I'm using KDE Plasma on Wayland with dual monitors which have different scaling, as one is 1440p at 125% scaling and one is 4K at 180% scaling.

Before I start any game, I need to wrap it with gamescope, otherwise it tries rendering at a much larger resolution then my monitors native resolution (3686 x 2074 compared to 2560 x 1440).

I know that this happens because of scaling, but I just don't understand why I need Gamescope to solve this issue, why can't the window manager deal with this? Why can't it tell the program that the native res is 1440p and have it on the screen correctly? Or is there a way to do this that I am missing?

Running KDE Plasma 6.6.2 (Wayland) on Artix Linux x64 6.18.9-zen1 kernel, with a RX 9070 XT

I'm looking into buying A20x headphones. I'm playing on PC (Nobara, KDE), Steam Deck and PS5. Did anyone had any issues with connecting those headphones especially with desktop PCs? I've read some threads on Reddit regarding issues when using A20x on ubuntu, but the threads were couple years old so I don't know if the issue persist on any other distros. (I'm also looking into arcits nova 7 gen 2)

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/s/6ObOThhrAX

Tell me they did something other than stalling, because i have a feeling they have a contract with windows to slowdown/make linux....not UNPLAYABLE but rather worse in dxvk12 games

what the title says

I am struggling with controller's bluetooth connection when using Bottles. Natively (without Bottles) bluetooth can handle everything exceptionally well, even up to 4 gamepads, keyboard, mouse - all work like a charm. However, games ran through Bottles seem to have issues with HID and shortly after the game starts, gamepad seems dead (sometimes I can achieve one or two successful inputs, like go through the main menu of the game, but then 1 minute later the gamepad restarts and there's no connection). Dmesg confirms it. Evtest shows every single pad's input without issue all the time.

I've tried to run the same game under Lutris - without any issues. This confirms it's not a hardware related issue, but specific Bottles sandbox/isolation. I'd really like to stay with Bottles this case, and I don't want to use Lutris.

I use CachyOS, Bottles installed through pacman.

What I have tried so far: - Turning off Feral mode - Running Bottles via Steam with controller compatibility options - SDL_JOYSTICK_HIDAPI=0 variable - DisableHidraw=1 and Enable SDL=1 in prefix's windows registry - Installing xinput dependancies - Assigning controller as "trusted" - Various prefixes, clean bottle set-up - sudo usermod -aG input,uinput $USER

Looking for some new clues on how to fix this. Appreciate any input.

I vibe coded Synapse like tool for linux. Only tested on my Naga Pro v2 so far with PikaOs (debian).

Working features on my setup:

-All sidepanels working bindings

-Modifier keys, you can use shift, ctrl or alt to change binding behind every button

-Working macros with mouse and with keyboard

-Profile and rgb switching based on active programs

Would like to hear some feedback if some of you test it.

If possible I can add more device support if requested.

https://github.com/laglotus/Synapse-Lite/tree/main

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This is more of an informative post, to help if someone has the same problem.

Yesterday I got very frustrated trying to use a DualSense and DualShock 4 Controller on my fresh Arch install. They would connect, but their input was inconsistent. My keyboard (also connected over bluetooth) worked fine before the controllers were connected but as soon as one of them was connected, it also struggled.

The simple fix was to enable WiFi again (I turned it off, as I use an ethernet connection). I have a Gigabyte B850 Gaming WIFI6 mainboard.

Hello i would like to know what is a good linux distro for intel gpu B580. I have tried cachyos but i coudnt find a app that allowed me to configure my gpu. I have amd gpu so there everything is fine. I used to use popos but that was half a year ago before i bought intel gpu and i want to go back to linux but since i had problems on cachyos with my intel gpu i havent tried anything since. Also it would be nice if somoune could also recommend an app for linux that works like intel app on windows.

Hi everyone,

i am trying to add a drive to Steam using the Add Drive button in the Storage settings.
The drive is a 1TB ext4 mounted to /mnt/Games and there is no problem accessing the drive.
The drive was used on a previous install of KDE Neon where it was mounted to /mnt/Games as well
The steam library files are still on the drive, and reformatting isn't really an option as i do not want to spend multiple days re downloading the games

I do not get any errors at all. I pick the drive, hit okay, the selection windows closes and nothing happens.

