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I need some honest advice from the Linux crowd.

I’ve been on Linux full-time for over a year now and I genuinely don’t want to go back to Windows. Everything I care about works great for me on Linux, and I’m happy with my setup.

That said… I really miss GTA Online.

The single-player side runs fine, but online is basically a no-go because Rockstar refuses to enable or support anti-cheat on Linux. I understand it’s their game and their choice, but it still sucks knowing the only real solution is “just install Windows again.”

So here’s my dilemma: Is it worth giving up a Linux-only setup and reinstalling Windows (or dual-booting) just to play one game? Or is the better move to accept that Rockstar doesn’t care, stay on Linux, and stop supporting them altogether?

I’m genuinely torn. Part of me wants to play with friends again, and part of me feels like reinstalling Windows just rewards Rockstar for ignoring Linux users.

What would you do in my situation?

P.S. I use Gentoo btw 😉

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when i boot the pc Linux is responsive and fast for a while but after a while it starts to lag a bit and the animations are laggy a bit and overall slower
but when i switch the power manegment settings or the power mode to any of the 3 options : power saver, balanced, performance mode
it becomes responsive again
note that it doesnt matter what power mode iam in if i was in perfromance mode and lag happenes and i switch to power saver it becomes responsive again
it feels like its a chache issue or some temp files that get deleted when i switch the power option
or the cpu throttles after a while (chat gpt told me that)
so any one have a clue why this happenes?
thanks

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Im using an Attack Shark X3 on CachyOS and ive noticed a weird issue where the scroll wheel is janky. there is like some latency on the scrolling, and it seems to scroll poorly, somtimes continuing to scroll after i let go of the scroll wheel. Any idea what is causing this? My steelseries mouse doesnt have this issue

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Due to the very unfortunate pricing of computer parts in my country, I have not been able to get a decent computer, instead I am stuck daily driving two unloved ghouls of technology I dare to call a graphics card and a processor. They are, respectively, the GT 710 and a first generation i5 CPU.

And thanks to Microsoft, I have been using Linux for all of my endeavors, which sadly does include gaming.

The gamer side of the Linux community has always promoted the OS as a really nice alternative for gamers tired of Windows, and often mention how games run better even on low-end.

But, well, as someone who is unfortunately stuck on the core of low-end, I simply find this to be not true. You see, I know that gaming on such low-end is nigh impossible anywhere including Linux, but it seems that my experience is far worse in Linux than Windows.

This is because Proton almost never works and I am mostly confined to natively supported games. Games I used to run before on Windows and Linux simply don't work anymore no matter which version I use and I can't even run launchers for some reason.

The solutions online I see always work for people with decent computers but never for me, who lost the entire day trying to run Battle.net on Lutris to try and play Overwatch 2. I don't play on Steam because I can't even make the game open there. I mean, I made it work but it ran at literally 1 FPS so it doesn't even count that much.

I simply don't know what to do at this point, it's like having to eat crackers and water because you can't reach the chocolate cookie jar atop the fridge. This is a legitimate feeling, not an analogy.

Anyways, this is more or less a venting post. Proton is absolutely useless for me most of the time.

And since I am here I might comment on the Battle.net problem I mentioned:

I can't launch Battle.net. That's it. I downloaded it but when I press play it does not launch on Lutris. I tried a version of GE-Proton 10-25 and it took me to the login screen, from which I log on and nothing shows up. In other Wine-GE version (8.26 if I am not mistaken) it actually shows the launcher but I cant see my games because there's an error saying "Oops"

Im using Debian 13.

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Windows is driving me crazy. I have a laptop with an RTX 3060 and a Ryzen 7 6800h. And since the beginning of the year, when those first problematic drivers came out, I became very angry with this PC. The computer sometimes doesn't shut down completely (i have to force shut on power button), I often deal with crashes and artifacts when I try to close a game (any game), and some games are even unplayable, like The Witcher 3 (if I die, I get a crash on the loading screen, with many artifacts on the screen).

I ran DDU and tried many different drivers.

And I'm considering abandoning Windows. Besides games, I only use Microsoft Office and DaVinci Resolve. What's the learning curve like for someone like me with zero Linux knowledge? Because I have an Nvidia GPU, I know Bazzite isn't recommended, so i'm considering CachyOS.

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I have no idea what's going on, but let me explain.

