I’m a pretty big tinkerer with my computer, built it myself and am currently running windows 11 completely stripped down. My daily uses for my pc are

-piracy (all kinds)

-gaming and recording

-customizing my ui (as much as windows allows)

I’m also a digital based artist but I have other machines for adobe software, so not really expecting to use that on my big desktop. My pc is also pretty powerful.

Basically my question is, as someone who’s pretty technical and knows how to tinker with computers but has also zero experience with Linux, is arch overkill? Should I just get mint and mod the ui to my personal taste?

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🖥️ System Details Report 🚀

Steam Flatpak 🎮 Proton GE 10-25 (Flatpak) 🛠️ PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 MANGOHUD=1 %command%

🛠️ Hardware

Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE 🖳 RAM: 32GB. 🧠 CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 7 5700X (16 threads) 🔥 GPU: AMD Radeon™ RX 7800xt 🎨 Monitor: LG 32UL750-W 32" 3840x2160 (4K) via DisplayPort 🖼️ Storage: 4.5TB (NVMe + SATA SSD) 💾

🖥️ Software 🐧

OS: Fedora Linux 43 (Silverblue) Kernel: Linux 6.17.8 🛠️ Desktop Environment: GNOME 49 🖌️ Display Server: Wayland for smooth visuals. 🌟

🎥 Recording Setup 📹 Software: OBS Studio Flatpak (VAAPI av1 16mb CBR BT.709) 🎬 Capture Method: Pipewire ⚡ Resolution: 1440p50. 🎞️

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Any good

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I want to play Fallout New Vegas, and the Viva New Vegas modlist is a must to me. Problem being, my version of NV is from GOG, which is istalled via Heroic, and the tutorials I've seen are for Steam. Anyone can point me for makes MO2 work on Heroic?

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hey i just figured out that windows wasn't the best idea for gaming so i am trying to find a distro that would correspond my need I have an nvidia 4060 gpu. it would be better if the distro was fully customizable or even only the ui and I want to play online games with more fps

sorry for my english i'm french

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Hello!, recently said goodbay to Windows and then it has arrived a new cape, I collect capes on my account, I don't know how to get that cape, I learned about a launcher for linux, but it is just a port of android. and there are problems with xbox live services on linux right?, can i? how can i get it?

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Hey Linuxers,

I've made several small updates to goverlay in the last days, so i decided to make a post about it. The big feature in 1.6 series is the optiscaler integration. But here are other features implemented:

1.6.4

• FSR4 Variant Management System: Switch between FP8 (latest) and INT8 (4.0.2) variants

https://preview.redd.it/0lq2viu0o87g1.png?width=391&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d4ad5a3566198d6e965b63e9e1caef4d25b0da3

1.6.3

Steam Deck preset saving

• Save MangoHud configs into 4 preset slots

https://preview.redd.it/bri2ocg8o87g1.png?width=408&format=png&auto=webp&s=4ed83bde5d069f5dbdf721b4bf875e5cf2985ee0

1.6.2

• Support for mangohud 0.8.2
• Support for optiscaler 0.9 pre
• First flatpak release

As always, feedback is welcome. Enjoy! 💙

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for context im running windows 11 and i have 2 nvme drives so i was thinking to do dual boot as im starting to get very competitive in CS2 which will be the game i play and want pure performance with virtually no bloat or anything holding back performance so i was thinking is it worth having my pc dual boot because i will need windows 11 for the most part but the questions are:

do i use dual boot?

what linux to run? i was thinking steamos for the reason of i will only run CS2

so can anyone help? i would love help from the reddit community

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So I’m a total Linux newbie who’s jut got pop_os a few weeks ago. I’ve got things like affinity and aseprite working without any major issues, except affinity needed a specific version of wine to work. I’m assuming this comes up in games too where sometimes a game requires a specific proton version to run.How does one know which version or variant of proton ( or wine ) is needed for a game? Like for example how would I know which proton version can run Arkham asylum and which can run nomad man’s sky? Is there a website I could check?

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I’m considering installing a Linux distro on my gaming PC. Right now, it’s running an unactivated copy of Windows 11, which I don’t really care for. I have solid experience with Unix systems through development work on WSL and macOS, but I’ve never installed or used a Linux distro as my primary OS.

The goal is to use this PC for both gaming and personal projects. I’d much rather work in a native Unix environment than deal with WSL. I’m curious if anyone here has made this switch—what was your experience like? Any recommendations on distros or setup tips?

I’ve heard Linux works well with Steam, but I’m unsure about game compatibility and whether extra configuration is needed. I don’t have a lot of gaming time, so I’d prefer minimal setup headaches and games that run smoothly out of the box.

Games I’d like to play:

• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Mount & Blade: Bannerlord
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (probably the trickiest)
• Witcher III
• League of Legends

PC Specs:

• CPU: Intel i7-13700KF (13th Gen)
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
• RAM: 32 GB
• Storage: 2 TB SSD

Any insights, distro recommendations, or gotchas would be greatly appreciated!