Your experience can be shared under this post 😊
I am curios how did people switch to linux
( Linux user myself, currently on void linux and cachy os on several devices )

So I've just installed Wuwa on steam deck and using ge proton and I got this message any ideas?

AI coded scripts and programs are dangerous and should be trusted even less than the random, human coded stuff online.

This is Big

This download includes the NVIDIA graphics driver and an option to additionally install the NVIDIA App

I'd rather not risk breaking my installation, but if this has feature parity with the Windows version, i.e., it allows me to redeem my free copy of RE:Requiem, I might have to chance it.

playing DS: DC with a PS5 controller it kept cutting out--it wasnt disconnecting, but rather DS would stop receiving inputs from it entirely until i turned it off and on again. the controller seemed to otherwise be fine. this seemed to become unplayably bad as soon haptic feedback started happening; the triggers will push back but then the game will stop receiving inputs despite the triggers still applying resistance.. anyone have any luck fixing this? im assuming enabling steaminput will make it work, but id like to have the cool controller features =(

for specs i am on arch and have dualsensectl installed, and am using bluetooth. other games have worked just fine with these features (like warframe)

I am relatively new to Linux operating systems and am trying to get to get Minecraft console edition running. I've got it to boot but after booting it freezes and the terminal gives message " --ozone-platform=wayland is not not compatible with Vulkan. Consider switching to --ozone-platform=x11 or disabling Vulkan." After some brief research I couldn't find anyway to solve this in anyway that made a lick of sense to me. Am I at a complete impasse? Does anyone know anyway to solve this?

Hey everyone!

I've been working on dsxtool — a modular, interactive Bash script to automate the boring parts of setting up Linux after a fresh install. Instead of copy-pasting commands from a wiki every time, you get an fzf-powered menu that handles everything for you.

What it does

TLP power management — detects your current power manager (tuned, power-profiles-daemon, system76-power) and replaces it with TLP if you want

Desktop environments — installs KDE Plasma, XFCE, Hyprland, Cosmic, or Hyprland (csouzape edition)

Development setup — languages (Python, C++, Rust, Go, Node.js) and IDEs (VS Code, Zed, Neovim/LazyVim, Kate)

Wallpapers — clones a wallpaper repo straight to ~/Pictures/wallpapers

Flatpak — installs Flatpak and adds Flathub

Virtualization — sets up QEMU/KVM + virt-manager + libvirt with network config

Fonts — downloads and installs Nerd Fonts and dev fonts

Alacritty — installs and applies a custom config

yay (Arch only) — installs the AUR helper

Supported distros

Arch Linux (pacman), Debian/Ubuntu (apt), Fedora (dnf). Distro is detected automatically from /etc/os-release — no manual config needed.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/csouzape/dsxtool

cd dsxtool

chmod +x install.sh

./install.sh

Want to contribute?

If you find a bug, open an issue: https://github.com/csouzape/dsxtool/issues

If you want to add a feature or fix something, open a PR: https://github.com/csouzape/dsxtool/pulls

Ideas I'm thinking about adding:

More desktop environments (GNOME, Cinnamon, BSPWM)

zsh / fish shell setup module

Dotfiles module

Repo: https://github.com/csouzape/dsxtool

Would love to hear what modules you'd want added, or if something breaks on your setup. All feedback welcome!

March 9th, 2026 - Windows 595.84, Linux 595.44.02

• New:
  • descriptorHeapCaptureReplay support
  • Image compression support for multi-planar YCbCr formats
  • DMA-BUF export with DRM format modifiers for YCbCr formats (compression support pending)
• Fixes:
  • VK_EXT_descriptor_heap performance improvements
  • Fix descriptor heap alignment requirements
  • Fix depth image corruption after copy on compute or transfer only queue
  • Use VkRenderingAttachmentInfo.resolveMode correctly for dynamic rendering color resolve
  • Improve device lost behavior from affecting other devices in the instance
  • Fix depth image feedback loop detection in vkCmdSetRenderingInputAttachmentIndices
  • Miscellaneous fixes and improvements for Vulkan video
  • Fix corruption with custom resolve and mutlisample attachment storeOp not being STORE_OP_STORE
  • Fixed an issue with AV1 encoding producing scrambled output on Blackwell GPUs

does anyone know of an app i can use to monitor how much power my cpu and gpu is drawing i want an app that can take an 24 hrs monitoring and upload it to an text file in document dir

im on Ubuntu unity atm so an flatpak or deb or snap is fine