Debating on something safe like Nobara or some other recommendations like Chimera os or Pika.

They don't know much about Linux but enjoy gaming. also easy to maintain

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Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Radeon 9060XT 16GB. 32GB RAM. Freshly built computer.

I installed Linux Mint on a fresh 2GB SSD: no internet, no ethernet, 2/3 monitors not recognized, resolution was incorrect on the one that worked.

Then I installed Windows 11 Pro. Everything worked fine; I was gaming instantly. I didn't want to give up on Linux. I partitioned 500 GB of space and reinstalled Linux Mint, this time I downloaded some Realtek drivers on the Windows OS and moved them over. It worked... one time, and then only wifi worked. Display drivers still broken. Attempts to upgrade the kernel resulted in a frozen splash screen on boot.

I tried Ubuntu. It installed, but it had the same problems. No internet, no display drivers. And then when I tried to boot it normally, it wouldn't get past the splash screen.

Lastly, I tried Pop OS. It didn't even get past booting from the USB.

At least it showed on all my monitors...

If anyone can tell me what is wrong with what I'm doing, do let me know. For now, I give up. Information on this is scarce and conflicting: AMD is natively supported and the drivers support it! Your GPU is too new and not supported! Try Linux Mint, it's beginner friendly! Don't use Linux Mint, it's driver support is "famously" bad! I remember when Mac made fun of Windows for having too many versions to pick from. At least they all worked.

Don't get me wrong, I WANT to like Linux. I WANT to get away from Microsoft's dependencies and forced nonsense. But it literally just isn't working, hopes and dreams alone can't make my OS boot.

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running MXlinux on an old laptop, steam launcher ran fine but when I changed the compatibility proton version to expiremental and restarting, the steam client just refuses to run I'm running the latest Nvidia drivers my gpu can use, though its a very old gpu (quadro nvs 160m In a latitude e6500) preferably I want to just change the proton version from experimental to whichever version actually works, maybe through the CLI but idk how.

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Hey, in windows we can easily do this and select what else to record besides the game but on linux (CachyOS in my case) it's not possible. Tried for hours for an alternative that works with my Easyeffects setup and I just can't separate audio tracks.

Anyone care to help? All audio is processed via EasyEffects because I use Equalizer on my headphones.

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So when I try to use the chat through steam I get this horrible static/dial up sounds but only during chats the rest of the audio works perfectly. So I thought maybe it's my cheap $20 skullcandys so then I tried a pair of Bluetooth earbuds, same thing.

Running Kubuntu 24.04, stock.

At first I thought maybe an update broke something (I also lost some desktop effects) so I rolled back a month using timeshift. I got the desktop effects back but still have the static. So then I uninstalled steam (sudo apt remove) then I also ran sudo apt purge && sudo apt autoremove. After that I reinstalled steam same rhing.

Am I missing something? Has anyone experienced this?

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Hi! I've recently installed bazzite on my laptop (cyborg 15 A12V) and Monster Hunter Wilds did not work once since I switched from windows 11, on which it worked surprisingly well (decent framerate with graphics and shadow quality set to high and framegen).

When I open the game, it freezes my entire laptop, forcing me to force shut down the entire thing. It always happens at two different moments during loading, depending on the proton version I've tried using: either during the shader compiling or straight after, as soon as the health warning comes on screen.

This is very strange, since once again, this has never been a problem on windows.

Help would be very appreciated

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I was curious to see many of my Windows gaming titles available on Steam (Ubuntu).

I installed Skyrim and played it.

It's clearly not playable. It runs at about 1/50 the speed of windows.
My system was top drawer in 2023 with an Nvidia 4090.

I don't want to disembowel my Linux installation attempting to fix this, but does anyone have any clues?
Essentially, I'm seeing no gaming improvements in the last decade. That's a surprise.

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Hello all, I am planning to move over to Linux almost completely and already have plenty of experience from having it as my dual booted OS and tinkering with my Steam Deck. I plan to play VR on my PC wired up and am wondering if ALVR Wired is a good experience with the Quest 2, especially compared to the Meta Quest Link app (Which is trash a lot of the time). I plan to have Windows dual booted but want it to be only for games with Anti-Cheat issues so I barely use it except for the rare times I want to play said games. I have seen SOG talk about having a virtual Windows machine and am also not really sure how nicely that would play with VR so if anyone has tried that feel free to let me know! Just want to try minimize my use of Windows as much as possible, thanks!

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https://reddit.com/link/1m3gwhk/video/sa1uhfxyspdf1/player

*(the stutters are so bad, even the video can freeze in places LOL so you might need to click into the timeline for it to continue playing)

I've asked around in the Xenia discord (their reddit is abandoned), they are very nice but don't know much about the actual graphical engine. The issue occurs in all games but it's most noticeable in Forza Horizon 1 because you cover a lot of distance in a short period. I've tried putting the game ISO on an NTFS drive, EXT4 drive, SSD, no difference.

