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Beginner here. Have read the newbie Linux gamer pinned posts and links.

Was shopping on Ebay for a second mini-desktop just for linux gaming of AAA games not retro games. Choices are still overwhelming. Not laptops, desktop mini only. My current rig in Macos Sonoma and dual boot won't work because of the graphics chip I have.

16GB RAM and AMD graphics card are good criteria. What else? What's the earliest year workable? 2015? Is there a list of more hardware criteria to follow?
Thanking you in advance for responses :)

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i recently switched to ubuntu (24.04.3 LTS) and since then most of the steam games i've played have lagged more than they used to and new ones lag as well. its mostly like. input lag i think? if that matters. ive tried reducing graphical settings to like. the lowest ones available for games and im not sure if that even does anything. before the switch the games i played before ran perfectly fine.

the steam games ive played since i switched and how laggy they are is
slay the princess: this is the only one that was just completely fine. i assume its just visual novels being far less demanding on your computer though.
tabletop simulator - a bit laggy but a lot less bad than the others
of the devil - technically playable but laggy to the point i did not want to play
unbeatable - same as above
oxenfree: laggy but i did manage to finish it.

i use proton on of the devil and unbeatable since not native to linux and they wouldnt launch at first (of the devil Literally crashed my pc . it was incredibly inconvenient) and im pretty sure i tested proton experimental, proton hotfix, and a few others but while eventually i got the game to boot up, i think it was just because i kept trying?? because other people said Just keep booting up the game itll eventually work.

i tried to use gamemode on unbeatable but it didnt help.

computer system information

(this is the output of the command inxi -xxACGS.)

System:

Host: myname-XPS-8930 Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64

compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0

Desktop: GNOME v: 46.0 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM3

Distro: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)

CPU:

Info: 8-core model: Intel Core i7-9700 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Coffee Lake

rev: D cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 12 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 1451 high: 1600 min/max: 800/4700 cores: 1: 1600 2: 1600

3: 1303 4: 1600 5: 1351 6: 1307 7: 1444 8: 1409 bogomips: 48000

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Graphics:

Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell

driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: none

empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e98

Device-2: NVIDIA TU117 [GeForce GTX 1650] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau

v: kernel arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:

active: HDMI-A-3 empty: DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f82

temp: 36.0 C

Device-3: Logitech HD Webcam C525 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB

rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-14:5 chip-ID: 046d:0826

Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6

compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: nouveau display-ID: 0

Monitor-1: HDMI-A-3 model: Philips PHL 246V5 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 92

diag: 609mm (24")

API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nouveau device: 1 drv: iris

device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nouveau surfaceless: drv: nouveau wayland:

drv: nouveau x11: drv: nouveau

API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2

glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NV167 device-ID: 10de:1f82

display-ID: :0.0

Audio:

Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel

v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0

Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:

speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa

Device-3: Logitech HD Webcam C525 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB

rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-14:5 chip-ID: 046d:0826

API: ALSA v: k6.14.0-37-generic status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse

status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

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I'm on Bazzite 43, using AMD both on CPU and GPU.

I have 3 monitors, 1920x1080, 2560x1080, 1920x1080.

My question is that the OS and games are quite bad at remembering some things:

• The middle monitor's brightness. It's constantly set back to 70% (or perhaps even lower)
  • I made a change now to 'never dim automatically' for my display brightness, hopefully that will sort it out.
• Which one is the 'main' desktop, I don't really care, but left or middle is my preference. It's moved all my desktop icons around between multiple monitors.
  • Many games don't know on which desktop to start (Balatro seems to start on the left one, and then jump to the correct one), but other games are much less reliable on which monitor it will start (I've had all 3)
  • Both Steam and Heroic games are doing this

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Esa son las especificaciones de la fuente ya he probado con 2 diferentes y no muestra video y el teclado no tiene ninguna señal de estar funcionando alguien sabe que podría ser ? En discord vi otra persona con el mismo problema pero aun no lo soluciona

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Olá pessoal! E feliz ano novo!!! Acabei de pegar Chivalry 2 pra jogar na epic e estou tentando rodar ele via o heroic launcher, mas sempre que abro, aparece isso Já tentei achar uma solução no protondb mas parece que todas foram feitas na steam, alguém que tem ele pela epic sabe como faço para ultrapassar isso? Agradeço muito!!!

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I really like Anomaly so far but this bug is keeping me from being able to play the game. I'm using the GOG version of Anomaly with no other mods than default and running it through WINE. AFAIK, at some point when a certain object is on screen the game crashes. This is the error message:

Wine C++ Runtime Library (Window Title):

Assertion Failed!

Program: C:\GOG Games\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly\bin\AnomalyDX11AVX.exe File: ../wine/dlls/d3d11/inputlayout.c Line: 416

Expression: "iface->lpVtbl==&d3d11_input_layout_vtbl"

The wine debugger doesn't help either. Just says "an unhandled exception occurred." Using other versions of DirectX or turning off support for AVX doesn't help either. I've turned off or lowered every graphical setting I can and nothing. I thought maybe it's a shader and using a shader mod (ScreenSpaceShaders) might help but it only just made things worse.

For anyone who has the game or wants to get it (it's free), I'm crashing around Rostok, in the arena, and coming out of the tunnel to the red forest from Limansk.

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I really want to switch to Linux, but my problem is so many apps are native to Windows and not Linux. I know Wine/Proton will help fix that but it won’t fix everything. I’m just not sure if switching will be worth it….With Linux Market share increasing, will Game developers and more “Windows-only” apps start going Native on Linux? I ain’t tryna move to Windows 11

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Im new to ubuntu. Gotten a good bit figured out. But after restarting it for the first time (testing if it will crash like windows 11) it started tearing while playing a game and watching yt both will have screen tearing with both up. If Minecraft minimized yt wont have screen tearing. But minecraft will tear either way with v sync. Anyone got a fix?

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Im trying to download steam and when i do this shows up how do i fix it im on mint btw (happy new years!)

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Are servers still active?

This Lutris script failed to fully install the game with Cachyos. https://lutris.net/games/battlefield-1942/

The installation window change to the language selection, but does not complete. This is the final output.

https://preview.redd.it/s9bu2we95mag1.png?width=736&format=png&auto=webp&s=ecdb5ccf85b4dcbe70a97d86878c015acc2f7c33

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How hard was the install? For windows it was pretty simple, but it seems vastly more annoying for Linux so i wanted some other opinions before I go ahead and try it.

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which is better ?

https://preview.redd.it/ih2eznrb2mag1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a6cd2451112aa8c973b78ff95df82ad55e4a156

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I’m trying to install the italian translation mod on Blue Prince on steam. I tried moving the files I found on https://www.nexusmods.com/blueprince/mods/18 but it doesn’t work and i think it’s because of unity. I don’t know anything about linux (it’s on steamdeck) and I am desperate. I need to make it work! Is there a way?

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I can speak in english too if It's better :^

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Would be very nice. Maybe 2026 is too early.

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Steam Machines, Steam Frames, FEX getting it's own spotlight, finally getting Wayland Wine and NTSync into the official Valve Proton versions.

Anything I've missed that is probably getting released in 2026, or anything else that you are looking forward in the realm of Linux and gaming?

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