I have an old original xbox Intec dance mat I would like to use for ITG/Stepmania. I bought an Xbox to USB adapter cable but Windows 11 won't recognize it so I made a USB and booted into "try linux" mode to test if I could get it working on ubuntu. I haven't used linux in a while (~10 years) and was never really confident in the terminal beyond just copying and pasting commands, but I tried to install xpad and jstest-gtk to test it and it didn't work. it also wouldn't recognize my standard Series X controller which makes me think I installed the driver incorrectly (although the series X controller at least shows up in lsusb, which the dance mat does not). I also tried to install xboxdrv but I don't think I did that right either. I have genuinely no idea what I'm doing and would appreciate any guidance on how to at least get the drivers set up correctly

Usually this means HDR isn't enabled. But everything is installed correctly and it does this on gamescope and mpv player.

It's so disappointing because it feels like this one little step is all that needs to be fixed for HDR to be fully functioning on linux!

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Hey everyone, I'm a new Linux user (been really using it for 2-3 days, distro hopped a few times before settling in on one, which is now "Garuda Linux KDE Dragonized") and I wanted to say that my experience is quite good, honestly. But, I have something to ask. First, some context. I game a lot, and some games I tested don't run on Linux, they just refuse to open using Steam's proton and I don't know why. Looking a bit more, I saw that maybe the reason this happens is because the hard-drives I use for gaming are NTFS instead of ext4 (I come from windows 11). I just wanted to know if this is really the reason for it and, if so, how to format my drives into ext4. Sorry if something here doesn't make sense, I'm still practicing my English and this is my first time ever interacting with reddit. Thanks, nonetheless, and goodbye for now

Since GNOME 48's release, with its HDR support, has gaming on GNOME become as good as on KDE?

Hi. I bought the Gamesir Super Nova Gamepad which has an XBox Style button layout (A is south, B is east, ...). I bring it in "PC mode" and connect it via Bluetooth to my Laptop. In this mode it emulates a Dual Shock 4 Controller, hence why Steam (on Fedora Linux) recognizes it as a PlayStation Controller (X is south, circle is east, ...).

So the Steam UI and some games l liuse these PlayStation glyphs. Long story short: how to only have XBox glyphs (ABXY) every where?

But the functionality of the controller is perfect, it's only the presentation layer I am annoyed with.

Any hints?

Thx

So I have a 5600x and a 6700 XT and I play at 1080p and 1440p depending on the game. I have noticed with some of the newest games that I am have fps drops and lows where the game feels like a picture book or laggy. It's mainly in open world games or story mode games like God of War. My games are on a sata 2tb SSD so I think it should be good. I have been tempted to upgrade to ddr5 and debating on Intel or AMD. AMD has better performance but Intel looks like better 1% lows. My question is do you think that my CPU or GPU might be causing the low dips in frames. Both are giving me great performance but the lows are very noticeable and I wonder which I should upgrade first. I do distro hop still and I use cachyos.

I'm using Debian Linux with an Xbox Series X controller connected through USB that normally works with every Steam game I've thrown at it, but for some reason Bleach Rebirth of Souls just won't recognize my controller in game and it just defaults to mouse & keyboard controls instead. Anyone else have this issue???

Yesterday, I installed and played halflife rtx. Suprisingly everything went well no artifacts ok performance. Even recorded few clips to flex on my friends via OBS.

But today without changing anything on drivers etc. Only worked on few VMs through virtmanager. I click play and there is weird artifacts that were mot there yesterday. Only thing changed was the installed new shaders.

Using Nixos 570 drivers with 4060.

I tried stable discord and even canary build. both versions allowed me to share screen with audio if I'm playing games but it doesn't work with video players.

anyone facing this?

Update: thank you for responses! I'll try more cutting edge version until drivers come to LTS one, and this will be good way to trial linux on my new PC as well.

Been on Kubuntu on my older PC for few weeks and *loving* it. I don't miss being asked about copilot, forcing MS account sign up, etc. I'm on LTS version because it feels more stable than normal (tried both).