I'm trying to play a game called NIMBY Rails, it's only supported on windows. On Ubuntu, this game played perfectly fine, but now that I'm Arch, I'm having a few issues.

Firstly, most text is in an unreadable font, though this seems to be some kind of font anyway because I can barely make out the text knowing what it should be.

Secondly, the game utilizes open street map, and when I click what should be the 'continue game' button, it's all black, and the icons are all black squares. Some text is readable.

One thing I want to mention is that this game worked perfectly fine on Ubuntu, but when I switched to Arch all of this happened. I'm using proton 7.0 - 7.6 because that's the only version the game will work on.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Starting Vortex setup...

Vortex folder: /home/murillo/Games/Vortex

Installation name: Vortex - Vortex

Setting up existing Vortex installation from: /home/murillo/Games/Vortex

Verifying Vortex directory...

Finding Vortex.exe...

Found Vortex.exe at: /home/murillo/Games/Vortex/Vortex.exe

Using prefix: vortex_vortex__vortex_2

Checking Proton-GE installation...

Using Proton-GE: GE-Proton10-25

Installing Windows dependencies...

Installing Windows dependencies...

Target prefix: /home/murillo/NaK/Prefixes/vortex_vortex__vortex_2/pfx

Installing 15 dependencies via Proton-GE...

[FAILED] Setup failed: Dependency installation failed: Failed to install dependencies with Proton-GE: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc6 in position 159: invalid continuation byte

Tried the newest version that is made with Rust, but the author said that Fedora users need to use the 4.0.0. I've also changed Proton versions several times but no dice.

And if it helps, I've installed the Nobara HTPC packages, but I don't think it made my OS immutable...

Any help will be much, much appreciated.

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Whenever I change the volume on my Corsair void pro RGB headset in Debian 13, it resets the volume of my sidetone in alsamixer to 0. It does this when I use the profile "Analog Stereo Duplex" If I use pro audio, it doesn't reset but does so when I open my computer.

If I do alsactl monitor with the sidetone value at something else than 0, I get this line when I change the volume: node hw:3, #7 (2,0,0,Headset Playback Volume,0) VALUE This line doesn't repeat if I change the sound again with the sidetone kept to 0.

I also installed https://github.com/Sapd/HeadsetControl which may be related I guess?

Why does this happen and how do I fix it?

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Hi everyone When I run any win game with wine ( arch +kde plasma wayland) The game runs half screen and other half I can see my desktop Here proof:

Please help me

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I'm new to gaming in Linux, so I’ve never payed attention to it.

I assume I can already use the Redstone FG via optiscaler(?), at least I’ve read about that working on Windows. Though it would be much more convenient to just get it to work via a launch command.

So is that usually a thing of weeks, months, or completely unpredictable?

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TL;DR: because of SBC-XQ Bluetooth codec.

I'm not going to say anything really new, but recent discussions showed many people aren't aware of this difference compared to other systems, so I figured mentioning wouldn't hurt at least. Feel free to skip if you read the TL;DR and figured "Ah yeah, I know".

So, Bluetooth headphones support so called A2DP profile, which stops sending microphone audio and uses full bandwidth to try to improve audio quality.

Now, audio being sent in A2DP needs to be encoded with such a codec that is supported by headphones. The only codec your headphones are guaranteed to support is SBC (it is required by A2DP specification). The problem is, audio quality in SBC sucks.

So manufacturers sometimes add their own codecs on top, like AptX, AAC, LDAC, etc — all of varying quality. But nothing is perfect, so that solution has its own problems as well! More specifically: depending on a codec manufacturers have to pay a fee for using it in their headphones. So BT headphones/speakers ecosystem ends up with a whole zoo of different codecs and of varying quality.

Now, enter SBC-XQ. Back in 2019 a user ValdikSS found a neat hack that allowed to improve sound quality of headphones, given only support for SBC. There's a separate article that compares SBC-XQ to popular codecs for anyone interested. But I'll note that SBC-XQ sounds at least as good and maybe even better than AptX HD!

I can't emphasize enough how monumental this finding was: just imagine — every bluetooth headphone or speaker you have gets automagic audio quality boost! That is because SBC-XQ is based on SBC, which as mentioned is mandatory. So you could have very cheap headphones that only ever supported SBC and sounded terribly, and then you just switch them to SBC-XQ and — voilà — you get sound quality of more expensive ones!

