Okay, so I've been hearing how easy Bazzite is to install but whenever I go to change to USB boot it doesn't show up in the F12 menu.

I used Rufus for the ISO writer but nothing shows up and I can't format my main boot drive...

I recently switched to Bazzite as I prefer Linux over Windows however the only thing I am missing is hue sync to sync my ambilights with the content on screen. I have so far given a few options a try but got nothing to work. I think it is a bit harder with the fedora atomic system or whatever its called.

If anyone can point me in the right direction here that would be super helpful as I am close to giving up. Thanks!

guys, after I have updated my debian from 12 to 13, the wine from system is running much better games (like songs of conquest and disco elysium) than proton-ge or wine-ge from heroic games. A simple "$ wine game.exe", without extra configuration do the job better than heroic. Any thoughts why?

extra info of my pc:

8gb ram
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz
Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E]

Hey guys, I use EndeavourOS and got a Ryzen 7600 + 6600XT.

When gaming (tried with Portproton and Lutris and same problem) I usually get the green screen + reboot. Sometimes it happens after 10-15mins and sometimes after like 2hs. It's random, but I always get the green screen and it's really frustrating. How could I try to diagnose the problem? I'm a Linux noob btw. Thanks!!!

Hello, good morning, afternoon or evening, I am a normal Windows user but for some time I have wanted to switch to Linux, I have had many problems with Windows and Linux has caught my attention, I already have the Ubuntu version installed but I have seen that it is not so special for me. I have only installed Spotify, brave and made some adjustments. If it helps, I am studying systems engineering so I have a bit of knowledge of the OS, I need you to recommend a distro that suits me, if it is of any use, I want it for programming languages, daily use such as listening to music, watching videos, using streaming applications, editing the wallpaper and also what I mostly do with my laptop is play epic games, steam, the xbox app and ea. I also use programs like visual studio and so on, I know that the epic games store is not native on Linux but I understand that it can be emulated or something like that, what distro do you recommend? I would greatly appreciate your support and I will be reading them.

PS: As a last question, can my external controller software be installed? For example, my keyboard is from the terport brand, my control is wired from the powerA brand and my mouse is from the primus brand and I have a question if their software can be installed?

I'm seeing that the EA app is not working for battlefront 2 (2017). I would like to play it. I'm dual booting Windows on a different SSD right now and can play on that but I would rather use Linux if I can. Does anyone have a work around?

I'm seeing a lot of people labeling it as borked on proton db but I figured more people could see this here.

Thanks in advance!

It's not many, but some games like Tekken 7, Helldivers 1, and Yu-Gi-oh Master Dual don't launch in full screen when I launch them. Going into the settings and changing from windowed to full screen solves the problem, but I have to do this every time I launch the game.

And it seems to be an inconsistent issue, because I managed to solve this problem in Yu-Gi-oh Master Dual by switching from Wayland to X11, but after that, I switched back to Wayland, and the error didn't recur. However, this didn't work in Tekken 7. Any ideas?

Additional information: - I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - The CPU and GPU are AMD

Need help some games keep on crashing

Where is that function I’m trying to run it on a hp notebook and I can’t seem to understand I see trouble shooting but there is no exit to shell is that a command?

I had the frustrating issue of the game constantly crashing whenever I dared to leave my lot and also randomly in between because why not. Getting into a hottub? Crash. Going to a park? Crash. Mixing a drink? Crash. This is on Steam via proton.

Sims crashlogs are obfuscated because how dare you solve your own problem so that was a dead end and don't get me started on the lack of a sane auto-save system.

I googled a lot, couldn't find much info about it on Linux (most crashes I found online were on startup not during play), googled some more and stumbled across a lone thread advising DX9, so to save the next idiot some time. This is the solution:

force DX9, you can change it via config file or ingame

Also don't give EA money but yk. Too late for me.

The main reason I changed to Mint was due to lots of lags and stuffs in my windows. And I didn’t actually used to play game on pc at the time. But now I have some time, I want to play some games . If there are any, which you guys are using, please suggest me with the process to download it for free

Happening in Wuchang with CachyOS and Pop_OS. I tried both the Cachy native Proton and the experimental.

Hi

I have made a post with not much success, so I will try to post a question in a different way.

If you are using HDR in gaming with this setup please speak up.

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Fedora Linux 42 (fully updated and newest version)

KDE

Wayland

Steam (flatpak)

Proton-GE 10-10

Radeon graphic card

HDR screen

Newest MESA driver of course

And run this command in Steam Launch options:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

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My problem is that the colors looks all washed out when HDR is turned on.

I have tried HDR in Resident Evil 4 Remake and Diablo 4 and both are washed out and ugly.

I have tried running HDR on my Dual-boot on Windows in Battlefield 1 and i looks great.

I have tried setting the Display configuration for "prefer efficiency " and after that "prefer color accuracy" and nothing really changed.

I can see old post where people asked about washed out colors and different responses was given, but nothing useful

I am asking this question in this matter, because I need to find people with this exact setup and hear what they did to solve their problem, because if people are using Nvidia or another distro, the solution might be totally different

The rest of my setup is this

9800x3D

9070 XT

HDR 1000 Screen connected through DisplayPort 2,1

please speak up

https://preview.redd.it/siubgo5w1dif1.png?width=866&format=png&auto=webp&s=f416651f7293ddd418fe7e5bd9bc906e340e74d9

If you don't know, there's meant to be a little task bar above this showing how many tasks have been complete in total.

I haven't tried any other game yet, but has happened in Among Us so far.
Also odd occasion, but one of the buttons had unloaded randomly mid-round, I don't know exactly when or how it unloaded, but when I looked it just wasn't there but still clickable.

