Hi I'm pretty new to Linux (kinda). And recently i switched to Ubuntu on my main pc. Now I use a GT 730 2Gb GDDR5 version and with the nvidia 470 drivers, i am locked to 1024x763 4:3. So i decided to purge the nivida drivers and stick to nouveau. But now whenever I'm opening half life 2 (which ran perfectly on windows) or Automation: the car company tycoon, it just won't run. Now is there something I can do here or should I switch distros?

I recently switched over to EndevourOS, and went to install Source games (portal, hl2, ect.) The games open, menus work, but the moment I try to start a new game, the game closes. Is there any fix to this? I wanna play my portal lmao

I have an RTX 3050 Ti laptop and Steam doesn't use my graphics card for games, instead using the integrated graphics on my laptop. When I launch a game, both Btop++ and Plasma System Monitor show that my integrated GPU usage spikes to max while my GPU usage stays the same when running a game. Oddly, nvidia-smi shows that the exe process is running on my gpu. I am using Hyprland on Arch Linux, and that is running perfectly fine on my GPU. I will also note that this problem doesn't appear when I try to play games in my Epic Games library through the Heroic Games Launcher.

im gonna start this out by saying this is literally my first day dailying linux. ive freshly installed fedora on my asus um3402ya (with the ryzen 7730u) and wanted to poke around with some games and ive found performance to be... laughable

im using performance mode, i tried making sure all my drivers are good and i believe they are, and yet rocket league is right around 30 fps, beamng and cyberpunk are unplayable and i didnt expect incredible performance for either titles but i didnt imagine even on the lowest settings to be running at like 15 fps.

im by no means knowledgeable of linux, neither am i incredibly tech savvy, but i hope i can get some help or answers. i mean, maybe im just overestimating how powerful my computer is and i realize i should probably compare performance on windows but rn i just cant be bothered

I'm actually using a lenovo laptop with i5 11th gen Gtx 1650 4gb 8 gigs of ram Windows 11 is literally using 6gigs of ram on idle btw , I can't even play my fav games so I just need a good distro that won't hogs my fucking ram and cpu like a whore also since I'm using laptop I need a good distro with tlp and gaming. The main games I wanna play are nier automata, rdr2, mgsv and witcher 3

Just give me a good distro please

I'm looking for people to create a united community and join forces to educate and attract more people to Linux, to help people overcome their fear of Linux, and to pressure companies that refuse to support it and end Microsoft's monopoly. We need to make some noise to be heard, and I won't stop until we achieve that. If you want to join, you'll find the link in my profile. Every little bit helps in a revolution in this sector.

I can't even play Civ V from a decade ago!

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The game... seems to work fine otherwise.

I’ve seen a few people mention 4K120hz with 4:2:2 instead of 4:2:0, via HDMI, How do you achieve this? Using Fedora Kinoite (KDE) and when I set it to 4K 120hz with 8bit color (which I was under the impression is what is needed for 4:2:2, instead of 10bit) it still does 4:2:0. My tv supports 4:2:2 8bit at 120hz, as the PS5 does it fine.

I'm new to Linux and have recently installed Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.2

I recently installed a game on Steam on my hard drive. When I try to open it from my desktop, it opens Steam, but because my HDD is in sleep mode, Steam thinks the game isn’t installed and can’t find the hard drive. Is there a way to make Steam wake up my hard drive automatically when I open a game installed on it, instead of having to manually wake the drive first and then run the game? Or are there any better solutions?

So ive been trying to use my Earbuds on my laptop with CachyOS installed. The manufacturer claims that they support LC3 Low energy, and my laptop bluetooth card is supposed to support it as well, but when i use them, i swear i can detect the slightest amount of latency. Ive messed around with the bluetooth setting in etc and set the kernel iso to experimental and set bluetooth to le. Am i missing something?

I've always liked Linux, even if I didn't really use it every day (except maybe via my android phone), but I never really gamed with it much. Back when I used it on my desktop in 2008 it ran the few games that actually worked in it noticably worse than windows.. but well proton-valve changes things.. and not in the most obvious way..

While I have an rtx card in my main PC and enjoy it (when it's done well), the idea of games requiring ray tracing to even run is infuriating to me.. I'd been building computers in my spare time to kind of make money on the side and since I had a tower without an os (and a non amd GPU on hand) I decided maybe I should try out this "ray tracing emulation" done only on Linux and only with AMD gpu's, apparently with proton and the mesa drivers..

Let me just say.. it was amazing. The quality was set to low, because after all I figured with it emulating both the windows back-end and the absolute minimum requires amount of rt to play Indiana jones the great circle even if it worked I expected it to be lagging, slow, something.. (also the video of the rx 480 playing it.. while functioning, had noticable issues). Well, apparently the rx Vega 56 oc I had did not have those issues. I could've have turned the settings up but honestly I was just amazed it was running at a locked 60 fps (vsync was on I guess)..