SBC-XQ was added since to various Android forks, to PipeWire and to older PulseAudio.

If I am reading PipeWire 0.3.34 release notes correctly, SBC-XQ should be used by default, unless it's disabled by quirks (because some headphone models may have problems with this "neat hack", but most should work just fine).

So, if you have Bluetooth headphones or speakers that always sounded terribly on Mac OS or Windows (neither of which to this day have implemented support for SBC-XQ), give them a second chance! Try choosing SBC-XQ profile in audio settings, maybe that will give them a new life!

https://preview.redd.it/mwb13sw2y27g1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=d1fa7cbfa84cd6527b8eef0170ed4a7836d11c29

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https://preview.redd.it/hli3o2ybh27g1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=e7009536f2c1c88524066fed415bff621549771e

Played the game for 60+ hours, but after recent Nobara update, the started looking like this. 3D models and 3D UI elements have a black texture or shader issue, making large parts of the game not usable.

Tried switching to GE-Proton 10-25 which worked before, but it did not help. If someone has a guide how to delete proton/wine files and change versions, I would appreciate it

Nobara 43, Steam version of the game, running with GE-Proton Latest and using Wayland HDR.
Kernel: 6.17.12-200.nobara.fc43.x86_64
GPU: AMD 9070XT
Steam game launch commands: PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command% -devmode -keybinder +exec user.cfg

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gpu is arc b580 12gb

How do I fix this? I've tried simply adding -dx12 to lutris arguments (resulted in a window saying it's not supported), I've tried using proton-ge I downloaded using ProtonUp-Qt (idk if lutris was using proton experimental or proton-ge when launching the game), I've changed wine configuration to windows 10 as it worked for someone a month ago and all of that was to no avail. Idk what to do.

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The thing is I'm kinda super undecided between the two. There are things I love about GNOME and things that worry me about it. And there are things about KDE I love and things that I don't like about it. My use case is programming, internet browsing, AWS and gaming.

GNOME pros:
- love its workflow. Its super key is perfect
- love its icons and style
- love how it has a GNOME app for almost anything
- like the security of it having corporate backing

GNOME cons:
- I think it's missing some basic features like a proper systray. I know there are extensions but I do not want to rely on them
- I think it lags behind KDE in some gaming features such as VRR support and all those other features that might come in the future.
- it has some visual things that have bothered me such as for example all Steam games have their icons missing. Check this issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/4100#note\_2441150. Do you think they'll eventually solve it? Idk the attitude the devs seem to show here.
- there's a general attitude in GNOME that I think they're always thinking their way is the right way and they try to blindly lead. I don't care about this when it comes to workflow because I mostly agree with their workflow, but it worries me when it comes to following industry standards and maintaining a healthy DE. Take a look at the responses here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8805
- I also don't love that all the tiling they support is basically tile to the right or to the left half of the screen

KDE pros:
- faster pace of trying new things than GNOME, like Wayland shit and VRR etc
- better fractional scaling?
- much more "grassroots" and community funding I think?
- I also feel as if KDE is getting more corporate backing and corporate collaboration than GNOME. Stuff with Valve and the likes. Can you provide me a full list of all corporations backing each DE with how much money and how this will look like (try to predict) in 15 years? I basically don't wanna use a DE that goes their own way without corporate backing, money is essential to run any big FOSS project.
- I think it's better for gaming?

KDE cons:
- uglier than GNOME
- my ideal workflow has dynamic workspaces and it should be as easy as possible to switch between them and launch apps in them etc. GNOME is way better at this with its Super key and Super+Scroll. Plasma has Alt+Super+Scroll hard-coded. Then you have separate Grid view and overviews launched with more complex shortcuts and you can't really scroll virtual desktops there not launch applications from there. You also don't have dynamic virtual desktops as an official feature.
- I'm afraid that feature creep makes the devs less efficient with their resources

Man I really can't decide. I just need to make a final choice. What do tou guys think?

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I was using Minecraft bedrock launcher to play realms with my friends normally for about a week or two. then all of a suddenly after an update and it just tells me my client is out of date (error code "chain") I updated the launcher I changed the game version to the newest one, I even went into dev mode to change to the newest version but it ended up crashing before the game loaded.

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