My main PC is currently on Win10, which is nearing its end. I can't say that I've enjoyed my time on Windows, quite the contrary, if I had to modify anything in the OS, it was actually a huge pain in the ass. The UI is crap, with no flow to it, with some menus straight out of the 2000s, ported from Win XP and the others just loosely slapped on. The only redeeming quality is, in my opinion, its compatibility with large corps and their programs, as Windows is, simply said, almost a monopoly.

I've looked at Linux for quite some time now... especially at Ubuntu and its flavor Zorin OS. So much so, that I've already completely replaced Windows with it on my university-laptop for over a year, which I mainly use to take notes, write on it in convertable mode and code small programs.

And for all of this Zorin just... works! It is fluid, 10x more responsive and cleaner than windows. A clean install doesn't come with any bloatware or unnecessary features pre-installed (Yes, I'm looking at you, Edge and CoPilot) and I can install any app I want, most often than not even FOSS, to fit my exact needs. I can make it look however I want, and whatever I choose, be it Mac-like, Windows(10/11)-like, gnome-like or anything inbetween, it's just clean, modern and gorgeous to look at.

Xournal++, Obsidian and rclone to seemlessly sync my device with the cloud... you name it, it's all there and it just functions as you expect it to. It's all highly customizable so it precisely fits my needs and as a dev myself I also don't shy away from tinkering via the terminal from time to time, to get the exact result I want.

Setting up a cronjob to periodically bisync your vault you created with Obsidian with your google drive? Sure! Writing small scripts to automate some behaviour on startup? Easy! You wanna delete the entire OS recursively? Of course, it's your PC, go the fuck ahead! /s Jokes aside, I've never felt this freedom at ANY point I was on Windows.

Linux just does what you tell it to do, as you expect by being the literal Admin of you PC. Windows on the contrary stands in the corner, with crossed arms and pouting, like a little toddler, while you try to get it to execute even the simplest tasks.

Now. Why haven't I converted my main PC to Linux yet too? - Simple. Because I also stream in my freetime and most of the games I stream I play together with my community. That means: Blockbusters. AAA-Games. All that stuff, that I also really enjoy playing, for their visuals and spectacle especially.

And yes. I realize that Steam especially have put a ton of work into Proton and making 85% of all games on Steam compatible with Linux. And most of the time this also works fine, as long as you stick with Steam. Hell, during my last semester I played the living shit out of Brotato, on my university-laptop. But. not. With. AAA. Games. From. Other. Companies.

It is so frustrating to regulary read something along the lines of:

"Rockstar Games implements kernel-level anticheat, breaks Linux support completely."

"EA implements their own Anticheat into all recent titles, makes it blocked by Wine and Proton."

... and many other news like that.

In short: The games I want to play, HAVE to play to some degree, don't work. All major Battlefield titles, including the coming one, besides 4. THE FINALS crashes every 3rd round and there is no fix for it. HELLDIVERS 2 is stable, but I cannot get >40 fps. I could go on. It's all working somewhat, but not as a whole. And this just pisses me off. Because otherwise NOTHING would hold me back of switching entirely. It's just those few titles. I even already re-setup my OBS (which ofc also runs smoother than it ever did on windows).

And as I get less and less freetime and a bigger and bigger portion of said shrinking freetime is consumed by streaming, there is even less incentive to dual-booting, as I'm doing currently. Because IF I turn my main PC on, I'm streaming. If I'm streaming, I'm playing the aforementioned games. No bueno.

The rare times I'm not streaming I usually watch YouTube or work on small pet-projects, which I could (and would love to) do from Zorin.

But is it really worth switching your OS for that..?

Any opinions? Did you face a similar problem? What would you do in my situation, bite the bullet and switch (unwillingly) to Win11, because of security, or is there an idea that I missed? Is there any potential for the compability of mentioned games to increase in the near future?

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I think Steam released an update which inhibits idle stuff while you're playing games.

A month or so ago I tested Balatro from Steam an my laptop just suspended without an issue, today I remember Steam did some small update and now when I play Factorio there's "Steam: Playing a game" in idle inhibitors in Plasma battery applet.

Yippee?

Hello, I currently installed cachyos with gnome 48 the final build I was wondering what are the game scope commands to enable HDR for steam I have a 4K display and 4090 any help would be appreciated I tried most of the common commands to get it to work, but the game freezes up upon launch.

I've been looking into this since last June went I got my second OLED HDR/VRR gaming monitor. There is a lot of confusion over this issue in this sub. Maybe a video showing what behavior I'm thinking makes it easier to communicate.

These are the specs of the rig in the video:

Operating System: Windows 11 Enterprise

Processors: 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13900KS

Memory: 64 DDR5 5800Mhz

Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition

Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition

Motherboard: Asus Z790 Maximus Extreme

Primary Gaming Monitor: Asus PG42UQ 42" 4K OLED HDDR/VRR 120 hz

Secondary Gaming Monitor: LG 27GS95QE 27" QHD OLED HDDR/VRR 240 hz

PC VR: Valve Index, Meta Quest 3, Sony PS VR 2 using Sony PC adapter

In the demonstration here we have AC Shadows running at 4k max settings, max ray tracing using 3x MFG. Behavior I'm asking about. Everything is a window as the game is running windowed like most modern games. It's a lot clunkier with exclsuive fullscreen but still works just with windows getting out of position which doesn't happen with windowed games normally.

