. It’s also a bit hard to understand how it works, since the videos I’ve watched don’t really explain how to set the zone size.

Another option might be using an RGB hub, but I’m not totally sure how that would work.

I appreciate any help or recommendations :)

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No matter what I use, DLSS, LSFGvk, or even Nvidia's Smooth-Motion; frame-generation ALWAYS breaks. It will be a smooth 240fps, inevitably it'll break and drop back down half the framerate and stutter until the game is restarted.

Is this a common issue for everyone else? Or maybe I am missing something?

I made a post about this awhile back, and after lots of troubleshooting through ENV variables, BIOS settings, updating DLSS, trying LSFG, adjusting performance like clocking... I found 0 solutions thus far. 🥲

Specs: 4090 intel 14900kf 128gb ddr5 ram

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Hi y'all. I'm trying to find an AIO to replace my current air cooler and it occurred to me that the AIOs might have software for monitoring pump speed/liquid temps/etc. Do I actually need to worry about having this software available to me or can I just worst-case-scenario set up a fan curve in BIOS and be done with it?

If there is a functional necessity for AIO software, are there any brands with either an easy native or alternative option?

Any help is massively appreciated, thanks.

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Good day all,

I just wanted to know what your thoughts are that should work for my case. I really wanted to switch to Linux for a long time, so I've been trying Mint in VMWare and I've gotten accustomed to it.

By far, it's great but it looks like it's not the best in my case, since from what I know it will have some conflicts with my system which is:

1.) NVIDIA GPU (From what I heard, it will work for most distro, it's just gonna be a lot of work to configure and it's not too stable for everything yet)

2.) 300 Hz main DP monitor + 75 Hz HDMI secondary monitor

3.) Preferred using the HDR feature in main monitor during gaming.

I strayed down with Mint because of the Desktop Environment. I then installed Pop_OS! in a separate SSD since I've seen that they use Wayland which should work for my conditions + they are Ubuntu-based. Although, one minor conflict I found is POP requires secure boot to be disabled, which is kind of a hassle since I still play a lot of games that will only work with Windows that needs secure boot. I've also had weird problems with my microphone, so I uninstalled it for the meantime.

Right now, I'm just looking for a distro that is good as a daily driver for productivity (just office stuff), browsing, but mostly gaming. Preferably Ubuntu-based, but I'm considering CachyOS and Bazzite even though I'm not really familiar with Arch and Fedora. I've seen that CachyOS can work with secure boot so I'm definitely considering them.

I'm just a little intimidated by Arch specifically since I know that it is hard to learn and they are not similar to Ubuntu/Debian, so they take a while to get used to.

Do you all have any suggestions for a good, beginner friendly distro? Thank you in advance for all the help!

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I think I am finally ready to jump into the Linux pool. Especially with the way Windows is headed I think I am ready to jump ship but before I do I was wondering about a few things that will hopefully make my transition to Linux easier. I'm hoping y'all can give me some advice or direct me where I can read up on things for this fun endeavor.

First: My PC is almost strictly for gaming and web browsing. No media editing or imaging. The only thing I do additionally is using an external DAC through USB, am I going to have any audio issues using my DAC? It's a FiiO KA13?

Second: I have an all AMD system and I know Vulkan is usually preferred for gaming but I don't use a monitor actually. I have an LG C3 OLED I use, and I've read that HDMI 2.1 may have issues with Linux, is this true or will it be plug and play?

Third: I play a lot of older titles (think the half-life, F.E.A.R., Bioshock, Soldiers of Fortune) as well as run emulators since my system is somewhat decent, will I have any issues running these kinds of games through Linux or is it basically trial and error?

Fourth: Being an all AMD system I use Adrenaline in conjunction with Rivatuner and Afterburner to tune my games, mainly I use it for a-sync instead of Vsync since it removes lag and my frame time is more important to me than actual frames, is there a similar program(s) on Linux to do this? I usually aim for 100hz at 1800p upscaled to 2160p.

And finally I use an NVME that I use exclusively for Windows and it's programs so all my actual games are on two different SSDs I use, will I have to format the drives or will Linux recognize them?

Thank you for taking the time to read this lengthy post and I'm hoping the fine people here can help me navigate through this, Linux looks fun and I am hoping it goes smoothly.

Bonus: here's my spec, Ryzen 5600x, RX6900XT, 32GB DDR4. Let me know what if any additional info I can provide to help answer any of my questions.

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I am having a problem with resident evil village launches with GE-Proton 10.25 until it gets to the bit of text and crashes/closes. Right before the capcom logo shows up. I can't find any tutorials to fix this problem, so does anybody know how to fix this problem?

https://preview.redd.it/bosg197dcw5g1.png?width=420&format=png&auto=webp&s=57305a0b6367731bf87246db4494002152536965

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I have always been a user of LSFG on Windows and I know it has a Linux able version, but can I still use two cards? I just got a 9070xt and b580's are pretty cheap used, I'd like to use it for encoding but of course more frames for my monitor I still struggle to believe is 360hz would be nice.