Specs/Software
Steam: flatpak
Proton: Proton 10.0-2
Distro: Linux mint 22.1 (Cinnamon)
CPU: Intel i3-3245
RAM: 8gb ddr3
GPU: GT 1030

My system now:
12600k + 9070xt + 5 Fans, Waterpump, + v750W Cooler Master Gold PSU.

My system before was pretty the same with a 3070 TI FE.

On EndeavourOS.

### Undervolting / Overclocking:

I usually just undervolt my stuff, but here comes the part: It just works, on nvidia for sure you can also undervolt, I did this, but on linux its just a brainfuck and more of a trial and error thing, as you don't undervolt the intended way, you do this by setting offsets and pray that your GPU is running in a lower powerstate. I mean, it worked - kinda, but on AMD it feels now a bit more "free" as I can slide around and everything have direct effects to the GPU.

### Gaming:

Overall all my games worked like twice the FPS better (RTX off).

Tested games: RE4, Forza 5, CS2, Star Citizen, EFT SPT, Ghost of Tsushima. I finally can use HDR (well I also might could have used it on nvidia, but I couldn't get it really working, so I never tried it again. This was for sure a skill issue)

Games looking great and running smoothly, I was shocked. I thought my CPU will be a hard bottleneck but it seems on my 3440x1440p uwqhd screen everthings running smooth af.

Also for sure I have now 16 GB VRAM instead of 8 GB, on windows 8GB on my 3070ti wasn't that big problem, it was just a limit that I set the game on med. settings and it will still run smooth enough for me.

But on Linux, depending on the game it might still lead into stuttering. As I had e.g. a sddm bug, where SDDM on hyprland with nvidia bugged around and tooked around 1GB of vram. needed to workaround that by removing sddm and autologin via TTY.

Well another issue was like on EFT or star citizen and even sometimes on DAYZ (on 3440x1440p) where my VRAM was flodded over time. while on windows the system allows the nvidia driver to swap a bit of vram into the systems ram to let the game still perform well enough, on linux it doesn't, it just stutters when the vram is on 100%. Most modern games respect the limits but some doesn't or have vram leakage and might have random stuttering. I tricked these games by telling them I just have 6GB of vram, most times it worked - kinda (still used like 7.5 GB as they still try to cache everything but everything below 100% was fine)
I also couldn't open a HW accel. other application when a game used too much vram, like a kitty- alacritty terminal or a browser / discord, etc. as there was no vram left)
I mean I also read about this specific issue on the nvidia forum. Its currently only an issue for nvidia combined with linux - and for sure just for some niche programs/games. But as far as I read AMD implemented a similar feature to their drivers, that allows to swap when 100% VRAM was reached to bypass this issues, even on linux. So this means if I had an AMD card with 8GB VRAM I wouldn't run into that issue on linux gaming.

### Problems

I had some GPU resets, my system freezed and rebooted randomly under load.

It needed a while to recognize whats the problem in here.

Firstly I thought it was the MESA driver, updated to the -git package, as well as the firmware packages.

It kinda worked, but kinda not. I thought it was my undervolt settings, resetted them but happened again random. Then I hardly set the GPU to -500 mhz and it mostly stopped. Then I thought, wait a minute, what if my PSU is too much under load.

It might be exactly this.

So I monitored my system a bit more.

Found out my i5 12600k used on stock clock with -0.115mv undervolt still on peak around 200 wattage (maybe even more, was just a short monitor) while my GPU in stock settings wanted around 350-480 watt (spikes PEAK, maybe even more stock) combined with all the other parts (5 fans, pump, 4 SSDs+ nvme and so on) it MIGHT be that the 750 watt PSU is too hard under load.

Okay - I started to drill down my CPU.

BIOS - LLC to intel defaults, instad of mainboard defaults - this allone saved some watt in here but didn't was enough to run my system stable.

Turned off E-CORES and undervolted the CPU by -0.110 mv

And now I'm around 50-60 watt CPU usage.

Decided to test again my gaming scenario where my system crashed.

(mostly under heavy load, like forza 5 max settings 10 minutes driving like an idiot around everything besides the roads)

And... it didn't crashed!
Lact told me the GPU wanted around 480 watt on spikes, but hey the system runs well!

Now tuned a bit the undervolt on the GPU to -200 mhz, -35mv, 290W limit and - well the limit is more like a soft limit I guess - its working now below 410 watt peak! More like 310-380 watt, depending on the game / load.

I might will switch either my PSU or CPU+MOBO+RAM combo, but as long as I can and everything works on my system + have enough power for my workload / games, I don't see any reason to do a full system upgrade, so I'll just stick into this setup for a while.

### TL;DR:

AMD makes so much sense on linux for gaming (if you don't mind the raytracing performance), no DX12 / DX11 issues, or performance loss, even more a performance gain compared on windows, less bugs and a smoother easier experience!

AND If your system crashes, don't think too fast "dang this GPU sucks on linux" if everyone says its working on their side smooth AF, its more likely your hardware has an issue. And even if a 750 watt PSU might be enough today with modern CPUs that don't eat as much watt as older CPUs, it might be an issue on spikes that let your system freeze!

It‘s worth to look into the sensors and check the watt usage under load of your hardware!

Hello, I have recently decided to switch to the Linux world on my main computer, and I wanted to know if my printer will work on it.

Hp LaserJet Pro MFP M125nw

I use with wifi without any cables

And what will be best distribution for gaming and programming?

Nvidia is much cheaper than AMD in my country. I don't mind using the non-free driver for a few years but I want to be free eventually. I hate dealing with random issues all the time caused by the non-free driver.

Can anyone knowledgable comment on how realistic it is for NVK to be within like 10% of the non-free driver and how long it's likely to take?

I use fedora btw.