Recently I reinstalled everything including Linux Mint. I set everything to max performance (as I did before). I used to get consistent 120 fps, now it stutters every single second.

So after over 4 years of exclusively daily driving linux, i started dualbooting a few months ago because one of the only online games i like to play every now and then, gta online, now requires anti-cheat as most of you probably know by now. I didn't like resorting to dualbooting, but it was only one game that i play off and on, so whatever.

However, now i created a new problem for myself that was completely avoidable on my part. As a monitor upgrade i decided to buy an oled tv instead of a monitor, because they cost pretty much the same but you get more value from the tv. The tv only has hdmi ports though, and i completely forgot about the fact that hdmi 2.1 is borked on amd right now. I could send the tv back since it hasn't even arrived yet, but i honestly don't want to settle anymore for a smaller monitor at this point.

So this means that as far as i can tell, the only option is to start playing pretty much everything on windows again. I considered a gaming vm since i've done that before, but i started testing my scripts yesterday and i can't even get my gpu to detach from the host anymore, no clue why.

Another option would be swapping to a different brand of gpu, but even if was willing to waste the money on that (which i'm not), intel doesn't offer the horsepower i'm after right now, and i already hated nvidia when i was still a fulltime windows user and i absolutely refuse to buy one of their products ever again.

So windows seems like the least horrible option at this point. I'll keep dualbooting just to use linux wherever i can, and it will still be nice for productivity, but i don't see any other solution here. I'm not really posting this in order to find a solution or anything (although suggestions are welcome), but i just wanted to post about this predicament i got myself into for fun (also, F you to the hdmi forum lol).

Thanks for looking into this and reading it, its a long one.

I've spent the last 3 months trying to switch to linux, because... screw Microsoft. So I decided to return to linux (last time I dallied linux was 2011). I had heard that Linux had made huge strides since then and expected a easier transition so I was thinking this would be a breeze.

I primarily use my personal PC to monitor my homelab and play games, beyond the general PC use anyway. I run a pfSense, a small Pi cluster, an Unraid machine, and a Proxmox (HomeAssisstant and some VMs) with trueNAS (Unraid primary, trueNAS is the backup). All this to say, I'm in linux all the time. Admittedly, I'm not as capable as I should be with all linux distros/variants, but I'm in the terminal often. I know my way around.

I've tried four distros now (Mint, Arch, Bazzite, and Omarchy) and no matter what I tried I couldn't get any Steam games to work on any distro. Proton Gold compatibility be damned.

The PC in question is running a 7800x3d with a RX 9070xt. I spent weeks trying to get Steam to let me launch BG3, Hunt: Showdown, Dune: Awakening, Civ 6, and Total War: Warhammer. I eventually just started to focus on BG3 since I had trouble with every game I tried.

• Mint, games would launch to a black screen with no audio. This seemed to me to be a Mint issue so I moved to a more gaming focused distro.
• Bazzite worked the best, at least it would attempt to render a game before crashing. Bazzite would also randomly loose track of drive1 and drive2 for seemingly no reason. When I rebooted it was gamble if the other two drives would show up at all. (yes, they were set to auto mount)
• Arch, the 'play' button in Steam would flicker and reset to 'play' state. Arch was a little longer to set up but it was doable.
• Omarchy was the weirdest for me, as soon as I hit play, the steam window became invisible and no game launched. I could drag this invisible Steam window around but couldn't interact with it at all beyond that. Loved hyperland and all the keybinds.

They all worked as general computers perfectly fine. Well, I had some SSH issues and issues accessing network drives on some distros but those were easily remedied.

I tried every workaround and tip I could find on the internet. Messing with all the different Protons, Vulkan settings, DX11 tweaking, disabling DX11, Steam launch commands, Wine, gamemode, different drivers, ProtonUp-QT, flatpack version, not flatpack versions, forcing AMD firmware updates, etc. etc. etc.

I lost count of how many times I've installed fresh and tried again.

I'm not a normal pc user. I'm not the most knowledgeable with linux either but I'm far beyond most common windows users. If I can't make the switch to linux, then what hope does average joe user have?

I've not tried this hard to get something working in years and I'm so pissed that I couldn't. Maybe, I was so focused on the problems I missed the forest for the trees. Either I'm the unluckiest SoaB out there or linux just sucks maybe?

I just cant spend much more time trying to get this to work. I guess I'm going to have to return to Windows 10, but I REALLY don't want to.

If anyone knows what the heck I've missed or has a recommendation, please let me know. I'm at my wits end here.

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