Just built a badass (relative for a computer science college student) PC. Rx 7900xt, created a bot to snipe r7 9800x3d, got way into SSD performance metrics that I won't even admit what I got, and definitely didn't cheap out on the rest.

I love my new PC, it's all I wanted for a long time. But something feels missing; my previous PC (old, slow Dell) was running Kali as I had a passing interest in hacking and fell in love with Linux on my last internship. I want to game and feel the full power of this beautiful hardware, but I don't want to be back here on Windows...... again

I have above-average knowledge of Linux commands and bash scripting, and I know the Linux filesystem well enough that until I type cd / I want to know what I can expect if I take this journey and join the team. How many hard-to-diagnose bugs or weird dependency conflicts could I possibly run into, taking time away from my gaming experience? Or should I just say fuck it and go all in? I want your honest advice on which distro to consider for the best gaming experience compatible with the most games possible. And are the Windows games in my Steam library just going to be largely unplayable? And even if I run a Windows game using the Proton and Wine, would I lose significant FPS because these games are optimized and intended to run on the Windows operating system?

Also, if yes, please provide distro recommendations. Ubuntu is cool, but I have an autistic urge for a more challenging, less user-friendly Linux so that I can become a Linux god.

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Look ngl I had this huge post about this topic and then my powercut... I just want your guy's opinion on whether or whether not this is possible.

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I've been having an issue where after a seemingly random amount of time(never immediate, usually at least after like 10 minutes of play) the game will freeze and I'll need to kill the process. I haven't seen anyone else reporting this issue with this game and since the crash does not produce any sort of log I can't pinpoint exactly what is happening.

I've tried the various different versions of proton + proton-GE, tried installing it via lutris instead. I just can't seem to pinpoint whats going wrong. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Specs: https://pastebin.com/tw8JLnd0

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I want to try Throne And Liberty on Steam and i have some questions:

Will it burn my graphic card like New World ?

Will the game have access and upload my pc data ?

Will Steam have access and upload my pc data ?

Is it a decent game if u r desperate ?

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I'm installing a 9950X3D this weekend and and I'm wondering how the core parking works with games? For instance is it necessary with say BG3? Do I have to set it before every game? If so what is the best method?

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Use it for School and Gaming.

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TL;DR - Content creator that may swap from Win10 to Linux Mint, want to see if running native, using a separate boot drive for Windows, a virtual machine, or using compatibility layers like wine/proton would be best for gaming, recording, and editing. I'd like an efficient but consistently stable way to play games, record them as I play, and get those recordings back to Linux for editing so I use Windows as little as possible.

Extra details - I recently looked into swapping to Linux and I believe I'd like to go with Mint, at least to start off. I love the idea of getting away from Microsoft and their bloatware, I've looked at a bunch of "things you should know" and FAQs both here and elsewhere, and confirmed all the programs I care about are available on Linux. But I was curious what most people found the most success with. Specifically though, I'd like advice on what I should do if I will use my pc mostly to game, record, and edit videos for making YouTube content. Besides that I just stream Netflix and such, so the main goal is content creation with an efficient workflow.

I don't play a huge assortment of games, so it'll probably be focused on a select few and I'm not sure how many will be even be available natively. But if we assume none will, how effective are Wine and Proton and the like on newer games and is that more consistent than a separate windows drive or a virtual machine?

My main game right now is Monster Hunter Wilds even though its an optimization mess currently. Anyone have info on how well that runs on Linux? I've found mixed results online.

If I have to boot to windows everytime I wanted to play games, I may not even swap over because that sounds like a pain in the ass. I've also had some not great experiences with virtual machines in the past so I'm leary to do that, but that was 10+ years ago. And I'm not even sure how the whole system would work getting the recordings back over to Linux for editing with either of those options...so it may not be feasible for what I want to do. What I'd like is an efficient but consistently stable way to play games, record them as I play, and get those recordings back to Linux for editing so I use Windows as little as possible. If I only have to boot to Windows to be able to run games smoothly and could do everything else in Linux...that may be worth it to me but I'm not sure.

