Windows is fine for me I heard linux has some performance boosts so any specific distro for my specs?

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Hi, I’m trying to install and update Nobara Linux on a laptop (ASUS TUF F16, Intel i5 + RTX5060), but I’m stuck on a persistent issue with DNF repositories.

I’m currently in Russia, using both home internet and mobile hotspot with VPN for testing, but the issue persists regardless of network source.

And I can’t install VPN on laptop because it doesn't work, it won't connect.

Problem:

When running:

sudo dnf update --refresh

I consistently get:

curl error (28): Timeout was reached

“Operation too slow” errors

This happens specifically with Nobara repositories:

nobara-appstream

nobara-additional-packages

nobara-rocm

nobara-updates

nobara-nvidia-production

What works:

Some non-Nobara repos (e.g. Brave, Terra) work normally

Internet connection is stable (tested via mobile hotspot and VPN)

What I already tried:

dnf clean all and cache wipe

Switching networks (home WiFi + mobile hotspot VPN on/off)

Forced IPv4 (ip_resolve=4)

Disabled IPv6 temporarily

Increased DNF timeout/retries

Checked system time (NTP enabled)

Attempted disabling problematic repos manually

Observation:

The issue is not random packages — it consistently affects ALL Nobara-specific repositories, while some external repositories still respond normally.

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I have a fresh Bazzite install, dual booting with Windows on a second NVMe.

From the jump I've had issues with my Keychron Q1HE going dead after half a second of inactivity. If I hold down a key it'll type. As soon as I depress, wait, then try and type again, I either get no response or infinite key-inputs.

The only thing that gets input again is replugging the dongle. But then only for another second or so.

It's strange. My mouse, also using 2.4Ghz, works fine.

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The Rockchip RK3588 SoC has a capable VPU that can decode H.264, HEVC, VP9 and AV1 up to 8K, but there was no VA-API driver for it — meaning apps like Firefox had no way to use it and fell back to software decode, burning CPU on 4K video.

I wrote one: rockchip-vaapi, a full VA-API 1.20 driver that bridges libva to librockchip-mpp (the official Rockchip hardware codec library).

GitHub: https://github.com/woodyst/rockchip-vaapi

What it enables

• Firefox hardware video decode on Wayland and X11 (EGL)
• Zero-copy DMA-BUF surface export — decoded frames go directly from the VPU to the GPU compositor without CPU copies
• 4K AV1/VP9 playback in Firefox with ~40-70% RDD process CPU (vs ~110% software)

Supported codecs

Codec Profiles Bit depth H.264 CB / Main / High / High10 8-bit, 10-bit HEVC Main / Main10 8-bit, 10-bit VP8 Version0_3 8-bit VP9 Profile 0 / Profile 2 8-bit, 10-bit AV1 Profile 0 / Profile 1 8-bit, 10-bit

10-bit content (HDR, Hi10p) is exported as P010 (DRM_FORMAT_R16 + DRM_FORMAT_GR1616) for correct GPU import.

Tested hardware

• Orange Pi 5 Plus (RK3588)
• Should work on Orange Pi 5, Rock 5B (RK3588S) and RK3576 boards — untested, reports welcome

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/woodyst/rockchip-vaapi.git cd rockchip-vaapi make && sudo make install

Then add to your environment:

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=rockchip LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/dri MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX=1 MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 # if using Wayland

A Debian package (dpkg-buildpackage) is also included.

Notes

• License: LGPL 2.1
• Requires librockchip-mpp (available in the vendor BSP or Joshua-Riek's Ubuntu for RK3588)
• Developed and tested on Ubuntu/Debian aarch64 with Mesa 25.x (Panfrost) as the GL compositor
• The driver was developed with AI assistance (Claude Sonnet 4.6) and validated on real hardware — total dev time ~4 hours

Happy to answer questions or take bug reports via GitHub issues.

