With each and every day that passes I hate Windows more and more.

I tried Bazzite on a dual boot and ran into 1 major issue that would stop me from having it as my daily OS and a minor one.

TL;DR: I tried switching from Windows to Bazzite, but two issues stopped me: some games with transparency (like idle overlays) don’t work properly, and the international English keyboard layout feels off compared to Windows, with weird accent input and delay.

1 - Game transparency

I play a FAIR amount of games and all varied, some of which include idlers. These, more often than not use transparency (think bongo cat, tap tap loot.... stuff like that).
From what I saw there was no real way to fix this issue. Even then it would be a black background and for bongo cat keys would only register when focused in.

I know that you could say well what do you value more, privacy or gaming. to which fair but I like having the options.

Is there something actively being worked on to further aid this issue in the future or is it doomed to constantly have transparency issues?

2 - INTL keyboard issues.

no matter what version of INTL Eng keyboard layout I chose, it still didn't match what was on windows. it was very much a pain in the ass. the way you put accents on letters didn't match and it even had a weird delay to it. I think this is more down to my own issues but after debugging for 20 minutes, I didn't look further.

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Idk what happened but here the other day i was fiddeling around with a shitload of mods and shaders but then out of nothing my entire progress got wiped. I had developers ruined and s tier on all maps exept the new dlc and hide and seek. Now its all gone😭 please, if anyone has ever had this problem before pls tell me how to fix it, im not letting 190 hours go to waste

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Most games run fine on my linux mint but for some reason Lego Star wars CC and clone wars(Steam ver) as well as Lotor BFME (Lutris) run at 2 fps a second. And it's only these 3 games doing this. They worked when I had windows. I could just be stupid and missed a setting or something.

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Hi all, I know this question has been asked so many times that people are tired trying to help but what are some good native games that are free, lightweight and run on bad specs.

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You can get Rock Crusher here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3456800/Rock_Crusher/
Or you can just scroll to the Discounts & Events section of the Steam home page.

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(background: I run multiple Linux servers as well as VM's, my gaming pc is my only Windows device, so I have a little experience)

Hi 😄

The only reason I use Windows currently is because of Nvidia RTX HDR, I tried to install Bazzite to compare the KDE HDR inverse tonemapping to the Windows RTX HDR, but I am incredibly bad at comparisons like this, could anybody make a comparison or something like that? maybe something like this video

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The new Steam Controller launched today and thanks to Valve providing GamingOnLinux a review unit, I've been able to put it through some Linux testing.

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Hello all, We in the DQX Online community have this issue with this niche Japan only game. I am reaching out because we really need someone who can read the error logs and is smarter than us at figuring this out.

The issue arose after they released their 7.5 update to the game back in Aug 2025. We have tried several attempts at solutions to fix the issue without any luck...

Here is the history: Prior to 7.5 the game would crash when it invoked pre-rendered cutscenes until we discovered that you can specifically select Proton-GE 9-5 and it would work just fine. Any other version (either older versions or newer ones as they were released) causes it to crash.

After 7.5, the game requires PROTON_USE_WOW64=1 added to the launch options for the game to launch at all past the log in screen otherwise it crashes. This option was not available in 9-5

I think it has something to do with the game using windows media player 9 in it's cutscene decoding but I am not 100% sure

Once I post this, I will add my logs for using GE 10-27 with WOW64 enabled and crashing I also am adding my log for 9-6 without that flag but still crashing when launching the game

I am mainly launching this game on the steam deck but I also use Bazzite (using an AMD 9060XT) on my PC. It crashed when I had an NVIDIA 2070 as well

Fixes attempted: - Installing VLC and klite mega Pack (seperate tests) into the the Proton prefix using winetricks - Manually transferring the WMP 9 and Quartz DLLS from the 9-5 prefix to the 10-27 version - I disabled "Winegstreamer.dll" with winecfg. Instead of instantly crashing, it just froze. I think there is an issue with winegstreamer and rendering the window for the cutscene maybe - with the GE 9.5 I attempted to use WINEARCH=win32 - I have attempted all the GE 10.X versions and even the Proton 11 beta through steam - I have attempted additional Launch Options commands including forcing vulcan and forcing some audio/video options. I do not know all the options so I may have missed one

Other interesting information: - Windows, works fine and pre-rendered cutscenes do not open a seperate window - Linux, it opens a seperate window that is all black AND then crashes

Anyone else who has a desire to test it, I admit it is not an easy thing to install.

