I’m looking to switch to Linux and need advice on which distro would best suit my hardware and specific gaming habits.

My Specs:

Laptop: Dell G15 520

CPU: Intel i7-12700H

GPU: NVIDIA 3050Ti (4GB VRAM)

RAM: 16GB

Storage: 512GB SSD

I play a wide variety of games, from AAA to Indies: AAA: Cyberpunk 2077, Space Marine 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Witcher 3, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Indie/AA: Hollow Knight, Disco Elysium, Nine Sols, Mouthwashing, Selaco.

A big part of my gaming scene is testing cracked or pirated versions of games before I buy them. My laptop has struggled with lag on poorly optimized games like Silent Hill 2 Remake and Jedi: Survivor, so I use these versions to check performance first. I also straight-up prefer pirating/emulating games from certain companies EA, COD, and few other AAA companies.

I need a distro where running these non-Steam repacks/cracked versions via Wine, Lutris, or Bottles is as seamless as possible. Additional Info:

1. NVIDIA: Need stable drivers for the 3050Ti.

2. No Anti-Cheat Drama: I don’t play competitive eSports (No CS2, Valorant, or League), so I’m not worried about kernel-level anti-cheat issues.

I've heard Linux is great for emulation, but I'm looking for the best balance of NVIDIA support and ease of use for pirated and non pirated gaming.

What would you recommend? Nobara or Pop!_OS or Bazzite or CachyOS

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Hello everyone, I've released a new version of Zordeer, version 1.7.7.1. Zordeer is a game launcher built with PyQt6, supporting Wine, Proton, and UMU.

If anyone wants to test it, I would be very grateful.

It's also available on the Snap Store, but the Snap Store version doesn't yet support UMU.

https://snapcraft.io/zordeer

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I have a Moza R5 with ES wheel and it is working fine except the RPM indicator. I am thinking to buy a more advanced wheel like KS pro or any other with a screen embedded on. Do they work on Linux without too much setup?

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No need of body i guess

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CS2 Crashing Solved ✅️

After countless driver changes, optimization, loads of troubleshooting, game launch options, and linux distros ( CachyOS and Linux Mint ) , my PC would not play CS2.

All other games would launch and play fine, no crashes.

By now.... AI knows all my system and story of my life attempting to get it fixed.

I have plugged, unplugged hardware (gpu).

12th gen

16gb ram

Gtx1080Ti

PSU 850w

Guess what it was....?

Maintenance...🪛 thermal paste on the GPU.

Probably the power spike caused the gpu to throttle down momentary and vulkan crash and freeze whole PC.

After cleaning and replacing thermal paste on the GPU success, everything works smoothly.

Good luck people 🤙

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I'm on Fedora 43 KDE. I'm trying to run my Nintendo Switch audio through my PC using the Line In on the back of my PC/motherboard. The other end is connected to the headphone jack on the Switch. I had to use qpwgraph to be able to hear the audio from the line in. On Windows 11 this process is much simpler and the sound comes out perfectly. It sounds like I'm connected directly to the headphone jack on the switch without the PC being in the middle.

On Linux I get massive amounts of static noise, even if I drop the Line in audio to something like 10/100 using the system volume controls in KDE and around 30/100 for my headphones/overall volume. I also have my Switch headphone output at max. I tried messing with some things in alsamixer but nothing seemed to help. If i lower the volume really low on the line in I can't hear the static, but it's also too quiet for the Switch audio in general.

Is there anything I can do to fix this and have it work as well as it did in Windows?

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95% of this subreddit is tech support.

Users are frustrated.
Other tech support subreddits exist.

Here's a recent post that called it out. And it's not wrong. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1r2clel/

i want this place to be about linux gaming. u/Liam-DGOL
thanks

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Super early but thought I would share if anyone wants to try it out:

https://github.com/gshipley/Klay

To be clear, this is based on Cartridges as I have been using that app but it was missing some stuff that I wanted so I decided to fork it. While doing that, I also decided to port it to QT. Anywho, if you like game launchers - give this a go. If no huge issues are found I will work on getting it added into flathub etc for easy installation for people.

The big downside right now is that you have to provide your own steamgrid and igdb api keys which can be a pain to create.

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Hello there,

My current setup involves lauching a gamescope session nested within Hyprland. That gamescope session encapsulates steam as a whole and therefore every game I run.

I have a small script to run all that:

#! /usr/bin/env fish # Sources for these environment variables: # https://dsrtfbbg379.github.io/gamescope-deep-dive/ # https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope set --global --export DISABLE_HDR_WSI 1 set --global --export DXVK_HDR 1 set --global --export ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI 1 set --global --export LD_PRELOAD "" set --global --export MANGOHUD_CONFIGFILE $HOME/.config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf set --global --export STEAM_GAMESCOPE_COLOR_MANAGED 1 set --global --export STEAM_GAMESCOPE_HDR_SUPPORTED 1 set --global --export STEAM_GAMESCOPE_VRR_SUPPORTED 1 set monitor "$(hyprctl monitors -j | jq '.[] | select(.focused)')" gamescope \ --adaptive-sync \ --hdr-debug-force-output \ --hdr-enabled \ --hide-cursor-delay 3000 \ --mangoapp \ --nested-refresh "$(math "round($(echo "$monitor" | jq '.refreshRate'))")" \ --output-height "$(echo "$monitor" | jq '.height')" \ --output-width "$(echo "$monitor" | jq '.width')" \ --scaler stretch \ --steam \ -- \ steam -steamos -tenfoot -pipewire-dmabuf

By and large, this has been working really well.

