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I have been frustrated for some time with the current state of technology:

systems that collect data, closed ecosystems, or free but inconvenient alternatives.

I have started a project called Hibrid, with the idea of creating computers designed for privacy, design and real experience, without complications.

It is not a company yet, it is more of an idea in the making.

I am interested to know if anyone else feels that such an alternative is lacking

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Mint, freshly updated (right after I first noticed the issue), system info, as of right now, it's been going for 45 minutes and it's still only at 89%. Used to take 2-3 minutes at worst up until today.

Tried restarting it, rebooted the system, nothing changed, it seems to skip to 50% and then starts taking ages. I didn't change anything about the system since yesterday, other than running the update manager once I noticed it was slow.

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I have switched permanently to Linux and I want to completely ditch Windows which I used to use for gaming exclusively on a separate drive whilst Linux for coding/etc. I was wondering if i could use a gpu passthrough VM with Win11 for OFFLINE games such as Alan wake 2 on epic games launcher, RDR2 Via rockstar launcher etc. Will these launchers detect my VM and ban me even if i only play offline and single player since i have a playstation for any online games.

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Hey,
I have written a text here approx. a week ago about how Arc raiders didn't work anymore after updating to Fedora 43 (White screen). After reverting back to Fedora 42, the problem persisted, but i could solve the problem by enabling testing repos.
link: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ql6r9h/frustrations_with_arc_raiders_on_fedora_4243/
Long story short, everything worked again so yesterday i was tempted to upgrade to Fedora 43 again, because i knew how i could solve the problem i had with arc raiders.
What a surprise, arc raiders didn't work again and launched with a white screen. So i enabled testing repos again, and it worked. Nice.
Now a new problem occurred: When playing, my pc completely freezes after a few minutes, i get a Black screen and a message like "failed to execute shutdown binary, execution frozen" or something like that.
So i have looked up my logs and it indicates that there is some kind of SATA/SSD problem here although i am 100% sure that my hardware is completely fine, it's a new SSD and a new cable and worked for 6 months without any problems, until i updated to 43 again :/

"Jan 28 00:19:34 fedora.fritzbox kernel: ata2.00: status: { DRDY }

Jan 28 00:19:40 fedora.fritzbox kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0xf0000 SErr 0x4050000 action 0xe>

Jan 28 00:19:40 fedora.fritzbox kernel: ata2.00: irq\stat 0x00000040, connection status changed)

Jan 28 00:19:40 fedora.fritzbox kernel: ata2: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake DevExch }

Jan 28 00:19:40 fedora.fritzbox kernel: ata2.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED

Jan 28 00:19:40 fedora.fritzbox kernel: ata2.00: cmd 61/20:80:e0:d7:c2/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 16 ncq dma 1638>

res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus>

Jan 28 00:19:40 fedora.fritzbox kernel: ata2.00: status: { DRDY }

Jan 28 00:19:40 fedora.fritzbox kernel: ata2.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED

Jan 28 00:19:40 fedora.fritzbox kernel: ata2.00: cmd 61/20:88:e0:d7:e2/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 17 ncq dma 1638>"

I have run different commands like sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb to asses my disks health but no problems here.
And to be clear, i am a linux newbie, first downloaded it in June 2025, and tried various different distros and fedora 42 was a distro i had the least problems with, everything just worked fine.
But 43 seems to have way more problems than 42 had, i am already regret hitting this "update to 43" button again.
Does anyone know what i should do next?
Thanks in advance.

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I'm having this issue with several games. And I can't tell if it's a Linux problem, or a GPU problem. Or a me problem.

It doesn't matter if I play on low or ultra settings. Changing the Proton version also does nothing.

I have HDR disabled.

Anyone with similar problems? Ideas on how to troubleshoot it?

My specs: Arch, RX 9070xt, Ryzen 7 7800x3d

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Recently moved 100% to CachyOS, and one thing that was missing for me is the rumble effect from the DualSense controller

Steam Input helps with it but its not 100% as it was on PS5 or windows.

I decided to dive into the rabbit hole and try solving it, atleast for my case.

From my understanding, Windows calls the dualsense controller as Wireless Controller, and Linux calls it Dualsense Wireless Controller.

Specifically for me, I am playing Helldivers 2 and they have hardcoded code to send the Haptics to "Wireless Controller".

