Configuring MangoHud has given me quite a lot of headache.
I had trouble finding the proper config file's location for the proper app.
Most posts said just to install goverlay for simplicity, but installing that on Ubuntu based systems was a lot harder than just doing it manually. Mostly because I am a newbie Linux user and I got lost in this guide for the required package https://github.com/davidbannon/libqt6pas
So I thought I post this to help others.

Installing MangoHud:
If you are a Mint user like myself, both flatpak and system package can cause a headache, mostly because configuring the flatpak, I still am not sure how to do, and the system package is so old that it doesn't support basic configs like horizontal.
So I'd recomment just downloading the latest to your home folder from
https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud/releases
Exctract it,
cd $HOME/MangoHud/
./mangohud-setup.sh install

This way your config will be located here(you will need to create it):
$HOME/.config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf
Here's a nice simple one I use:

background_alpha=0
font_size=18
alpha=1
horizontal
hud_compact

gpu_stats=1
gpu_temp=1
fps=1
cpu_stats=1
cpu_temp=1
frame_timing=0
ram
vram

Now, you just add 'mangohud' without the quotation marks in Steam to the Launch options.

But Bottles will not use this one, and It will ask you to install the flatpak MangoHud and it will tell you which version:

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flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLazer.MangoHud//23.08

And this one will not use the same config file, the proper location for this config is lacated here:
$HOME/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf
You can run this to copy the Steam one over:
cp $HOME/.config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf $HOME/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf

Now you just need to toggle the 'Monitor Performance' on

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I remember when I first started trying to game on Linux. Ubuntu 14. We only had wine as an option. You'd need to install steam in wine, and then hope that it was stable enough to install and run your games. You could play World of Warcraft pretty consistently, and maybe a few smaller games, but not much else without a LOT of tinkering. You'd be lucky if your wireless card was working consistently, let alone any games.

Fast forward a couple of years ago. 2020. Proton and DXVK are out, but it tends to lag behind new releases. Cyberpunk 2077 had significant problems at launch -- especially if you were on NVIDIA cards -- and took weeks to sort out. Ray Tracing and DLSS were basically out of the question, and your experience was pretty questionable unless you were on AMD. Your monitors were fixed to the lowest refresh rate among them because of limitations in X11.

Today, August 20th 2024, every single brand new game that has released this year has worked for me on launch day with zero issues. It didnt matter if it was on Epic, Steam, GoG, etc. Everything just WORKED. We have the Heroic Launcher, Lutris has gotten really good, basically every steam game just works out of the box with the exception of a few games with anticheat and developers with anticompetitive policies that refuse to enable anti-cheat proton support. We have a variety of branched versions of proton with specific fixes and enhancements for various games. We have a new display server protocol that is (quite recently) stable on all major GPU manufacturers. Black Myth Wukong launched today, and it's already gold on protondb. Even games that Steam doesn't supposedly support directly are getting patches to proton to ensure the experience is seamless.

And in the future, support is looking even better! HDR support has come to wayland -- if only experimentally -- and while it's not very good, it will get better once they have greater support for color profiles...And not only that, Linux ARM gaming support is starting to take off and get better (though my experience in that regard is limited).

Linux still has a lot of limitations for business users as far as available software goes, but when it comes to gaming, we have an experience that is basically on-par with Windows and universally better than Mac.

Man is it a good time to try Linux.

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Build a factory, get it automated and go on an adventure? Sure why not! Starground will give you exactly that alone or with friends.

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The developer of MOUSE: P.I. For Hire, originally just known as MOUSE, certainly aren't shying away from their retro Disney inspiration here.

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Does anyone know how to get them to work?

lsusb output: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c537 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse Receiver Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0b05:1866 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. N-KEY Device Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04e8:61fb Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd PSSD T7 Shield Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub Bus 003 Device 003: ID 13d3:3563 IMC Networks Wireless_Device Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0c76:1468 JMTek, LLC. KLIM Talk Bus 003 Device 005: ID 1038:12b3 SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Arctis 1 Wireless Bus 003 Device 006: ID 046d:082d Logitech, Inc. HD Pro Webcam C920 Bus 003 Device 007: ID 0eb7:6205 Endor AG FANATEC CSL Pedals LCK Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 002: ID 154b:00ed PNY USB 3.1 FD

