I was wondering whether this game would work on my i5-6600k, RX580 and 16 GB RAM, or I should wait until I upgrade my PC?

I am looking for stable framerate, hopefully as close to 60FPS as possible, with ok visuals at 1080p.

I would just like to share my journey to switching to Linux for gaming and maybe it could help someone else or even me in the future LOL

Been using Linux for the past 15 years or so but I've never played games on it, never even tried.
For the past few months, I bought an SSD, decided to check it out and distro hopped.

I first tried gaming on Ubuntu 24.04 which is my main OS and for the games I tried, it actually worked well. This is when I first discovered that gaming on Linux feels smoother because of the more consistent frametimes and less micro-stutters. But for various reasons, I decided not to game on it.

I then distro hopped between Bazzite, CachyOS and Nobara. I encountered a few issues in each of them which made me try other distros. For example, Bazzite automatically mounted my Windows Steam libraries which was a surprise but I didn't like it. In CachyOS, I encountered instabilities and crashes with the actual desktop. I also wasn't able to make my Xbox wireless adapter to work.

I was ready to try other distros like Omarchy and PopOS but luckily I was able to fix my major issues in Nobara HTPC.

• I got my Xbox wireless adapter to work after a couple of tries using Nobara's driver manager. Honestly, not sure how but it worked after reinstalling and physically wiggling it or plugging/unplugging the adapter it suddenly worked and paired 😅
• Games detecting my PC as Steam Deck was fixed by putting `SteamDeck=0 %command%` in the launch options.
• Washed out and weird color with HDR enabled on Heroic Launcher games was fixed by installing the gamescope flaptpak.
• Heroic launcher cloud saves were downloaded after launching the game at least once and reaching a point in the game where save files are generated. After this, save paths are properly detected and you can now force to download your save data. I haven't tried syncing though so not sure how well they work.
• I even had a weird issue with my 2 8Bitdo controllers where only one works properly. I fixed this by moving the wireless adapters to different USB ports. Not sure exactly how they should be but I think they shouldn't be plugged in 2 adjacent USB ports.

I was able to setup the games that my nieces and nephews play whenever they're here. I kinda wish there's an option to select a controller that can control the system UI though because I'm imagining chaos whenever we're in gaming mode UI LOL
I also got my games working including the next games I will play like Ori.

It's still not perfect though. For example, Guardians of the Galaxy for some reason gets really slow like single digit FPS. Seems like a VRAM memory leak or something. I was able to play this totally fine on Windows. Also, not sure if I'm just doubting Linux but I think HDR still looks a bit better on Windows?

Hopefully there will also be a way to play Microsoft store games because I discovered that I bought Forza Horizon 4 from Microsoft store for some reason, I really don't remember why LOL

Anyway, I think I'm staying on this distro unless I find something major that I can't live with.

Just an extra thing, it was cool that my phone has an app that helped me distro hop. It basically acts like a USB drive when connected to a PC and I can select any ISO I want 😄
It's available on Ubuntu Touch but I have no idea if such thing exists in Android or other Linux mobile distros.

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Hi all,

I haven't touched Linux in 20 years, but I recently realized that it's far more compatible with gaming than it used to be, and I'm getting fed up with Microsoft, so I intend to set up a dual boot and give it a go.

What versions should I be looking at for gaming?

I installed Duet Night Abyss on my laptop, which runs CachyOS with Hyprland. I am using Heroic to install it via Epic Games, and it installs fine. When I tried running it the first time, with Proton-GE latest, it showed the login screen, albeit weirdly, it was like buggy. I tried Google sign-in, and then it was blank white screen, so I closed it and reopened. Now it says login failed every time I try logging in

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i downloaded a pirated game and want to install it, i've installed wine and lutris on my arch machine.

i watched some guides and on the 'install exe' option in lutris, i get this loop,

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some other guide told me to install il via terminal using wine by 'wine setup.exe' the installer is launched but it gets stuck while i get a recurring message in the terminal.

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the install is stuck at 1.1% for several hours, restarting is not helping either.

any help is appreciated, i have a decent machine and not being able to play any game hurts, ty in advance

So, I have been on Windows for all of my life (basically), yes I owned Mac, but I usually main'd Windows iteration of sort

I used to record gaming footage pretty regularly, and in past 5 years noticed how pixelation begun to creep up in my gaming footage, more and more.

I used to set my video recording setting to 50 Mb bitrate, but in past 5 years it just looks like I am recording in 20 Mb or something. I kept bumping up bitrate higher and higher, to the point that I was up to 75 or even 100 bitrate, but still pixelated in footage.

That footage of course would be progressively worse when uploaded to Youtube.

