So I get that Bazzite is a great alternative to SteamOS on a gaming handheld or a console PC or whatever if you only want to game.
I'm using a desktop PC with an NVIDIA 4060.
Bazzite was actually my first "serious" experience with Linux, and it went really well the first couple of months, until I got my hands on an old laptop and felt confident enough to try Arch + Hyprland (not because of PewDiePie).
And it felt so much better than using Bazzite. I'm not gonna lie, but whatever you gain from a beginner-friendly OS with a bunch of stuff preinstalled is not worth the hassle of an atomic OS.
Basically, I'm considering distro hopping to something else. CachyOS...why not? I'm not going for Hyprland. I just want something where setting up NVIDIA drivers and Proton is relatively easy. I want to be able to customize, do cool stuff, etc., but when it comes to gaming, I want as little setup as possible -kind of like Bazzite, with the benefits of Arch Linux.
Is this what CachyOS is about?
Should I just go for Arch with KDE? The only time I used Arch, I used the Archinstall script, so I'm still not exactly sure what I'm doing. Still a Linux newbie, basically.

Recently updated the WiVRn guide hosted on GitHub in markdown to help both new and experienced linux users get a great wireless VR setup running.

The guide is centered around wireless Quest headsets, because that is what I have personally tested with, but any headset that WiVRn supports should work well.

I have fully tested CachyOS, Bazzite, and PikaOS. Guide is fully featured with detailed instructions including photos to help with the setup.

The full guide is hosted here: https://github.com/chaosmaou/wivrn-guide

Please give feedback! I try to keep the guide updated and formatted well. Feel free to report any issues with the guide or formatting on GitHub and I will keep the guide updated accordingly!

I want to play Wuthering Waves on Linux using Proton, but I’m worried about the anti-cheat system. Is there any risk of getting banned just for using Proton?

I have been trying to play games through Xenia Canary using ProtonGE 10-15 and Heroic Games Launcher, but for some reason I get weirdly low CPU/GPU usage and a low/unstable frame rate. I have mainly been testing Saints Row and I actually got the game running at a solid 50-60FPS for a session, but I went to do something and it suddenly went back to running at sub 30 FPS. Oddly enough, when I put on ugly mode, a setting that removes all shading and would make the game run much better on Windows, there is no change in performance. I also get 60-70 fps for a few seconds when loading into the game before it falls back down, like a phantom FPS cap.

I am using patches and a title update, but I have a feeling this is more to do with Linux than Xenia itself. I feel like the application isn't exactly given priority or something like that. If anyone has any experience or ideas, please let me know.

FWIW: I get F8000230 xeRtlNtStatusToDosError 103 => 3E5 in the console constantly when I am running the game.

For some reason, my Metal Gear isn’t working on Linux. I was playing it just fine on Windows, but decided to switch to Linux since I was only using Windows for gaming anyway. I installed Nobara because I’m familiar with DNF, and I also installed vcrun2022. However, when I try to launch the game through Heroic Launcher, it says it needs the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime—even though I’ve already installed it. What could be causing this, and how can I fix it?

I am usign Heroic Launcher 2.18.1(flatpak), with the latest wine and proton,

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Sorry if I did something wrong, it's my first time using Reddit, and English is not my first language.

I have GTX 1650 with the proprietary Nvidia Drivers, version 575.64.03.

I've tried every version of proton available on Steam.

First, the game just wouldn't even launch the EA app, but then I realized it was because the game was on a NTFS drive, moved it to the main EXT4 one and then it worked, EA app launched, but the game itself doesn't. I uninstalled the game, installed it again, etc, etc. And nothing.

I'm out of ideas... any help here?

After my last post I've seen a few people saying that I hadn't given enough information about what type of fps I was looking for so a shooter that incorporates both tracking and clicking, pvp or at least like q3 level bots, has hitscan weapons, because my ping will probably suck, I'd be cool if it incorporated movement into it.
Also it would probably be better that I give you guys my current potato config as a sizeable group recommended games like The Finals, which I've had my eyes on for a while, but can't run above like 30fps, it was a fun but I feel that if I tried to play that for an extended period of time I'd end up with headaches.
gpu-Gtx1050
cpu-Xeon E5 2676 v3
Games I've already played
TF2 - both
CS

OW's - rip OW1
Apex - rip

Quake Live - dosen't seem to work under linux no matter what I try
and I'm currently trying fairlight 84 as some people recommended it in the last post as it was something close to apex, but I still don't know if I'm going against real players or bots.

They say AMD works better with Linux. Here’s my setup:
Ryzen 5 5500
RX 550 4GB
16GB RAM 2400 MHz
B450 motherboard
XPG 850W PSU

I see that many games on ProtonDB show a gold rating, which means the game runs but might need some tweaks. My question is: are these tweaks just in-game adjustments like graphics and settings, or are they advanced things that a user with no experience would have trouble doing?

I want to play single-player campaign games and some indie games as well. The only online game I play is Roblox, where I play some FPS games. Other than that, just campaign games.

Games I own:
Batman Arkham Knight/City
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
GTA V (only sp)
Resident Evil 2 Remake
Resident Evil 3 Remake

I have a gaming laptop (ASUS TUF F15) which I want to install Linux.

