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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I'm currently on W10 (Pro, 22H2)

Specs Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700 @ 2.50GHz 2.50 GHz Installed RAM: 32.0 GB (31.6 GB usable) Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 (8 GB) 2) Intel(R) UHD Graphics 750 (128 MB) Storage: 477 GB SSD BC711 NVMe SK hynix 512GB 2) 932 GB SSD Samsung SSD 870 QVO 1TB . . I've been wanting to switch to Linux (or Steam OS) for a while now. The two I'm debating on are Catchy and Bazzite.

Also, anyone know if there's stable Linux support for a 3050? I'm running a Dell Optiplex so a 3050 (or two-fan type equivalent) is the only GPU that will fit...

And last question: Can someone explain the difference between the Catchy OS Desktop versions on their site? I'm completely lost on which one to check out first or just bite the bullet on Bazzite.

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I switched to Linux about a month ago, started with Fedora Workstation and eventually settled on CachyOS. I mainly play Rocket League and CS2, and in a quick test, I actually got better FPS on Linux. For context, Windows 11 is installed on an M.2 drive, while Linux is running on a regular SSD. Same workshop bench map

https://preview.redd.it/6ee8b4md04hf1.jpg?width=712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c86ce69473ce50e3178f4a905bf99eaf28e468dd

https://preview.redd.it/mf1w77md04hf1.jpg?width=714&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc2c35ed2b41698be216ff7eb5c0b16e6e3803b3

https://preview.redd.it/4iyco6md04hf1.png?width=858&format=png&auto=webp&s=d7f8dea80a92ee850e81f8297026dc0bf9a5efbc

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been troubleshooting slow texture loading in Hunt: Showdown on Linux, and while I’ve made some solid progress, I’m still running into noticeable stutters and delays, especially when first loading into matches or moving quickly through new areas…

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My system:

CPU: Intel i5 13600KF

GPU: AMD RX 6700 XT 12GB

Motherboard: ASUS Prime Z690-P D4

Distro: CachyOS (on NVMe)

Steam (Native) + game files: on separate SATA SSD

DE: KDE Plasma

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Here’s what I’ve done so far:

• Switched from Wayland to X11 - big improvement, since Hunt relies heavily on Microsoft protocols.

• Using Proton GE 10-10 (feels best so far) with this launch command: DXVK_ASYNC=1 RADV_PERFTEST=aco %command%

• Disabled shader pre-caching in Steam.

• In-game graphics settings don’t seem to have any effect on the texture streaming speed.

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Right now, the game is quite playable and way better than before, but texture streaming still isn’t as smooth as I’d like. It feels like the GPU is waiting on data… like the assets just aren’t being loaded quickly enough.

Has anyone else faced this and found a way to improve it even further? Any tricks with file system configs, Vulkan tweaks, or driver settings I might’ve missed?

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anyone has a fix for this ?

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https://preview.redd.it/lodemvoxt3hf1.png?width=982&format=png&auto=webp&s=1c18ce01908572df2c798782d8c883c63ff45905

Anybody else got it? Do we know anything about it?

Haven't seen it appear in the updates tab for a LONG time.

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its always a constant in this sub and many others that we need to stick it to the big tech companies, they are evil. "i refuse to boot windows no matter how much of an inconvenience it is." So many of these people are just incoherent and just scream 'use linux' regardless of anyones scenario. you need adobe? 'youre an idiot use something else open source, who cares if its good or fits your needs'. I really want to play Fortnite or BF6. 'you are so dumb for playing a game thats not supported on linux.' you know what? its OK to use Windows. life is too short and putting up some sort of wild stance about an operating system is so insanely stupid. and everyone who tries to force someone one way or another for an operating system? needs to re-evaluate their life choices.

Use whatever operating system youd like to play the games you want to play.

