Is there a Linux program to monitor CPU and GPU temperatures that automatically log them to files, keeping a record for months/years? I thought it would be useful to look for slow increases of max temp and whether there are significant changes when dusting out the case or applying fresh thermal paste. Also I am an incurable data hoarder.

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Hi everyone, this might not be the right subreddit, but r/linux won't allow me to post. I was wondering if anyone else has the same (or similar) setup as mine so I can get more info about full GPU passthrough inside of Windows VM running on Linux.

My specs: - MSI Tomahawk B450 MAX II (what concerns me the most) - Ryzen 5 5600X - RTX 3060 - RX 580 on the way

I want to use the RX 580 as the main GPU for my main system (Linux) and fully pass RTX 3060 into the Windows 10/11 VM so I can you know.. game or run some windows-only apps that require GPU acceleration, the regular stuff. What bothers me though is the fact that Deepseek (I know I know I dont't have a better source, so here I am) said that there might be some quirks with IOMMU on the B450 chipset, something about grouping and the inability to pass only the GPU into the VM separately, as well as the that I might need to put the 3060 in the PCIe 2.0 x16 slot, it's not the biggest problem, although I've done some benchmarks yesterday in Cyberpunk 2077 and I'm losing about 10-15 FPS (~95 vs ~110) when the 3060 is in the PCIe 2.0 slot, which might not sound like a lot, but I expect the losses will be much more significant in the VM.

Maybe someone has an experience with this motherboard or chipset in this matter? Will be grateful for any advice.

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I was getting huge FPS drops and stuttering in GTA IV, especially when going outside. Indoors FPS was high, but outside it tanked hard. Tried a lot of tweaks, but the thing that instantly fixed it was this: ➡️ Enable the Steam Overlay for GTA IV Steps: Open Steam Right-click GTA IV → Properties Enable Steam Overlay Launch the game That’s it. After enabling it, my FPS jumped to 120+ and the stuttering disappeared completely. No graphics changes, no config edits, no mods — just the overlay. This game is weirdly sensitive to how it’s hooked/rendered, and the overlay seems to force proper behavior. Posting this because I haven’t seen many people mention it, and it worked immediately for me. Hopefully it helps someone else who’s losing their mind with GTA IV performance.

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Curious if anyone has gotten hosting online play working. I'm using OpenSUSE and ProtonVPN with moderate NAT and IPv6. Share code generates but friend can't connect. Enabled UDP port 5520 in firewall settings.

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Hi everyone, this is my first time posting in the community. I'm really keen to try Bazzite, but I'd like to know how much of a performance difference there is between this operating system and Windows 11. I have a computer with an Intel i3-9100f, an RX 570 4GB, a 512GB NVMe SSD, a 2TB hard drive, and 16GB of RAM. I plan to dual-boot on the SSD, but I'm not sure what will happen to the hard drive. Is there any way to partition the hard drive after installing both operating systems on the SSD, so that one partition is used for Windows and the other for Bazzite? Or do you have any other recommendations? Thanks in advance, greetings from Argentina.

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my system tried to switch to open source drivers, and at the same time while i was researching, I've heard some people are having performance decreases, should i update? (Ryzen 5 8645HS, RTX 4050)

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I really wanna change my Windows installation on my pc to a Linux distro, I tried it a few times using Manjaro, Endeavour and Ubuntu, and each time I encountered this weird bug For the record, I run on a Ryzen 7 5800x and an RTX 3060 So I play a lot of Clair Obscur Expedition 33, and on Linux, through Steam's proton and when I alt tabbed out of the game or paused in game during a cinematic, the game would just freeze the video of the cinematic, the sound would still play and the game would play just as normal I tried with both proprietary and open drivers for my GPU, and I didn't really play a lot of other things on these dummies installations so I'm not sure if any other game had glitches or not But if anyone ever encountered this kind of bugs, and knows how to fix it, I'd be grateful to hear how

(If that can help to anyone who never played COE33 but still wanna help, it runs on UE5, and the cinematics are split between audio and video in the game files)

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After years on Windows, I am finally ready to switch to Linux.