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Firstly, the game itself runs at like 24 FPS with a bunch of screen tearing during screen transitions. Second problem, the in game cursor is smaller then the IRL cards font. any quick way to fix these problems?

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Hello everyone!

I have a question regarding piracy and downloading games through the internet. "Repacks" and other cracked games often have malware, but it's Windows malware.

Can I confidently download any game/repack I find, knowing I will never get a virus from it?

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Just thought I should let everybody know! It's working in system Wine 10 via Bottles (which is like a sandbox app for Wine, as Bottles uses Wine at it's core) via flatpak.

At first the window was only a tiny square in the top left corner, so I had to go into the runner settings in Bottles and enable the experimental Wayland backend, which then made the window much bigger but only fills over half the screen. Still much better though!

This is better than Windows 11, which dropped compatibility with Lego Island even further that Dgvoodoo2 had to be used. Here in the latest Linux, via Bottles, it runs without needing that or any other wrappers. Awesome!

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I've been recording in Region mode with "change video resolution" on (3840x2160,i have a RTX 3050),everything was fine but then i reinstalled some drivers and the GSR,now for some reason I can't...here's the terminal (i first tried recording with HEVC,then H264,both as .mkv):
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-application-audio
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder -w region -c matroska -ac aac -cursor yes -cr limited -fm vfr -k hevc -encoder gpu -f 60 -v no -o /mnt/D/Videos/Video_2025-12-07_22-23-23.mkv -bm cbr -q 40000 -s 3840x2160 -a device:default_output -restore-portal-session yes -region 1920x1080+0+0
gsr-ui info: running command: gsr-notify --text Started recording region --timeout 2.000000 --icon-color 76B900 --bg-color 76B900 --icon record --monitor DP-0
[hevc_nvenc @ 0x613525853a40] ignoring invalid SAR: 0/0
[hevc_nvenc @ 0x613525853a40] InitializeEncoder failed: invalid param (8): Frame dimensions are less than the minimum supported value.
gsr error: Could not open video codec: Invalid argument
Warning: gpu-screen-recorder (209) exited with exit status 1
gsr-ui info: running command: gsr-notify --text Failed to start/save recording. Verify if settings are correct --timeout 3.000000 --icon-color FF0000 --bg-color FF0000 --icon record --monitor DP-0
pressed toggle_show
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-application-audio
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder -w region -c matroska -ac aac -cursor yes -cr limited -fm vfr -k h264 -encoder gpu -f 60 -v no -o /mnt/D/Videos/Video_2025-12-07_22-23-32.mkv -bm cbr -q 40000 -s 3840x2160 -a device:default_output -restore-portal-session yes -region 1920x1080+0+0
gsr-ui info: running command: gsr-notify --text Started recording region --timeout 2.000000 --icon-color 76B900 --bg-color 76B900 --icon record --monitor DP-0
[h264_nvenc @ 0x61987d18d300] ignoring invalid SAR: 0/0
[h264_nvenc @ 0x61987d18d300] InitializeEncoder failed: invalid param (8): Frame Dimension less than the minimum supported value.
gsr error: Could not open video codec: Invalid argument
Warning: gpu-screen-recorder (236) exited with exit status 1
gsr-ui info: running command: gsr-notify --text Failed to start/save recording. Verify if settings are correct --timeout 3.000000 --icon-color FF0000 --bg-color FF0000 --icon record --monitor DP-0
pressed toggle_show
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-application-audio
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
everything else with res change works fine

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honestly i feel like this is the more interesting stat to share around. (data from https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/)

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UFL, the full version from the UFL launcher itself, works perfectly on Linux with GE-Proton10-26 via Heroic Games Launcher ✅

https://preview.redd.it/v0oe0bsdnv5g1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=22ade52bfb71e28cb2703b54d5aebc353af1a4eb

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Hi all,

I'm crossposting my thread from the GTAIV sub in the hopes that someone here has been through the process of "downgrading" the game from 1.2 to 1.0.8. I'm under Fedora 42 and while I'm able to mod 1.2.0.59 , I would like to downgrade so I can play multiplayer with GTA Connected, and also try certain mods. There is a Gillian's GTA IV mod guide I've followed and I think the problem I am running into may be with dotnet, but I'm not certain. (My copy is Steam Complete Edition.)

Has anyone got this to work in recent times?

I am able to apply the mod bundle, and then I've tried installing dotnet both with protontricks and winetricks through Lutris. and launch the game. I have tried copying the 12210 proton prefix into a fresh Lutris prefix and installing Dotnet; I've tried installing dotnet directly to the prefix under \home\.steam\steamapps\compatdata\12210; I've also tried with Bottles.

The game will launch when downgraded but still throws up a wine dialogue box stating dotnet 4.0 needs to be installed. After that, once I'm in the game it says 1.0.8 in the Game menu, BUT, LibertyTweaks doesn't load, which seems to indicate to me something is going on with a dependency perhaps dotnet.

I've tried lots of combinations between Lutris, Steam, and Bottles.

