hi guys!

I’ve ordered. my New PC parts for my upcoming PC build. I'm planning on going the Dual boot route since I'm fed-up with Windows and want to give a real shot Linux again. My new PC build is obviously very focused on gaming. In this case a dual boot solution is a must have since I want to play games with anti-cheat like Valorant and especially Battlefield 6, which means I need secure boot. On Linux I will be playing the rest of the games I normally do play. I feel very committed to the Linux jump but the secure boot or anti cheat factor and dual boot complications are bugging me.

I am torn between two distros which are Bazzite and Cachyos. For the last years I've used Windows, so I am more or less a beginner regarding Linux, although I have Cachyos on my old laptop for testing purposes if I feel comfortable with Linux.

Now to my questions:

As far I know Bazzite supports secure boot out the gate, right? With Cachyos it's more complicated but it should work right (I saw the video of A1rm4x and seemed a bit pissed off since he had complications)? I know Arch is also able to use secure boot but again I’m a Linux rookie so I want to the distro to be still beginner friendly…

Also, I'm not sure if I want to have a dual boot with grub, limeline, etc. or if I'm going down the route of changing it manually in the bios and preventing Windows updates to kill either system. Both systems will have their own SSD.m2.

Do you guys have any recommendations and Tipps regarding distro with secure boot and if its possible without boot manager?

Hardware:

CPU: Ryzen 7 9700X, GPU: ASRock Radeaon 9070XT, Mainboard: MSI B850M Gaming Plus, Ram: Crucial Pro 48 GB DDR5, SSDs: 2x Samsung 990 Evo 2 TB

Wrote a long post then realized nobody wants to read that. So here's the condensed version. I'm looking for older games that will play well on an RTX 4060 at 3440 x 1440. Assume 60Hz and if I find a game playable at higher refresh rates, I'll use them.

Recommendations? The Elder Scrolls series looks good, and I'd think it would be easily playable, at least the earlier ones. What else? I prefer games that require some thought and/or have a good story. Humor is also a plus. Cool graphics are great but the point is to have fun I'm not big on FPS or warfare type games set in the modern day. Science fiction and fantasy settings are cool, and while I'm not aware of anything, any games that involve solving mysteries or the golden age private eye genre would be at the top of my list IF it is a good game. Free or cheap is a big plus.

I've dabbled in Linux for years, mostly using it for home fileservers and Raspberry Pi stuff. Finally got annoyed with 11 and switched on my desktop. Using Mint because I really just want a simple OS that I don't need to think about much. It works for me and nearly all my preferred programs operate fine.

I only have a few games I really want to play, chief amongst them is CS2. With updating/mild tweaking, the game is working mostly perfectly. Frame rate is great, feels exactly the same as on Windows.

I only have one minor but annoying issue: Once I finish any round of any game mode, once the map switches and reloads, I get stuck on the team selection screen and can't pick any team. After 15 seconds or so, I get disconnected from the server with the message "Unable to establish a connection with gameserver."

I've done a little searching and for most people who have this problem seem to be on Windows, and people just tell them to release/renew their IP or change their DNS server to something faster.

At first I thought it might be my PiHole blocking traffic, but it never gave me a problem under Windows, and I've toggled it off and on with this machine and it didn't have any effect.

Does anyone have experience with this, and potentially have any suggestions?

I don't think my PC specs matter much in this situation but here they are:

• Maxsun MS-TX B550M
• Ryzen 5600
• 16GB RAM
• Arc B580 12GB
• Mint 22.2 Kernel 6.14.0-34-generic (using out-of-the-box drivers which seem to be the latest for my B580 based on what I could find)

I'm on ubuntu and bought gta v from steam so i can just play story mode but i got curious when i found this Proton BattlEye Runtime. what's its purpose here? can it do anything for gta online or is that just a dream for the future? same with Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime? does it do anything for games like Fortnite or nah and if not then whats their purpose? thanks!!

Hello Im Very New into Linux (EoS Win10) And mostly im looking for a distro for beginners for my Ryzen 5500,Rtx3060 Im using it mostly to record Audios for VA and play some games and Zoom where can I find a Distro for my needs?