Recently I installed Linux, and was testing some games, and I was quite mind blown, as I started to notice artifacting on old Source Engine game was gone (nearly), but it still remained on Windows 11

What was rather interesting is that back when I was playing this game over 11 years ago, I was remembering the game with deep saturated colors, yes it was still older game, but the colors were pretty saturated. Then one day it begun to look washed out on Windows, but I only noticed when playing a slew of other games on PC.

I jumped back and forth between Windows and Linux to see if I am seeing it correctly, and indeed Linux was just a sharper version of the game how I remembered it on Windows back in 2014

The settings are all the same across two operating system

There is something really strange going on in Windows 11, and even Windows 10, that I can't understand. But, it's like some colors are slightly washed out on Windows, and they are fine (as I remember them) on Linux. Also, artifacting around the trees has become progressively worse on Windows, but I don't remember seeing it 10 years ago, and I had footage to examine it. I think I was on Windows 7 at that time.

Very strange stuff. Not sure if anyone else has been noticing this strange trend on their Windows systems.
But, it was super noticeable for me. As Windows 11/10 have slightly washed out colors in many titles now (even modern ones).

The Mesa team has released version 25.2.6, a routine but important bugfix update in the 25.2 series. Announced by Eric Engestrom on October 29, 2025, the update refines driver stability, shader handling, and Vulkan compatibility across multiple backends. The next bugfix release is expected on November 12.

Hi, ive recently installed bazzite and ill play games on it soon( in a couple of days). I've an nvidia rtx 4060 and ryzen 5 5600. I know the games i play would run fine but ive some questions. Can i customise how the menus look? Can i add widgets to see my ssd speed, gpu cpu temp.. etc? And does mod organiser 2 and vortex mod manager work on Linux? Right now i have it installed on 1 tb USB ssd, dual boot with windows 11 on my nvme ssd until i get used to the os and if everything works fine I'll completely ditch Windows.

Hi,

I am buying a living room gaming PC tomorrow which is when the local computer shop will start building it.

I will connect the living room gaming PC to a TV and use a controller as well as a keyboard+mouse to control it

I already have Garuda Linux on my laptop which I bought this year and I was recently recommended Bazzite on the Garuda Linux forum.

Problem is the Bazzite website is down for me and I cannot access it either on DuckDuckGo browser or Firefox on my Android phone. It says 'a server with the specified host name could not be found'

is anyone else experiencing this?

also is it a good idea to use Bazzite for my living room gaming PC considering this eg. what if it can't access updates on the server?

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share my experience. This is not AI written so bear with my bad english.

I did my test on Cyberpunk 2077.

So, I was wondering how can I cut down background processes to maximise gaming performance and my journey began with creating a build of DWM, which will do nothing but launching steam in bigpicture mode.

I plan to use this alongside my KDE Wayland session running on TTY2. So while my KDE session is running, I plan to switch to TTY4 (or similar) and use `startx` to start a session of steam bigpicture. Initially plan was to just launch gamescope from startx (.xinitrc method) and get on with my life, but the performance was identical to my KDE Wayland session with whatever optimisation I could find.

When I found that there is no significant performance gain, I switched over to my plan B of writing a minimal build of DWM, no extra keyboard shortcut nothing, just launch steam bigpicture and handle my multimonitors. To my wonder I was getting almost 20fps + with this method.

Keep in mind, TTY2 with KDE Wayland running and on TTY4 DWM+Steam+Game running has an average of 92 fps on my hardwar. On the other hand, any other combination: standalone gamescope + steam + game, or kde wayland + game performs worse than this --- Averaging with 72 fps.

Here comes the fun part: with even a basic compositor like comptop/picom, the average fps again drop to 72 fps. The average of 92 FPS with my lean dwm + steam bigpicture + Cyberpunk2077 is better than what I can achieve on Windows 11.

Yes I tried KDE X11 also, the average fps is 72 fps on cyberpunk2077 consistently.

I have no clue what the desktop environments are doing -- but I would love to investigate further.

Hardware:

- Intel core i7 - 12700h

- RTX 4060 - MAX-Q (laptop GPU)

- RAM: 32GB

TLDR: Lean non-compositing build of DWM on X11 can achieve +20fps and improved 1% lows --- roughly 15-20% increase in FPS, than any other desktop environment that I have tested [KDE Wayland, KDE X11, Raw Gamescope, Gnome Wayland]

The game is stuttering for me, but when it stutters, the audio doesn't and it feels like it's skipping frames. Im playing SR2 Window's version on Linux using GE Proton, with Juiced patch, cutscene fixes, and cutscene shadows mods installed.

