Looking for some helpful advice in my current situation. I have been running windows 11 for some time and decided to go back to Linux (previously ran Arch) on my machine. I don't really remember why I went back to W11. Last night, I wiped everything and installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. So far so good, ran an update, computer crashed. Reinstalled OpenSUSE and this time it worked fine.

Installed steam, discord, and lutris. I have 3 main ssds. 1TB Crucial for boot and OS, 1TB Gen 5 Crucial for my primary gaming, and 1TB Gen 4 Samsung for extra game space and work related tasks.

When I installed steam, it went straight to my boot and OS drives. Tried installing Battlenet this way but I couldn't make steam install the proton environment in my Gen 5 Crucial drive since it's a non-steam game. So steam isn't really an option for me. That's when I diverted to lutris.

Went through the steps to install battle.net and failed. Wine 8.26 does not work for battle.net in anyway I tried. Switched to proton-experimental and was able to install and login to battle.net and install wow where I wanted it to.

Launched the game, immediately noticed performance was worse. My fps was up in the 200s on 1440p native with high settings but it had horrible stutter and frame drops. On top of that, certain assets would be pitch black and just GROW. Like a small section of water was blacked out and it slowly expanded until the entire body of water was black.

I also tried another launcher (I think faumgus or something like that) and it just didn't work whatsoever.

In Windows 11, I was able to get an average of 250fps in most areas and get close to 300fps without FSR or Frame Gen. Fully native gameplay.

CPU - 9800X3D GPU - Powercolor Hellhound 7900XTX RAM - 32GB of DDR5@6000MT/s OS - OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

I guess my question is... Is world of Warcraft really better on Linux and worth the time to setup on Linux? Does it even work as of November 2025? Is it going to break or perform worse everytime there is an update?

What OS should I be looking at? And what's the best practice for installing WoW currently? Most resources I found are at least 3 months old which updates can easily break in that time frame.

Hi everyone — I'm putting together a living-room PC dedicated to emulation and could use some advice. Specs: Ryzen 5 5600GT (integrated graphics), 16GB DDR4 3200MHz, 512GB NVMe. Which OS would you recommend for this use case: Batocera, Bazzite, or ChimeraOS? Is there a noticeable performance difference between them? With these specs, how well could I expect Switch emulation to run?

I have a separate 4 tb drive that I am thinking of making my main OS on desktop. Specs are:

AMD 5800x3D RTX 3080 32 GB Ram 3200 mhz

Is there anything here that would mess things up in, say Bazzite, like the CPU being a little niche or is 3D cache more mainstream and it’s fine?

What Nvidia drivers to not lose performance over Windows please?

Thank you

yes, most of these games are borked, but both roblox and minecrafy work perfectly without any problems, and also gain a noticeable framerate boost.

Hi.

This was most likely asked a ton before, but I was not able to find any concrete answers.

Does secure boot prevent me from dual booting CachyOS? As I play BF6 and other games that require secure boot and would like to keep windows for that purpose.

I fear that secure boot might break my cachyOS or windows itself.

On top of this. Would dual booting mess up drivers for windows or Linux? Cuz I am not sure how drivers work on Linux if having dual booting would break anything at all.

Hi,

Does anybody know how to get mouse movement inputs recognized in Xenia Canary Mousehook via Xenia Manager running on Linux Mint (Steam via apt - Proton GE 10-25) for Gears of War 2?

Everything runs fine, even mouse buttons are working, but not the mouse movement.

not a performance issue because my camera works fine with my keyboard

not sure if its nvidia-specific but i have an rtx 3060

happens in fullscreen aswell

also id rather not use gamescope as a catch-all solution

Online Dota games stutter to the point that it is unplayable. It feels like its a graphics issue when it happens but the game runs fine in bot matches and only poorly in online games. Hoping someone can give me some tips on troubleshooting this as my ping and packet loss (according to Dota) appear to be fine. Thanks

Just started playing this game and wanted to warn people.
If you are having bad performance, try enabling Proton.

The game has a native Linux build that runs pretty horribly in my experience...
I was getting around 50 fps at medium settings and FSR balanced and didn't know this game had a Linux build.

Switched to Proton and I am now getting 100+ in most cases at high settings and FSR quality.
Worst I've seen it drop since switching to Proton is the low 90s.

Included my neofetch at the end so you know what I'm working with (it's a prebuilt HP shitbox from 2018 with upgraded RAM. Plays most games well especially since I have a boomer taste outside of Fortnite).

Sonic Adventure DX vanilla from Steam runs perfectly but I much prefer the Dreamcast conversion mod with no border and better graphics. Installing the mod worked just fine but running it doesn't let me play the game. I've seen a few support threads on GameBanana and some other places but none of them had any replies. Can anyone help out here? I'd love to play the optimal version of this classic on my main rig.

I recently switched to Linux. First, I tried Bazzite, then Fedora 42, and finally settled on CachyOS. Before switching to Linux, I saved my Final Fantasy game to my secondary hard drive. When I installed the game on Linux, I noticed some strange stuttering (on all three Linux distributions) that didn't happen on Windows. So I tried Proton GE and the CachyOS version, but nothing changed; the stuttering persisted. Since I'm new to this system, I don't want to mess with things I shouldn't, so any help is greatly appreciated!

My PC specs:

Ryzen 7 5700X3D

2x16GB RAM 3600MHz

RX 6800XT

All installed on a 1TB M.2 SSD

frametime

i found a thread from 2 years ago on here but i figured its out of date. i tried googling around for nvidia gpus but couldnt find much. im thinking about undervolting my cpu(5 5500 and gpu(3060) i figured that some of you that are more experienced on linux would know

I'm new on linux, so I might be not good at troubleshooting.
But every game I'm running with steam, heroic, lutris or any application run through wine will freeze after playing for couple minute, but the audio still working in background.

My spec:
Acer Nitro V AN515-43
Ram: 16GB
SSD:512GB
GPU: GTX 1650 Moble / iGPU Radeon
CPU: AMD R5 3550H
Linux Mint 22.2
Kernel: 6.14-general
Driver: Nvidia-580-open

The game is geometry dash, and no matter which proton version i use, it wont work. the game will load like normal, with menu music and im even able to press the buttons, but the graphics wont load. can someone help me please?

Hello, I transitioned into linux a week or two ago, and every time I launch a game on steam, audio completely stops working. What I was doing to mediate was play an audio or music video in the background as the game launched and that seemed to fix it. But after a couple of minutes of playing it stopped working again, does anyone know how to fix this?