99% of everyone crying about microsoft and their privacy are using gmail, google search, reddit, X. ALL of these are just as intrusive or more to your privacy.

oh you dont like microsoft controlling your patching and reboots? all you CachyOs or any Arch people need to patch and reboot way more often than windows makes you reboot or your system will break.

look. im a more often than not a linux user/gamer but its OK to use windows. i use it for VR cause its just better all around 100%. if i feel the need to play BR6, ill just boot Windows if i feel like it. it doesnt need to be this boycott cause in the end, its only harming you. this will not change the narrative

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Like a said this is not a big deal but I wonder if there's a way to stop it. Basically when I open the Steam Client (the native version), after a couple minutes it just closes and immediately opens again, it only happens the first time I open the client, and I can just minimize the window or just close it, but sometimes I start playing and the Steam Client pops up on top of my game and I need to take it away, which isn't that bad but it becomes a little annoying lol.

I just wonder if this happen to anyone else and if there's a way to make it stop, if there's not, that's ok I guess, I can live with it.

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I have tried to run three different games with those being civilisation 6 which crashed immediately kerbal space program which showed a black screen for some time and then crashed the only game I could launch successfully was hearts of iron 4. All of the above games I mentioned have native linux support. Weirdly when I set the compatibility to proton on kerbal space program It did launch but crashed just before reaching the main menu

I have checked and have already installed amdgpu drivers.

I’m thinking maybe I have to install other gpu drivers and not use those install by the os or there maybe something else that’s making it crashe Hardware:HUAWEI D15 Laptop CPU RYZEN 5500u I’m using integrated graphics Radeon vega 7 8gb ram Linux Distribution : Fedora 42

Update managed to launch kerbal space program through proton it’s working perfectly now
But I think the native version would run better if I could launch it

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I'm trying to get Brogue to run on my system, but anytime I try to run it, I get the error:

"./brogue: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

However I believe I already have SDL2 downloaded onto my system, so what gives?

Also, idk if this is useful, but the README that comes with the game says it needs `libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-image-2.0-0`, which is different than the error message, but either way I downloaded both this and what the error message asked for and it downloaded fine.

My specifics are Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon 6.4.8

Any and all help would be appreciated.

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Let's say that the average Linux gamer plays multiplayer in a group size of 2.5
For games that bar Linux through anti-cheat, they are not simply losing your business, they are losing that of your friends too, as who wants to play games without their buddy?
Lets take that average of 2.5 down to 2 to account for friends that will still play when you aren't available - if we represent 3% of the steam user base, that's 6% of the steam user base that wont be playing an anti-cheat disabled game.

Of course the most important thing to consider is that money is more important than anything else to these devs. There will be a break point where the percentage of revenue lost from you and your friends not playing, is greater than the cost of either; developing a userspace anti-cheat that "works", or the reputational "cost" of just hitting the "sod it" button and permitting linux via EAC/whatever.

If we hit 5%, and the opportunity cost is now 10% playerbase to the devs, I'd imagine the justification for keeping us blocked to the shareholders starts to look pretty weak in the face of 10% more money every year.

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Recordings will just appear as black rectangles. Can't play them, but hovering over the progress bar will show key frames. And exporting works fine.

I found a thread on Steam forums from 2024: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/5/4416424597681281587/

But there is no answer there. It feels like I may be missing some package/dependency. Any ideas?

• Kubuntu 25.04, KDE, Wayland
• nvidia-driver-575-open 575.64.03-0ubuntu0.25.04.1 (from multiverse)
• steam-launcher 1.0.0.83 (from https://repo.steampowered.com/steam)

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Recently ive installed arch linux using dwm dmenu and st. I installed Deadlock and launched it with proton 9.0-4 at first it did give me video output second time launching it gave me a black screen i tried reinstalling it verifying game files increasing vm.max_map_count but to no avail im using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 with vulkan drivers

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Hello hello, i'm relatively new to linux only having used Nobara for about 2 months. Unfortunately, the game seems to be locked to 60fps despite the lock being set at 120/360 in game and tinkering any more with the settings does nothing, same with different proton versions. Appreciate it, thanks!

Nobara KDE

RTX 5090
Ryzen 7800x3d
32GB ram

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Is there any Android emulator on Linux for games

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