Anyway to use one or the other for everything? HGL now has GOG multiplayer support so you can play Baldur's Gate 3 online with crossplay etc. But HGL doesn't have a way to add emulated games. I don't know of anyway to add HGL library to Lutris or enable gog online in Lutris. Would be nice to have a single application for game library. Anyone know of any possibilities? submitted by /u/dp27thelight
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Very frustrating. I've been looking forward to a game for quite a while, and they're only just no saying that they have no plans to make it playable for Linux, when it releases on Monday. If it doesn't even work on proton, this is incredibly shitty

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Now I’m aware this question has been asked probably thousands of times, but I need advice.

I prefer the gnome desktop environment and the easy terminal installation of applications and general use of Linux over windows, but I need a distro to stick with long term. (No ai nonsense ads telemetry and less resource usage is also a plus of Linux aswell)

I don’t want a DIY approach I’d like to have everything ready out of the box, arch does this and I dislike that approach of things, I just want something that works, I also don’t want a niche distro as I’d like to keep it simple and have a large community/company involved.

Desktop: I prefer the gnome desktop environment by far over the rest, I’ve tried most and it’s what I prefer. Way better than taskbar workflow with windows and kde desktop in my opinion. Wayland is also a must.

Release cadence: I’d like a distro that doesn’t update constantly, I tend to not use my computer for a while at times, and I’ve heard that this causes problems for arch based distributions, I also don’t want tons of bugs in my system due to bleeding edge software. I don’t want to tinker about with my system and waste my time.

Gaming: I mainly game on steam, don’t use mods or anything involved like that, I just play the games and recently converted my pc to amd for maximum Linux compatibility, (7800xt gpu and ryzen 7 7700) Flatpak or native steam I’m not really fussed. As long as it gets the job done.

Now all things considered Ubuntu should be the choice, fairly new since it’s just some version of Debian testing, but not too new like fedora and it’s constantly changing kernel versions mesa versions etc, but, too many times I see the community not recommend Ubuntu, probably due to snap (which I wouldn’t use but I also don’t care at all that it’s on my system, I’d just use flatpak instead in the terminal) should I just use Ubuntu? I really just need something that works here.

I also see the community not recommend Ubuntu due to bad gaming compatibility, is this the case? As long as the performance is similar to the rest, of the distros, I do not mind.

EDIT:: Thank you everyone for the info, based on your answers I’ll most likely use Ubuntu 25.04 first, mainly with flatpaks, and if any problems arise then Bazzite is where I’ll go. Thanks everyone.

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I was just wandering around a huge retail shop with lots of laptops, I've seen some pretty gaming laptops with Ubuntu installed on it. They had some custom stuff on the DE, and it looked beautiful. This got me thinking, what stops companies from having one of those gaming centered distros installed by default? Like Garuda, i love their design tbh. Wouldn't it be awesome? Even maybe SteamOS. It would even be cheaper. We would exterminate windows!

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Apparently, there's a bug with BG3 which causes the texture filtering setting to not affect the game, which in turn causes hair textures to not look great. To solve this, you can use an environment variable to force an anisotropic texture filter to the game. In Lutris, right click on the game and press Configure, next go to System options and enter the RADV_TEX_ANISO environment variable to the list as shown in the image.

If you're running the game in a terminal, you should be able to run it like so:

$ RADV_TEX_ANISO=16 wine /path/to/game.exe

Just thought I'd share in case anyone else experiences this issue!

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Recently I started a new run of Fallout New Vegas. My first time playing it on Linux. Most of the time It works fine and never crashes to desktop. but It does hang occasionally. Doesn't happen very often. About 4 or 5 times for 50+ hours of gameplay so far. However, when it does hang, it hangs my entire system. I can’t switch to other TTYs using Ctrl+Alt+F2, nor can I SSH into it from another device. Normally, when Linux freezes, I can switch to a different TTY or SSH in, but nothing works when this game hangs. I’m forced to do a hard reboot every time it happens.

Are there any ways to prevent these hangs? Honestly, even a crash-to-desktop would be preferable to this

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I installed Ubuntu on Asus TUF F16 laptop. And i discovered there asus-nb-wmi kernel driver is installed by default. With this installed i am able to use some of Armoury Crate features on Linux. But i wonder if i should install asusctl and supergfxctl still? What are they good for?

Thank you!

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Hello linux-gaming, I've run into a very annoying to solve problem, basically, my GPU has only 4gb V-RAM, and so do the integrated graphics (I run a laptop), and so, I have this problem where games always crash when I use hybrid, its just a matter of time, and with Nvidia-only I am hamstrung severly and eventually it will cause issues if im listening to music or listening to a video in the backgound. or in a discord call.