I am a Data Engineer and I used to frequently use WSL2 to use Ubuntu for my work. I also have a server that I do homelabbing on (Ubuntu Server). I have spare laptops that I installed: Ubuntu, Mint, and most recently CachyOS. However, apart from installing any given distro, I have not actually used it. I just wanted to check if it loads on an older laptop. Now, I am thinking about switching my daily driver from Windows to Linux.

Currently, I am thinking about these requirements:

• Gaming. I have an NVIDIA RTX 2080 and Intel i7. Not something high end, I don't expect to max out the game settings when I play, but I want the performance to just FEEL good.
• Coding. I kind of expect the environment to be good for coding. I usually use Docker, Python, might even want to try kubernetes someday.
• Stability. I'll be honest, I understand that any linux distro is more hands-on than using something like Windows, however I want something reliable and stable, since I might be too tired after work to try and fix my OS after a minor update.
• Non-breaking updates. This might just be a skill issue, but on one of my laptops I updated Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04 some years back and it wiped out everything. I started thinking I should have a rolling release OS to mitigate this, but as I understand, a rolling release is unstable(?). I would also appreciate if you could recommend how I could update distros without wiping my files, given I only have 1 SSD for the time being.

Initially, I wanted to try CachyOS, but I browsed both the subreddit and here and I have found it to be quite unstable and I am unsure if I should make the switch. But also I have heard it is well optimized for both gaming and coding.

Then I look at Debian, but I saw in their forums of some issues with older drivers and unoptimized kernel (if I correctly remember?) that users said there is a reason why gaming specific distros exist - they are optimized for that.

I also considered dual booting Windows + Linux, but I have read plenty that Windows updates wipe the GRUB bootloader and I don't think I have the time of day for that headache. Maybe if I get a second SSD.

I consider myself a newcomer and would love some recommendations on what could fit my use case!

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Has anybody gotten Hogwarts Legacy to run properly? no matter what Proton I use it is always either a black screen or a white screen and the menu music.
Edit: Running Bazzite-nvidia-legacy

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Hey everybody!
I recently installed Pop!_Os because.... windows. Anyway, I have been trying to install steam for the past hour, and nothing is working! I tried getting the .deb from the website, running "sudo apt install steam", and downloading the steam installer off of my distro's package manager, and through the cosmic store. Nothing has worked. An icon appears in my start menu, but clicking it does nothing. Running the steam command in the terminal was resulting in it crashing, but now after trying to install it a different way, it's giving me the output I put at the bottom of the post. I no longer have access to the output it was giving me before because it stopped outputting it. What should I do? I did change the default desktop environment
(cosmic) to cinnamon because I like the feel better, if that might change something. Thanks for any help!!

CPU: Ryzen 5 5500

GPU: RTX 3070 (Yes, I did install the nvidia version of pop os.)

steam.sh[112034]: Running Steam on pop 24.04 64-bit steam.sh[112034]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically setup.sh[112097]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date! steam.sh[112034]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied [2026-01-14 18:01:49] Startup - updater built Sep 17 2024 20:02:19 [2026-01-14 18:01:49] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/<my_user>/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened' '-nominidumps' '-nobreakpad' ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt". 01/14 18:01:49 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 01/14 18:01:49 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(112148) SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) submitted by /u/TheGreenGamer344
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It’s been a year since I switched 100% to Linux, and I couldn’t be happier. Currently running Arch.

One thing I really miss from Windows, though, is the ability to create a virtual display for streaming with Sunshine/Moonlight.

Why is there still no good solution for this on Linux? Given how flexible the OS is, you’d expect there to be some proper way to do it — but I’ve been researching this for a while and haven’t found a solid solution yet.

KDE allows creating a virtual display on Wayland using krfb-virtualmonitor, but I couldn’t get Sunshine to actually use that virtual monitor.

I also couldn’t find a way to change the refresh rate (it defaults to 60 Hz), and it doesn’t support HDR either (which is less important for me).

