(CachyOS/Arch) I have a 2TB SATA drive I want to convert from NTFS to ext4, and I have already formatted the drive with gparted.

However, I can't add then add a folder to that drive to then add in Steam as an installation location.

I am able to elevate to administrator via 'Open as Administrator' in Dolphin to then make a folder in the root directory for my Steam games, but then I get the 'Steam library folder is not writable' in the dialogue to add a directory in Steam.

Any idea where to go from here?

Do you like having executable logs? Now you have them! Do you also want executable audio files? Say no more! Will they actually run? No. But Steam will make them executable anyway.

Basically (almost) every file Steam brings into the system will have the executable bit set.

Wouldn't be a big deal, if context menus didn't prompt me to execute those files when I want to open them. And the context menus are not wrong, Steam is.

I have a lenovo thinkbook s14 intel tiger lake i5 11G7 with iris XE integrated graphics and all my games are on my OS drive(which runs Zorin OS 18), and for some reason, I cant play games that should run fine, and would, on windows. Titanfall 2 doesnt even boot. they pretend to work the first time, but then on future attempts it doesnt even get past the first loading screen

https://github.com/RoseTheFlower/UltrawideIndex/releases/tag/reddeadredemption

It's to fix ultrawide cutscenes.

The problem is that it's an .exe file you run alongside the game.

I have the steam install of Red Dead Redemption.

I've put the files in the same location as the game (not that it matters on windows)

Then tried running the .exe file using protontricks in the same prefix as the game but I just get an error.

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Not really sure if it's even possible but thought I'd reach out here to see if anyone has any ideas.

Getting the basic info out of the way first;

• Ryzen 5 2600
• RX 580 (8gb)
• 6.18.6-arch1-1
• Mesa 25.3.3-arch1.3
• SwayWM

Pretty much what the title says, screen sharing on Discord/Vesktop/Equibop or recording with OBS causes weird "jittering" where it seems to display old frames every half second or so, Identical to what this person was experiencing, but in my case happening on AMD hardware. The more demanding the game, the worse it gets.

I've tried looking into what could be causing this but the few people I've found with this issue have either been ignored, or gave up and installed a different distro. This feels like a wayland/sway issue but I never had issues like this on my old hardware.

Sorry for the initial lack of info, not sure what else could help.

does anyone know anything/ might own this shirt? from what i know it obviously seems to be from the early to mid 2000s and the company "penguincomputing" seems to have been bought out by some other company. i figured id ask here since i did see on this subreddit someone having a mouse pad of this same logo. honestly its a really cool shirt and id love to be able to purchase it

hi everyone. absolute nooby to Linux. Just installed bazzite on app for use in the living room on my TV. I'm using an LG G5 oled that supports up to 165 hz with vrr. PC wise it's all amd, 5700x3d and a 9070xt. on the TV I have 165hz and freeysync premium enabled. on the pc display settings I can't go above 120hz and am unsure why.

I am assuming it's a bandwidth issue? I'm using hdmi, since the TV doesnt have display port. is this just an issue where I can't output that over hdmi on linux? I'm plugged into one of the E Arc hdmi inputs.

Is it something I can fix by limiting HDR or other things? and if so, how do I do that on bazzite? I have HDR disabled on display settings

thanks all

I’ve been looking for a laptop for Godot and Unity on Linux. It seems like these might be the best choices:

Dell Precision 7780 with i7-13850HX and Intel UHD graphics (big display, comes with ubuntu already on it)

or

Dell Pro Max 16 with Ryzen AI 5 PRO 340 and AMD Radeon (better graphics)

or

System76 Bonobo, which is cool because it’s made for Linux and has an 18 inch display but for some reason it has an Nvidia RTX. I thought Nvidia didn’t work well with Linux?

Which of these is the best option? Is there anything better that I’m missing? I would really appreciate some guidance since I’m new to this stuff.

(I should mention that I don’t want an OLED or a Framework laptop)

Basically what is happening here is when i jiggle the mouse in the Y plane it slowly migrates to the top left of my screen even though im only moving my mouse up and down evenly.

Looking on both proton.db and the issue tracker on GitHub i don't find any mention of this issue.

Any advice on how to fix this is greatly appreciated.

System specs.