Any help is very much appreciated 🙏

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I play KSP with quite a few mods, which uses a lot of RAM, but in the past my pc has been able to handle it fine with 32 GB. However, I've noticed recently that it keeps crashing on linux when I enter the VAB, while it doesn't on windows. I have the same mods and save file on both.

I've looked at the memory usage all throughout the game startup on both OSes and it looks nearly the same, except that on linux when I enter the VAB the memory jumps from ~20GB used all the way to 32GB and then crashes, while on windows it doesn't increase at all.

Is this some sort of fundamental problem with KSP? If not, is there something I can do to fix it? I haven't really tried anything myself yet because I don't even know what to try

I use endeavourOS and windows 10 (dualbooted if that wasn't clear)

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Hi all, I've decided to try out Linux and chose bazzite as I pretty much just play steam games. I've got almost everything I need working but I for the life of me can't figure out how to monitor my own mic.

I use a Corsair HS80 RGB which uses iCUE on windows which then allows me to monitor my audio. I've been looking around for the past hour and not really found anything that makes sense to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Almost 3 x performance compared to my old RX 7600, its a beast. (1080p, no upscaling, no RT, no frame gen) Also i'm on a pretty old mobo, Asus b350 plus, so only pcie 3.0, still does the job.

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I have a minecraft launcher in my downloads, it's a .jar, how do I run it and place it as if it were an app on the home screen that when clicked starts the game

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So recently i decided to switch to wayland+gnome (distro is arch) sadly laptop is of optimus architecture with gtx1650ti so no option to force discrete gpu via bios. On xorg i was,able to pull this off via guide on arch wiki but i canr rlly find one for wayland... anyone help? Thanks in advance.

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So, I've used Mint on and off besides Windows and I have a few questions regarding other distros. So, does newer packages and NVIDIA drivers help with performance issues? Sometimes my games are stuttering badly on Mint. And I don't really know that it's the DE (Cinnamon), the older drivers and packages that are on Mint, or NVIDIA is just this bad on Linux especially when it comes to DX12 games. Oh, and I've been getting into VRR on Windows, which DE supports it best? KDE or GNOME or it doesn't matter? And how is input lag on other DEs? Cinnamon feels a little bit weird but not too bad, it's usable. I plan to use X11 because my laptop seems to be working better when it comes to which GPU to use. And how well is NVIDIA Features like Reflex or DLSS supported?

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I'm having a strange problem with my World of Warcraft Classic.

Lutris and Battle.net and wow is in englis, but I can't write ÅÄÖ in chat.

Anyone know how to fix this?

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Solution/FIx - is offline launch:

• Run launcher
• turn off internet
• click Play in launcher to launch game
• wait for error message in login screen in game
• turn on internet - should be no 100% usage then

Problem is - very high CPU usage by game Zenless Zone Zero. (since today 1.6 update)
For me it 100% all cores and FPS <60.

Expected - for me is ~70% CPU usage with lagless-smooth 60FPS.

(on powerful PC it may be not problem, but it very noticeable on low-mid-PC or on SteamDeck this will just drain battery)

Exact same as in Genshin https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ddlfly/genshin_100_cpu_usage_since_today/
Same as in Genshin - kernel/wine/proton does not matter.

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Hey, I've recently decided to try this new game called FragPunk, because I heard it runs well on Linux. It turns out it runs alright, at least for me. To be precise, I have plenty of FPS (in most cases), but the latency is horrible. I have a 144Hz monitor, and when testing on my program in fullscreen I get about 15ms of latency.

Desktop Fullscreen Latency

But when testing the game, I get about 30ms of latency.

