Hey fellow gamers,

As per title, I'm looking for a change of OS in my 30 years of gaming on PC. Always been on Windows.

I've narrowed it down to two very recommended distros these days, but I cannot make the choice by myself.

My rig is pretty new, a 9800x3d and (currently being shipped) a 5080 GPU, 64 gigs DDR5, 1 4k TV, some HDD RAID 1 besides 2 m.2 SSDs.

Things that do hold me back a bit, but I think i found some solutions for, are that i run a custom water cooling controller that doesn't have linux support (Aquacomputer octo) and a Focusrite Solo for mic/speakers. Found some solutions online, hope they will work with whatever distro you choose for me :)

Now, to get accustom to linux, i installed on a secondary PC a Fedora xfce distro (chose this because it's a older PC) to run my plex library, and for the love of god i cannot mount more drives and add them to the plex library. I have to learn alot of commands, sudo this, sudo that... But with small steps, I hope to get there. But from what's I've seen, these gaming distros are more user friendly.

All I wish for from this choice is not having to tinker with it every couple weeks or so. I don't mind reinstalling fresh or anything big every like 5-7 months, that's fine. But not every week.

What would you go for? Are they that close that's only a choice of design?

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Mewgenics from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel is set for release on February 10th, and we have a fresh look at it in a new weird features trailer.

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Now, before you say MangoHud, hear me out lol.

I have tried MangoHud, VKD3D and something called Strangle. And neither of them work for all the games.

For example, if I cap High on Life at 90fps using MangoHud, there is stutter, frame rate drops and huge frame time dips. But if I use VKD3D limiter command, it’s buttery smooth.

Conversely, Marvel Rivals is smooth with MangoHUD and not with VK.

But then comes Ratchet and Clank, which just slight judder with both of them.

Gamescope -r command does not work at all.

I have tried Late and Early frame time options in MangoHud but no joy.

Is there anything else I can use? I really like MH + Goverlay combo but it doesn’t seem to be single solution for all needs.

I am on an Nvidia card with CachyOS.

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Following the immense success of the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative, it's set to get an official reply and public hearing in the European Parliament.

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Hi Guys,

Since Yesterday iam having Problems with WoW Tbc. I use Kubuntu (the non LTS) and played WoW Tbc with lutris and Proton GE. Since Yesterday wow wont Start (the battle.net Launcher / Hearthstone do Launch). The Launcher Just closes and the Game wont Start or Start with Like a 10 Minute delay. I tried running wow on my laptop with an identical Software Setup but different hardware Setup and the Problem ist Just the same. Any ideas how to fix this or does someone have the same issue

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I am using Cachy OS KDE Wayland. I used to use AHK to make my pc hold A for 125 seconds, then hold w for 2 seconds. then D for 125 seconds and w for 2 seconds again. Looping this. The thing that kept me from switching to Linux is the fact I couldn't find a Linux Alternative for this but I ended up switching anyways. Anyone know how to make this a reality on Linux?

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I have some games that run only via Proton, but some game have native Linux support. Can I disable Proton for certain games, but all other games by default would run via Proton? I'm on Debian.

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Like the title says, i saw posts about people getting CEC to work with their machines with a ugreen adapter but most people here (understandably) run AMD GPUs, i have a big RTX 3090 that i used to use for 3D renders that i'm now using for a couch gaming setup, it does 4K HDR perfectly and i'm really happy about it.

A big piece of the puzzle missing for me is the lack of CEC support to make it truly console-like and i've not seen a post about it with NVidia.

So hence the title of this post, is it a thing or should i go with a pulse-eight adapter instead?

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So im new to the whole Linux stuff. I installed Nobara yesterday and CS2 works nativly, but barely. It runs way worse than on windows even when i lower the resolution and when i finnaly accept the matches like wingman or competetive the loading is so long i end up not even joining

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The GDC 2026 State of the Game Industry report is out with "over 2,300" professionals in the industry surveyed, and here's some of the highlights from it.

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The GDC 2026 State of the Game Industry report is out with "over 2,300" professionals in the industry surveyed, and here's some of the highlights from it.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I'm currently trying to replicate a "feature" I was using back when I was on Windows.

So what am I trying to do? I work mostly on a mac and sometimes I think about some game and then I just press "power on" on my Windows-PC and since steam is in autostart I can start downloading games from the Steam-Website on my mac without switching to my PC and logging in.

Maybe it's something with my setup but I noticed with Linux that when turning on my PC steam isn't started until I login. This isn't a huge problem and I don't use this too often but if it's easy to replicate I would like to do so.

I tried finding a solution to google but I didn't manage to find anything helpful.

My PC currently runs on gentoo (using systemd (as init and boot) and KDE)

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I'm currently using a corsair ironclaw rgb wireless gaming mouse.

The battery-life has been greatly decreased and the side buttons occasionally stop working. So I thought perhaps it's time for me to consider getting something else to replace it.

I don't know much about gaming mouses or what works best on Linux, so any help would be appreciated!.

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Hi, since Yesterday Wow Starts 2-10 min after click on Play. Bazzite OS, cachyos and pika OS its the Same Problem. And tested with faugus, lutris and Steam. Proton cachyos, Proton ge, Proton Experimental and Proton 10. No Matter what i try battlenet Starts Instant but wow doesnt. Sometimes i can se the process in Systemmonitor so it does Something but the Game doesnt start. Would be nice If someone could Help me.

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Hey,

I've run into a problem I can't fix and nobody else seems to be having the same issue.

The game worked great for about a week then whenever I try to play the game I get this error "Couldn't find matching GLX visual"

Ubuntu 22, 32GB RAM, NVIDIA 1660

I have tried a heap of different drivers, purging the nvidia software, reinstalled the game 4 times. Nothing :( Same error

2026-01-30 18:56:20.7072|INFO|HytaleClient.Application.Program|HytaleClient v2026.01.28-87d03be09 (Linux x64 Release - Unix 6.8.0.45 - .NET 10.0.2) 2026-01-30 18:56:20.7105|INFO|HytaleClient.Application.Program|Revision: 87d03be09c7f114f385971a3caa437033671b771, Environment: release (hytale.com), Patchline: release 2026-01-30 18:56:20.7366|INFO|HytaleClient.Application.Program|Initial window size 1280x720 2026-01-30 18:56:20.7439|INFO|HytaleClient.Utils.SentryHelper|Sentry event captured: 40dc6441cbad4c9182566d64a2305c1f 2026-01-30 18:56:21.1682|ERROR|HytaleClient.Application.Program|System.Exception: Failed to create window: Couldn't find matching GLX visual at HytaleClient!<BaseAddress>+0x76d883 at HytaleClient!<BaseAddress>+0x76ab83 at HytaleClient!<BaseAddress>+0x80e1ce at HytaleClient!<BaseAddress>+0x82723c at HytaleClient!<BaseAddress>+0x826e54 at HytaleClient!<BaseAddress>+0x1423685 -------------------- 2026-01-30 18:56:21.1682|INFO|HytaleClient.Utils.SentryHelper|Sentry event captured: 60cfce6b3fc64987a083738fa098699e

Any suggestions welcome

Regards

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