Here are my specs:

OS: Linux Mint Cinnamon

CPU: Intel Core I5-8300H

iGPU: Intel UHD Graphics 630 (128mb vRAM)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (4096mb vRAM)

RAM: 16GB DDR4

Two SSDs: 1.Linux Mint (447GB) and 2.Virtual Box (118GB).

Hey linux_gaming folks! This is kinda long so I broke it into sections.

Preamble:

About two months ago I ordered a System76 desktop for gaming (see hardware details below). I wanted to give the pre-installed Pop_OS 22.04 a fair shake first. It worked pretty well though I encountered several problems:

• 6.16 kernel updates and no-longer-compatible nvidia drivers (solved several times)
• Distorted sound issues in games (solved)
• Atrocious artifacting with DLSS in Borderlands 4 (likely due to older nvidia drivers, so I swapped to the Epic-provided TSR in-game)
• Random game pauses lasting from 5-20 seconds while the system is otherwise responsive (never solved)

... and a few other odds and ends. I know Ubuntu 22.04 is pretty long in the tooth in the desktop linux world so I figured it was time to try other distros.

I switched to the Pop_OS 24.04 beta a couple of days ago and am a bit happier with it. I still have audio and DLSS issues in Borderlands 4. It generally takes 3-4 hours to have one of those long pauses and I haven't had enough time to test for it yet. It is definitely harder to find solutions to issues on a beta OS and I am not experienced enough with Linux on destktop machines yet (though I am learning -- I use ubuntu VMs regularly for work, but they are an entirely different animal).

The Question:

Because of the issues above, I am looking to try other distros and then stick with 1 or 2.

So far, I am looking at Bazzite and CatchyOS. Are there others I should consider?

What I am looking for in a linux distro:

• Reasonably easy setup (finding and installing a few drivers is fine, but I really don't want to do it for all of them)
• Easy package/driver rollback
• Solid Nvidia GPU support, particularly an ability to upgrade nvidia drivers as stable ones are relased since I often play newer games
• Stability once configured (though this is less of an issue with good rollback support)
• Solid game performance
• Ability to alt-tab to check a browser or chat app if needed
• Good documentation
• At least WiFi 6 support (preferably 7)

My hardware:

• System76 Thelio Mira R4
  • AMD 9800X3D
  • 64 GB RAM
  • Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti
  • 4 TB PCIe5 M.2 SSD, 4 TB PCIe4 M.2 SSD
  • Built-in WiFi 7 + Bluetooth 5.4
• Asus VG279QL3A 180 Hz 1080p monitor (connected via DisplayPort, currently using monitor's speakers) - I will likely swap to a 1440p monitor once I find a large enough one that I like
• Razer Naga 2014 Left-Handed
• Razer Huntsman v2 Analog
• XBox One controller (via USB, for FH5)

A few notes on the Razer Naga mouse -- it is key to my gaming layout due to physical limitations, to the point where I have a spare 2020 edition still in the box in case the current one dies on me). I can use it without OpenRazer support if needed since that is mostly for the RGB settings.

My currently most-played games:

• Dune Awakening
• Borderlands 4
• Space Marine 2
• Helldivers 2
• Forza Horizon 5

I expect to play the following in a few months:

• Dying Light: The Beast
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Path of Exile II
• Remnant / Remnant II
• ... probably some other cool games I find
• ... and the dark gods help me if I get back into WoW, but I am feeling the pull a little

The other applications I tend to use on my gaming rigs are pretty standard:

• Firefox
• Brave (for sites that MUST use chromium browsers like Homebrewery)
• 1password
• Discord
• Signal

If I am doing anything other than light browsing or gaming, I will use a different computer.

I don't have enough info/experience to pick a desktop environment yet (virtually ANYTHING is better than Windows 10/11 and I am usually using the CLI if I am not gaming or web browsing). The default Pop_OS Gnome and Cosmic layouts were fine with a few minor tweaks.

Bonus related question:

Does this look like a sane partition / mount setup?

• Expand current EFI partition from 1 GB to 4 GB
• Leave 4 GB recovery partition for PopOS
• 100 GB - PopOS (mounts as / only in PopOS)
• 100 GB - Bazzite (mount as / only in Bazzite)
• 100 GB - CatchyOS (mounts as / only in CatchyOS)
• 100 GB - AnotherDistro? (TBD)
• 1 TB - Shared Home Folder (be sure to use different usernames for each distro; mounts as /home)
• ~2.5 TB - Shared Games Library (mount as ~/Games; approx size, use remaining free space)
• 4 TB - Second drive that stores media, alternate Steam library for less-used games, backups, etc)

Thanks for reading and any suggestions you have!

Edit: fixed a typo

Maybe it's the year of Linux haha 😂