Can't run it under vulkan

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Hey folks,

I’m ready to ditch Windows and make the switch to Linux, but I’m not sure which distro to start with. I’m looking for something that’s:

• Easy to install
• Modern and sleek in appearance
• Suitable for gaming

I know there are plenty of threads and resources out there, but I’d really appreciate some curated recommendations to help streamline my starting point.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

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Wie schon oben gesagt, es gibt kein verdammtes Tutorial welches grundlegende Probleme aufführt, in jedem scheiß Video wird nur behauptet das alles ohne Probleme klappe und man da nur Vorteile von hätte. Erstens, Cachy OS Discover angeblich ganz einfach per Konsole aber nope Fehlanzeige "Melde dich bei Cachy OS" eines der tausenden kleinen Probleme. Open Razer wird nicht geöffnet geschweige denn angezeigt sodass man nichts an der Maus einstellen kann, welche Aufgrund von Bluetooth nur auf Linux alle paar Sekunden die Verbindung verliert was vorher nie der Fall war. Spotify nur über Umwege usw usw.. Als Anfänger einfach nur noch frustrierend. Aber am schlimmsten finde ich das in jedem scheiß Video gezeigt wird das alle Festplatten ohne Probleme gehen würden, was halt faktisch nicht der Fall ist wenn man diese vorher über mehrere Umwege erst einhängen darf, welches dann nach dem Neustart nicht mehr erkannt wird, und die Spiele die runtergeladen worden im Nichts verschwunden sind. Dadurch kann ich diese Festplatte aufeinmal nicht mehr "einhängen". Super. Sitze ich nun da mit 2Tb nicht nutzbarem Speicher und keinem einzigen Menschen der darüber im Internet etwas schreibt.

Vielleicht ist es ganz gut das Linux so klein ist wie es nun eben ist, da ich jedem der auf diese Videos ala " Tausend gründe warum Linux besser ist" reinfällt, die Daumen drücke sein System nicht komplett zu rippen.

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link to forum post: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/directx12-performance-is-terrible-on-linux/303207/431

place your bets; will we get this as a hotfix in 580 or will we see it in a few months with 585? either way, got a strong feeling that it's actually close now

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Free Lives, developers of Broforce and Terra Nil, have confirmed their next game Stick It to the Stickman is set to arrive on August 18th.

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Hi,people said "Running games without GameMode is unplayable.",They are right. My average fps on Counter Strike 2 is 45!! is there an better Compability version for Cs2 or How can install game mode and Remove this error??;

"" meson.build:90:17: ERROR: Dependency "libsystemd" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake ""
Note: I Have the latest version of libsystemd and CMake but i dont know pkgconfig. Can someone help or is there a better Virtual Machine than Oracle VirtualBox??

Steam compability:Proton 10.0-2 (beta v)!!

Thanks.

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TLDR: Your mileage might vary, newer CPUs might not gain a lot of benefits from CPU optimisations; drivers, hardware configuration and possibly your Proton prefix will have the biggest impact.

TSIR (Too Short, I'm Reading):

I just wanted to share some recent experience, after I watched a video showing that on this person's hardware, CachyOS didn't make any difference in performance, and Fedora was even slightly better: https://youtu.be/RlqqLR7Vi_s?si=JHdrzBYD6L_CYdAP

This video was soon after kernel 6.15 was released and my theory was that 6.15 had closed the gap somewhat.

Anyway, I have tried CachyOS, also the CachyOS kernel on Fedora and the CachyOS kernel on NixOS.

I have relatively new hardware – a Ryzen 5 7600X and an AMD 9070.

I found the same results. Cachy was better on one game by about 1 FPS and the 1% lows were the same as Fedora's.

With CachyOS I noticed that game-performance made my CPU really hot, it went from hitting 80 degrees max (usually) to 95 degrees (this wasn't a cooling issue, more on that shortly). So I opted out from using game-performance because the CPU got hotter and I got no gains either.

The kicker is that for a 7600X CPU, a hotter CPU can mean less performance. If the CPU needs to get hotter to boost its frequency, it will throttle itself sooner. The 7600X is built to run hot, it's what it uses to decide how much to crank up its frequency.

Anyway, the gist of it was that the Fedora kernel (currently at 6.15.8) was just fine on my CPU.

NixOS with the CachyOS Kernel (6.16) and mesa-git drivers also performed within margin of error of Fedora and CachyOS.

