Recently, I switched out my Fedora installation with Nobara since Fedora wouldn't stop giving me kernel panics after each update for some reason. Not sure why it would do that, but after installing Nobara twice (I first installed it through Legacy, not UEFI. My mistake), my experience was almost flawless and I couldn't find anything wrong whatsoever, especially after the update from Nobara 41 to Nobara 42. Even though I am aware Bazzite exists, which I believe is the same thing as Nobara except it being immutable, I decided to check whether or not either or is better for my Ryzen 5 3600 rig, and I was somehow intrigued how people were having questionable experiences/opinions/etc about Nobara; however, it is not uncommon for Bazzite to share similar tendencies. i should mention it's posts are are a few months apart, so make of that what you will.

TL;DR, Given that my experience with Nobara has been pretty great so far, and I'd presume Bazzite would be just as good too, what's the kerfuffle with Nobara?

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I played each game until this door in the intro.

I'm a little disappointed at the average FPS loss on Linux but I was surprised to see that the 0.1 percent lows were better. Even though the Windows version was higher FPS, it felt a little worse because it stuttered more often, whereas the Linux one was buttery smooth but with less FPS.

Which version would you take?

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Yeah so the game is capable of running on Arch now. It's thanks to the help of u/darvs7. Apparently they really didn't need to do that invasive a change of the code, just update the libraries for the modern era, and update the makefile as well.

My thanks to you, darvs! It's thanks to you that this game is currently even running.

Basically, out of all the comments, darbs just posted a screenshot of them playing the game, and I asked him what he did, and he forked my repo with the changes..

Dependencies are mostly the same, so allegro4, ogg, vorbis, adime, DUMB, etc with the new inclusions of podman and fuse-overlayfs.

The working fork is available at https://github.com/darvs/Monster-Monster-Asteroid-Madness.git

just run it with -b darvs1 mmam-darvs, enter the directory, make, enter output, and run the install shell script and you can play the game by typing mmam into your console.

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Hey all! Dota 2 got an update yeasterday, and my game is now freezing/crashing. I play for around 1 minute, then the game freezes for 10 seconds, and I get disconnected from the match with the error "Communication with the remote host has been disrupted". I tried to restart the game, no success.

After I abandoned my match, I removed all launch options and started a game with bots. No success (now the game doesn't disconnect because I'm the host, which makes me think that this is some sort of rendering problem). Reinstalled the game, no bueno. The freezes don't happen when watching matches, though.

Unsure on what to do! Any help is recommended!

I am running Steam/Dota on a Fedora Bazzite, amd GPU and CPU.

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Alright, so I was having an issue with Steam not recognizing my Nvidia dGPU after updating the Nvidia drivers. Turns out you need to also run "flatpak update com.valvesoftware.Steam" every time you change your driver version and download the corresponding Steam Flatpak, which I was unaware of. Hopefully this saves someone time down the line. Have a great day!

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Hi, I want to start daily driving linux even tho most games I play don't work but I need advice on which distro to choose that has good support for AMD GPUs (7900xt in my case) and CPUs (9800x3d in my case).

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Hi! I have a build with the following specs:

Ryzen 7 7800x3d Nvidia 4080 super 32gb RAM

im dual booting with windows on one ssd and cachyos on the other. I am interested in swapping over to linux full time for gaming and everything else. Im also by a micro center for the next day or two and they have a 9070xt for $700 (ASRock AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Steel Legend).

My question is this:

Should i sell my 4080 super and swap to the 9070xt? Will the performance on the 9070xt be better than the nerfed nvidia performance on the 4080 super?

Edit: i play in 4k on a 4k monitor with VRR

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Halo MCC keeps fatal erroring not matter which Proton version i use

many other steam games either don't launch or launch on the wrong monitor or even insanely slow. for example, Distance popped up on external monitor, GRIP Combat Racing launches like total shit etc...i know they both should work cuz i saw it on protondb

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To start with, my hardware is full AMD - a Ryzen 5 7600 paired with RX 7700 XT, not exactly the newest tech on the scene.

Been using Mint for a couple weeks now and I'm happy with it, but I just have this constant feeling that playing games on Mint is suboptimal and that I should change distros, despite me liking every other aspect of Mint.

I hang around some Linux gaming communities and seems that my fears are often "confirmed" by some people saying that Mint isn't ideal for playing games and that one should use a distro like Arch or Fedora for the best experience. The biggest complaints I've heard about Mint when it comes to gaming are old packages and the Cinnamon desktop sometimes not playing nice despite having compositing in full screen turned off.

My PC isn't "gaming-only" so to speak, it's multi-purpose - sometimes I spend days doing work on it and sometimes all I want to do is just play some games in peace, so gaming-oriented distros like Bazzite and Nobara seem a little too much for me.

So far I'm playing games like War Thunder and Cyberpunk, both of which run well, except for Cyberpunk having the one problem of weird annoying shadow/shader artifacts in certain situations which I've yet to fix. Other than that I'm not really running into problems.

I don't really know what my question is, I guess I'm just paranoid that I've picked the wrong distro. I don't want to end up sinking too much time making myself at home when I'll probably just hop distros soon enough. If it does come to that though, I'd be perfectly happy on something like Fedora KDE, but I'd rather change distros as a final resort.