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Hi everyone,

I’m relatively new to game server hosting and I’m currently trying to build a proper setup. I’ve already rented a VPS (virtual private server) and I want to run the AMP Game Panel on it to host multiple game servers.

My main uncertainty:

Some of the game servers I want to host are natively Windows-only. On Linux, these would need to run via Wine.

So I’m trying to understand the basic trade-off:

### 1. Linux host + Wine (for Windows-based servers)

- + better resource efficiency (CPU/RAM usage)

- + generally more stable server environment

- + better automation / scripting / containerization options

- – additional overhead from Wine

- – possible compatibility issues with some game servers

- – potentially more complex debugging

### 2. Windows host (native execution)

- + full compatibility with Windows-based game servers

- + no compatibility layer needed

- + easier to set up initially

- – higher resource usage

- – less efficient when running multiple servers on the same hardware

- – more background system overhead

---

### My core question:

If the goal is efficiency + stability + long-term learning:

👉 Is it better to commit to Linux as the host and run Windows servers via Wine,

or

👉 should I just use Windows as the host to avoid compatibility issues altogether?

My intention is to learn how to set this up properly and in a more “professional” way, but I’m unsure if introducing Wine adds unnecessary complexity at my current level.

Any experience with AMP + mixed Windows/Linux game server setups on a VPS would be really helpful.

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Hi everyone, I'm currently playing Constance while streaming and the GPU is usually at 50 or 60% and the game run well.

But sometimes GPU hit 100% and everything is lagging : the game and OBS.

I know it's the game who consume all the GPU because I do the NVIDIA-SMI command. But I think it's weird. I already have lowered the graphics and the game is taking only half of my screen.

The minimal GPU recommanded for this game is GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1GB), Radeon HD 7750 (1GB)

And I have : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

My graphic Card is supposed to be more powerful than the recommended one.

So I think I have an issue. Is there a way to avoid the game siphoning everything ? Is there a way to limit GPU usage for a Game ?

I launch the game using Steam

My specs :

https://preview.redd.it/c8tb6p5p1ixg1.png?width=1041&format=png&auto=webp&s=3e175ff87992ebf925fc627f88053424e4b437af

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Hello, maybe it's a common knowledge, but I wanted to share my experience with Nvidia drivers and Proton as new linux user. Hopefully it will help someone, in case someone haven't thought to try switching drivers, same as me.

The old driver that was installed is Nvidia Driver 535 (recommended by Linux Mint driver manager).

I've had issue were a lot of games would be not launch at all with Proton versions 7-11. Some would not launch, bringing in only the crash handler. One gave me a DXGI error. 3d, 2d, unity, RPG-Maker, big or small. More or less 80% of games I tried required older version of Proton.

Depends on a game of course, but for a lot of them I had to set compatibility in the range of 6-9. For some setting launch options to PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% helped.

I've switched to Nvidia Driver 580 present in the driver manager. As a result all games I've tried work perfectly on all latest Proton versions, 9 to 11 beta included.

I haven't had a chance to test the driver properly. Mostly on the games I've had installed. Nor have I seen any issues or problems come from the driver yet. Only thing I know for sure is that games that were unplayable on Proton versions around 7-11 now launch.

And all the tinkering I had to do before was because of using the recommended driver by the driver manager, not the newer one that was the second option in the manager.

Specs:
OS: Linux Mint 22.3
KERNEL: 6.17.0-20-generic
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750
GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 580.126.09 (the recommended one installed before: 535.288.01)
RAM: 8 GB

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Hello,

I wouldn't really know where to begin, except to tell you where I am and what I have:

13th-gen Intel, Nvidia 4080 and 64GB RAM, MSI mainboard.

My first time attempting to use Linux Desktop (I have been using Linux Servers Debian/Ubuntu for years now though, so not unfamiliar with Linux, but unfamiliar with Arch Linux).

Anyway, tried two editions yesterday, Nobara and CachyOS.

I decided to test couple of apps on each OS, just to see how they fare.