fastfetch output: ⢀⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣦⣤⡀⠀⣀⣠⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤⣀⡀ (user)@nobara-pc ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⡀ ----------- ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄ OS: Nobara Linux 40 (KDE Plasma) x86_64 ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄ Host: ROG Strix G513IM_G513IM (1.0) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧ Kernel: Linux 6.10.3-201.fsync.fc40.x86_64 ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⠉⠉⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧ Uptime: 13 hours, 39 mins ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ Packages: 3301 (rpm), 2 (flatpak-user) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ Shell: bash 5.2.26 ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣬⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ Display (LG FULL HD): 1920x1080 @ 75 Hz in 22″ [External] * ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⢿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ Display (CMN1521): 1920x1080 @ 144 Hz (as 1601x900) in 16″ [Built-i] ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.3 ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣤⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ WM: KWin (Wayland) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ WM Theme: Breeze ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze [GTK3] ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠉⠉⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿ Icons: Papirus [Qt], Papirus [GTK3/4] ⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁ Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK3/4] ⠈⠙⠛⠛⠛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⠉⠁ Cursor: breeze (24px) Terminal: konsole 24.5.2 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H (16) @ 4.30 GHz GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series [Integrat] GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q [Discrete] Memory: 9.16 GiB / 62.21 GiB (15%) Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%) Disk (/): 41.75 GiB / 417.06 GiB (10%) - btrfs Disk (/run/media/(user)/nvme0n1p3): 131.14 GiB / 475.72 GiB (28%) - fusek Disk (/run/media/(user)/sda2): 728.35 GiB / 2.79 TiB (25%) - fuseblk Disk (/run/media/(user)/sda3): 217.22 GiB / 869.14 GiB (25%) - fuseblk Local IP (wlp3s0): 192.168.X.X/24 Battery: 100% [AC Connected] Locale: en_US.utf8

I'm willing to provide more needed information as needed.

Oversteer and hid-fanatecff did not work for me.

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Hello everyone, I'm currently using Linux Mint and I'm considering purchasing a gaming headset. I'm planning to buy the Razer Barracuda X. How is its compatibility with Linux Mint? Additionally, is this headset good in terms of sound quality and comfort? I'm also open to other headset recommendations if you have any.

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Announced today is Elevator Down, a game the developer claims is like Papers, Please blended with The Good Place.

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After getting open sourced back in April and now run as a community project, the Descent 3 open source engine has a first release available.

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Canonical developers continue working towards Ubuntu 24.10, the next release of the popular Linux distribution, and thankfully more fixes are coming for the Steam Snap package.

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Hi guys.

I have an M3 Max and I would really like to play Star Citizen, as you may know, I can't play it. Some friends told me to use Linux Kali, but I don't know how to do that without losing the warranty. If anyone can help me.

(English is not my language, I apologize for any mistakes)

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A small Beta update landed for Steam Desktop and Steam Deck, bringing in a few needed fixes so here's what's new from the August 19th update.

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Just built a new machine. Debian Trixie, KDE, wayland. First time using wayland. Noticed that the mouse cursor is being upscaled according to dpi in some games in wine. Which results in a cursor that's waaay too big. How the heck do I turn that off?

(Gamescope works around it, but I'd rather not incur that overhead if I can help it.)

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I'm running Fedora 40 KDE and I've been experiencing Video Playpack issues within Firefox and I've heard that installing the Freeworld Drivers could sovle this problem.

Are there any issues if I install these drivers:

sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld

If using i686 compat libraries (for steam or alikes):

sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers.i686 mesa-va-drivers-freeworld.i686 sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers.i686 mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld.i686sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworldIf using i686 compat libraries (for steam or alikes): sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers.i686 mesa-va-drivers-freeworld.i686 sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers.i686 mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld.i686 submitted by /u/Pinguinesindgeil
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im looking for a linux that could help my computer run faster for games like Fortnite. I'm not really that well with computers, so could you guys explain it to me easily, please?

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I have recently installed overwatch 2 on fedora 40, I have let the shaders compile and capped the game using mangohud, the game is at a stable 240fps yet it is stuttering about, I'm thinking this is a desync issue from my monitor or something I'm using Wayland, the frame time graph is completely flat yet it's not smooth at all can someone please help? It was smooth on Linux mint but I wanted to use fedora for the newer kernel etc, I have other games and they r smooth as butter just overwatch 2 giving me trouble. Nvidia RTX 4070 TI super Amd Ryzen 7700

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So I'm looking to optimize my system for running games and such. Above is pictured my CPU run stats on the title screen of CS2. This is pretty common for other games such as Elden Ring. I have a 13 gen i9 24 core processor with 32GB or RAM and an Nvidia 4050, so I don't see why these should be running quite so hard or taking up so many system resources. It's even gotten to a point where in certain maps and situations in CS2, the computer is overloaded and crashes requiring a full shutdown.

I'm just looking for ways to optimize my system and I'm newer to this so I'm looking for some pointers. Above I've pictured my fast fetch output to show my full system specs.

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Hey everyone! Hope you all are having a good day today.

I'm looking to switch to linux at the end of the year (or sooner). I'm a content creator and an indie gaming nerd, and I'm looking for a distro that's able to run games as well as make content with relative ease. I have a good workflow on windows but I'm almost certain linux is a better fit for me. I'd also like something highly customizable, in ways windows can't offer.

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