Using Windows 10, gameplay is butter smooth (even when using old 23.x.x drivers). A nice member tested it on Fedora 42 (with an RTX 3090) and while the stutters weren't as bad, they were still present, so this is likely a linux-specific issue. After a lot of discussion we kind of narrowed it down to a possible shader compilation / caching issue. I remember I had somewhat similar stutters in Far Cry 5 on linux when I left the dxvk dll files next to the EXE after moving from windows, so it's possible the shaders were being double-cached by Steam/Lutris proton and by dxvk in the directory too. Xenia doesn't pre-compile shaders, but I'm thinking the app itself might be building them at the same time as proton does, causing stutters. The stutter does not go away if you revisit already traversed areas, which makes me think that it might also have trouble re-reading already created cache files, or has trouble building them in the first place. As far as the DC are aware there's no way to force xenia to pre-cache shaders (non-Steam games don't do that if you add them to Steam).

I also thought maybe because xenia canary is a portable exe (with its profiles n stuff being created in the same portable folder), maybe it doesn't have rights to read the created shader caches but chmod 777 did nothing to help the issue. If I'm wrong and it's not a shader caching issue, it might just be that the D3D12 code implementation does not play nicely with proton at all. Not sure. Happens with a 30fps and a 60fps cap too.

I've messed around with various settings in the xenia cfg, vsync on, vsync off, various framerate limits, mount_cache and mount_scratch true and false, anything having to do with renderer or VRAM capacity settings, AVX settings, nothing helps. Switching to Vulkan makes the emulator bug out (its been abandoned by the devs). The linux native xenia canary client might be the solution one might think, but that build is so broken it just crashes upon loading FH1 (doesn't even render the background in the menu, just a black screen behind 'START'. Contributors in the discord also told me to avoid the native build as it's kind of useless at the moment.

I've tried using environment variables to tell Steam and Lutris to not build shaders, I tried different proton versions, different wine versions, tried Lutris, Bottles, I've tried Wayland, tried a brand new kernel (6.14.0-24 instead of 6.8.0-64), nothing helps.

If there are any game or engine devs here or people very familiar with dxvk shader caching, I would love to hear from you in the comments. If other linux users with different configs could maybe test it too that could also be helpful.

Specs:
-Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon X11 (Cinnamon 6.4.8)
-AMD Driver version 23.2.6
-RX 6700 XT 12GB
-R7 5700X3D 4GHz
-2x16GB DDR4 3000mhz CL15 Corsair LPX (@3200mhz CL16)
-1TB NVME Ext4 boot drive (+2 HDDs)
-1080p 180hz 24" AOC monitor

The area most affected by this stutter on the map is this:

https://preview.redd.it/1pcyixjxrpdf1.png?width=1496&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f6ec87da5413c94870e7163a4b54b2d6de1e50a

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I am very new to Linux and I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon.I have a Razer Naga V2 Hyperspeed mouse. I have 12 side buttons that rebind to the NUMPAD. I did a little research and I'm giving Input Remapper a try but I'm having a little bit of trouble figuring it out. For example I bind running in games to NUMPAD 6 and I bind NUMPAD 6 to the 6 on the side of my mouse. I put this command in the output: Hold_keys (Key_NUMLOCK_6) but it doesn't seem to binding to my mouse. I'm not sure if I even have the command correct. The input just reads KP End but I have no idea where it got that information.

May someone please help me with this? I had the regular Razer Naga software handle this in Windows and this is just puzzling me. I have done searches on YouTube and google for a guide but I didn't come up with anything useful.

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Title, I installed bazzite on my laptop (i5 10th, 1650, 16 gb ram, 144hz screen) a few days ago and still learning, I have mostly of my games running fine, I was reading about gamescope and isn't fully compatible with Nvidia but tried on a few and looks like it works but I'm not sure if worth on every game or not.

edit: 144hz lol

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Hi everyone,

I've seen a loot of weird misconceptions and I would like to address two most common misconceptions which are forms of:

- anticheat software only requires enablement for linux,

- Linux is a scapegoat

Explaining the first one, this only applies to Easy anticheat and Battle Eye anticheat, only on steam and its not a click and its instantly applied, when enabled it will be implemented by an automation to the game build.
all other anicheats will require proper implementation by the developer of the anicheat and may simply be not in the intrest of developers to spend time on this.

Lets go to the second one

Linux is not a scapegoat, and developers not decide to not enable EAC/BEAC out of pure spite. both of those softwares work on a kernel level on windows, on linux those work only in userspace.

why this matters?

cause its way simpler to make it look as if game was running under proton, than develop cheat software that workarounds kernel level protecton. it is more complicated to do that for native linux build but it's still easier than fighting with kernel anticheat.

so any game that enables linux support for BEAC or EAC opens easy gateway for cheats especially if we take into account games that run under proton.

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Hey everyone, Just need to vent a bit because I’m honestly frustrated.