Not sure if anyone else has been stupid enough to do this but, a bit of morbid curiosity made me see if I could get an old AMD-FX system to boot official SteamOS natively with an NVME drive.

I know I could just have installed Bazzite on this PC and called it a day but wanted the official images booting on the machine.

Specs:

• Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P Motherboard
• AMD FX8320
• AMD RX480 8GB (Bios modded 4GB model which had 8GB soldered to the board)
• 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM
• 128GB NVME drive in a 4X PCI-E adapter boot drive
• 1TB Orico SATA SSD
• 1TB Seagate ST10000DM010 HDD
• 2TB WD WD20EARX 2TB HDD

Bios was flashed with a modded bios from Win-Raid forums adding NVME boot to the system (I think it was this source) https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/offer-gigabyte-ga-970a-ds3p-rev-1-0-nvme-mod/33089

That was the first hurdle over. Then I downloaded and flashed the official SteamOS Recovery image.

Everything is working as expected with the old dog but the big issue is shader compilation takes an absolute age on some games, thanks to the really weak CPU IPC.

It pumps out lots of heat, isn't at all good performance per watt and is possibly the worst PC i own, but I liked making this happen all the same.

SteamOS/Linux really is the gift that keeps on giving on old hardware that would be in the ewaste pile had Microsoft had its way.

Time to see what this old thing can do with more games.

Have you ever wondered if a game outside of ProtonDB works on Linux? I bring the solution! a "site" made by me focused on linux games where I bring tutorials, games and portondb plus which would be a protondb for games out of the catalog https://nglbr.blogspot.com/p/proton-db-plus.html

I got Sonic Racing CrossWorlds for my birthday, and I have been playing it online on a external ssd on windows because I am to nervous to try it on Linux. It's platinum on protondb, but I have seen a couple forums where people think they got banned because of Linux.

My little brother got his first laptop. And. It has windows 7. Buut, it doesnt run well. So i thought about inatalling linux. But i just saw some complications and i dont know what to do. First the machine has an intel processor which instead of having intel graphics it has powervr graphics renamed to intel graphics media accelerator. Here are its specs: processor: intel atom n2600. Ram: 1x4gb ram ddr3 1333mhz. Storage: Western digital sata HDD 500gb at 7200rpm (but im thinking in replacing it with an ssd) and graphics: this are integrated on the processor i think. Intel gma 3600.. he will use it for searching online. Using libre office. Reading emails. And playing games (ofc not demanding games but i think at this point everything is demanding to it lol). He wants to play minecraft. A game called stumble guys. Roblox (this one not. I dont think this machine will run it). So as far as i know finding graphic drivers for linix will be complicated. And i dont think it will have propper acceleration. Also minecraft i dont know if it will run. Maybe an older version?. Anyways. Thanks everyone and i wish you all are having a great day

Hi!

I'm sick and tired of M$ trying to force me into using their account and issuing s***y software written by AI bots, etc. I'm going to just bite the bullet and switch to Linux for my daily driver. I've got some Linux background, but it's been awhile and I'd like some more recently-experienced eyes to validate what I'm planning on doing before I spend the money.

I currently use my laptop for a few things:

• Manage my Calibre book library
• Various web tasks
• Steam games
• Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (yes, I'm old and I like my old games)
• Occasional use of Davinci Resolve for editing home movies recorded with my wife's phone.

My current daily driver is an HP Envy h1023dx with an i9-13900H, NVidia RTX4060 and 16GB RAM. I have an HP Thunderbolt Doc 280W G4 with Combo Cable that's driving a couple of 27" 2k displays (not at home, can't remember the brand). I typically use both displays and the laptop lid open for the third display. This setup has handled anything I need to do well and my issue isn't with the laptop's performance, it's with how M$ is "managing" my experience on the laptop I purchased. Some quick Googling shows that this laptop doesn't do well with Linux, so I'm going to buy a new laptop. I'd really like it to handle what I'm doing without having to buy a new dock or anything other than the laptop itself.

I've been reading online a bunch (including the FAQ) to ensure I get something that's going to handle Linux easily without a lot of fuss. Honestly, while I have the technical skills to figure out some issues, I'm too old and tired to want to mess with it. I just want it to work.