Apps: Plex, Plexamp, Steam, Dune-Awakening, Transport Fever 2, Discord, Brave, Bitwarden. That's about it.

Nobara: everything worked perfectly indeed, after I activated Proton-GE, I tried the above, didn't fail anywhere.

But, on CachyOS, Dune: Awakening is stuttering, Plex isn't working (it starts with border window, but no content). There is no official support also, I can only pull it from AUR, which is maintained by "someone".

I did set the appropriate Compatibility mode in both OS both games. In Cachy OS its proton-cachyos-10.0-20260420 (native), in Nobara it was Proton-GE.

And in CachyOS, I did install gaming packages. Went through with an error, but fixed it.

So I am primarily posting here, since it's mainly an attempt to get games fluid, but I also want to understand why Plex is failing. Maybe it has something to do with each other. The tweaker in my wants to make it work, although I should most likely call it a day and go Nobara.

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Hello there!

I've been trying to run D4 on my Linux Desktop for quite some time now (Mint 22.3). Although ProtonDB gives it a Platin Ranking which means it should run "out of the box", it keeps crashing. So with the new expansion coming soon, i need some help :-)

I'm running D4 in steam, using the Bnet launcher added as a non-steam game. I've tried some different proton versions (8 to 11), but i don't think that's the problem. The game runs fine, but always freezes the whole desktop somewhere between 2-5 minutes after start.

According to this thread D4 try's to detect its optimal settings every few minutes, an therefore changes its "preferred" GPU to the internal/onboard one, which causes the crash. This settings can be found in "" /home/[MY_USER_ACCOUNT]/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/NonSteamLaunchers/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/Diablo IV/LocalPrefs.txt""

So here's what i've tried:

- Deleting localprefs.txt file before game start, to force D4 back to default Settings. This, sometimes, gives me about 15 minutes of gameplay before it crashes.

- Changing the preferred GPU to "1" (line 29). Again, sometimes it gives me up to 15 minutes before it crashes

- change the files permission to read only, so it cant override the correct GPU settings. No impact, game crashes in the first few minutes.

Did anyone have the same problems and solved it?

Regards

Cert

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it's been 3 days since the 1.04 update that broken CD on proton, pearl abyss released 2 corrective patches for other issues but it seems they did nothing for fix the proton crash. I know someone managed to come back to 1.03 to keep playing, but I prefer to wait for some definitely fix and be able to play with the new contents.

I'm not really aware about what exactly cause the crash, so who should we waiting for a fix? it's only on pearl abyss hands or proton team could fix it too?

as for pearl abyss, I'd have expected a more quick response, it shouldn't have been too hard to fix it in one of the 2 corrective patches released after the 1.04 but I fear we're not so many that play on Linux and so maybe the issue wasn't exposed enough?

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I am using CachyOS and playing GTA 5 using Heroic Games Launcher just fine. The problem is hangs and stutters here and there. On my previous distro, the hang was for like 3-5 seconds. On CachyOS, it is now 2-3 seconds. But the thing is that I am playing this game for really long time. I got this game when Epic was giving it away for free. This game never hanged or stuttered. Seems like that assets are not being loaded on time. At first, I thought that this might be GPU problem. But other more demanding games like high paced Doom Eternal and SSD demanding Talos Principal 2 work just fine without any issue. Any other game that I have played so far does not have this problem at all. Only this one game has it. I am playing GTA 5 legacy. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 with RX 590 16GB RAM.

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I've been trying to figure out if it's a good choice, everything i've seen about it on linux is months old and not really helpful. Like, does steam input support it? Do I need to install windows to set it up? I saw someone saying that it WOULD be supported in the future, but didn't know if it was or not when i asked them several months later. Someone claimed to have made a driver for it a while back but it looked vibecoded so i'd like to hear from someone that actually uses it.

I would just wait for the steam controller but if the dpad is the same as the steam deck's it's DOA for me.

