Kubuntu 24

X11 works as intended

Rtx 3080 550 drivers (535 same issue)

Games run like garbage but the desktop is working as intended. Dual 144hz monitors.

I've switched back to x11 for now but would like to use Wayland for individual scaling and vrr.

I saw posts that are from 2022 talking about this but it seems to have been/should have been fixed?

I'm curious if anybody has debugged this before. I updated league to play with some friends last night and had to install Vanguard (I know). Now, when I boot linux (NixOS), which is on a separate drive, after logging in at the SDDM screen I boot to a black desktop. Cursor is visible.

The display still works partially: I have discord set to run on startup and the updating popup shows as usual. I can also get to my terminal using my shortcut, and then run firefox where I am typing this now. But anything to do with the display manager (Plasma 6.0) like my background, the taskbar, or the start menu when pressing Windows is black/does not display. I can also tell my refresh rate is a lot lower.

The only changes I made were updating League/installing Vanguard and changing a thermal setting in BIOS (back to a default that NixOS booted just fine with previously.

My plan is to uninstall league from Windows, but I am not sure that will unbork this situation.

Thanks.

Hello people, i recently switched to Linux Mint and i have problems setting up vrr. I have a 100Hz monitor connected through HDMI to an AMD RX 7600. Im on the latest kernel version. Im sorry if i missed something. Im very new to Linux so a detailed guide would be helpful. Thank you.

A family member recently upgraded and I bought his old system cheap and I'm looking to install Bazzite on it and find my way around it with a view to it replacing Win 11 on my main gaming PC.

The PC I'm going to install on is an i5 8400, 1070 gpu, and 16GB ram, my main PC is a Ryzen 9 5900x, 3080ti, and 32Gb ram.

I was wondering how much of issue an Nvidia GPU is, and any other pitfalls I might encounter, I wont be dual booting though in the future I might depending if there's some game that I play that wont run on Linux that I must have, though afaik my library looks good for Linux.

Also is ublue worth looking at, it came up when I searched for Bazzite OS to download and it has an Nvidia OS? Or is it still a bit raw for a newbie?

The last time I tried Darktide on linux the game had a serious texture streaming problem, to the point were the texture won't load. I know the problem exist in windows as well but it's not has bad as it is on linux.

Does anyone know if it's fixed or if there's a way to minimize the problem?

Thanks!

Hello. I installed Debian 12.5.0 on my netbook yesterday and then updated the system, installed snapd, steam and openra and then I was going to install Warcraft - Orcs & Humans and it failed. Some mumbojumbo about timeout or whatever.

I followed these instructions for everything I mentioned. https://snapcraft.io/warcraft

Why is that? Can someone help me?

I’m currently on Nobara OS with the latest nvidia drivers, using wine-ge 8.26 with wayland and besides flickering, i cant run with stable fps, although my setup is quite old (i5 2500 + 8gb DDR3 + gtx 1050ti) it should be able to handle f* 30fps at least, right?

Currently with gamescope disabled (for some reason if I enable it it won’t launch)

I have followed every reddit post possible, my current settings, in general is - Fsync disabled (the game crashes in the loading screen if enabled) - Esync disabled (for the same reason above) - Nvidia VAPI enabled - DXVK and VK3D enabled - pdh.dll installed - Already passing DXVK_CONFIG env variable

Hi all,

I installed Linux Mint on my laptop and was able to successfully add a game which is installed via Lutris (Flatpak) to Steam (Flatpak) with the help of the Lutris context menu (some permission were missing but I added them in Flatseal). When I try to launch the Lutris game in Steam Big Picture the game is not launching. When I start it directly in Lutris it is working. I already tried and added the /usr/bin and usr/bin/flatpak permission but still it will not start. Had anybody the same issue?

I installed remobed the Flatpak version of Steam and installed the native Steam Client as well to try it out and there it works fine. I assume must be a missing legacy library or a permission in the Flatpak version. Anybody an idea why it is not working?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Do you have the same Problem when you have (Example: Intel i5-12600k) And the Game start and instantly stops?

The solution inside run options: - OpenSSL_ia32cap=:~0x20000000 %command%

Enjoy the game again!

I want to fully switch from windows 10 to linux probably mint or Fedora. I occasionally stream but noticed my older el gato hd60 s will not work with Linux. Also some editing software Photoshop, Adobe premiere. Can I just convert current machine to a virtual machine? Or dual boot using 2 different nvme drives? What would be better as I want to stream still and edit things. What is the better solution as I want to daily Linux but on occasions use Windows for streaming and editing. Also I'm able to use 3 monitors different refresh rates? Hardware specs: Intel i7-13700k 32gb ddr5 Nocutua dh cooler 3 x gen 4 nvme 1tb drives 30tb HDD mix lot 3060 12gb variant

Hi! I've been using a Framework Laptop 16 as of recent. For the past few years I have been on GNOME - I find it to be a very nice experience, especially on laptops, and for productivity workloads. The whole dynamic desktop system is great. So I know that moving to KDE would solve this issue, but I want to leave that option for last since I'm perfectly happy working with GNOME. I also remember having a lot of trouble with Plasma, Wayland and my weird monitor layout, another reason why I am hesitant to try again. I also cannot change the "Wayland" variable - my combo of internal 2k monitor, 165 Hz, 175% scaled and external 4k, 60 Hz, 200% scaled, both VRR enabled, both through DisplayPort, makes X11 pretty much a no-go. I would also lose the sweet touchpad gestures.

