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Hi y'all, so for context I'm going to be rebuilding my PC this weekend/in the near future, and have been pretty interested in making the switch to Linux.

Current PC Setup: AMD Ryzen 5800x3d NVIDIA 4090 32GB DDR4 RAM Played on 1440p Monitor Running Windows 10

Setup after upgrades AMD Ryzen 9800x3d NVIDIA 4090 64GB DDR5 RAM Played on 4k Monitor

Anyways, after a few youtube videos, I've become really interested in the prospect of making the switch to Linux, since I'll have to do a fresh OS install when I swap out my mobo and cpu. The things that really interest me is the lack of bloatware that comes with windows (hence why i've been hesitant to switch to 11) and the added privacy by not having lots of hidden tracking shit in your OS that all these big companies are using now.

My PC is primarily for gaming on Steam, using discord, web browsing etc. But mainly gaming. Maybe the odd video editing on DaVinci Resolve once in a blue moon.

After some more research, it seems that Linux doesn't perform as well with gaming than I'd hoped. I've seen some people on forums say it's not a huge performance loss. The performance comparisons I've seen tell a different story. Most of the people I've watched have taken Distros like Bazzite, CachyOS, and maybe one or two others, and compared them to performance on Windows 11. In most games, Linux OS systems are running like 15-20% worse than Windows 11. That's not a minor performance loss. At least that's the case with NVIDIA GPUS. AMD GPUS seem to be almost on par with Windows 11, and in some cases running better than Windows.

The only thing odd about these performance comparisons I've seen is that a lot of these YouTubers are running Windows 11 and Linux on the same machine, on the same harddrive, with different partitions. IDK , that seems kinda sketch to me, but what do I know. I've also seen people in the comments say the reviewer may have not been using the right Steam "Proton" version (I'm still trying to figure out exactly what this is or does, but I understand it helps games run smoother on Linux).

I'd like to hear more your experiences with gaming on Linux and how performance has or hasn't impacted you. Or if these reviewers aren't doing fair comparison between OS's.

Sorry for the long post, I really like the idea of running Linux, but I have a beefy PC I want to get the most performance out of it, and that's what's holding me back right now from making the jump.

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i'm on i3 but was having two issues with two diffirent games, installing kde stopped both issues. why would this be the case? i got the idea from here saying it was the most stable gaming experience, guess they were right ha.

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I normally already used Linux, but I’ve been on Windows for the last 5–6 months because of a few games that require anti-cheat. After realizing I haven’t been playing many online games lately, I decided to switch back to Linux, and my quality of life went up by at least 10x. I’m playing Watch Dogs these days. On Windows I used to get 70–75 FPS in Watch Dogs, and with Lossless Scaling I turned on 2x Frame Generation and played at around 140 FPS, but since my monitor is 180 Hz, I couldn’t get the smoothness I wanted. Today I decided to try Watch Dogs on Linux and noticed I was getting 90–100 FPS, which is almost +20 FPS compared to Windows. So I capped the FPS at 90 and turned on 2x Frame Generation with lsfg-vk, right now I’m getting a stable 180 FPS and it feels super smooth. Also, in my experience, Lossless Scaling causes less input lag on Linux, since my base FPS is already high, I don’t feel any input lag at all. I also get 10 more FPS in Dying Light The Beast and Palworld, and even in games where my FPS is the same as on Windows, the smoothness feels better, I have no idea why. Every time I switch to Linux, I understand better how bad Windows actually is. Games coded for Windows running better on Linux is hilarious.

Btw, my specs:

• GPU: RX 6600 XT
• CPU: R5 3600
• Distro: CachyOS

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saved you a click

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Do you have a gaming mouse and would like custom profiles? Multiple profiles? Automatically switch profiles? Well then you've come to the right place!

We will start with this amazing software - Input Remapper (I am not affiliated with this kick ass program, I just really, really like it). Input Remapper will require sudo privileges, and must be running in the background to switch profiles. Input Remapper usage commands can be found here.

Once you have Input Remapper running, click on your mouse (or peripheral) to get started.

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Here is where we find our profiles. Click the New button and you will see a new profile named new preset pop up. Click on the new preset to head to the recording session.

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Once you are in the recording session you will see 2 columns; the one on the left is our Mouse inputs and the right is what we want the mouse to output to our desktop.