Oh and one caveat: I actually had LibertyTweaks appear one time but I'm not sure how it happened. At the time I thought something was broke due to the dialogue boxes and started over, and have never been able to get LibertyTweaks to appear again.

My main goal is I'd like to play multiplayer. I realize there is not a whole lot of specific steps listed in this post but I've tried so many methods I'm not sure what to actually detail. I'm hoping someone's been able to get this working and can point me in the right direction.

Thanks for any advice if you've been through this!

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I have a Ryzen 5 5600X on a MSI B550M PRO. I have no issues with the CPU, but I would like to max out the AM4 motherboard. Just because. I don't really want to drop all the cash in a new AM5 motherboard, CPU and RAM.

I know the 5700X3D has a lot of cache and that is supposed to help in games. By a lot!

Is this extra cache useful in Linux as well?

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I am looking to troubleshoot a crash I have while running Battle.net/World of Warcraft through Faugus. Issue is that (as noted on the option istelf) the default logging option in Faugus very quickly creates untenable file sizes (60gb text file after about ~one day worth of playing) and the crash is rare enough that I can't pinpoint when it is going to happen to simply turn on logging.

I have journalctl showing system messages to try to catch it next time but I imagine that is only going to tell me the GPU drivers crashed, not anything specific enough to go off of with Proton. Any ideas here?

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this is for a fresh install, and it may kill your install, etc, backup before doing so! do this at your own risk.

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian13/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt update

sudo apt install nvidia-detect

nvidia-detect

and it should tell you what to install, this repo only has the 590 Driver and Cuda 13.1

reboot after installing and install Steam then reboot once more, and you should have a working Debian 13 install with the latest Nvidia drivers.

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Calling for help

I played Bellwright about 6 months ago with no issues.

This time round, as I launched the game, it gets into the game and says it has failed to initialise steam.

Has anyone encountered this problem elsewhere?

I click OK and it shuts down.

I have tried going through different proton versions including GE 10 26.

I have tried putting SteamDeck=1 %command%

Forced Direct X 11

Disable streamline by renaming the win64 folder so it regenerates a new one

added steam_appid.txt with 1812450 within in

deleted compatdata pertaining to 1812450

At this point I think I've tried just about everything.

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Wir begrüßen Euch recht herzlich zum 8. Türchen im Holarse Linuxspiele-Adventskalender 2025! Im nunmehr schon zwölften (!) Jahr verlosen wir unter allen Linuxspielern und denen, die es noch werden möchten täglich ein natives Linuxspiel. Je nach Tag (z.B. Advent oder Nikolaus) können sich auch mehrere Spiele im Türchen verstecken. Dann haben mehrere Kommentare die Möglichkeit ein Spiel zu gewinnen.

Wie mache ich mit?

Teilnehmen kann jeder, der Lust auf Spielen unter Linux hat! Ihr benötigt zum Teilnehmen nur ein Holarse-Konto, damit wir euch den möglichen Gewinn per PM zuschicken können. Schreibt dazu einfach die Antwort zu der Frage des Tages hier unten in die Kommentare und schon seid ihr dabei!

Unter allen, die bis 20 Uhr unten in den Kommentaren antworten, wird dann der Gewinn oder die Gewinne verlost. Bei mehreren Spielen gibt es natürlich auch mehrere Gewinner!

Seid ihr durch random() ausgelost worden, dann erhaltet ihr den Geschenk-Link (Humble Store, dort benötigt ihr dann ein Konto) oder direkt den Steam-Key zum Einlösen per PM hier auf Holarse zugeschickt. Wenn ihr den Gewinn nicht bis zum 31.12.2025 eingefordert habt, rutscht er automatisch wieder in den Lostopf fürs nächste Jahr.

Wenn ihr bereits das Spiel habt, oder es euch nicht interessiert, ihr aber dennoch kommentieren wollt, schreibt einfach in den Kommentar dazu, dass ihr nicht teilnehmen wollt.

Frage des Tages

Welches Rollenspiel spielst du am liebsten unter Linux?

Was gibt es zu gewinnen?

Im heutigen Adventskalender-Türchen versteckt sich diesmal:

• Türchen: Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, gesponsert von comrad im Originalwert von €19,50.

Auflösung

Heute um 20 Uhr wird die Kommentarsektion geschlossen und danach der Gewinner ermittelt und hier nachfolgend bekannt gegeben.

Today, booting got stuck on Plymouth, and neither CachyOS nor the LTS version would load. Tried fixing it with a live USB, but that didn’t help at all.

All of this happened when the goal was just to play a quick match, which made the whole situation even more irritating.

Reinstalling CachyOS now feels risky, since the same issue could pop up again right when it’s least convenient.

Yes, CachyOS is bleeding edge and naturally less stable, but at this point a reliable, gaming-focused Linux distro sounds far more appealing.

With an RTX 5080, Bazzite isn’t an option. That leaves choices like Nobara — but is it actually good?

Starting to wonder whether Linux gaming is truly ready for daily use yet, or if waiting another year would be wiser.

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