I'm not sure what to do.

my laptop is an FX506LHB, its got a 1650 GTX, 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-10300H CPU @ 2.50GHz, and 32gb of Ram, and also 2 NVME 1tb SSD's.

my Distro is Debian 12, my DE is X11 running KDE Plasma version 5.27.5., im using envycontrol to choose hybrid and nvidia modes.

I really don't know whats wrong here. I can use wayland in hybrid, and it wont crash, but i get this horrible square shaped screen-tearing, where its like, it horizontally and vertically tears, and it lags hard in ways I don't experience on X11 in the same game. (Victoria 3).

does anyone have advice on this?

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Hello everyone,

I just bought a new Roccat Kone Pro mouse and configured it on Windows 10 using Swarm. Im a huge Minecraft player so I tested my cps with butterfly and drag click.

On Windows, they were very high for me(abt. 18 for butterfly and 30 for drag click)

On Linux, the cps were way lower, for butterfly only 10cps at most and drag clicking always only registered one click.

I figured its because of the debounce time setting in swarm, but I connected the mouse to another win10 PC without swarm and I got the same cps as the other win10 install.

I tried roccat-tools, eruption and so on, but they didnt support Kone Pro.

I know that the RGB and key settings are stored on the mouse because they work on every system, but I don't know whether thats for polling rate and debounce time too.

I believe the linux mouse drivers are not supporting any debounce time settings and are not supporting fast clicking.

What do you guys think whats the problem here?

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I can run the game perfectly but when i boot up the dlc this shows up and I've tried every proton and wine version but it still persists can somebody help with this

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Hi,

I have recently re downloaded no man sky and i am running into an issue where all my application freeze when i play no man sky for a bit or when i switch to a different virtual desktop. The applications only unfreeze when i close no man sky.

I am also running into a weird thing where if i change anything in the graphical settings my fps goes down to 20-30fps till i close the game and restart then it goes back to normal.

Wondering if anyone here got a fix for these problems.

I run Fedora 42 KDE spin.

Graphic card: Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060

Processors: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6 Core Processor

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Idk if anyone has ran into similar problems but I am trying to play Red Dead Redemption 2 on my mint machine but I am running into some issues. I'm new to Linux and I was able to get some games working but RDR2 is giving me a bit of a headache. I installed it via Heroic and when I try to launch it says that it need to connect to Rockstar launcher in order to play. When I click to install it just get some errors and it won't play. I know I'm doing something wrong but I need help on what to do.

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Hello,

I have issues while trying to connect the Dualsense to my Fedora Install.

I'm able to use the controller just fine after pairing, but I doesn't work the next times I try to connect it.

It seems the controller connects for a second and then disconnects automatically.

Do you know what I can try to troubleshoot?

Thanks in advance!

[bluetoothctl]> connect 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Attempting to connect to 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-create-socket [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: yes [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: no [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: yes [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: no [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: yes [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: no [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: yes [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: no [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: yes [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: no [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: yes [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: no [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: yes [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: no [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: yes [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: no [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: yes [CHG] Device 50:EE:32:52:D4:5E Connected: no submitted by /u/full01
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I installed bazzite yesterday, and i discovered that if i want to play my epic games library, i have to launch it from epic games not lutris or steam interface (the steam deck interface that is) but not i want a solution to show fps and other data using a shortcut, how can i achieve that?

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After years of enjoying the Steam Deck I am putting together a budget ish build to complement it with 1080p60fps streaming capability on high settings for the next few years. I will essentially be using this PC to stream heavier games like Alan Wake 2 and Helldivers 2 to my deck.

It will be a ryzen 3600 (later will consider an upgrade to 5700x or something appropriate as required) paired with 16GB DDR4 and an RX 9060 XT GB running out of an NZXT H210 (yeah I should've done more research and probably would've gone with the CH160 with the last weeks price drop but the person I bought it off didn't have issues). I went for this GPU as it seems like this generation's RX 580 and seems capable of handling the job for which I require, and I figured AMD driver support nudged me the rest of the way. This should last me the next 3-5 years without any need for major upgrades.

I'm currently deciding between which OS distro to try out. SteamOS was my original go to now it's out there for any device to use, but I've also had a play with Bazzite Linux on an old testbench PC that wasn't so bad

Otherwise most of my linux experience has been with ubuntu / debian whereas I knoe Bazzite is built off Fedora

Of the two I suspect Bazzite is probably going to be my go to... is there any reason to go with ankther Distro?

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i got acces to voicechat but my mic isnt giving sound to sober, how can i change my microphone in this?

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Same hardware, same desktop, same settings. Only difference between the two tests is the distro.

Both running on Proton GE 10.4

Fedora has a slightly lower minimum FPS l, but I'd just put that down to variance.

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