I requires you to create a Square Enix JP account and installing the game using this script

bash -c "$(curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jmctune/6322356f5bdb7bb00ca39cc0fa84546f/raw/dqxclarity_steam_deck_install.sh)"

https://dqxabbey.com/pages/community.html

The game has a generaous trail that lets you play for free up to midway through the first 3 expansions

Thank you all very much for even looking at this and any help you can provide.

Edit: The log was too large for pastebin and Github Gist kept crashing. Best I could do is my google Drive https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hsNdqcLTjrjqiM3_dBjNHfyWhBT8FqOu?usp=sharing

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I mean I see the option to install it on Steam no issue, but from what I understand anticheat is just for online right? I don't use online at all and just want to play story mode with mods (specifically Forests of SA, VisualV, NaturalVision, RDE, and some other mods that require OpenIV to install .oiv files). I believe these mods also work on GTA V Enhanced but right now I am specifically looking at GTA V Legacy as it has support for more mods anyways (I also play on Windows 11 on another SSD I have installed in my PC but I'd like to use CachyOS as my main OS)

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I enter Sudo blkdiscard -f /dev/sda command but SATA ssd remains the same. Checking lsblk says it has its sda1/sda2 partitions with first being 4GB and second 949GB.

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I have old 5775c CPU with rtx 3060 12gb and 16 GB ram 2400mhz. Can my pc perform better on linux? Which distribution? I like to play train sim world 6 and american truck simulator. Actually i play cyberpunk and silent hill 2 remake, would it be a problem to play newer games?

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Here's another one for those of you who love watching numbers go up, while chaining together wild combinations - SlotsNStocks looks like a good time sink.

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Wireworks is tower-defense roguelike auto-battler that's incredibly unique and now it's much bigger with a huge free update released.

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Was told to post here, as the post says I’ve used my g27 wheel before and it worked fine. It shows up and tests well In oversteer but there’s absolutely zero force feedback. I can’t play without it tbh. I’ve heard of the new driver but can’t install it. Not sure I wanna mess around with kernels or have space for dual booting another Linux os. Did anyone manage at all? Thanks for any useful reply!

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Hey, I’m trying to figure out why my Linux gaming performance is so much worse than Windows on the same system.

System:

• Fedora 44 KDE
• Ryzen 5 3600
• Radeon RX 9070 XT
• Kernel: 6.19.14-300.fc44.x86_64
• Mesa: 26.0.5
• RADV: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (RADV GFX1201)
• linux-firmware: 20260410-1.fc44
• GameMode: 1.8.2
• MangoHud: 0.8.3~rc1
• Steam/Proton: Proton Experimental tested, also tried Proton-GE
• Current AMDGPU performance profile: profile_peak

Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark comparison:

• Windows: average ~118 FPS, min ~85 FPS
• Fedora/Linux: average ~88 FPS, min ~62 FPS

Every setting is the same, with raytracing off.

Deadlock issue:
Deadlock also has extreme framedrops on Linux. It starts high, then drops badly and can feel like ~15 FPS for a while. Sometimes it then seems capped around 60 FPS for some time. Proton Experimental and Proton-GE did not improve it.

What I already checked:

• profile_peak is active during gaming.
• GPU sysfs logs show profile_peak, gpu_busy_percent=100, sclk around ~2300–2400 MHz, mclk at 1258 MHz.
• When frames drop, the gpu frequency drops to under 600MHz, but I do not know if it is the cause of the result of the drop.
• vulkaninfo --summary shows RADV correctly:
  • deviceName = AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (RADV GFX1201)
  • driverName = radv
  • driverInfo = Mesa 26.0.5
• Kernel log did not show obvious hard AMDGPU reset messages like ring gfx timeout, GPU reset, wedged, or GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT.

Does anyone have an idea where such a big Windows vs Linux gap could come from on this setup? Could this be related to Fedora 44, Mesa 26.0.5, RADV support, Proton, GameMode, or something specific to RDNA 4 cards?

I would prefer not to switch distros. Any tips for what to test next would be appreciated.

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