FragPunk Latency

Which suggests V-Sync, but I obviously have it off, and same goes for the Nvidia settings, V-Blank sync is off. As for the details, I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 (latest everything I think), GPU: RTX 4080 (driver ver. 570.86.16), CPU: Ryzen 5900X, RAM: 48GB. Game Settings: LOW.
Worth noting, I've tried a lot of things (I do mean it), all the in-game settings combinations, DX12, and DX11, Reflex ON, and OFF, DLSS4 ON, and OFF, even FrameGen; nothing changes the latency, not even the FPS. The game runs just as fine on High settings. The GPU and CPU usage is about 20-30%. preempt - full (this actually gave a bit more FPS I feel like, but had no impact on the latency). GSync - off. Running on Balanced mode. Launch Options: DXVK_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 LD_PRELOAD="" DXVK_FRAME_RATE=180 PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 mangohud gamemoderun %command% -dx11. I lock FPS to 180, yes. It should not have any impact on the latency tho (but just in case I tried with unlocked and I got like 200FPS and the latency was the same). X11 (I think), I tried with Wayland too, and it was the same, but the mouse was laggy on the desktop, but that's beside the scope of this post.

I've heard that you can (and should) disable the compositor for gaming, but I've tried to lookup some information regarding that, and found nothing. If you know if that's true, and how to disable it, let me know.

When it comes to other games, I used to play Apex from time to time, and latency there was superb ~ 12ms, I assume it's better than my program on fullscreen because of some system game optimizations. I play Overwatch occasionally, and the latency there is also not perfect, but it surely doesn't use V-Sync (below 20ms).

I know it might sound silly to try and squeeze 20ms of latency, but it's just how I am, and I'm doing it for the sake of it, rather than any competitive advantage, I'm past those days either way haha.

I apologize for my lack of Linux knowledge in advance. If I missed something obvious, please let me know. Or if you want more details about my setup/game/anything, I'll be happy to share them.

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I've tried many distros, Arch, Ubuntu, Mint etc..They all behave the same except for PopOS. I suspect it has something to do with the mesa driver because PopOS at the time was 24.0. I suspect the Mesa drivers past that version crash in CS2. I haven't been able to definitively prove it's the mesa driver.

I've tried to compile older mesa drivers without success but that's another discussion. I can play without issue on Windows (DirectX) with the same hardware. I'm close to giving up and going back to Windows.

I'm currently on CachyOS where I can at least play for 10-15 minutes. I can instantly crash the game if I put this parameter in steam, RADV_DEBUG=nogpl. Steam will also crash if it tries to process the shader precache. I suspect it must be crashing if it tries to compile in the game. I have no idea. I noticed when a different game tried to process cached shaders before it loaded, steam crashed. The same behavior on other distros. Could it be specific to my GPU? My specs below. Where can I find the debug logs related to the crash? It doesn't matter if it's Wayland or X11. The same thing happens on both.

EDIT: The game FREEZES after I'm playing for awhile, maybe 10 to 15 minutes. I have alt+tab out and force shutdown CS2.

Update: This might be the issue...https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/4016

Operating System: CachyOS Linux

KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.3

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0

Qt Version: 6.8.2

Kernel Version: 6.13.6-2-cachyos (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 24 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

Memory: 62.6 GiB of RAM

Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

Manufacturer: System76

Product Name: Thelio

System Version: thelio-b5

mesa:OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.0.1-cachyos1.2

OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60

OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

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I thought steam used a container for the game (steam linux runtime). wouldnt that mean that the game shouldnt need depedencies?

I know its kinda moot now, but it should jsut keep working, right?

why are some games fixed by installing old versions of glibc for example?

shouldnt that all be bundled in?

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Has anyone else had issues with DLSS framegen looking awful and blurry during motion in CP2077? It also causes any text moving on screen to have this weird ghosting effect. It's really bad, like "worse than just having half the framerate" bad.

I swear I used it before without any issues, but I'm sure both the game and NVidia drivers have been updated since then. Doesn't seem to matter if I use the transformer model or not, or if I disable/enable ray reconstruction.

I've googled around but found nothing of substance and nothing recent about this. For context, this is on a 4090 using the latest version of Proton-GE. Experienced the issue in both Arch and Nobara.

Just curious if anyone else has experienced this and especially if anyone knows a fix.

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Just wondering

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