I wanna download torrents from fitgirl but I’m not sure what’s the best download manager. I used to use Free Download Manager and I tried downloading FDM on Linux Mint but it won’t start. If anyone can help me fix this issue or suggest a better alternative I’d be thankful.

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Hi can I get some help choosing a Linux to try? I have no ideea regarding programming or tweaking files, I only recently learned how to reinstal a windows 10, thing is after the support for it is done I wanna move to Linux but there is another problem, I have a Nvidia GPU(4070ti) and from what I heard they have issues regarding drivers but someone says you can tweak something to fix that, etc. My question is this: is there a super beginner friendly version that is compatible with nvdivia GPUs and handles games as well as windows 10? Thank you.

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G’day!

I’ve been dabbling with the idea of building a desktop with the following guidelines: - Full hardware compatibility with Secure Boot and Fedora Silverblue, - AMD-only hardware for driver compatibility and security. - Silent operation prioritised with quiet cooler, peripherals, and efficient PSU (not looking to start a war at home :)). - Small form factor with mini-ITX case and motherboard. - White aesthetic for case and peripherals (again, gotta keep that peace). - Generally trying to future proof, I understand at a certain point this only gets improved with a higher budget.

I’ve listed the parts, average pricing I’ve found components for, and my reasoning for each one below from reviews and other advice I’ve found online.

I am not an expert. Last time I built a PC was about 20 years ago. There may be a plethora of issues I haven’t thought about with the list below. Please tear it apart limb by limb and help me make the better choice.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 3.9GHz - $199 - Integrated GPU, good for basic gaming and compatible with Fedora Silverblue. - AMD CPU to avoid Nvidia, supports Secure Boot.

Motherboard: ASRock B550M-ITX/AC - $508.27 - Mini-ITX for small form factor build, supports Ryzen 5000 series and PCIe 4.0. - Has built-in Wi-Fi/Bluetooth for peripherals and controller support.

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz (White) - $68 - 16GB is minimum recommended for gaming and general use, white color fits appearance. - DDR4 is current and stable, good balance of cost and performance.

Storage: Crucial P3 Plus 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD - $92 - Fast storage with PCIe 4.0 for future-proofing, 1TB enough for OS and games.

Case: Cooler Master MasterBox NR200 Mini-ITX (White) - $85 - Compact mini-ITX case, good airflow, white color fits aesthetic requirement.

Power Supply: Corsair SF600 600W 80+ Gold SFX - $165 - 600W provides enough power for CPU and potential future GPU upgrade. - SFX form factor fits small case, high efficiency for silent operation.

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 Low Profile - $112 - Low-profile, quiet cooling suitable for small cases and silent operation.

Monitor: AOC 24G2 24” 1080p 144Hz IPS - $249 - Good refresh rate and color accuracy for gaming, affordable and reliable.

Keyboard: Logitech MX Keys Mini (White) - $154.99 - Compact, silent keys to maintain quiet environment, white color matches setup.

Mouse: Logitech M650 L Silent (White) - $46.35 - Quiet mouse for silent use, reliable brand, white color for appearance.

Headphones: Audio-Technica ATH-M50x - $289 - Well-reviewed headphones with good sound quality, durable and comfortable for gaming.

Optional GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT - ~$400 - For better AAA gaming performance, fully compatible with Fedora and AMD ecosystem.

Total cost without GPU: ~$1,968.61 AUD Total cost with GPU: ~$2,368.61 AUD

Cheers! 🍻

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I am trying to run vulkaninfo | grep EOTF on my Kubuntu 24.04 system on Plasma(wayland) but it returns empty. Does this mean HDR won't work on my system. THe HDR on my display settings works. If I turn off in my monitor's, screen is washed, otherwise bright. I guess this means HDR is working in the system level.

My specs:
RTX4080
Innocn 32M2V 4k @ 144Hz Monitor

Here's my vulkaninfo: https://pastebin.com/U7y7uJpi

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I am a competitive-ish player in Quake Champions (Windows native game, only DirectX compatible and ran through XWayland on my Wayland desktop until the release of the Wine Wayland driver with Proton 10) and I am running it on Linux. After Glorious Eggroll's release of the acceleration-disabling patch of ProtonGE-10-3, especially, I started noticing the immediate affect of having no XWayland latency. It is actually insane how much latency it introduced. I cannot imagine that I was playing with latency for all this time.

I have almost never played this game on Windows, so I could not tell what the experience was there.

After a week of testing this version of Proton, I can firmly say that my average performance has increased significantly. My aim is almost always what I called excellent before the driver, my experience in game is smoother than ever and etc.

The only complaint I have is that the game launches on the monitor your mouse pointer is on (which is a general Wayland bug, but that should be fixed soon).

So, to conclude, if you need to play a competitive title, go ahead and install GE's Proton (it should work in most scenarios, unless you have game launchers with crooked window decorations).