This is a good time to name your profile - add it in the Rename box and hit the Disk/Save button on the right.

Now the fun can begin!

Hit the Add button to start adding your first mouse button. Once added you can edit the name of your mouse button (reload, crouch, back).

Now hit the Record button and click the mouse button you want to edit.

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Now you may notice that any key on the keyboard shows up on the right hand column:

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This will help us in our next step: setting up the output we want the mouse button to generate. Lets say I want a quick macro - CTRL + V we would simply click on the right column and press the buttons to get the output. Either remember or right it down because we need to add it to the Output box "Enter your output here"

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Boom! Our first mouse macro is a success! Now we simply need to repeat the same process for our other buttons.

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Now lets learn how to change our profiles on the fly!

Whip open your favorite text editor - I use Kate - and lets make a quick shell script:

#!/usr/bin/sudo bash

input-remapper-control --command start --device "Logitech G604 " --preset "newpreset"

Save your new script and make sure you add the ".sh" to the end of the name so that we can run it as a script. Once saved, double check by right clicking, Properties, going to Permissions, and ticking the Execute box.

Now we can save or symlink the shell script on our desktop (or wherever) and change our profiles by simply double clicking the .sh file.

BONUS - How to automatically change profiles per game.

I use Steam launch options to switch up my profiles per game. Once you have your shell scripts all sorted, give them simple names with no spaces, this makes for easier launch options without the extra /'s.

Your Steam launch options will be something like:

/home/Location-of-Mouse-Profile/MouseProfile.sh

Now if you want to have a profile launch before a game, and then revert back to a different macro, it would look something like:

/home/Location-of-Mouse-Profiles/MouseProfile.sh ; %command% ; /home/Location-of-Mouse-Profiles/Default.sh

Here is an example:

/home/rook/MEGAsync/Input\ Remapper\ Configs/DoomEternal.sh ; %command% ; /home/rook/MEGAsync/Input\ Remapper\ Configs/Default.sh

I hope you enjoyed this guide and long live Input Remapper!

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So what I've gathered from everyones advice and wisdom is fortnite and the like cannot run on Linux because capitalistic greed from CEO. but how am I to play with my friends if I switch to Linux?

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Recently got steam working on kubuntu 24.04 with a 1050ti and it was bumpy ride. Sharing here my experience in hope of saving some others from frustration.

TLDR; Making fairly reasonable decisions the majority of games would not start. You would see a flicker and then the game would crash. This was with the nvidia-driver-535 that was marked as "proprietary, tested" in Ubuntu's "Software & Updates" "Additional Drivers" tab. I had to switch to the latest driver which was the "nvidia-driver-580" but that was not straight forward.

Here is the debugging journey. Running steam from the terminal with "steam --debug" showed up some errors. Some hours were spent going through forums trying to understand what these error meant. It turned out they could be ignored. I tried a few different ways to install steam (deb from valve, snap, flatpack, from the ubuntu repo) but more or less the error was the same. Trying out a few proton versions (9.0, hotfix, etc) made no difference. A few more hours lost there.

I had to look at the logs of a crashing game. The game "Guacamelee" was reported by everyone to be working so setting up the launch command to be "PROTON_LOG=1 %command%" resulted in a "steam-275390.log" in my home. That file had traces and a couple of errors that honestly to the non-initiated would not mean much. Since there was no other lead to follow I started looking at the "info" messages. There was a section that looked like the following:

info: Creating device:
info: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti:
info: Driver : NVIDIA xxxxxxxx

That info was saying that vulkan was no found and the device was skipped. That did not seem right. So, that was a hint that maybe I had to update the nvidia driver. At that point I was running the proprietary 535. Using the gui via "Software & Updates" was failing with a funny message: "pk-client-error-quark: Failed to obtain authenication (303)". Doing the upgrade through the console with the "ubuntu-drivers" utility was completing with an error leaving the machine not able to boot in graphics mode (some time was lost there). So what worked for me is "apt remove nvidia*", reboot the machine so it boots with the open source "Nouveau" driver and then select the latest proprietary driver.

Overall, there is room of improvement in the UX :)

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I have been on linux for a year or 2 now i started with ubuntu and am currently running Arch with hyprland. I have heard a few things about bazzite but not enough to convince me to ditch the work i put into arch 💀. Are "gaming" distros worth a switch? Are there specific benefits to having either or? I like Arch so I really have no intention of switching, however if someone were to convince me otherwise...