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As stated above. Basically everything I've seen on forums says Ubuntu (and mint) is unsupported and cannot be used. I've been considering going to Fedora but I'd like opinions from people who actually use fedora-based distros. I'm in med school so not super code-literate but I can get by. I'm primarily looking for a GPU switching utility but it'd piss me off to know I'm not fully utilising the capabilities of something I own. important detail, I'm using a AMD Advantage g15 2021 (5900hx; 6800m) Any help would be much appreciated for a newbie:)

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What happens when I launch it:

Black screen with a white mouse cursor I can move. Nothing ever displays but if I wait a bit and press enter and/or escape I can hear menu sounds. But the sounds are stretched, as if the game was unable to play them at full speed.

My machine:

Laptop Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16AFR10H
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
Bios is up to date

My distribution:

Ubuntu 24.04.3, up to date

GPU driver:

580.95.5

I use the native version (deb file) of steam.

I tried with several versions of proton with no change:
experimental
hotfix
10.0-3
GE Proton 10-26

For reference, tekken 8 runs great, also through steam so it appears the general configuration of the machine is OK.

Here is a link to the terminal output and proton logs:
https://gofile.io/d/u0CTgt

I checked on ProtonDB and I added the launch option mentioned there (the game crashes at startup without it).

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Antes de tudo, eu sou um usuário de Windows, então nunca utilizei um Linux antes, mas entendo um pouco(bem pouco) sobre esse sistema e suas distros, dei uma leve pesquisada no assunto. E foi mal pelo tamanho disso, tentei detalhar com o máximo de coisas que talvez possam ser úteis.

Estou pretendendo fazer dual boot em meu PC, com foco em melhor estabilidade em jogos sem largar mão dos aplicativos sem nenhum suporte ao Linux. Já fiz diversas otimizações em meu Windows(pelo Regedit, pela BIOS, pelos arquivos internos de alguns jogos, encerramento de serviços na inicialização, entre várias outras coisas de otimização que todo mundo deveria saber que existem... além de testar diversos drivers da Adrenaline e decidir qual o melhor, estável e mais completo, que deveria usar. Estou no 25.8.1, e sem nenhum problema com ele), o que resultou em uma absurda melhora de FPS em todos os jogos, então não sei se fazer esse dual boot realmente haverá um ganho considerável de performance geral ou se será apenas uma mudança pouco relevante para atingir meu objetivo.

Atualmente não tenho muitos problemas em rodar alguns jogos que quero, mas queria ter mais FPS neles para ver até onde meu PC vai sem prejudicar diretamente ao meu hardware... Osu! é o mais importante para essa ideia de ter menos input lag, e também jogos CPU-Bound competitivos(ou talvez apenas CPU-Bound).

Talvez eu esteja superestimando o Linux, porém ele aparenta ser um ótimo sistema(depende da distro, todas têm seu público-alvo) por haver a possibilidade de modificar completamente todo o SO e fazer uma baita customização em praticamente qualquer coisa sem perder muito desempenho. O Windows não é ruim, mas poderia ser melhor.

Agora vou direto ao ponto, as perguntas. Seria melhor continuar do jeito que está ou devo me arriscar para o Linux? Terei um bom ganho em relação ao Windows ou seria apenas um trabalho extra para fazer? CachyOS é a melhor distro para o meu caso? Há muitas desvantagens em usar o Linux ao invés do Windows? Poderei jogar jogos com anti-cheat nível kernel pelo Windows mesmo com um dual boot? E o que você acha sobre isso que quero fazer?

Aqui estão algumas informações adicionais que podem responder algumas dúvidas:

Config. do meu PC:

Ryzen 5 4600g

Sem placa de vídeo(estou juntando um orçamento para uma GPU dedicada)

2x8gb Kingston Fury Beast 3200mhz

A320m-k/BR

Fonte Aerocool KCAS 500W

SSD 1 ~ Western Digital Black 512gb SN770 (o Windows está aqui)

SSD 2 ~ Kingston 512gb A400(talvez metade para o Windows e outra metade para o Linux, ou totalmente para o Linux)

SSD 3 ~ Kingston 128gb A400(pretendia formatar este e após isso, instalar o Linux)

HD ~ Seagate 500gb ST500DM002 (para o Windows)

Imagino que essa informação aqui seja irrelevante, mas eu já fiz root em meu Moto G60 e uso Custom ROM nele até hoje. Não sei se isso poderia me ajudar em algo, mas talvez os processos batam um com o outro e facilite um pouco mais a minha vida.

Não sou só eu que utilizo este PC, então tem coisas que não posso apagar pois não são minhas. Se alguém tiver alguma sugestão, de preferência grátis ou de baixo custo, para fazer backup(acho que cerca de 512gb bastam, é apenas para os arquivos importantes) antes da instalação, eu agradeço. Mas ainda não estou certo de que irei fazer dual boot, por isso criei este post.