Note of two minor bugs. Wallpaper Engine will flash with certain animated backgrounds since I got the 5090. Nothing major but this didn't happen prior to the 5090. Also some artifacts in the AC Shadows menu which only happens when MFG is on. Doesn't happen in the game fortunately.

Appreciate the any guidance and explanation of what to expect and how this would work on Linux.

bit of a niche, but does anyone know if there is any way to make it work under Linux? Would also be great to get the LAN mode working with proton.

Hello everyone! Just a quick tip: My desktop experience on my Lenovo Legion, when using the Nvidia GPU as my primary (and only) GPU, it was always a bit laggy. I finally found a tool that allows me to force a higher idle-clock on the Nvidia GPU and it got rid of all the slowness and stutters i used to get on KDE / Gnome!

It also allows you to do some light overclock, i just inputted the default recommended Lenovo Vantage Overclock profile Offset Clocks and got a 10~15FPS boost on the game I'm currently playing (Sonic Frontiers with the FPS unlock mod).

You can get the LACT OC tool here: https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT

It's also available on Arch's AUR for an easier install :)

To force a higher idle clock, you simply head to the "OC" tab and select "Enable GPU Locked Clocks" and slightly raise the minimum GPU clock (i locked my RTX4070 at minimum 900 Mhz and the desktop lag went away).

If you want you can also raise the clocks offset from 0 to your preferred value, but be careful, it might cause your system to become unstable if you push it too high!

Hope this helps! :)

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Hi.

I've been having so many random crashes with War Thunder i've tried installing amdvlk driver alongside the default 'RADV' to see if this helps..

I am running Arch Linux (Endeavor OS)

I installed multilib/lib32-amdvlk amdvlk packages ..

1. I'm slightly confused though about how to tell which one is default - how can I do this ? - reading the archj wiki it sounds like it is amdvlk .. how to check ?
2. How can I change which is default - I want RADV to be the default and load amdvlk as a launch option in some games - rather than other way round - is this possible ?
3. Which launch options are needed in steam to choose version ?

i.e do I need to use for RADV ?

AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.i686.json
:/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json %command%

What do I use for AMDVLK ? i.e no options ?

cheers

In windows this is so simple since there is no security there but in linux the only way i found was to unlock the session using ssh or not let monitor to turn off. using dummy plug also has a downside cause whenever i want to login to my computer using main monitor i need to blindly enter my password and then when i am inside press my shortcut key to shift to my main monitor. I was looking for a simple solution like windows. Is there any? To be able to turn on main monitor with a shorcut key when it is off on lockscreen gdm?

I cannot seem to get oversteer and new-lg4ff working together. I got both installed, however after installing lg4ff it tells me I do not have permission to make changes and the auto centring turns off unless I open oversteer and set it manually. Buttons work and everything I just can’t change settings lg4ff should make accessible. I installed lg4ff through yay if that makes a difference.

So I’ve uninstalled the module and reinstalled oversteer and I’m trying to install the module through dkms now. Except I keep running into the same error. Sorry shit quality it’s from my phone not a screen shot. If anyone is able to give me advice or telling me commands to put in to work around this and install it I would love that

The keys and headings also seem to be correct and updated/installed. If I’m understanding this correctly it should just be a few commands and then it should be installed?

I’ve also had it on pc mode ps4 mode and ps5 mode

if you get constant fps drops you are mostly experiencing the frame drops because of the audio logs

here's how to fix it :

launch cs2 settings go to audio and turn off perspective correction thats it.

i know it's not like how wayland works on kde plasma or gnome but, has anyone experienced it with games? is it usable or does it have a lot of things to fix still?

Hello, A couple of months ago i switched from windows to fedora, since im working with it. Since swapping i never really got big problems with the video games i play except 1 game that came out a couple of weeks ago (Monster Hunter) since then im thinking about how to improve the experience. Im currently sitting on a RTX 4080 Super with severe grafical problems. Im not 100% sure but i want to get a couple of opinions regarding this scenario: I got a proposal from a friend who is willing to buy my 4080 for round about the same price as the Card i want to buy: AMD Radeon 9070 XT

Do you think i should agree and swap and would it improve the efficiency for gaming on linux?

Is there a way to enable gamemode globally, I have used it on steam with the launch parameter but was looking to have it enable for emulators (not emudeck). Also this is my first time using Linux, I installed EndeavourOs and liking the experience so far, already installed mangohud, solving the problem of incorrect time since I’m dualbooting, auto mount a drive I was using on windows, what else can I do as a Linux newbie to get to know how things work.

Hey everyone,

I'm using Drauger OS (Ubuntu-based), and I have an SSD formatted as NTFS. I want to use it for two things:

1. Installing and running Steam games
2. Storing school/work projects

Should I keep it as NTFS or reformat it to something else? How do I properly mount it so that both Steam and my other applications can access it without issues?

Any advice or step-by-step guidance would be super helpful. Please explain like I'm five because I'm a complete noob at this. Thanks in advance!