I have been using Linux for a bit now and I really like it, one of my favourite bits is how customisable the desktop is. But while I’m gaming I don’t use the desktop and Windows immediately boots Steam into Big Picture mode. And I know many people WOULD say: “But Aardvark! Windows is horrible spyware and full of ads!” But I am aware of that and that’s why I’ve been debloating using things like O&O ShutUp and Wintoys. But I don’t know if this is as good as using Linux. I don’t game on Linux due to a few reasons (game support, NVIDIA card, etc) but even though I find debloating annoying, I find it less annoying than gaming on Linux. But I want to know if there is anything other than the lack of spyware that I may be missing out on. Something that not even debloating would do for.

I recently switched from windows 11 to Arch Linux and everything was great until I encountered a problem which I solved on windows 11 a long time ago.

Whenever I'm gaming for a long time or my laptop has been on for a while and I start playing games, sometimes randomly my fps will be cut in half, for example: I was playing Arc Raiders at 100-130 fps very smooth, and randomly it dropped to 40-50.

I managed to fix this on windows 11 by opening the Omen Gaming Hub and changing my power profile from performance to balanced or low, and back to performance. I'm not sure if just the act of opening the Omen Gaming Hub and waiting a while fixed this or my profile switching but fiddling around in there seemed to fix this issue.

BTW this issue could also be fixed by restarting my laptop.

But now, on ARCH, there is no Omen Gaming Hub, how do I even begin to try to fix this issue, please help this is very annoying.

Also was looking for that feature in amd cpu where you could turn off "turbo boost" or "processor performance boost mode" or whatever it was called where you could set it to values like "aggressive" or "disabled" and what not, that had previously fixed my heating issues.

I know cachyos focuses more on gaming but I heard it can be unstable bec it's based on arch I dont have an nividia gpu so drivers shouldn't be a problem

Which one should I choose if I want to use linux as a daily driver without being scared of breaking anything?

Been on Windows for a while and had my yearly urge to try Linux again

Ive tried Linux quite a few times in the past and never had an issue before with my Nvidia card (2060) until now

Installed Nobara (Nvidia image) and tried watching Youtube after installation was done and it was laggy as hell.

Also had a CachyOS ISO so tried that too and that was the same.

I saw there's been a recent change to drivers dropping support for 10** series card but this shouldn't effect me afaik.

Is there something else I should be aware of, as previously all these systems have worked out of the box for me.

Sadly back on Windows for now.

On Bazzite the game has this awful crackling audio during loading and sometimes during gameplay. Also there's latency and FPS drops when entering new areas. I couldn't capture it because it's kinda random. I used Proton-Hotfix and added a command which kinda stabilized it, but it's still annoying. The game runs butterly smooth on Windows which pisses me off because I don't wanna use Windows anymore even for gaming.

Just udpate star rail via twintail laucher on Cachyos, the game run normal but crash when open the event tab. dose anyone have the same issues?

I've created a comprehensive guide covering gamescope from the ground up -

everything from the complete display stack to emergency recovery.

Covers:

- Complete display stack breakdown (7 layers)

- TTY vs Desktop Mode performance

- Frame generation (lsfg-vk) setup

- CAP_SYS_NICE explained

- FSR/NIS upscaling

- Emergency recovery procedures

- Full glossary of terms

Link: https://github.com/dsrtfbbg379/gamescope-deep-dive

This started as my personal learning notes and grew into something I hope

helps others. Feedback and corrections welcome!

I installed Ryujinx from Flathub on Fedora 43 Gnome. When I run it, the UI is extremely small on my 4k screen. So small, in fact, that I can just barely read it.

Normally, I have 125% scaling enabled globally, but Ryujinx doesn't seem to follow system defaults. There are no settings for UI scale/size in the app itself, at least from what I could see.

Any solutions to this issue?

Hey !

I have RTX 3060 ti + intel core i5 10400f. Last week I asked for better CPUs in LGA1200 socket, to which people pointed out that my CPU wasn't supposed to be bottle-necking me as I thought it did.

Yet, on some games, I have far lower FPS than what I might expect. On TLOU Part I for instance, I'm around 40, when here they're about 70, for the same hardware. Also, you can also see that whether on high or low, I keep around those 40 FPS.

As you can see on the overlay, the GPU is OK at 55% while the CPU and most of its cores are at around 95 - 100% use. Clock speeds seem normal at 4Ghz.

So apart from a CPU bottleneck, could it be something else ? Also, why would I get such a drastic difference than similar configs ? Were are I rich I'd get another CPU to see, but if it turns out it's not a CPU problem I'd be a tad annoyed !

If it were the 30% performance impact of DX12 with nvidia, wouldn't changing the settings increase FPS, and wouldn't the GPU usage be higher or something ?

Thanks!

PS : this is a distro agnostic issue. Same thing on Bazzite as on Ubuntu as on Manjaro.

