So I recently switched over to Linux, and I'm enjoying using it for programming and some gaming on my laptop, but I've come across some issues with the system and I feel like asking here can get me some help.

I'm using Fedora GNOME (custom install) 46.4 for reference.

When using Wayland (the default GNOME version) I get the issue with certain games not locking my mouse to the window when playing on a multi-screen setup, anyone know a fix? I've been searching for nearly a full day now.

Wayland also doesn't let me stream over discord, I tried using the videobridge tool (can't remember full name) but that's not working, since I believe that's a KDE tool anyway.

When using Xorg (or x11 if you may) it fixes the above two issues, but GNOME seems to lag, as in the animations when entering the dashboard etc. seem low FPS, not sure if it's a performance settings or something.

My specs (Ones that I feel matter here) are:

• i7-1360p (Framework 13)
• 32GB DDR4 RAM

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I'm using Fedora 39, KDE, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X | Radeon RX 6750 XT and get 17-20FPS in Dota2. Using Proton yeilds 120+ FPS but does not pass Valve's anti cheat so is not a viable option. Using Wayland/X11 does not seem to make a difference but using i3wm gives me about 30 FPS.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I can try? I feel like the hardware im using should be more than sufficient.

user@hostname:~$ uname -a

Linux hostname 6.10.4-100.fc39.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Aug 11 15:56:38 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux

user@hostname:~$ sudo lspci -vnn
0d:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M XT] [1002:73df] (rev c0) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:3991]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 135, IOMMU group 31
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M]
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at f7900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
Capabilities: \\\[50\\\] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: \\\[64\\\] Express Legacy Endpoint, IntMsgNum 0
Capabilities: \\\[a0\\\] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: \\\[100\\\] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [200] Physical Resizable BAR
Capabilities: [240] Power Budgeting <?>
Capabilities: \\\[270\\\] Secondary PCI Express
Capabilities: \\\[2a0\\\] Access Control Services
Capabilities: \\\[2d0\\\] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
Capabilities: \\\[320\\\] Latency Tolerance Reporting
Capabilities: \\\[410\\\] Physical Layer 16.0 GT/s <?>
Capabilities: [440] Lane Margining at the Receiver
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpu

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Sure Linux can game, but telling people thinking of making the switch from windows that Linux as a whole is “all there” is completely disingenuous. Now for most games Linux runs PERFECTLY fine, but for games like Counterstrike that runs a lot worse and is almost unplayable compared to its windows counterparts, or games with KLAC like Valorant or Faceit it is quite literally impossible to play those games. Or something like Roblox that takes quite a bit of tinkering to get working or times when the devs just straight up won’t let you play the game like R6 or Fortnite. It just feels wrong and kind of self deluded to say Linux is gaming ready, it isn’t for some of the most popular games currently and that’s why I don’t like telling people or my friends that they should switch, sure it would be great because I firmly believe Linux is just better than windows in almost every way except gaming, the switch just isn’t there for most people and honestly I don’t blame them in the slightest. Don’t rip me apart in the comments for this post since it is just something I wanted to get off my chest. Thanks :)

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after while in games i starting experience overall lags, my cpu and ram is ok, temperatures is ok (cpu temp start drops to 60C°, checking with nvidia-smi and inxi), reboot helps, then it starts again. i think this problem is possibly related to rolling release distros (arch, fedora). recently i tried debian and pop os, but cant tell if rolling release thing exactly true, i wasnt playing much on these distros. Now im on arch, i could have guessed that i missed something in the wiki on arch, but on fedora there is not much to setup and there is was exact same problem.

Can you help find out what is wrong or suggest solution?

Tech info:

I have semi old hybrid graphics laptop, which was actively used 2 years. 8GB ram intel i3-10051 cpu Iris Lake G1 & geforce mx130 GPU ssd 512gb

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I switched from zorin os to linux mint a couple of hours ago and started installing all of my games and etc.

When i got to installing Sober, everything was fine up until I had to install the apk bundle. (I used the sober.flatpakref file)

I used 2.639.688 version which is the latest (atleast as of writing this), i did everything in the instructions, but it somehow turned out to be not supported by the version of sober i am running.

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So when I play Dota 2, I often see the brightness of my screen flickering. This continues when I alt-tab. It seems to bring my entire monitor into disarray. But it's only when I play Dota that it happens in the first place. I suspect mostly in the menus, not during gameplay, but I'm not sure.

I have Manjaro with an Rx6900XT and kernel drivers, Freesync is on, and my monitor is an LG 27GP850. I'm on Wayland KDE.

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I know it’s possible because I’ve seen people do it. But when I try to install via wine, proton tricks opens and tells me to pick a wine prefix to install with and then gives me a list of some of the game in my library. Not sure what’s going on

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I am new to linux and enjoy it really much. Today i tried my first Game, Euto Truck sim 2, which is nativ supportet on my Linux Mint setup. The biggest issue that i am facing now is, that if i try to tab out of the game to, for example discord, the mouse is stuck in the game and i cant do anything. Tried starting my game on another Workspace also doesn't work. Is there any solution to that problem?

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Hello, I currently use GOG's offline installers on Windows. Don't use Steam and don't use the GOG's Galaxy launcher to install and playing games. Want to switch to Linux. I know it's possible to install and playing games via the offline installers on Linux, but how? I guess Proton and Lutris isn't the right choice for me, because I don't need a frontend and Proton works best with Steam I guess. Just want to run the .exe files and playing the games like in the good old days.

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I know steam deck can stream, but a 8 inch device with incorporated controller like portal would be really good too...