we can solve this issue with wireplumber and renaming the Dualsense to Wireless Controller

create the this file at:
vim ~/.config/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/51-dualsense-edge.conf

monitor.alsa.rules = [ { matches = [ { # This targets the actual ALSA card detected by the kernel device.name = "~alsa_card.usb-Sony_Interactive_Entertainment_DualSense_Edge_Wireless_Controller.*" } ] actions = { update-props = { # Forces WirePlumber to ignore the broken UCM profile and use a standard one api.alsa.use-ucm = false, api.alsa.soft-mixer = true } } }, { matches = [ { # This renames the resulting audio stream so the game recognizes it node.name = "~alsa_output.usb-Sony_Interactive_Entertainment_DualSense_Edge_Wireless_Controller.*" } ] actions = { update-props = { node.description = "Wireless Controller", audio.channels = 4, # Tells the system this is a surround setup (required for haptics) audio.position = [ "FL", "FR", "RL", "RR" ] } } } ]

systemctl --user restart wireplumber pipewire

you can validate it worked with :
wpctl status | grep -A 8 "Sinks"

if you see Wireless Controller in the above command, you are ready to play

Haptics and trigger effects should work seamlessly now

Additional things you can do:
if it still doesnt work, you might need to clear the cache for Wireplumber with
WARNING: it will clear the Bluetooth Headphones profiles so you will need to forget and repair them .

rm -rf ~/.local/state/wireplumber

and run the command above again.

if it still doesnt work you can use

PROTON_LOG=1 WINEDEBUG=+wasapi,+mmdevapi %command%

in the Launch command and then see the log at home with ~/steam-*.log | grep "Controller"

and continue debugging from there.

Goodluck, hope it helps o7

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MHWilds received a patch in December which for some reason ruined performance when playing the game on Linux.

A patch was released yesterday which helped sort out performance not only on PC in general but also playing on Linux is fixed! Even performs better than Windows in some CPU bound cases now (playing on Bazzite).

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I have an rx9070 graphics card. Scrolling on Steam feels like it's at 60Hz (monitor 165). Disabling hardware acceleration did not help. It's the same in Discord, only in it this problem was solved after the hardware acceleration was turned off. I tried mesa-git, but it didn't help. discord and steam lagging, if I put the monitor on the left, and if it's on the bottom, then everything is fine. On windows its ok. I tried kde, gnome, same.

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Hi, I migrated to from windows to Arch with KDE plasma few months ago, I have figure out most things that I need, with the exception of a few quality of life stuff, being one of them macros.

I have a logitech G502 wireless, in windows I used GHub to make macros, in linux I know there is piper, but it only allows keybinds not macros.

I also found some alternative to AutoHotKey, but as far as I know it does not work on wayland, I remember there was some project that was trying to "translate" it to wayland but it never worked for me.

So, I would like to know from those that use macros what do you guys use or advise?

As an extra note, sense my mouse is disintegrating, I am looking for a new one if you have any recommendation for a wireless mouse with some extra buttons that already has some linux compatible software for macros. It was always annoying that G502 extra buttons are not even detected for example in games to use as keybinds.

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https://preview.redd.it/jc6e096n49gg1.png?width=267&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e97daad62e09794822f6d5fad0a574db5f81d55

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steamvr on linux just shows these errors i can give logs if someone can tell me which of these files it is

https://preview.redd.it/i73w9w1f59gg1.png?width=656&format=png&auto=webp&s=64a698ec144d2c7e9008122e3dff7ae8f65a6d66

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I am a casual linux user (mainly debian/ubuntu) but I use linux only for my office/media/server needs.
I dont know much about bash/kernel/packages etc but I know enough to be dangerous, so to speak, like I know my way around and can follow manuals but I am too lasy to actually study things deeply enough to master them :P

I want to move my main gaming PC (RTX 3090 AMD 5950x ) to linux and I am seeking for a manual/guide (or a series of guides less than 5 or so ) to

A) achieve maximum performance and lower latency when gaming.

B) have all the packages streamlined so that I dont have to manually change stuff when something new comes out.

C) setup up everything related to game compatibility (especially this is the field I know the least about, I mean I know there is proton and stuff but I never touched it)

C2) same thing but for other type of games in general e.g best emulator experience (prefere one to be able to change "cores" or whatever the lingo is for many systems so that I dont run multiple different emulators unless there is a performance reason to change to a separate emulator for a specific system then name that too please , and I am not talking just console games but also DOS and older windows game and android.

Please dont just google and paste stuff here I can do that too I am looking to get 2cents from guys that have done this exact thing and used a particalr guide/manual/website to set up something and can vouch that it workd fine for them.

Thanks a lot for reding this kinda wall post :) have a nice day ^_^

P.S: if you dont have any experience by yourself you still can help by sharing this post to someone you know and think he or she can help :)

PPS: No bazide cachyOS and all the new "gaming" Distros I want something that is made for actual general PC US such as an arch or manjaro ubuntu etc

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Introduction

Hey all, a few days ago I decided to move on from Windows and install Linux on my PC. I read a bit what would be a suitable distro for me and installed Pop!_OS. While most things work out of the box, there are some problems and quirks that annoy me so I want to try something else.

I use my PC mainly for playing games on Steam, playing Minecraft, using Discord, basic browsing stuff. I use a 50-series Nvidia GPU, I sometimes do machine learning things so CUDA stuff is also needed and a tolerable developing experience.