What resulted in a massive performance increase (15 to 20 FPS in Horizon Zero Dawn), was actually undervolting the CPU and adjust the curves in the Performance Boost Overdrive settings (PBO) in the bios.

Now my CPU hardly ever goes above 60 degrees while running at max frequency, and on top of that I have a performance increase, as I said.

There are tutorials on how to do this, I am not going to give instructions myself because I am no expert.

The other thing that boosted performance (a few FPS for each of these changes, minor increase) was turning on NTsync and use the Proton Cachy (on all distros). Proton GE lagged a bit behind, even when it has NTSync enabled and Proton Cachy was still using Fsync. But, when using the same Proton prefix, NTsync always resulted in a few more FPS.

Also bear in mind that CachyOS might feel snappier when you use your desktop because they sped up the animation of KDE considerably. It's a very common trick, often used in mobile phones.

I am not saying that CachyOS is useless, I'm saying that a lot of the optimisations target the CPU and your specific CPU might not need help. Your mileage might vary, you might get immense benefit. It is also dependent on the games you play.

Also if you cap your FPS in games then some performance optimisations will not have a major effect.

Another thing I should point out – for gaming your graphic drivers will make the biggest difference. My other half decided to use the mesa-git drivers in her Bazzite install and gained 20 FPS in the Horizon Benchmark (if you are curious: you type "ujust mesa-git", Bazzite downloads the drivers into a folder without touching your system's stable drivers. Then you add a launch option for each game you want to use them with in Steam).

I have mesa-git in my Fedora installation so I always run them, but also I know that something can break if I do that (good thing I have a good snapshotting set up).

Custom schedulers might help you out. They didn't for me. Gamemode might help you out (don't use it on CachyOS as they have ananicy). For my Fedora install it always resulted in a slightly lower FPS average and 1% lows.

I could make a benchmarking video but given that now I no longer have CachyOS installed, I wouldn't be able to show those benchmarks anymore.

The games I benchmarked were Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, Black Myth Wukong, Cyberpunk and Monster Hunter.

Black Myth was an interesting one as it was the one game that, while it said the 1% lows were the same as Cachy on Fedora, the absolute lowest frame rate was lower on Fedora. I didn't test that one on NixOS as I wasn't using it at the time.

Another thing to note is that FSR 4 does cause a small performance impact. Example in Horizon, I got about 5/6 FPS less with it on. I'll take that, as it looks better.

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Sometimes I think I've seen it all, and then along comes a Portal dating sim with Aperture Dating Simulator.

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Figured I'd get this information out there just so any would be VM gamers are aware.

EA Javelin has VM detection. I don't know how deep the VM detection goes, but if you're not interested in potentially risking a ban, don't bother trying to play this game.

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Cult of PiN has a seriously cool style that merges pinball with roguelikes, and now you can try it out early.

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genshin worked fine until this morning, anybody here have the same issue ?

please help

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Is there any app i can use to play split screen in any game? The game i want to play splitscreen is Borderlands 2 but i think any app that does this job could work. I know about Splinux but idk how this thing works.

OS: Kubuntu 24.04.2

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I built a new PC on January and its now time to update some peripherals.

For gamepads, im looking at the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 or the Gamesir Cyclone 2. I basically want TMR/Hall joysticks, a dock, gyroscope, the works, but i dont want another XboX Elite Controller (lasted literally 9 months) or another Dualsense (the sticks last max of 2 years before getting drift). Both of those look like good options but i wanted to check if anyone has experiences with their software or them working on Linux at all.

I use Arch and OpenSUSE (main pc and streambox in livingroom) so would be nice if someone knows if they work out of the box or require messing around with udevs or they straight up suck at doing something.

Same with Mouses, the keyboard im buying is the Keychron K2 HE and i know the Keychron web software works well on linux and i have a HHKB that works out of the box in linux if you put it on the Mac mode. The other alternatives for the mouses are Lamzu and Mchose but i know NOTHING about their software, so again, would be good to get some opinions.

TL;DR: Mchose, Lamzy, Gamesir, 8BitDo software for customization on Linux, Yai or Nai?

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Check out the full game at:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3499550/Mai_Child_of_Ages/

Follow Mai on her journey through a shattered world as she searches for her identity and the origin of the mysterious creatures that threaten the balance of the universe.

Travel with her through past and future thanks to the Sacred Plant that bridges time and space.