So yeah gaming on a Linux.. totally viable. Not just viable, you can literally do something on there that's impossible to do in windows.. PLAY A GAME THAT REQUIRES RT ON A GPU THAT MOST DEFINITELY DOESN'T SUPPORT RT! AND NOT JUST THAT, IT PLAYS IT AT LEAST 6X BETTER THAN A RX 6400 OR AN ARC A380 (the cheapest ray tracing hardware available)..

Howdy, I was thinking about twitching Tekken 8 on Steamdeck to get the best possible input lag with stable 60 fps. I'm talking about proton stuff, and heavy unreal engine modifications. Anyone got this game working flawless on the system? (Ofc I know that game can looks like poop, but input lag and being stable are the most important parts for me).

I bought a Redragon keyboard and a Kysona mouse. I saw that both have Windows applications, I tried running them via Wine but they didn't work.

If I create a VM with Windows 10 and install both programs, will it work and will the VM recognize the peripherals?

Intel arc Meteor lake integrated gpu (Msi claw ultra 5) CachyOS handheld edition (exactly same results on bazzite) low settings 720p xess performance.

I know this gpu doesn’t run well on linux, but I wonder if there’s any fix considering its running at very low clock speeds. It’s running around 1300 mhz on windows with the same settings.

Changing tdp setting and clock speeds in steam have zero effect. Can’t get handheld daemon to work on cachy, but it was set to full tdp on bazzite with the same problem.

Is there any way to check what tdp I’m actually running? Or any way to set a fixed clock speed on my gpu?

Doom 2016 seem to run a bit better with like 50-60 fps high settings 1080p openGL.

Question everyone, I just picked up the 8bitdo ultimate 2 (purple) and connected it to my bazzite steam machine. It's works right out the box no issue buuuut there is something that is driving me nuts. I am playing ghost of tsushima and some button prompts are wrong. Fast travel/standoff, the on screen prompt tells me to press X but I actually have to press Y (which corresponds to triangle and which is the correct button). R2 for picking up items shows up as a question mark and so does the menu button for privacy settings. Now I know the question mark means there is no mapped button, but in the R2 instance, when I press R2 it actually works. The fast travel thing is also not a remap settings since in combat, the X button actually works as intended.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

TL;DR: I'm running Linux Mint 22.2 (Noble base). The pro tool refused to work. I temporarily edited /etc/os-release to mimic Ubuntu 24.04, enabled esm-apps, and then immediately reverted the file back to Linux Mint defaults. I successfully pulled 25 security patches (ffmpeg, imagemagick, etc.) from the ESM repo. apt seems happy, but is this a bad idea?

Is this "spoof and revert" method safe for my system long-term, or am I setting myself up for dependency hell later?

Detailed Steps of What I Did:

1. The Problem: I tried to run sudo pro enable esm-apps, but it failed because it detected "Linux Mint 22.2 (Zara)" which isn't supported.
2. The "Hack": I backed up my release file and then modified /etc/os-release using sed to look exactly like Ubuntu 24.04 LTS:
   • Changed ID=linuxmint to ID=ubuntu
   • Changed VERSION_ID="22.2" to VERSION_ID="24.04"
   • Changed VERSION_CODENAME=zara to VERSION_CODENAME=noble
3. The Activation: With the OS spoofed, I ran sudo pro enable esm-apps. It worked instantly and generated the APT sources/keys.
4. The Revert: Immediately after enabling it, I restored the original /etc/os-release backup. My system reports as Linux Mint 22.2 again.
5. The Result:
   • I ran sudo apt update and verified it's hitting https://esm.ubuntu.com/apps/ubuntu noble.
   • I ran sudo apt upgrade and it installed ~25 security patches.
   • ffmpeg -version now shows 6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm6.
   • Mint Update Manager seems fine since I reverted the OS ID.

Has anyone else run this "Hybrid" setup (Mint OS + Ubuntu Pro Tokens) long-term? Does apt ever get confused between the Mint repos and the ESM repos since I'm technically no longer spoofing the OS ID?

I swear to god Linux is really bad when it comes to laptops. Anything I set up either my laptop is overheating and I get stutters, if I disable turbo boost on my cpu, the performance is bad. How do you use Linux on your gaming laptops. I plan to have a dual boot system, because I need Windows for a few things.

Just moved over to Linux Mint Cinnamon, been really good so far but mount and blade just refuses to boot. I tried via lutris AND Proton-GE. It starts up, then immediately offers a pop-up that the program has stopped responding. No idea what to do, i just want to get my band of roving horse archers :(