But for Trackmania in particular, I can't seem to have any control over whatever app gets the focus.

• Can't navigate the game's menu, or skip the intro scene when I don't have it disabled entirely.
• Can't interact with the ubisoft connect launcher when it needs my input before starting the game, e.g. to approve an update of the user agreement.
• Keyboard, mouse, gamepad, nothing is responding at all.

The problem is entirely restricted to whatever app is meant to have focus after I launch the game, however.

• After opening the game, I can still open the steam overlay with my gamepad, e.g. to force exit the game.
• I can navigate in steam itself.
• I've played other games (FFVII remake and rebirth, myst, trine 5, …) with no issues at all.
• Keyboard, mouse, gamepad, everything works as expected is these situations.

I'm suspecting it has something to do with gamescope or how I configure it, because running steam natively in hyprland, without gamescope, the issue disappears. I can run Trackmania and control it completely fine. Besides skipping the gamescope layer, I'm not changing anything else.

I have attempted to open an issue on gamescope's github but so far, not answer. In this issue, you'll find more details, including hardware information, software versions, a list of things I've attempted to fix the issue.

And most importantly, my last comment there links to a log file of a gamescope session where I did manage to get input going in the game. For some reason, it seems that touching my gamepad the right way at the right time “fixes” the issue. However, it's highly unreliable. I've managed to repeat that a few times, but we're talking once every ~25 attempts at best.

I've been banging my head against a wall trying to figure this one out. Any help or suggestion would be appreciated.

Thanks

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So recently picked up MHW and it will launch the game and close right after. Any idea why?

Linux Mint / Proton Experimental OS: Linux Mint 22.3 x86_64 Host: B550I AORUS PRO AX Kernel: 6.17.0-14-generic Uptime: 11 hours, 31 mins Packages: 2203 (dpkg), 15 (flatpak) hell: bash 5.2.21 Resolution: 2560x1440 DE: Cinnamon 6.6.7 WM: Mutter (Muffin) WM Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Aqua (Mint-Y) Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Aqua [GTK2/3] Icons: Mint-Y-Sand [GTK2/3] Terminal: gnome-terminal CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 4.853G GPU: AMD ATI 09:00.0 Device 7550 Memory: 4949MiB / 31991MiB

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Like I posted before (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1qzrtbu/should_my_bg3_game_be_lagging_or_its_an_external/)
I am having stuttering in my BG3, I know there is the possibility of being the mods, but since there is that possibility and I tried the other solutions before ditching the mods I think the next stop is dealing with mods.
But since I will deal with mods anyway, I am thinking in changing to the native version, I unmarked the compatibility option, but the mods are still there, I should uninstall the mods using the mod manager from the game itself? Any other recommendation?
I will follow this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1pq31be/guide_native_linux_bg3_mods_achievements_enabled/
And then use only mod.io mods, maybe this will solve everything. To be honest if I can't have a lot of mods, I at least want the mods that let me have a bigger party (and the one that goes with that raise the difficulty), really shadowheart, some sorting bags mod and maybe a hair mod.

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To give some context, I got two SSDs: One with Fedora (which I'll call SSD A) and the other with a minimal Windows partition and another NTFS partition which I use to install games (which I'll call SSD B). For some reason, games that requires Proton to run do not launch when they're installed on this game partition on SSD B, but games that has natively Linux support do run just fine. Moving Proton games to SSD A fix the issue, so I can guess the problem must be the partition being NTFS or maybe Steam can't handle Proton games being on other drive. Do anyone knows what is happening?

I tested with Dishonored and Subnautica Below Zero which needs Proton to run. They don't launch on SSD B but do on SSD A. I also tested with Oxygen Not Included and Terraria which do not need Proton. Both runs just fine. I tried to test with Dust: An Elysian Tail which has Linux support and it launches on both SSDs, but the game has some strange graphical issue that makes the screen constantly black.

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After countless driver changes, optimization, loads of troubleshooting, game launch options, and linux distros, my PC would not play CS2.

All other games would launch and play fine, no crashes.

By now.... AI knows all my system and story of my life attempting to get it fixed.

I have plugged, unplugged hardware (gpu).

12th gen i5

16gb ram

Gtx1080Ti

PSU 850w

Guess what it was....?

Maintenance...🪛 thermal paste on the GPU.

Probably the power spike caused the gpu to throttle down momentary and vulkan crash and freeze whole PC.

After cleaning and replacing thermal paste on the GPU success, everything works smoothly.

Good luck people 🤙

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I’m trying to run absolum on steam on mint. I hit play it a black box starts flashes and it stops trying to run. Am I supposed to have installed something aside from the game itself?

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