PipeWire has a built-in ability to produce surround sound in headphones using a convolver, similar (identical, actually) to well-known HeSuVi and some other applications. I made a tool to simplify setting it up and trying out different impulse response files to find the one you prefer. It uses exactly the same IR files as HeSuVi does, so there is a huge selection.

Here is my app: IrateGoose

It requires PipeWire, obviously. It also requires third-party IR files in WAV format; see the README for where to get them.

If you're interested, here is an old YouTube demonstration of HeSuVi. PipeWire's implementation should sound identical. Be sure to turn off any sort of sound enhancements, especially crosstalk, when listening. Otherwise, all you'll hear is some echoey mud.

My preferred IR files from the HeSuVi collection are "atmos" for generic use and "ssc_hu" for action. "atmos" preserves frequency balance better than any other I have tried, so it is good for any content, including stereo music. "ssc_hu" makes grand explosions. Why listen to stereo content with surround sound? To get rid of that nasty effect when something plays only in one ear because the sound is not mastered, or is mastered assuming the listener will use only the speakers. Many old recordings have this problem.

Hey — does anyone here game on Linux? 👀

I just finished building Retro-Fi, a modular retro gaming setup designed specifically for Linux desktops.

The goal was simple: Clone → Setup → Play.

It gives you a clean Rofi-based launcher for your retro library with: • Favorites system
• Recently played tracking
• Boxart support
• Multi-console support (NES, SNES, GBA, DS, PS2, GameCube, Wii, 3DS, and more)
• Lightweight + keyboard-driven workflow

I built it because most emulator setups on Linux feel scattered or assume you already know everything — this tries to make retro gaming feel organized and actually enjoyable to set up.

It’s fully open source and heavily documented so people can modify or learn from it.

Would love feedback from other Linux users or anyone into emulation setups 👍

GitHub: https://github.com/ethanlabs101/Retro-Fi

Hi. I'm using recently Linux Mint. My graphic card is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070. I play with Steam and Proton Experimental. Yesterday, I switch from xorg open source driver to NVIDIA-SMI 535.288.01 because two games was lagging as hell and by a quick check up, I see that my CPU was doing all the work.

Since then, the game coded on unity won't even lauch. Other game work fine. When I start a unity game, I get a loading screen then the game crash.

https://preview.redd.it/q0zz5lgys8jg1.png?width=413&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2ca00501162726e01e0383889f517307fd81a8f

The steam game log report that

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/samuel/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/samuel/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/samuel/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/samuel/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

fsync: up and running.

System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Video driver not supported

at Xalia.Sdl.WindowingSystem.Create () [0x0003e] in <f5846fdd7bd24a8b897e22093bdd4005>:0

at Xalia.Sdl.WindowingSystem.get_Instance () [0x00007] in <f5846fdd7bd24a8b897e22093bdd4005>:0

at Xalia.Ui.UiMain..ctor () [0x00027] in <f5846fdd7bd24a8b897e22093bdd4005>:0

at Xalia.MainClass.Init (Xalia.Gudl.GudlStatement[] config) [0x0001b] in <f5846fdd7bd24a8b897e22093bdd4005>:0

pid 5556 != 5555, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

What can I do ?

so it's been a while since i played any games on linux but whatever game i played was using wayland, i installed fedora 43 last night cuz i was getting stutters in silent hill f and wanted to try linux to see if it's any better

and from what im seeing, it's better and bad at the same time cuz i was getting an smooth 70fps without any frame time spike

but i had one problem ,it DIDN'T feel like 70fps

so i changed to x11 to see if it's better

and it is alot better

way better than windows and better then wayland

but my question is why wayland felt laggy?

i tried messing around in the display setting in the linux it self but it didn't change anything

anyone experienced something like this before?

i feel like indiana jones was the same for me but im not sure it was a long time ago but that game didn't feel smooth too

Does anyone know what to use to play GO on linux fedora cinnamon

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/505101717860253963

I recently switched to Linux mint since I've had a quite good experience using Linux before. I've mostly used Linux on laptops and I do some gaming every now and then. I realized something and I brought it up once but was shut down and I happened to me again. When I'm gaming with proton but not on steam for example I'm playing my GOG games protons performance is quite shit and the pack-in Ubuntu wine gives better performance. This is not the first time it has happened. Is this a isolated incident or is it a common occurrence?

I started using Bazzite to get rid of Windows 11 and I'm loving it. I have an RTX 3050, and I used to play Overwatch 2 smoothly with everything on ultra. I downloaded the Battle.net launcher through Faugus, as suggested here the other day, but Overwatch is unplayable. It's freezing a lot. I've already tried enabling "Prefer Maximum Performance," but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Basically i want to quit with Windows and start using linux also for gaming.

i tried bazzite and after 3 days of troubleshooting i can't for the love of god make the external screen working. I am using a lenovo legion laptop.

Same story with fedora.

It appears to be nvidia related issue.

Before going back again to windows, which i hate but the second screen works, is there any distro i should try with better support?