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Hi, newbie here

I throw windows away and opted for linux mint, now i have to install the launchers for the games i own, i've started by installing steam from the software manager, all works but when i try to add a storage pointing to another ssd with games already downloaded in it nothing happens, the selection windows appear, i select the device and folder where the games are but upon select nothing appears.

I used the command flatpak list to see if steam was installed as flatpak but nothing appear.

The partition in which the os is installed has ext4 while the partition in the other ssd has ntfs, can this be a problem?

the ssd with games on has root as owner and i can't change its permission to write and delete for files, cant this be the problem?

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only happen in Wayland

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Give it a go and tell me how it go guys. I just spent several hours working on a scrip to fix my ds4 device on non steam games on linux since none of the available options seemed to work without a ton of tweaking and then I went all the way and added support for ps3 and 5. Please share your feedback if you find any issue with mappings on your end and I'll try fixing them

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interested in switching from windows to linux but i’m wondering how good HDR implementation is in and out of gaming

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Since yesterday, I can't launch steam games through proton. The game gets perpetually stuck in the "launching" (the steam button never goes back to "play", unless I cancel it). I tried with 2 arch installations, one ubuntu installation and one fedora installation (most recent). It happened on every distro (all of them on gnome wayland + nvidia 570 drivers. I did try switching to x11, but the outcome was the same). I also tested it on both the regular and flatpak versions (and with steam native runtime in arch) with multiple proton versions (including the latest proton-GE), but again, same thing.

I can get it to process the vulkan shaders if I open the steam through the terminal and ctrl+C to cancel it when it gets stuck, but it still won't launch.

Here's the PROTON_LOG=1 %command% for my latest attempt.

https://pastebin.com/S1RtUJzE

And here's the terminal output from a few of the latest attempts:

1: https://pastebin.com/2ATVSAPQ

2: https://pastebin.com/923JGZ68

3: https://pastebin.com/XfJXb7kv

Specs

• Fedora Linux
• Linux 6.14.8-300.fc42.x86_64
• DE/WM » Mutter (Wayland)
• PC » MS-7C56 (1.0)
• AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (12) @ 4.65 GHz
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti [Discrete]
• 8.33 GiB / 15.53 GiB (54%)

Vulkan Devices: Devices:

GPU0:

apiVersion = 1.4.303 driverVersion = 570.153.2.0 vendorID = 0x10de deviceID = 0x2414 deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU deviceName = NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti driverID = DRIVER_ID_NVIDIA_PROPRIETARY driverName = NVIDIA OpenGL Renderer:

OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

NVIDIA Driver Version:

| NVIDIA-SMI 570.153.02

Driver Version: 570.153.02

CUDA Version: 12.8 |

At this point, I'm honestly at a loss. I'm starting to think it's related to the 570 drivers, cause I think it started shortly after I updated to it, but I'm not sure.

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at the moment I'm experiencing issues with a few games.

but I should start with my specs and info ;
I have an ASUS TUF F15 with a 1650 GTX and core i5 (unsure generation), i have 32gb ram and 1tb of storage on an NVME SSD (with LVM encryption enabled).
the specific model of my laptop is the FX506L.

My os is Debian bookworm, I've attempted to get the Nvidia gpu to be the only one being used, and that has worked seemingly. i have installed the nvidia drivers. also my DE is KDE Plasma.

Basically my issue is that, in Sonic X shadow generations, it now says "system does not meet minimum requirements" which is not accurate because, my system does infact meet the minimum requirements, and ran this quite well on windows.

and then in Victoria 3, there is this jarring screen jutter, I can't attach a video but its like, big screen tear, and frames that occassionally go back in time. although this is a resource intensive game, It runs at 144 frames easily when I had windows.

Its been a few years since I have daily'd linux so im a bit out of my element, last time I was running Ubuntu so I didn't really have to think about much when it came to this stuff.

I do understand I could just use windows, however I want to use linux wholy, and I know I will eventually slip back if i have to switch between operating systems when I want to play games.

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I believe i installed sober correctly. but when i go to open it or go through the roblox website to open games. it doesnt even try to open it. can anyone help??

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Hey all! I figured I'd write this relatively short guide because I couldn't find very many resources relating to my specific system. And because I don't think my system is particularly rare, I thought it'd be helpful to put here.

NOTE: I use GNOME, but I've tried to make this guide reasonable for KDE as well. Also, make sure you have HDR enabled in your DE before doing any of these steps.

1. GNOME ONLY STEP: Install the vk-hdr-layer for your distribution

• this step will vary from distro to distro
• i use fedora, so I had to install from this copr repository: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/vulongm/vk-hdr-layer/
• NOTE: this step may require a reboot
• from what I've read, this step isn't necessary for KDE users as the vk-hdr-layer was integrated starting with 6.0

2. Install GE-Proton10 (latest as of this post being GE-Proton10-3)

• allows you to enable the native wayland driver
• follow the installation instructions relating to your system: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

3. Open whatever game you want to play in HDR on Steam

• Click the gear, select properties, and set the following as your launch options

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 %command%

• Then, go to compatibility and force the use of a specific proton and select the GE-Proton10 that you installed earlier

For AMD users (on MESA 25.1+), they only need the enable wayland and enable hdr commands, skipping the hdr_wsi command entirely. They also don't have to download the vk-hdr-layer.