I was going to buy a System76 Gazelle , but I keep seeing horror stories about the build quality of the laptop chassis. I couldn't find a Dell or an HP that I felt comfortable risking as a daily driver with Linux. So I'm now looking at a DIY version of the Framework 16.

The configuration I'm looking at is:

• Ryzen AI 7 350 (I've always run Intel before, don't really know AMD)
• AMD RX 7700S (I've always run NVidia before, don't really know AMD)
• Memory: Bring your own (going to buy some good memory during Cyber Monday)
• Primary and Secondary Storage (again, Cyber Monday)
• OS (thinking Linux Mint for now)
• Power adapter - 240W
• RGB US English Keyboard (I can see the keys better if they're backlit - old eyes)
• numpad (I regularly enter lots of numbers and I do 10-key well)
• 2 x USB-C (I understand that AMD does USB4 for two USB-C ports)
• 1 x USB-A (for backward compatibility)
• 1 x HDMI (will stay in the laptop bag in case my Mom wants to see some pics or something on her TV)
• 2 x DisplayPort (in case the dock doesn't work and I have to drive my two monitors directly
• 1 x Ethernet (because sometimes WiFi doesn't work)
• 1 x MicroSD (makes it a bit easier to program my various Raspberry Pi projects)

I know I can get a higher-spec'd laptop for less, but I like Framework's philosophy and I *really* don't want to have to mess with Linux compatibility. They claim to have community support for Mint, so hopefully it won't take me the entire Christmas vacation to get my new laptop working.

Am I missing anything obvious? I understand that the AMD graphics card is a generation behind the NVidia, but I also hear that NVidia is 15-20% slower on Linux, so I'm guessing that's a wash and having better support for AMD GPU in the Linux kernel will be an advantage.

Thank you for reading this far and for any helpful comments!

#LinuxGaming #Distro #Steam #Proton #PCGaming #Linux

I just adore linux. BUT.. gaming on linux has been by far the worst experience i have come across. Let me be clear. I live in a third world country and computing is kinda expensive. Although i love gaming, i cant afford to spend money on gaming or hardware that can allow me to game well. I have a thinkpad. It got 8gb ram and an i5 8th gen as the processor. I would absolutely love to upgrade someday and am actively saving to buy a PC. But since im a student i dont really have any major sources of income. So im forced to work with whatever i have. The laptop originally came with windows 10. But i installed linux after lots of research and youtube tutorials. And its been 2 years since then. But recently i wanted to try some games that doesnt have a native linux version. For example the old skyrim and assassin creed series. So i tried using lutris and heroic. And it doesnt work. I tried to fix errors after errors but the game fails to load. I tried changing my wine and proton version, reinstalled heroic and lutris, tried changing the prefixes and using winetricks to install the dependancies. Everything failed.
I think the reason is my weak hardware? i dont really know what to do at this point. I really hate windows, but gaming is something i cant give up windows for.
Im stuck in trying to choose between linux and gaming. I dont really know what to do. It would have been so nice if i could figure out a way to make it work. Any kind of help is much appreciated. Im on zoris if it helps.

I would prefer a GUI but if the only option lacks one I'm not gonna turn it down.

I would also like it if, like UXTU, it could save its settings and be quickly loaded when you start the program.

I'm trying to play a game I installed with Lutris but I launch it it says I need to have C++ Runtime Installed.

I did some research and thought I could use winetricks to install it by doing "select default wineprefix" then "install windows DLL or component" and selecting "vcrun2019" but when I do that it gives me more errors.

Wine bug 50894, failing wusa.exe, returning status 102, aborting.

Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix it?

I have an 8BitDo Ultimate C that’s always worked flawlessly on Linux. It’s recognized as an Xbox controller, so it works out of the box in Steam games, Bottles, Heroic Launcher, etc.

I just got the newer Ultimate 2C, but it shows up as a Generic Controller. That means I have to rely on Steam Input to get it recognized in-game.

Is anyone else running into this? How can I make this controller be recognized as an Xbox input device, like the Ultimate C?

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Kernel 6.17.5-arch1-1