Pop!_OS Experience

As I mentioned - most things in Pop work out of the box but I had some strange experiences and problems from the start. I installed the 24 LTS version which uses COSMIC and comes with an Nvidia driver out of the box. Installing Steam, trying out games like Cyberpunk e.g. was great, all RTX and DLSS things seem to work great and have good performance. The problems that I encountered are more with the day to day usage and lead me to think Pop with Cosmic is not yet very stable:

• when monitors turn off after a few minutes, moving the mouse most of the time wakes up only the Display Port one, the HDMI monitor 4 out of 5 times turns on but shows a black screen and after a few seconds turns off again. The only way to fix this is by either enabling/disabling the monitor in settings or unplugging/plugging the cable
• sometimes when turning on the PC, no monitor shows image, I have to hold down the power button to force shut down and then try turning it on again
• the desktop environment is quite easy to break - sometimes at random or while installing things the dock, top panel and context menus (right click) would break as in - not reacting to any click or context menus and dropdown menus disappearing immediately so you can't click on anything. The only fix when this happens is to log off or restart.

While these problems are not the end of the world, I find them quite annoying and I think that the environment shouldn't be so fragile on a fresh install.

Recommendations

This is where I need your help, I read about other distros and at this point I am a bit lost what to try. I read about Nobara, Mint, Cachy OS, Fedora KDE Plasma. On my laptop I tried sometime ago Omarchy but I'm not sure how much I liked it, too

I have a few requirements on what I want the distro to be capable of (forgive me if some are stupid and work on everything but I just have to mention them):

• come with Nvidia driver out of the box or to easily be possible to install the official Nvidia driver
• Steam, Proton, Discord, Browser easily installed and working out of the box
• be able to install CUDA, Python, Vscode for development
• full disk encryption during install and the option to later easily encrypt a second drive and set it up to auto unlock with the main one during login
• Bluetooth working to use an Xbox controller (I also have the wireless adapter but I couldn't get xone to work)
• out of the box usage of external devices like camera, microphone, external hard drive etc.

Bonus question - I have no idea how to back up stuff on Linux, currently I don't have anything important on my PC but someday I might have. How do you back up and then restore if/when things mess up? Is this something you set up during install with partitions, is it something you do later?

Thanks a lot in advance to anybody who answers, cheers!

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I’ve tried Discover overlay on my Arch Gnome distro and for some reason the app just doesn’t work (AUR or Flatpak). Like it doesn’t start up at all. Unfortunate I’m unable to copy the output as I’ve moved on to KDE which seems to work with the app.

My question: anyone else has the same issue with getting discover overlay working on latest Gnome/Wayland and has a solution for it or a working alternative?

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Hello!

I play games in Big Picture mode on my Fedora 43. For some reason, the Steam overlay doesn't open on top of the game when I press Shift+Tab or the Home button on the gamepad. Also, achievement notifications don't appear, although there is a sound when I receive them. Disabling the "Render using GPU" feature in Steam solves the problem, but then Steam itself runs terribly slow. The strangest thing is that this problem doesn't exist on KDE. How can I get it to work with Gnome?

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Problem: Severe FPS drops and frame-skipping in Geometry Dash on Arch Linux with GNOME Wayland. Game runs perfectly on KDE Wayland. Using Proton Experimental.

System:

- OS: Arch Linux

- Kernel: 6.18.6-arch1-1

- DE: GNOME 49.0 (Mutter on Wayland)

- GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1050 Mobile (NVIDIA proprietary drivers)

- CPU: Intel i7-7700HQ

- Game: Geometry Dash (Steam, Proton)

What I've tried:

- Confirmed issue is specific to GNOME Wayland (KDE Wayland works fine)

- Tried Proton Experimental and several stable versions

- GameMode enabled

- Verified NVIDIA GPU is active via `nvidia-smi`

Observations:

- Framerate counter shows drops from 60 to ~40 FPS

- Visual stuttering and frame skipping makes game unplayable

- Occurs in both fullscreen and windowed modes

- No such issues on KDE Plasma Wayland session

**Question:** Is this a known Mutter/NVIDIA/XWayland issue? Are there specific compositor settings or environment variables that could fix frame pacing in GNOME?

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Hey everyone. I hope y'all have great day. So I've been using linux for a while now, jumping from one distro to another, started with bazzite then jumping to linux mint, now thinking about cachyos and pikaos. But one issue that I always faced regardless of distro, is when my vram usage hits 100%,the fps starts to drop to single digits, and the game becomes unplayable. Fyi, I use RTX 4050 6GB. I never had this issue with Windows 11. No fps drop even after hitting 100% VRAM usage. Is there a fix for it? Please let me know in the comments.

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Is there any fix in the works for NVIDIA having worse DX12 performance in Proton/Wine? I'm asking because I have a 4090 and wanted to know, but I didn't find an answer.

NVIDIA is already very good on Linux; all that's missing is the DX12 fix. I have had a much better experience with NVIDIA than with AMD, especially in terms of fps at same graphical settings. I gained over double the fps when I switched from a 7900 XT.

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