4. Run the Game and Toggle HDR (if the game has an HDR toggle)

5. Enjoy!

This is a relatively short guide that seems simple in hindsight, but the amount of conflicting resources out there had me scrambling for hours trying to get this to work on Nvidia (thanks Jensen). Lastly, this is still all experimental, but its working great on my 4080S. Hope it helps!

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Is there any way within wine to limit the number of available resolutions that are being presented to Windows apps?

I have a game that I am trying to get to 1920x1080 resolution, but there are a ton of them, and the menu doesn't scroll to get to the one I need. The only thing I can think of is to limit what os being presented.

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Hey guys, need help, for some reason I keep getting either the Auto update or something is broken, I am running arch linux. I have tried purging wine, bottles and all files with the name battle net or even just battle. None of this seems to work. I have checked proxy setting, firewall rules all good there. but still won't work for me. help or guidance towards this would be amazing because I don't want to have to mess around with doing a fresh install. This was caused due to me going away for a month for work and not being able to update it over time (doubt this is what caused it but all I can put it down to).

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I've been dual-booting Linux (PopOS) and Windows 11 for a while now, and the only thing stopping me from making the full switch is the fact that a few of my main games have zero Linux support and are unplayable. That got my curious brain wondering, what exactly do you need to do to make a game that doesn't work on Linux work? What kind of coding language(s) do you need to be fluent in to work on a project to bring a game to Linux? I'm full of questions that I can't find satisfactory answers to, so I figured I'd ask here.

This isn't me asking so I can just get up and do it cause I know it's not THAT easy, I'm just easily overcome by curiosity and I gotta know.

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I've been wanting to play Rivals without being locked to the lowest settings(else gpu hang) and 50% renderscaling(would be 720p) so i bought a new gpu

Lowering the settings would actually improve my framerate on the 5700xt, but on the 9070xt no matter what i do the framerate does not budge, it does look nicer but if i set the same settings i had on my 5700xt to have around 100fps i have less depending where im looking, if i fly to the corner of the practice range and look at the whole map i get about 18fps with max settings at 1440p, with the lowest settings at 720p(fsr3 performance 50% render scaling), still.. well, 19fps, unless i look at the empty skybox where i do see a difference between both setting (other than visuals)

Im running the game with SteamDeck=1 gamemoderun mangohud %command% on steam with its overlay disabled, none of my cpu cores ever get over 70%, my cpu sits at less than 40% usage

I love the stability(ironically) that the new 9070xt has, since running the game with anything not at the lowest setting on the 5700xt would just hang in less than 10sec in game

But I bought this gpu to have more frames than my 5700xt and i cant get more

I'm on Arch linux and this is just a problem thats above me
I've tried linux-firmware-git, mesa-git, using vulkan-radeon, amdvlk, vulkan-amdgpu-pro
I've also tried VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_0 to no avail

Is there anything I could do to claim back my 100fps from my old 5700xt, even with the lowest settings..

EDIT: so after trying everything again, it seems mesa-git with (vk_radv) works fine and i have 120 fps.. wow, i suppose i had the amdvlk taking over and i didnt notice, i might not have needed mesa-git

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For the life of me I cannot get this working. I have no other mods but the Script Hook V files in the main game directory, however when I try using a mod (like the included Native Trainer) it simply doesn't work, no crashing, errors, or anything. I tried another since I have no numpad but no such luck.

I think I've narrowed the problem down to the dinput8.dll file, since when I set the override to "native" (instead of native, then builtin) in protontricks/winecfg, the game crashes a few seconds after launch; I think when it's on "native, then builtin" it just silently fails and falls back to the built in one as intended to avoid a crash. To confirm I removed the dinput8.dll file and the game runs, but still unmodded. So how do I fix it?

I've disabled Battle Eye in the launcher and steam arguments, I am using ProtonGE 10-3, and while I'm using the Rockstar Launcher version, I installed it as a non-Steam game. System specs here.

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With Windows 10 nearing end of life I was thinking of switching over early and maybe even putting Linux on my old laptop but was wondering if there's any way to retain the data on my 3 ssds. My 1tb nvme ssd has Windows installed I'm ok with that getting wiped but I have a 2tb and 4tb sata ssd which has all my games and "legally" acquired movies, shows and games on it which I really don't want to be wiped especially the 4tb one

I've heard of stuff like making sure the drive is in a specific format or something but I'm super oblivious and don't know any details but I'm somewhat decent techwise so was hoping for some help on this

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