Qualquer outra dúvida sobre, eu tentarei responder. E também estou de ouvidos abertos para sugestões do que devo fazer.

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i can barely know how to use a make file, but now? there is a cmake! idk how is this one done, i just want high fidelity nintendo 64

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Ive seen a post before about this but that was on arch. im on pop os. Ive been wanting to get into minecraft pvp again, my mouse can double click(when you press the button right and it registers as 2 clicks). i can even do it sometimes but i tihnk linux is stopping it. how do i fix this?

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been gaming on Linux for quite a while now and I’m trying to squeeze a bit more performance out of my system, especially the GPU.

My main issue is that my PC isn’t really a gaming-focused setup. I’m running an Nvidia Quadro P4000, an i7-6700, and 16 GB DDR4 RAM. The OS is Debian Trixie with the Nvidia 550.163 driver, which currently gives me the best performance compared to other driver versions I’ve tested.

I’m looking for advice or experience regarding gaming performance optimizations specifically for Quadro/workstation GPUs on Linux.

As a reference point:

I play games like Red Dead Redemption 2. Using the Xbox One X settings from Digital Foundry at 1080p, I get around 45-55 FPS in the open world and about 40–53 FPS in Saint Denis. Ideally, I’d like to reach a stable 60 FPS.

I’ve already done some basic system optimization:

- Disabled a few unnecessary systemd services

- Created a custom Feral Gamemode configuration

[general] reaper_freq=5 desiredgov=performance desiredprof=performance igpu_desiredgov=powersave igpu_power_threshold=-1 # iGPU-Erkennung deaktiviert → dein i7-6700 hat keine relevante iGPU-Last softrealtime=off renice=10 ioprio=0 inhibit_screensaver=1 disable_splitlock=1 [filter] blacklist = firefox, apt, apt-get, dpkg, discord, steamwebhelper, steam, rsync, timeshift, gnome-shell [gpu] apply_gpu_optimisations=0 nv_powermizer_mode=1 nv_per_profile_editable=1 [cpu] park_cores=no pin_cores=no [supervisor] require_supervisor=0 [custom] script_timeout=10

- Tweaked some settings in Nvidia X Server Settings

- Enabled Coolbits for fan control

- Put some environment variables in ~/.profile

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells. # This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login # exists. # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples. # the files are located in the bash-doc package. # the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask # for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package. #umask 022 # if running bash if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then # include .bashrc if it exists if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then . "$HOME/.bashrc" fi fi # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" fi # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" fi export __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 export __GL_YIELD="USLEEP" export __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE=1

- Made a custom xorg config

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 550.163.01 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "Coolbits" "24" Option "RenderAccel" "True" Option "NoFlip" "False" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True" Option "ColorSpace" "RGB" Option "ColorRange" "Full" Option "UseEdid" "True" Option "UseEdidDpi" "True" Option "UseEdidFreqs" "True" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection

However, Nvidia doesn’t allow overclocking on Quadro/workstation cards. I know that vBIOS tweaking might be an option, but that’s a bit too risky for me.

Does anyone here have tips, tweaks, or experiences with improving gaming performance on Quadro cards under Linux? Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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CtrlAssist – an open source project to bring more accessible, collaborative gaming to Linux! Inspired by PC gaming sessions with my own family, where both young and old relish exploring rich stories with immersive worlds (like Witcher 3, RDR3, Hogwarts Legacy, etc) but find coordinated combat or movement control too challenging to play solo, CtrlAssist lets you combine multiple controllers into one virtual gamepad, much like assist features on dedicated game consoles.

Whether your helping grandparents through tough boss fights, or co-oping with nieces and nephews to level age gaps, CtrlAssist aims to make PC gaming on Linux fun and accessible for everyone. While I’m certain similar utilities exist, I also just wanted a holiday hobby project to practice Rust development while scratching a personal itch.

Please give it a try, share your feedback in the relevant discussion categories, or check out the open issues if you’d like to contribute, help is always welcome!

• User Feedback and Accessibility Community Discussion
• Developer Feedback and Rust Community Discussion

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I have a dual GPU laptop as well as a single GPU desktop. Both have discrete nvidia GPUs. I have had a ton of success and fun gaming on these systems. I use arch (btw) and use up to date drivers. My laptop has a 4060 and my desktop has a 5090. Both run seemingly without any major flaws, are fast, reliable, and gaming is great.

I see threads all the time of people asking if they should still avoid nvidia for amd with their linux builds. I'm here to say, from personal experience, gaming with nvidia on linux is great. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend an nvidia card to anyone at this point.

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I'm on an EVGA RTX 2070 Black, CachyOS. I'm having a great time, space marine 2 works awesome.

Is there much mileage left in these cards on Linux now?

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