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I'd be fine with Bf6 requiring Windows and its kernel level anti cheat, but it also actually requires secure boot. Making dual boot basically infeasible if you need DKMS modules on your Linux. You'd need to manually sign everything which is a total pain in the ass... I've heard nobody talking about that yet. Even dual-boot will be unfeasible!!

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Hi there,

I’ve been desperately trying to switch to Linux since the start of 2025. Went through a solid distro-hopping phase (probably tested around 10 different distros), and for the last six weeks I’ve been sticking with CashyOS.

Overall, I’m actually really happy with it:
It’s blazingly fast, noticeably snappier than my Windows 11 installation (dual boot), looks great, offers excellent configurability — and yet, I still can’t switch completely.
Why? Because of gaming, of course.

I mainly play World of Warcraft Retail — like, 99% of my gaming time. I got it running via Lutris (which was already a pain), using ProtonPlus and wine-10.7-staging-tkg-amd64-wow64. And yes, it runs. But honestly, not as smoothly as on Win11, even though my hardware should be more than capable (Ryzen 7 5700X3D + Intel Arc A770 + 32 GB RAM).

The main issue starts when I try to run two instances of the game (which I do regularly to play on my wife’s account). Depending on the Wine version I use, I run into one of two problems:

• If I use ProtonGE via Steam, the inactive instance freezes when I Alt-Tab to the other.
• If I use Lutris, I get a far more annoying issue: the Battle.net Launcher stays open in an invisible window on top of the game, so whenever I click anywhere in the UI, it opens the launcher again.

Closing the launcher is not an option for me, as I need Battle.net chat open while playing.

I get that this is a very specific issue and wouldn’t be surprised if nobody has ever run into exactly this before. But if anyone has a clue, workaround, fix, or just something I could try — I’d be incredibly grateful.

I really want Linux to be my daily driver. But at the moment, it just doesn't cut it — neither for gaming/leisure nor for work (don’t even get me started on the MS Excel VBA situation...).

So for now, I’m still stuck with Windows 11. Any advice that could help me finally make the switch back to the promised land of Linux is more than welcome.

Thanks!

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Been using Linux for 6 years. Nvidia is dropping support of my gpu (GTX 1060) on the upcoming 580 proprietary drivers.

I can't afford an upgrade and my distro of choice, Bazzite, is also dropping support for legacy nvidia drivers, so I'll have to move to another distro and I was considering returning to Arch.

But, I wanted to give CachyOS a try this time, because it seems to come gaming-ready and with brtfs + rollback support out of the box, and that's a big must for me. Plus, it has all the advantages of arch too, and with nvidia dropping support I won't have to worry about a nvidia update breaking my system. I also plan on continue using cosmic as my DE.

For those of you who use CachyOS daily, would you recommend it? It is really that easy to use?

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I'm running an NVIDIA 3070 Ti with 8GB VRAM on Ubuntu 24.04 and gaming via Steam/Proton. I recently bought a second display and I run nvtop on my secondary display to get real time GPU stats while I'm gaming.

Diablo IV @ 4K basically maxes out the 8GB VRAM and frequently stutters, freezes and crashes making it effectively unplayable.. 1440P is perfect, obviously

I installed Path of Exile 2 playing at 4K and...it's using about 5-GB VRAM rather than 7.9GB and has been totally stable.

My question is simply..why?

Why are 2 different games at the same resolution using markedly different amounts of GPU Memory? Is it the gaming engine under the bonnet, or just more efficient coding/textures etc.?

I'm genuinely curious, I was going to upgrade to a 4070 Ti Super for 16GB VRAM, but now I'm 50/50.

Thanks. :)

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Is the error I get when trying to play CS online. Offline servers work fine.

I recently installed Gentoo with KDE Plasma, and I haven't had this issue anywhere else. I'm dual booting with Windows 11, so I checked and found CS worked fine there. I also used Arch before Gentoo, where it also worked. I'm also using a binary kernel, so I'm not sure if that helps.

Launch options:

gamemoderun gamescope -w 1400 -h 1080 -r 144 -f -S stretch -- %command%

I did try launching without these options but I face the same issue.

Any help would be appreciated.

Specs:

Ryzen 7 7700X

RX 7600

32 GB DDR5-6000

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Is the error I get when trying to play CS online. Offline servers work fine.

I recently installed Gentoo with KDE Plasma, and I haven't had this issue anywhere else. I'm dual booting with Windows 11, so I checked and found CS worked fine there. I also used Arch before Gentoo, where it also worked.

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