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i'm on Mint XFCE. i'm trying to install steamtinkerlaunch so that i can use Vortex mod manager with Skyrim, but i have a few issues.

i've referenced a few different in-depth guides to make sure i'm doing the right steps, but i've looked around and can't seem to find anyone with a solution to my issues.

i have the up-to-date version of stl, my yad is installed correctly (i know this, because before i found out that the version available through protonup-qt is outdated, i installed it there and had to get yad working first)

1. i have it selected as my compatibility tool, but the menu that's supposed to pop up when i launch my game through stl (with the option to open the settings) just isn't opening. the stl popups in the top right of the screen are there, so i know it's working on some level, but no menu.
2. running "install" on the stl file just displays the same output as the "help" command for it. therefore, when i try to install Vortex, it says "Unknown option --decorated". i also couldn't find what that means.

honestly, should i just switch distros again? is there one that'll make this simpler? i'm open to it at this point. i had an Arch-based distro for a while - specifically Garuda - but that one kept messing up my computer's firmware (i confirmed it was the os causing the problem, since it went away immediately after switching), so now i'm wary of switching again.

or, hell, if all else fails, maybe i'll just start saving up my extra money to buy a better gaming laptop. i hate windows, but maybe it's my only option to be able to get back to modded Skyrim... hopefully not, though!

system info, in case that's useful here:

CPU: 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 7530U with Radeon Graphics (-MT MCP-)

speed/min/max: 1497/400/4547 MHz Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic x86_64 Up: 39m

Mem: 4.03/7.07 GiB (56.9%) Storage: 354.54 GiB (21.7% used) Procs: 366

Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.34

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On Gentoo with a 3080-ti.

On steam community, someone reported something similar, though it was on Windows 11.

I suspect some update created the problem, as it was running fine last week.

I'm reaching out to see if anyone has heard anything related.

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I was attempting to use blender, and discovered that the version of steam I had installed was the flatpak version. Two things made me think about this, I was attempting to use blender on this version of steam, and... Could barely run it on the default cube, even though I've got a meaty PC. Then, yesterday I was trying to play persona 3 reload and was getting maybe 2FPS and I should not have been. So my question is simply, what other things did I bork by using the flatpak version of steam? I wound up installing a native version instead later and that fixed both the blender problem, and the persona 3 reload problem, and got me thinking.

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Operating System

Arch Linux

OpenXR Runtime

WiVRn

Describe the issue.

When launching any VR game, it doesn't run or fires an error saying xrizer has crashed, panicked at src/compositor.rs:1013:17:
xrizer.txt

This started when I recently changed from a radeon 5700 XT to a RTX 5060 TI

Steps to reproduce

Launch any VR game

Yes I have latest driver's and I have tried reinstalling openxr, openvr, xrizer, and wivrn. I'm lost at this point.

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Hi Reddit!

I’ve been working on a homemade console build for the past few months, and I’m still getting the parts together.

Here’s what I have so far:

i7-10700K

ASUS TUF Gaming Z490 (this will probably be replaced for an mATX board due to the size)

16GB DDR4 3200MHz, 2x8GB

I got all of that used for $150.

Now I’m looking for GPU suggestions. Today’s GPU market makes it pretty annoying to decide. At first, I was planning on getting an Intel Arc A750, but then I realized its Linux performance is a lot worse than Windows, and this console is probably gonna run Bazzite so that’s probably a no go.

What would you recommend?

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EDIT: I meant STeam profile, not battle.

When I try to view a gamer profile, sometimes I accidentally click the view steam profile. When I do that, it goes into Steam to view, but when I click back on Overwatch, it doesn't accept any input anymore - not even ESC. I see the mouse cursor changed to the OW cursor, but it does not accept any input or clicks either.l None of the keyboard input work.

I'm on a 5950x with 3090 running Fedora 43 Gnome.

Anyone else experience this? When this happens, I always have to ALT-F4 the game.

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