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Recently I realized that my laptop's power draw for the Nvidia GPU was locked at 60W.
Theoretically, it is supposed to draw upto 95W (80W+15W Dynamic Boost), but now its locked at 60W while drawing power and 30W while not.
I'm using the driver version 550.90 and for the solutions I've looked online and a solution was to enable nvidia-powerd service to manually increase the limit as to how much power your GPU takes (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux\_gaming/comments/1bbdig6/psa\_nvidia\_may\_be\_artificially\_reducing\_your/)
Only thing is that while using the command: sudo systemctl enable --now nvidia-powerd.service
It gives me the error: Failed to enable unit: Unit file nvidia-powerd.service does not exist.

I've read online that for the latest version 550 for Ubuntu based distros, this service doesn't exist. I hope to resolve this issue ideally by keeping the latest driver version because Ghost of Tsushima only works with version 550 and above, anything below that the textures don't load properly and the game is unplayable.

Hoping someone can help me solve this issue without downgrading my drivers.

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I am using two SSDs on my computer: the one with Linux is smaller, and the one with Windows is larger. Crusader Kings 3 is installed on my Linux SSD (ZFS), but I keep the mods for it on the Windows SSD. The playset I'm using (AGOT) is more than 15 GB in size. Is using files from a different filesystem slower than using them from a second SSD with the same filesystem?

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I've played this game once, and it worked fine so not sure what's up.

Launch game and it doesn't launch fullscreen, don't know if that's the issue. But once it gets to the Privacy Agreement and you hit 'Enter' to accept it just accepts no input at all. Nothing. No keyboard, mouse, controller. Tried everything.

Anyone else had this happen and know a fix? I tried multiple proton versions all the way back to v8 and GE.

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I'm playing VNs in my virtualbox vm in which linux mint is guest and fedora is host. Sometimes it freezes completely. If I try REISUB, it takes input in host and not guest. Only mouse moves when if it's frozen. I've allocated 16GB for my VM with 6 cores in my 24GB 8 cores 16 threads laptop. Also increased video memory to 256MB.

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I'm planning to switch from windows to linux next month when I get a new SSD, and I was wondering if I could make a persistent live usb to test if the nvidia drivers and maybe some games would work fine before i switch, but I'm not sure if this is doable from a live usb.

I'm thinking of using fedora.

Is it possible, or would the performance be too bad from running the OS from a usb drive?

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So I recently switched to Ubuntu earlier today on my new gaming laptop and I wanted to play Sea of thieves again but now when I try to run it first of all it stays on the sea of thieves logo not even entering full screen like it's supposed to do and the only way I can even get any further than that is by running the game through wine but even then I am stopped from going further because when I try to access the login screen it's completely white with no way to interact and to make things worse the game has fps drops and audio stuttering when opening it through wine until I exit.

I am able to run my other steam games perfectly including Cuphead so it has to be something else causing this to happen and yes I have tried verifying the game files and adding launch options such as gamemoderun %command% but still the same issue keeps on happening including the white screen that never goes away.

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Introduction

So I was bored and decided to check the performance of Counter-Strike 2 between Windows and Linux (Nobara). Software

Specifications Hardware

• 5800X3D
• 6800 XT
• 4x8GB DDR4 3600 CL18

Software

• Nobara 40 GNOME w/ MESA 24.1.6
  • Logging software MangoHUD
• Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 w/ AMD Adrenaline AFMF2 Preview Driver (24.20.01.02)
  • Logging software CapFrameX

Benchmark Test 1 - Workshop FPS benchmark

Ran THIS benchmark map on both OSes.

Results:

• Linux
• Windows

Test 2 - Inferno Wingman Results:

• Linux
  • Flightlessmango
  • FlightlessSomething
• Windows
  • CapFrameX
  • Some pictures

Comparison

• Frametime Analysis Tool
• Min/Avg/Max FPS
• Min/Avg/Max Frametime
• Frametime
• FPS Variance/Stability

Final words

To be honest I am just bored and wanted to test out the performance between the two OSes. I notice on Linux that whenever I am in a gunfight that the mouse input slows down, feels like I am moving the mouse through mud or something. That might not be apparant from the numbers alone but it is really weird and makes it almost impossible for me to micro-adjust the aim during a fight :(. We can conclude that CS2 indeed runs pretty well on Linux (except the weird mouse input slowdown during fights), but I am not smart enough to analyze the results any further. But I hope that someone somewhere may find these numbers interesting.

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Hi all,

I have a fresh install of Nobara 40 on a newly built PC. I’ve managed to mount all SSDs and Steam can recognize them. Nobara’s Bluetooth easily detects my Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, but Steam only detects it when plugged into the case via USB.

I’m hoping someone can help me get Steam to recognize the controller via Bluetooth.

Thanks.

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TLDR: Server side ACs and ML are not reliable and cheap as Client Side ACs.

First, I'm not a native english speaker, so I'll update this post as time goes on to fix any grammatical/syntax error.

I'm game dev. Actually, I'm a game engine developer, I don't actually create games, but I develop the tech behind it.

I don't write ACs, but I'll explain briefly why client side ACs are needed: every competite game write their network stack based on Server Authoritive architecture (a good article about Server Authority architecture and what problem solves: https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture.html)

Briefly, the client it's "dummy" and it's just the server that makes the player move, and that already prevents cheat that affect other client and the game world it self.

The only cheats that are impossible to valide server side are wallhacks, aimbots and ESP. And that's because of Client Prediction (read the article I mentioned before to understand WHAT is and WHY we need Client Prediction)

Client side ACs are trying to prevent this using different techniques.

That's it.

Now, I don't support nor like Kernel Level ACs, but they are "stronger" than userspace ACs so we have to use them.

In fact, it's more likely to encounter hackers on games using userspace space ACs than kernel level ACs.

Now, some of you might mention the use ML on the server to detect cheaters, and it's actually a solution, but they're not as reliable nor cheap as client side ACs.

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