Mint 22.1

Kernel 6.11.0-29

5800X3D

RX 6950XT

32GB of RAM

I'm looking at breaking away from Windows as painlessly as possible, but looking for a unicorn of a distro in terms of one that is decent for gaming (like most games supported). It's been a minute since I've used Linux, and the gaming support wasn't great back in 2015 on Mint. Is my best bet just dual-booting (again- last time I did it, it wasn't fun) or should I just stick to Windows till the distro I'm looking for comes along?

Hello, new here.

I am currently using a dual-boot setup in my machine with CachyOS + Windows (each on a separate SSD).

I use Windows for some work-exclusive stuff and gaming and my CachyOS installation for daily general use. I want to fully transition to Linux gaming and leave Windows gaming for when absolutely necessary only.
I mostly play a combination of old game and newer AAA titles which I like to play on high/ultra graphic settings when possible.

Right now I have an RXT 3070 GPU which works very well for my general use. However, recently I've had the financial means and have been wanting to upgrade my GPU.

I understand AMD is easier on Linux in general compared to Nvidia so I thought maybe switching over.

I'd like to ask for some recommendations for a new GPU that could provide a substantial upgrade from what I have right now that sits around the $1,000 USD and works well on both Windows and Linux, be it AMD or Nvidia.

I've already seen some recommendations online but not enough to have a clear idea of what could work for me.

I also should mention in advance that I can't get any RTX 5000 series since my motherboard only has PCIe 4.0 ports.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Let me regale you with a tape of me nearly losing my goddamn mind trying to get games working reliably on Linux after switching a couple days ago.

So feeling a burst of inspiration the other day and sick of another windows driver bug, I said screw it I'm going Linux. I have it on my old T420 laptop and was feeling confident, however had never switched due to being a quite avid gamer and worried about incompatibilities.

So I installed Linux Mint, and ran into my first issue. I thought that since I had the games installed on a secondary SSD, I was good to point a fresh steam install to the old hard drive and pick up the old games. That SEEMED to work, until I tried to launch a game and nothing would happen. More furious googling resulted in realizing the NTFS file structure of the old drive was the likely culprit. No problem, I have fast internet. I formatted , reinstalled the games, cleared steam download cache, Budda boom Budda bing things are working! I installed GE proton for future compatibility, tried to enable VRR in amdgpu.conf and shut down for the night feeling pretty good.

Next day, nothing launches. I disabled VRR, look at logs however the game would all say they are running but not launching at all. I restarted, reinstalled the game, nothing. Finally I gave up for a bit and listened to some music, but noticed it said my DAC was connected but no audio was coming out. A quick off and on again fixed that issue. I installed a newer version of GE proton, adjusted some launch parameters and it was working again! I figured it was some faulty launch parameters and went to bed again.

The following morning, try to test a game launch and again and it's the same problem. Steam launches the game, says it is running and nothing happens. At this point I'm losing it, I cannot figure what is going wrong. I switched from mint to cachyos, still buggy. I reformatted and reinstalled my games, and still nothing. I have my head on my desk baffled.

I then decided to relax with some music, and checked that the output was the correct device, my E10k DAC. There was no audio output again... Huh. I reset the DAC and audio is working. I think to myself "no way it's related" and sure enough the game launches FLAWLESSLY. I'm guessing it was trying to hook into the audio and with the bug it would just cause a crash. Native Linux games would launch but way slower than normally. I am going home tonight to confirm that it was indeed the issue.

Now I have to figure out why my audio is getting recognized but won't output until a reset, but at least I have somewhere to start! That was an interesting journey. I just thought I would pass on a story about some self troubleshooting, as usually people come here looking for answers!

I'm a new linux user still getting the gist of everything right now. At the moment I'm trying to play CS2 4:3 but for some reason I cannot run above 144hz native.

Some solutions I have tried is running gamescope but gamescope doesnt even let it launch, it'll say launching then cloud then it'll cancel itself. Not sure why exactly but odd.

My specs:
Linux Mint(KDE Plasma)22.01
RTX 4060ti
Ryzen 5 7600
32 gb ram

As in title I want to switch from windows 10 to Linux but I’m thinking about steam os, if any of you got any proposition to what should I switch would be best because I’m only looking to play games from steam, epic and league of legends. If you need more info let me know in the replies.

Can't seem to make Skyrim Requiem work as Reqtificator doesn't seem to detect Requiem.esp (via MO2) or Skyrim at all (via Limo). I've been trying to make it work for past few hours and I rather keep all of my hair and ask if anyone actually made it work (with new non jar Reqtificator)

Well, I come to share my latest GitHub project for Linux gamers: volt-gui, a GUI program to manage many system settings that will hopefully help with your FPS.

Originally, it was just a GUI program that created a bash script to export environment variables and their desired values, which were set through the UI. Example of that in the new UI:

https://preview.redd.it/v77dqfu3acaf1.png?width=1680&format=png&auto=webp&s=489788e3926fc0c53101ec7cf9c3d5a0cee02462

It was initially just for my friends, to help them switch from Windows to Linux without scaring them with environment variables on day one or making them read NVIDIA/Mesa documentation. But then I decided to add features like CPU governor control, then support for managing SCX schedulers like rusty or lavd. At that point, I decided to open-source the project as it was becoming more than just a onetrick pony.