I’ve been using Windows for the past year with my RTX 4090, and recently I decided to give Fedora KDE Plasma a serious try — the goal was to have a clean dual-purpose setup for work and gaming.

At first, I was blown away. Super smooth, virtual desktops felt amazing compared to Windows, and everything was just nice. I was ready to build my full setup around it.

But then… day 3 hits, and things start falling apart. I’m getting horrible visual artifacts when switching desktops, and even in apps like Steam. After some digging, I realized it all started when I changed my wallpaper to a solid color. Seriously? That’s all it took to break things?

So now I’m stuck wondering: — Is this a known issue? I keep reading that Nvidia support on Wayland is “good now” — is it just me? — Maybe Fedora KDE isn’t the best combo? Would Arch + KDE behave better here? — Or am I seriously gonna have to go back to Windows 11 with its awful virtual desktop system?

If anyone out there has a stable 4090 + Wayland setup, I’d love to hear about it. Right now I’m feeling a bit lost.

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Hey everyone,

Sorry for posting again on this subreddit, but I’m a bit of a newbie and need some help.

I’m facing a pretty annoying issue with Bazzite. Whenever I move my mouse quickly in one direction or sprint fast in a game, I get noticeable stuttering. It’s especially obvious in CS2 and really ruins the experience, even though the game is supposed to be native on GNU/Linux.
Also, I saw on this GitHub post that gamemode has been replaced by a better alternative: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/777

Just to clarify that I don’t have gamemoderun %command% as launch options. Honestly, I really don’t want to switch back to Windows.

Here’s my setup:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (16) @ 5.58 GHz
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
• RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance 5600MHz
• Monitors: 2x 1080p 144Hz (I know my RX is overkill)
• DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.2
• Kernel: Linux 6.15.6-103.bazzite.fc42.x86_64
• Compositor: KWin (Wayland)

Has anyone else experienced this or have any idea what might be causing it? Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance.

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ok so i use my linux mint as my main system and so far everything worked great and i could play games and everything, but now i installed some updates (just the ones in the update manager) restarted my pc and now warthunder only works with a few frames per second(like 1 or 2), my gpu runs perfectly fine (i did a benchmark and it was detected and everything) so the only thing i could imagine is that warthunder doesn't detect the gpu for some reason and runs on cpu only. does anyone know what do to? thanks

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So, I got that whole civ6 with dlcs deal from epic games and downloaded it with heroic launcher. Problems start already here. If I try to run it with wine, it doesnt detect mouse. Proton is an obvious fix, but if I try to switch in settings for the game to use proton instead of wine it doesnt start. When I press play it launches, but nothing shows up and then it just stops. So I tried adding it to steam and using proton on there. It started and got to main menu, but it then says "the age associated with this link 2k account does not meet the legal age requirements" so I cant play multiplayer which is my main concern. I tried searching it up, but all the fixes are for windows. It says about not having special characters in your nickname (which I dont have on steam neither on epic games) or game path (which didnt fix it either), but it still doesnt work. I use arch btw for context if thats any help. Any help would be appriciated.

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Hi all,

I played Cyberpunk for ~20 hours with not a single issue for a couple of weeks, but ever since the recent 2.3 update, the game freezes at random: could be after half an hour of playing the game, one hour or two hours; but one thing is certain: it will freeze. Only thing that helps is shutting Steam down.

Does anyone else experience this issue?

Specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
• GPU: 2080 TI
• OS: Fedora 42 KDE plasma

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Hey everyone,

I've been daily driving Linux Mint (Cinnamon) for a little over 3 months now, after a year or so of distro hopping. It's been a solid experience overall, and most of my gaming happens through Steam with Proton, which has worked great for a lot of titles.

That said, I'm at the point where I want to optimize my setup even further and make sure I'm keeping up with the latest stuff being released, especially with things evolving so fast these days so I want to ask:

What else can I be doing to get the best possible experience out of Linux gaming? Any tools, tweaks, or drivers you would reccomend? I'm not looking to switch Distros, necessarily, I'm pretty comfortable with Mint.

Some context:

• GPU: Nvidia GTX 3090 (I know Nvidia can be rough on Linux)
• Distro: Linux Mint 21.x, Cinnamon DE
• Kernel/Drivers: On latest Mint kernel with proprietary Nvidia drivers from the Driver Manager
• Gaming Method: Mostly Steam + Proton (GE-Proton when needed, although I think Im using an older version)

I'm not looking to switch to Windows or dual-boot or anything, just trying to squeeze the best experience out of Linux. Would love advice on:

• Should I be using Gamemode, MangoHud, or something like vkBasalt?
• Any benefit to switching from X11 to Wayland, especially with Nvidia (if supported)?
• General performance tips for big GPUs like the 3090 on Linux?

Would love to hear what other long-time Linux gamers are doing. Thanks in advance!

Edit: Removed markdown tags lol, I dont post on reddit a lot and thought I could do that

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