I daily drove linux before on my old laptop, but it was mainly Linux Mint. Last month, I tried Arch Linux with KDE; which worked well, smooth, but there was a slight problem -- where watching full screen videos [specially in youtube] for a while results in flickering along the edges of the display. Maybe improperly installed nvidia drivers -- can be. [tried disabling hardware accelaration; non of the "solutions" worked]

I am currently running PopOS; which had nvidia drivers pre installed, and there are no issues, except the customization/features are limited.

So now; I am in a spot where I cannot figure out which distro to install; because every forum I read says different things about each of them. But I kinda want to go with KDE instead of Gnome. Even though Gnome looks clean; it lacks customization (correct me if I'm wrong). Also I need proper nvidia driver support too! (I don't mind re-trying Arch KDE)

What are your thoughts?

• Arch KDE or Fedora KDE?
• Fedora Gnome?

Well... The title says it all. I'm trying to make EAX work on URU through PROTON. I'm trying with Proton GE 9-27 that (in theory) supports EAX emulation. Also tried this tutorial without success: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009318009 Anyone can give me more advice?

I've tried to search the issue on ProtonDB, used ProtonHotfix and ProtonExperimental, and Porton 9.0-4 nothing worked

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to run POE2 via Steam/Proton, but keep hitting a consistent crash.

Setup:

GPU: AMD Radeon 6900XT

CPU: Ryzen 3800X

OS: Ubuntu 24.04 with latest PAE kernel

Drivers: up-to-date Mesa/AMD drivers

Proton versions tested: 9.0-4, Experimental, 8.x

APIs tested: DX12, DX11, Vulkan

Steam file verification: no issues found

Problem: The game starts fine but always crashes after about 3 minutes, regardless of whether I’m just in the menu, the options, or trying to actually play:

Screen just goes black and Keyboard becomes unresponsive Music/sound keeps playing (even after 15+ minutes)

Other games run completely fine and performant on my system (War Thunder, World War Z, Half-Life 2, Civilization V/VI, HoI4).

What I’ve tried so far:

Different Proton versions (9.0-4, Experimental, 8) Launch options/workarounds from ProtonDB Switching between DX12, DX11, Vulkan Steam file verification

None of these made any difference.

Question: What’s the best way to analyze/debug this kind of crash?

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated 🙏

So a while back, I used Ubuntu on my PC, but I switched back to Windows when 10 came out because I was getting tired of fighting with every program I wanted to use, especially games. I’ve been thinking about giving Linux another try because I’ve heard it’s having a golden age for program support. I’m curious if Ubuntu is following this trend. If not, are there any other more casual distros like Ubuntu that also have good program support?

I've tried just about everything over the last day or two. I can't find a solution to why it wont launch. I'm trying to mod Risk of Rain 2. And nothing it working. I press the "launch modded" button and nothing happens. Can someone help?

Specifically the LG UltraGear OLED 27GX790A-B https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/product/Bdbypg/lg-ultragear-oled-27gx790a-b-270-2560-x-1440-480-hz-monitor-27gx790a-b

And the LG UltraGear 34GS95QE-B https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/product/FFLdnQ/lg-ultragear-34gs95qe-b-340-3440-x-1440-240-hz-curved-monitor-34gs95qe-b

Hey everyone, I'll try to keep it as short and simple as possible. I've been using Windows for basically all my life but used some Linux distros as well from time to time, the thing that always blocked me from fully switching was the gaming aspect. Recently I had another phase of interesting myself with Linux and overall privacy concerns so I decided to give it a shot, and I learned that they made tremendous progress with the gaming aspect and that some distros were even made to optimize just that.

So I decided to go for Bazzite as I've heard a lot of good about it. Now here are the things I do on my computer : watch youtube, play games and run a media server (jellyfin), that's it. Let's say from start I had a lot of troubles with the media thing, but I did sort it out after hours/days of tinkering. Thing is, the pattern keeps repeating itself from time to time, there's always a specific software I used to run in a matter of seconds on Windows and on Linux it takes a ton of time, which I am ready to invest, but at the end it doesn't even always work or it works for a while and then breaks later when the program updates or whatever.

Now I really love a lot of things about Linux and this distro in particular (especially the "atomic" part) which is why I put in the effort and didn't switch back up til now and still don't really want to do it. The privacy/security aspect is important to me despite being pretty much a casual user, I also love the customizability that Linux offers, the package manager, the cmd, and more. But I'd just like the few programs I use to just work. Also, minor thing but still, there's BF6 coming up and I've been waiting since BF4 which I've been a huge fan of to have one day a similar experience (I'm sure many will understand).

So yeah sorry for the rant, I'd like you guys opinion on the matter, is it just a skill issue ? Should I dual boot (never liked the idea tbh I'm like it's one or the other), should I switch back and use things to alleviate the spyware/adware nature of Windows (privacy.sexy or whatever) ? Definitely confused right now.

Idk if this is a linux problem or discord problem when it comes to codec , but when i try using vencord in window i can stream up to 1440p , now on linux using vesk , equid , i can only stream 720 even when selecting 1440p option i also tried to change the environment from wayland to x11 but same issue still .