Edit: Thanks yall. I dont intend to switch and I appreciate the information.

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The game kept crashing on startup out of the blue (worked fine earlier this year), and it seems when the game hits too many frames it just crashes.

I added +com_skipIntroVideo 1 in launcher options to get past the loading screen (which would hit 1k+ FPS lol).

After that, setting a frame limit ~140 seems to have fixed it (was able to play 1h+ and no crash at all).

Someone else might have had the same issue with another way to fix it, but I googled around for a bit and none of the solutions I found online mentioned frame capping... So I'm posting in case it helps anyone (and it might help future me as well...)

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Can we no play 1.5+2.5 remix on steam?

I'm very confused as to why this is the only title that is not available top download on steam linux

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I want to eventually switch to linux. I currently have 2 drives, 1 with windows on it and another 2TB drive with all my steam games (NTFS). Suppose I was to wipe out my windows drive and install linux as well as windows on it and dual-boot, can both OS's play the games from the 2TB drive without any problems (or at least, not very time consuming workarounds)? I am planning to use windows specifically for software like office 365 (for school) and kernel level anti cheat games like bf6. It isn't a huge problem if i need to reinstall all my games but it would save me a lot of time. I'm not sure if this is the right place or this has been answered before. Sorry if it is.

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Made a driver for the Deepcool LM360's LCD since it wasn't working on Linux. Shows temps, usage, and you can display custom images too.

Arch users can just yay -S deepcool-lm, other distros have a curl install script.

Tested on LM360, might work on LM240/LM280 but haven't tested those.

https://github.com/daedlock/deepcool-lm

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I recently switched to Linux and I'm having trouble finding the game's save dir (something like locallow local and roaming dir in Windows).

I'm using Lutris and I need to find the save dir for Enter the Gungeon

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Hi! I have a laptop with hybrid graphics (Intel i5-9300H iGPU + NVIDIA GTX 1650 Mobile dGPU), and when I run gamescope inside Hyprland, I get the following error:

[gamescope] [Error] vulkan: vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties2 returned zero modifiers for DRM format 0x38344241 (VkResult: 0) [gamescope] [Error] vulkan: vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties2 returned zero modifiers for DRM format 0x38344258 (VkResult: 0)

Tried in tty but another error:

[gamescope] [Info] drm: opening DRM node '/dev/dri/card1' [gamescope] [Info] drm: Connectors: [gamescope] [Info] drm: DP-1 (disconnected) [gamescope] [Info] drm: HDMI-A-1 (disconnected) [gamescope] [Info] drm: cannot find any connected connector! [gamescope] [Error] drm: Failed to find a primary plane

When I plug in an HDMI cable, it runs on the external monitor, but I need it to run on the internal display (eDP-1), which is attached to card2, not card1. AI chat pushes ‘—drm-device …’ parameter but it is unrecognized, how else I can choose /dev/dri/card2?

Tried a bunch of commands, but for example:
gamescope -W 1920 -H 1080 -r 60 -e —steam -tenfoot. And yes, I have proprietary drivers and nvidia_drm.modeset=1.

I can install an X11 desktop environment and run it from there(if this is a working method), but I’d prefer to make it work this way if possible. I would really appreciate any help because I couldn’t find enough information.

Gamescope —version
3.16.17

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Hello, I've been a pc gamer since 2022 so I am still really new to everything and I was under the impression windows was the only option for OS. But as of now I am sick of the AI updates that crash one or multiple parts of their own OS. I want to swap to Linux but I play a ton of games and use video editing software and discord and I'm scared of how difficult so many people have said it is to run anything on.. Any helpful tips or how to know if its a viable option for me?

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The reason why I ask is because I am currently using Windows which is stable for gaming for the most part. The problem though is that Satya's obsession with AI is getting out of control to the point that I want to switch.

But according to the linux threads, it's an OS that I need to be 100% sure about using before switching into it. To best explain this, I mostly game on Steam and Epic Games as well as web surfing and watching Youtube videos. Additionally, I read that there are issues with each varying OS with Bazzite and Nobara being the most stable. I debloated my Windows 11, but I'm not sure if that will help long term.

Laptop Specs:

LenovoLOQ
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
32 GB RAM
2 TB SSD
NVIDIA RTX 4060

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