OS: Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.18.6-200.fc43.x86_64

Uptime: 20 hours, 46 mins

Packages: 2507 (rpm), 30 (flatpak)

Shell: bash 5.3.0

Display (XB271HU): 2560x1440 in 27", 144 Hz [External]

Display (XB273U GX): 2560x1440 in 27", 240 Hz [External] *

DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.5

WM: KWin (Wayland)

WM Theme: Breeze

Theme: Breeze (Light) [Qt], Breeze [GTK3/4]

Icons: Papirus [Qt], Papirus [GTK3/4]

Font: Adwaita Sans (10pt) [Qt], Adwaita Sans (10pt) [GTK3/4]

Cursor: breeze (24px)

Terminal: konsole 25.12.1

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 5.36 GHz

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT [Discrete]

Memory: 13.61 GiB / 31.24 GiB (44%)

Disk (/): 86.72 GiB / 1.82 TiB (5%) - btrfs

Disk (/mnt/Disk2): 1.30 TiB / 1.79 TiB (73%) - ext4

Disk (/mnt/SSD): 801.84 GiB / 1.82 TiB (43%) - fuseblk [Read-only]

Well that was fast! At this rate we may get this sooner rather than later.

Wine 11.1

[Review] Two weeks on Linux (CachyOS) after years on Windows

I’m a former Windows user who recently moved to my first Linux distribution. I chose CachyOS and, after two weeks of daily use, I felt like sharing my experience because I’m honestly impressed with how positive this transition has been.

1. RAM usage

On Windows, even with 32 GB of RAM, the system easily used 10 to 12 GB just to “exist”. Many times, with only Discord and a browser open, it would already go past 8 GB. It always felt like the more memory I had, the more the system decided to waste.

On Linux, this changed completely. Even with many applications open, usage rarely goes above 3 or 4 GB. Memory management feels much smarter and more efficient.

2. Security and anticheats

This was one of the biggest positives for me.

On Windows, we are basically forced to accept kernel level anticheats like Riot Vanguard or EA’s. For me, this is simply unacceptable. In my country, a game like Battlefield 6 costs around 300 reais, which for many people abroad would be like paying 300 dollars, and you still don’t even have the option to play on the OS you prefer because you are forced to accept invasive software running at the lowest level of your system.

On Linux, this kind of practice is simply not welcome, and that gives me a real sense of control, privacy and respect as a user.

3. Customization

The level of customization is insane.

From the terminal to icons, colors, themes and system behavior, everything can be deeply adjusted in a relatively simple way. It really feels like a system that adapts to the user, not the other way around.

4. Gaming

This was another huge surprise.

On CachyOS, gaming has been extremely easy. I installed the system, a few basic packages, and that was basically it. I configured things gradually without having to fight the system.

Helldivers 2, which used to shut down my PC on Windows, now runs normally. Overwatch 2 and Warframe works without any issues. Arc Raiders feels like it was made for Linux because of how well it runs. Many games run natively, and when I tested Proton by changing the version once out of curiosity, instead of getting worse, my FPS actually improved.

In general, I honestly felt several games running smoother on Linux than they ever did on Windows.

5. Community drivers

This part really impressed me.

I have a digital cooler from DeepCool (AG400) and I always thought it was ridiculous that the company never provided proper software support for Linux. On Windows, I had to open a launcher just to see the temperature on the display.

On Linux, I found a community-made driver on GitHub. Not only did it work better than the official software, it completely solved my problem. Now I turn on my PC and the temperature automatically shows on the panel without opening anything.

I also managed to fix the LED on my mouse. I still haven’t found proper support for my HyperX Alloy MKW100 keyboard, but it works perfectly fine. Hopefully someone will support it in the future.

Even installing VS Code felt different. One command in the terminal and it was done. No websites, no installers, no clicking through pages. Just one line and the program was installed. The practicality is amazing and really motivates me to learn more.

Conclusion

I’m new to Linux, but I can already say with confidence that in many aspects it is clearly superior.

Right now, I have absolutely no desire to go back to Windows. Instead, I feel like I’m finally using an OS that respects my hardware, my time and my privacy.

This was my honest review after two weeks using CachyOS.

"And yes i asked CHAT GPT to type right in english for me bcs i'm not a native english speaker lol"

Hi, y'all. I heard that the Khronos Group released a patch for Vulkan with new extensions, more efficient Descriptor Heaps? Most likely fixing the infamous NVIDIA DX12 problem under proton, NVIDIA pumped out a beta driver release with the Vulkan patch apparently just a few hours later yesterday? Is installing these "beta" drivers possible, does anyone know if they actually help? And as of now, and when they come out of beta, will Pascal GPUs like mine receive the fix? Also, I understand VKD3D-Proton must adopt this Vulkan patch too first, anyone know when exactly they'll do that? I'm kind of looking to swap to Linux finally, but I play a couple DX12 games and am really excited to know that very soon, that 25-40 percent performance drop I was experiencing will be fixed (or should be fixed). Just wanna know what the deal is.