That has worked well on my Dell Inspiron 5000, with a 15.6" 1080p screen. 100% scaling - large text would do the trick.

Due to this laptop's hidpi screen, I enabled fractional scaling with a scale of 175%. At 200%, UI elements are so big that they get out of the screen and actually bug out - like the "active" white dots in the dash overlap the icons. Everything works nicely as long as it's forced to run in Wayland mode, but XWayland clients run at the gloriously high resolution of 915p.

There are cases where it's desirable - like very heavy games: I am running on the Radeon 780M iGPU, not much of a gamer so it didn't make sense to me to shell out for the Graphics Module - but mostly, I would like to run my lightweight games at native 1600p without having to rever to 100% first. You know, Stardew Valley and Terraria, etc.

I have tried using Gamescope to get around this - it should work in theory, but I am struggling getting it to work. What started this experiment was reading about how Gamescope works - it's a Wayland compositor that can run nested and has its own XWayland instance. In theory, running games in Gamescope's native XWayland instance and then having Gamescope run as a nested Wayland compositor through the Wayland socket should - theoretically - allow me to run the game and XWayland both at native resolution, as it's not using Mutter's scaled XWayland. However, Gamescope still seems to run under XWayland for some reason, as games are still blurry and the max res is still 915p, not to speak of the games that just refuse to launch with it. I'm using everything through Flatpak, from Steam to Mesa to Gamescope. I'm not sure if this is the culprit and moving my gaming stuff outside of the sandbox would help? But it's like 200 GB of disk space that I would need to redownload, so I don't want to do that as a "empty" attempt.

Did anybody with GNOME and Wayland ever solve this issue?

Are there any nice looking UI packages/projects to display cpu/gpu/etc.. data.

Use case: to put on internal monitor.

Lightweights are always a bonus.

thanks in advance

hi guys,
i have to leave home for like 5 months or so and i only have this laptop can you give me some good games i can to play in it besides (stardew valley, terraria)...

https://preview.redd.it/3owbip9e453d1.png?width=1048&format=png&auto=webp&s=eae6365bb5f2ccf0d1214b07ab961068b6505fe1

As much as I want to like AMD card as a hard core linux user, I honestly have had much better gaming experience with NVIDIA than AMD cards in the past decades of gaming on linux. My last 6750XT had encountered a bug left unfixed for months (that crashes the whole system under heavy load if not manually setting a power limit) before I upgraded to the current 4080 super, which has been running solid.

However I'm looking to replace the 4080 super with a 7900xtx card, primarily because its 24GB of VRAM is really sweet for local large language models I have been playing with lately, but I'm dreading the subpar gaming performance I may face again. I wonder if AMD has pushed new drivers for their newer cards.

Games I play include CS2, AOE4, and some other random 3A titles.

Hey guys, I've been running Arch for awhile and games run amazing on it, but I've wanted to move on from Arch recently. With Arch, I had TSX support and better performance, but on every other distro(Debian 12, Fedora 40, Ubuntu 24, etc) I've had noticeably worse performance and no TSX support. The only notable difference that I can tell is the lack of TSX support, so I'm assuming that's why there is a performance difference between Arch and other distros.

Is there anyway to implement TSX support on Ubuntu or get Ubuntu performing as well as Arch?

Hi All,

Been gifted a surface pro 3 which works nicely as is but I'd like to set it up as a basic gaming tablet with steam and possible other gaming apps for nostalgia. I will probably play some games connected to my 65" TV.

What are peoples opinions on the most suitable OS here between Chimera, Garuda, Bazzite and Nobara?

Also what are peoples opinions on decent controllers?

Hi everyone,

I encounter some issues with GoT.

Did anyone manage to have DualSense haptic feedback working ? Only the adaptative triggers seems to work for me.

I also have an issue with HDR. Colors are all wrong, for example the text is literally yellow :D

I tried Wine-GE, Proton-GE and Proton Experimental

So I got chromium on my distro it's working well but I would like to get chrome instead to play cloud gaming (xbox cloud and luna gaming amazon) As I got both account.

So I downloaded a fedora version of chrome online. I know i got the chrome version in my distro in the app library (flatpak??).

I downloaded the files and extracted them in my personal folder but I have no clue where is the exe.

If I dont say shi# i know appimage file are the equivalence of exe on linux. ( i am not sure).

I did not found any appimage file in the folder. can sombody help me out on this. thanks

Hi guys,

Pondering a switch or dual boot set up to bazzite or chimera for both gaming and work but have a few q's:

1 - For my work I need Zoom and Slack - i can see native linux apps so assuming this will be fine?

2 - I need firefox or chrome to access gmail and google calendar, assuming this is good to go

3 - I need Google drive to access company folders and docs - understand web browser can do this but it will reduce productivity when you need to just rename files, copy, paste jump between folders etc. Can google drive work just like in windows using something like insync?

4 - Microsoft office - again web browser 365 sub can get this done, but desktop version imo saves time and boosts productivity. any user friendly/easy way to run office in linux or bazzite? I am thinking that if google drive can work natively via insync or something i can accept the compromise of using office via web browser

My last question is if i experiment via dual boot right now, how easy is it to remove the windows partition/delete and have linux take over the whole ssd?

Thanks for any help, total noob here tired of microsoft and just keen to see if this will work for me