Now you can do many things with it, including profile management, and it's quite easy to add more settings if we find something interesting to include. It has helped improve my game performance, the most impactful changes being the kernel settings and SCX CPU schedulers.

It's created using Python and PySide6. Please keep in mind this is my first serious PySide6 project, so it's more than probable that I'm doing something silly somewhere.

All that being said, its first release is out. It probably has some bugs (I use it daily myself), but hopefully nothing too serious. This program has helped me achieve at least stable 40 FPS in Metal Gear Solid V TPP vs the unstable 30-35 i had before, so I hope it helps y'all too.

Contributions are very welcome. Cheers, and GLHF.

Project Github

0.1 Release

Hello,

I'm a bit lost at what distro should I choose for my desktop, since I study electrical engineering, I've dabled a bit into Linux mostly in VM's in my telecom/network/electronics/control courses (energy production is completely chained to legacy software and Excel). This would be for my somewhat outdated desktop build, mostly used for gaming and some light work now and then. Any recommendations?

Thanks

I'm on Zorin 17.3 and have updated the Linux kernel to 6.15.4, Mesa upgraded to 25.0.5, and made sure my BIOS is on its latest and I'm still showing generic drivers in the About panel instead of my card. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I am playing the original call of duty on steam and my colors are all messed up. Any Idea to fix this. Using Ubuntu with proton 9.0 on steam.

I have a miniPC with a ryzen 7 8745hs and 780m graphics. I want to make it into a console I can mount behind my tv and mostly not think about. I’d like to play some games like rocket League and Tetris effect as “pc games”. But mostly emulation. (Nintendo stuff up to a slightly less than cutting edge console)

I see 2 options:

Batocera + Steam big picture.

Bazzite + Emudeck

In your experiences, which will let me have the easiest, hands off time with setup and maintenance?

Is there another option I haven’t considered?

hey all, so I have a 9070xt and i was on mesa-git for fsr4 support, but it seems like that's been added to mesa proper now and i would like to go back for better stability in games (namely games like spiderman 2 that just crash with rt on with mesa-git) but every time i try to swap back, even if i have the mesa driver selected for download, it stops me for dependencies. Any way i can swap back? i think most of them are related to steam if that helps. I'm also using vanilla arch with the cachyos repos

https://preview.redd.it/e1r6sfpvebaf1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=b5e9dbdbf407c0606c819857f55bd80c59bcd4d6

So I just installed linux Pop!_os as a dualboot on my gaming laptop with intel cpu and 40 series nvidia GPU. What to do now to start gaming and what games do I play. (Also do Pira*ed games work)

Hi all! A few months ago my cousin gave me his gaming PC so he could buy a higher end rig. I’m normally a Mac guy and absolutely hate Windows, but I’ve had Linux on a couple of old computers to play around with. That being said I’m very interested in switching from Windows to Bazzite, and I’m hoping to find out if my hardware is compatible? It has:

11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11600KF @ 3.90GHz 3.91 GHz -NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12gb -16GB RAM

I’ve seen some posts saying NVIDIA isn’t great with Bazzite but I figured I’d ask. Also, I do play games with anti-cheat but I’m willing to separate with them if it means no Windows, as the bulk of my gaming is story games anyways. What’s the process for getting games to work with Proton? I know of it but not how it works.

I’m very much a noob when it comes to computers and Linux, even with my minimal experience. Thanks so much in advance for your help!

Has anybody installed portproton on their pc? If so, what do you think about it? What are the pros and cons, what distro are you using? I’m using LMDE Faye, thinking about installing it. Thanks in advance

I've been a longtime Linux/Mac user for schoolwork and my day job as a software engineer, and last week I decided to finally take the plunge and try converting my desktop gaming PC from Windows 11 to Linux.

I chose Bazzite because Google told me there's built-in HDR support in the display settings. My monitor is an LG 27GR95 OLED 1440p 240Hz, and HDR really makes a difference thanks to the OLED panel. I frequently used it with supported games on Windows, such as Helldivers 2 and Hitman World of Assassination.

My GPU is a Radeon RX7800XT 16GB. I didn't install anything driver-related - I just installed the desktop build of Bazzite with KDE Plasma and started gaming, since the Bazzite kernel is supposed to handle all of that.

So far everything works like a charm except for HDR - I've been banging my head on the desk trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. From Bazzite's built-in settings, I did find an HDR setting, and it does alter the appearance of my desktop (somewhat greyish, similar to when I enable HDR in Windows outside of games). But when I launch a game with built-in HDR settings (e.g. Helldivers 2), the game does not recognize that I have an HDR-enabled display and disables the HDR toggle entirely.

I did some more googling about Gamescope and launch options. None of the Gamescope commands I put into the launch options helped (in fact many of my attempts simply prevented the game from launching at all). I did find one command that sort of "worked": DXVK_HDR=1 %command% However, while Helldivers 2 finally enables its HDR toggle, when I toggle HDR to "on", it creates a totally washed out grey-toned image. I get similar results in Hitman and Cyberpunk - this command allows HDR to be toggled on, but the effect is completely wrong.

Any help would be much appreciated. For the time being I've been gaming in SDR and it doesn't look bad at all, but it would be nice to utilize my OLED monitor to its fullest!