Let me explain better... I had installed Bazzite os, it worked for at least a year, but today after the grub menu and entering ostree:0 or ostree:1 it doesn't start and gives me a black screen (as if it didn't have the video signal). So I tried installing another distro: Pop Os, but I have the same problem there too... What's the problem? What's wrong? I don't think it's a video card problem, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to get into the BIOS menu. The only way to enter the operating system is to use the "nomodeset" command. Please help me, I'm going crazy and sorry for my bad English... I hope I have expressed my problem well.

PC Components: Cpu: AMD Ryzen 5600g Video card: AMD RX 6650 XT Ram: 2 x 8 GB 3200

Edit:

-I already tried to connect the HDMI to the motherboard thinking that it would work with the IGPU

-I tried to reset the BIOS by removing the battery

title but i cant run avatar frontiers of pandora through lutris, im trying to set it up so i can use mods aswell with the universal snowdrop modloader, i own the game through ubislop connect and i can run it though lutris's library program runner thing but it doesnt have the mods enabled. here's my folders look like lmk if something doesnt look right as im new tro linux, im using cachy os if it matters too btw

After watching their latest disaster ass video comparing Windows 11 to Ubuntu 25.10, I'm now 100% convinced LTT are intentionally sabotaging the Linux desktop with their videos by shining the light at the worst use cases possible.

What makes it especially frustrating is that they explicitly say early on that you can’t meaningfully compare Windows and Linux performance because the driver models, graphics stacks, and system architecture are fundamentally different. And then they immediately proceed to do exactly that anyway. Side-by-side FPS graphs and performance charts presented as if they actually prove something. You don’t get to disclaim the validity of a comparison and then build the entire video around it. Either the data matters or it doesn’t.

Then there’s the distro choice, which honestly tells you everything you need to know about how seriously they approached this. Ubuntu is not a gaming distro. It hasn’t been for years. Outside of enterprise desktops and basic office workloads, nobody in the Linux gaming space recommends Ubuntu anymore. If they had spent less than three minutes looking at the current state of Linux gaming, they would have immediately found recommendations like Bazzite, CachyOS, Nobara, or even Fedora-based immutable setups that are specifically tuned for gaming, modern GPUs, Proton, and sane defaults. Instead, they intentionally went with the most dogshit, limited, hot-garbage option available, complete with outdated kernels, outdated Mesa versions, Snap garbage, and a packaging ecosystem that actively works against modern gaming workflows. That’s not an honest test, that’s setting Linux up to fail.

And then we get to the GPU situation, which is where the video completely falls apart. They casually mention that out of five GPUs they tested, four of them didn’t work. Guess why, you fucking moron. GPU manufacturer matters on Linux more than almost any other variable. AMD works out of the box because the drivers are in the kernel and Mesa is first-class. NVIDIA still requires proprietary drivers, correct kernel matching, secure boot considerations, and a basic understanding of the graphics stack you’re running. Tossing random GPUs into Ubuntu and acting shocked when they don’t work is not a Linux problem, it’s a competence problem. This is the equivalent of installing Windows without chipset or GPU drivers and declaring Windows unusable or those GPUs are unusable on it.

What makes this even worse is that they completely failed to mention that NVIDIA is actively fixing one of the biggest pain points they were implicitly complaining about. The long-standing DirectX 12 performance issues on Linux are finally being addressed, with fixes scheduled to land in the upcoming NVIDIA 595 driver series. This has been in development for a while now and is expected to significantly improve DX12 performance under Proton and VKD3D. That context matters. A lot. Pretending that current NVIDIA DX12 performance is some permanent, unsolvable Linux flaw while ignoring an imminent driver fix is either lazy research or deliberate omission. Neither is acceptable for a channel of their size.

Every single time LTT covers the Linux desktop, it follows the same pattern. They pick the worst possible configuration, complain about legacy issues that have been solved for years, ignore how modern Linux systems are actually used, and then wrap it all up with a smug conclusion about how Linux “gets brownie points because we wrecked its ass so hard in our video so we have to say some nice things in the last 5 minutes of the vid.” Outside of the dogshit DPKG and Snap mess that Ubuntu insists on clinging to, most of these problems simply do not exist on modern gaming-focused distributions. But acknowledging that would require doing actual research instead of reinforcing a narrative.

At this point, I genuinely think they should just stop making Linux desktop content altogether. It doesn’t help adoption, it doesn’t educate viewers, and it actively spreads misinformation. If you’re unwilling to evaluate Linux on its own terms, especially when GPU choice is a deciding factor and major driver improvements are literally right around the corner, then don’t pretend you’re offering a fair comparison. Linux gaming has real strengths, real weaknesses, and real tradeoffs. What LTT keeps producing isn’t criticism. It’s sabotage.