Another workaround people use is loading a custom EDID (a binary that contains the resolutions supported by a monitor) into a GPU output, essentially tricking the system into thinking a monitor with the desired resolution is connected.

That doesn’t work in my case, though, because my GPU only has three outputs and I’m already using all of them.

Why do you think a proper solution for this hasn’t been implemented on Linux yet?

Is this a technical limitation (Wayland/Xorg, drivers, etc.), or simply a lack of interest?

I’m posting this to gauge interest in the topic and to share knowledge. Thanks for all the help this sub always provides.

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These days I tried to get Simhub to run for ETS2 and ATS using this ( https://gist.github.com/srlemke/617fe318ea26fed4cbd2edaec9209c86 ) guide.

It works fine for ETS, but for some reason for ATS it won't. So I wanted to start "from" scratch and see if it's because I tried several things that might interfere. What do I have to delete to get everything from ATS gone from my harddrive to have nothing left to interfere for a second attempt?

Edit: I'm on EndeavourOS and play using Steam if that matters.

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This happens after clicking on Setting -> Linux Advanced Settings

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Their website says that wine is able to run it but using bottles and lutris the web login thingy doesn't work.

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here are some things (probably listed in mangohud) that might be useful to figuring out my issue

proton ge 10-28 (it has this issue regardless of version i try)

cachyos

32gb ddr5

r9 9950x3d

rx 9070 xt (though i had the same issue on my old rig with an rx 5500 so i doubt hardware is relevant)

mesa 25.3.3

and i havent installed metaphorfix, it didnt seem like it would be relevant but maybe i completely misinterpreted

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Lets preface this by I have been using windows all my life, and Windows 11 since release and never had issues until recently. These last few months have had nothing but bugs on the same system that was running fine before. Windows explorer constantly crashes (at least a couple times every few hours), even on a fresh install (Full drive whipes) which I did last month.

I am considering running Linux as my main OS and a windows partition for the certain games that wont work on Linux (e.g. Destiny 2, Battlefield 6, for example)

I am a self thought programmer so I would probably also be using the Linux side as my development environment too, luckily the editors I use are cross platform. How is Linux gaming now days? And would I encounter any issues with my system (see specs below). I have a NVidia GPU and unfortunately need to stay with it because I also do some 3D modeling as a hobby as well and pretty much all of the 3D software benefit from Nvidia more.

[PC Specs]

CPU: Ryzen 9 9950X
GPU: RTX 4080 Super
RAM: 64 GB DDR5 (in this Ramagetton, luckily built this pc beginning of 2025 before the memory shortage)
Storage: 6TB NVME (1x 4tb, 1x 2tb)

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I did a clean Linux install like 45 different times and steam always does this on anything but gnome but I don't like gnome. Anyone know how I can fix this? And I tried to call steam support but they had no answers so I figured reddit was my best bet.

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steam input stealing has been making my dualsense not work at all on windows 11 for years and also on linux that I have swapped to due to windows rx 6000 driver support ending, and finally I can play more games on dualsense than poe2 with xinput on ps button glyphs. no longer do you have to lobotomize your dualsense controller and except the fact that it will never have any features or show the correct buttons on screen.
here are some steps:

step 1: run terminal, enter command: lsusb (spelled Lsusb if you are on a dumb font)
step 2: read with your eyeballs, and do this with the dualsense controller plugged in, I use wired, BT can be weird. you should see the sony dualsense controller, and a device ID. mine was" 054c:0ce6".
step 3: go to main steam directory config folder (default: ./home/.local/share/steam/config)
step 4: open config.vdf with gedit or something
step 5: go to end of file and enter this line of code before the last "}":
"controller_blacklist" "054c/0ce6" quotes included, replace numbers with what you got for your controller with lsusb command. the colon ":" is a separation for 2 numbers, the config file just wants a "/" instead of that.
step 6: save and relaunch steam
step 7: done, you have blacklisted steam from detecting your controller through hardware ID on any usb port forever unless that edit is removed from the config. all games directly interact with your dualsense now. if the game doesn't support dualsense, use a different controller. have a fun time :)

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