I'm getting new PC, which has new AMD Radeon RX 9070. Does LTS kernel gets updated with drivers for these as well in next few months, or only normal ubuntu version?

Note that I did research on manually installing drivers, open source versions, etc, and that's fine - my question is specifically on Ubuntu support for newer hardware in LTS vs normal.

I tried googling this but i'm getting older ubuntu versions, and mostly about nvidia issues (which sounds good as i'm switching to Radeon!)

This is closest i found to an answer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1255956/do-i-need-to-manually-install-amd-gpu-driver-updates-on-ubuntu-20-04 but it doesn't tell about normal vs LTS.

DISCLAIMER:
I have Nvidia graphics card! I don't know if my problem is related to that, but I know that there is a lot of problems with these cards and unfortunately there's no way for me to upgrade, so I'm asking for help here.

So basically every game that I launch that is not natively supported on linux and that I ran with proton sometimes just randomly freezes (it happens actually randomly, sometimes I can play for hours without a single issue and sometimes it freezes so fast, that I can still see the splash screen) and I have to open steam on another workspace and stop the game from there. The game just freezes while playing and keeps playing the last sound, so the music usually keeps going and all the effects also won't go down immediately. Also, if I switch workspace after the freeze, and go back the window with the game won't be rendering at all, but it doesn't matter, since I have to restart the game anyways.

My system:

Intel Core i5 8300H

Nvidia GTX 1050 4GB

16 GB of RAM

Archlinux with i3wm (and also picom composer)

Edit:

I have just remembered, that before the recent update of Ultrakill, i could fix the problem there by playing on proton-5.13 and I setting PROTON_USE_WINE3D=1, but I'm not sure if the last one actually helped or was unneeded

I've tried CachyOS with auto login, Steam autostart and boot into BPM which worked fine but wasn't the same (also much overhead through KWin composer). Then I've seen that Nobara HTPC 41 had the new (and Alpha state) NVidia fixes for gamescope and the whole SteamDeck UI and I rocked it now for half a year. But updates got longer and longer and it took way ahead of 1 hour until I could game again. Not what I want from a living room console-pc.

Something told me to look up if Bazzite implemented those patches as well ... and it turns out they did! System is running amazingly! Finally Bazzite is running on NVidia GPUs - no AMD GPU needed anymore.

Only caveat is that it is build upon nvidia-open! Which means you need a 20 series GPU or newer in order to use it!

Sure stuff like HDR is still missing. But its just a matter of time until it will work!

Nothing against Nobara, but yet alone to see what happens at boot (updating system, updating Steam, doing something else) is just gold and an absolute necessity for me.

They've even managed ot fix MangoHUD to display the wattage consumption for an AMD CPU and a NVidia GPU! It finally works (surely gets updated on Nobara and CachyOS as well)! So happy :)

Only disadvantage is that I need to update Proton-GE all the time via desktop. Would love to have a package which would get updated with the newest version instead. Like proton-cachyos or [cachyos|aur]/proton-ge-custom-bin. Except this I am super happy to finally have an on par experience with my SteamDeck on my living room tv :)

If you want a living room/console-pc experience and don't have a AMD GPU, don't overlook Bazzite anymore :)

Hello everyone. I'm trying to get a Linux install going for gaming. Wanting to get rid of Windows. I've tried Bazzite and Cachyos. In both operating systems I'm getting very poor gaming performance. Like 15 or 20 fps less than Windows. When I pull up Mangohud, my GPU is not being fully utilized. It's only at 80 percent usage and using like 250 watts instead of the 330 it's supposed to.

I'm currently on Cachyos KDE. I've updated Mesa to 25.1. And I'm on kernel 6.14. Using a 9800x3d and gaming on a 3440 x 1440 monitor. I'm also using Gamescope and HDR. I thought maybe it was a Gamescope issue so I tried without that and HDR and still same problem.

Is this just a case that the drivers need more work because the 9070 is so new? Or is there something wrong with my system that I'm not getting full performance?