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One script logs game session start time/date and the duration you played. The other calculates the total playtime for each game and the sum total and puts it into a summary log for easy viewing. Rest explained here :

https://github.com/SkoomaFiend/Steam-Playtime-Tracker/tree/main

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I try to buy a new laptop in the upcoming months, because the old one start to die. But I'm totally unsure, what I should get. Yes, I play games. And I know ideal would be a AMD GPU. But it seems there is nothing newer/better than a 7900M. And I have not find available laptops with this card in Germany. At least nothing with 18 or better 19“ display. If I'm right the 7900M is from 2023… is there nothing newer?

Or is nvidia now fine to use and if so, which model? I will be prepared a little bit for the next years and don't buy again in 3 years. I need at least a 18" display, because it's a desktop replacement without extra monitor. Minimum RAM should be 32GB. Besides gaming, i do a lot coding, editing photos with Darktable and some video editing.

Can someone please recommend me a future proof laptop? I will not use a desktop...

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Now I need a dumper/flasher, case and power supply. Any suggestions?

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Hi - I'm migrating to Linux and like to play games from Japanese studios. In my research, Japanese studios seems to prefer to optimize their titles with Nvidia hardware. Square Enix, Koei, Bandai, Capcom and Sega seems to release their games with Nvidia optimization.

Should this be a factor when building my gaming setup?

I want to steer away from the AMD vs Nvidia reductionist discussion. From what I gather both hardwares are heavily supported nowadays with some caveats that AMD still provides all the drivers open source where Nvidia doesn't.

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https://reddit.com/link/1ktuohw/video/3t4gm65bkl2f1/player

Hey Everyone

So, here's the wild thing: I’ve been solo-devving this weird roguelike deckbuilder that reimagines Ludo (yes, the Indian family-destroying board game 😅) as a cosmic dice war between gods.

After months of work and feedback from our earlier demo, I finally added a comic-style story intro, rebalanced the whole system (especially Spirit Cards), fixed bugs, added QoL polish... and launched a fresh demo AND trailer.

🔥 Here's the new trailer: 👉 Trailer on Youtube

🎮 Here's the updated demo on Steam:
👉 Try the Demo on Steam

I'm really curious:

• Does the trailer make you feel something?
• Would you play this game after watching it?
• And if you tried the demo, did it feel tighter and more strategic now?

I'm deep in the trenches and honestly, outside eyes would really help. Would love to hear what works, what doesn’t, and what could be cooler.

Thanks in advance, and if you enjoy dicey roguelikes with deckbuilding and a twist of Ludo madness — give it a shot and roast me gently 🔥🎲

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Hi guys. I tried to run GoT Kingsroad. But the game shown itself moved to the right bottom. Does anybody knows what's wrong here? I'm using steam

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I just got Linux Mint Mate (yay!) on my new computer. This is the first time I've used it as my main OS, and I've used Windows (ugh) until now. I just put Lutris 0.5.19 and Wine 9.0 on it. I tried to download the enhanced edition of Baldur's Gate using the GOG portal on Lutris. I did it under the GOG tab, but when I click play, the button changes to stop, and nothing ever opens. After a few seconds it goes back to "play." I've got an icon of a sort on my desktop, but that appears to be a text file, and the only thing it allowed me to use to try to open it was LibreOffice Reader.

What am I doing wrong that I need to fix so I can install and play my games?

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This has been happening to every game that I play for awhile now. I just attempted to screen cap it, but to my surprise, it doesn't even show up in a screen recording. I'm going to post the video here anyway to demonstrate when the flicker occurs.

The flicker never goes completely black. It's more like the screen brightness toggles between high and low, over and over. Several times per second. If I alt + tab, or press the 'windows' key on my keyboard, the flickering stops. It literally only ever happens if the game I'm playing is my active window.

I honestly have no idea what's causing this or how to fix it. For awhile I assumed the back light on my monitor was dying, but that wouldn't explain why it only happens if the game is the active window.

I'm running Arch, KDE Plasma, Wayland, and using Proton Experimental.

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hi all, sorry for the repeated posts here--trying to run games on my new laptop and keep running into issues. I just put Debian 12 stable (GNOME) on an Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402RJ with a ryzen CPU and a dedicated RX 6700S card.

Finally got steam itself to run on the dedicated card without crashing, but now when I launch a game it crashes right away. Running games in the iGPU is fine, but obviously leaves me with lackluster performance. There's also incessant screen tearing when launching any application with the dedicated card, to the extent that most apps are unusable.

I originally had a 6.1 kernel, so I tried updating to kernel 6.12.22 (backport) to no avail. I was sure to follow this guide (https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo) to the letter, so all my drivers and gpu firmware should be up to date. My bios is up to date as well. I'd be very grateful for any suggestions.

edit: here's the output of vulkaninfo --summary https://pastebin.com/BZAr5Q0y

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I have dual boot windows and linux , if I find a way to make league of legends work on linux I can go all in as main OS , is there anyone that managed to do that ? or is pretty much impossible

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got home from work, booted my little bazzite PC, launched WoW and the game was lagging like crazy and the graphics were stuttering and missing textures. Once I click play the game crashes and I get an error message saying that steam was us8ng too much memory. Is this due to an update or something? Played last night without issue. Apologies I'm very new to Linux.

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