Hi everyone!

I am trying to switch to Linux on my PC. I have Intel CPU and Geforce 3090 TI card. Below I give you some feedback and questions regarding games I ran via steam + proton.

I started with Fedora 40 Gnome. I was mostly pleasently suprised. After installing Nvidia drivers from repo it switched automatically from Wayland to X11. I thought maybe it's supposed to work like that so ignored it. I've tested quite a few games and they mostly run very well. Only complain would be with Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. They worked fine, but looked much worse than on Windows(still surpised that they run though). Other games like Baldurs Gate 3 or Final Fantasy XIV runs great.

So something didn't sit with me for the long run with Gnome so I decieded to give Fedora 40 KDE a try. For most part everything seems good. I've installed Nvidia drivers again, this time still using Wayland. And it works quite ok, but with Final Fantasy XIV I got some stutters in a few locations when moving camera around. I've tried on X11 and it doesn't have that issue. Chrono Trigger has black screen after starting the game from the menu, while it worked on X11 gnome. Baldur Gates also ran worse than on X11.

So idk, is it still just still quite buggy? Is there anything I could try to do to improve the situation? Is it more on the drivers side or Wayland side? Where can I read about any updates on those issues, like new drivers from Nvidia or some Wayland updates?

Many thanks in advance!

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I know this is a gaming reddit, but can't tell where I should post this. Just wanted to know if there is an alternative to the Android/iPhone/Google/Etc phones OS. Never liked Android's and iPhones are not in my budget range.

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I'm a Linux noob. I use Ubuntu 24.04, and the Snap version of Steam, which means my Steam installation directory is located somewhere around $HOME/snap/steam/common/.steam/steam/steamapps/common. I'm installing ProtonTricks just to fix an issue with missing Visual C++ Runtime on one of my games.

So I've tried installing ProtonTricks through pipx, then when I tried to run protontricks --gui, it told me that "Steam installation directory could not be found.". I tried doing STEAM_DIR=$HOME/snap/steam/common/.steam/steam/steamapps/common, plus every folder before it, ProtonTricks just wouldn't recognize it.

Apologies since this question is kinda dumb, but I'm just really confused what isn't right. Would appreciate it if someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.

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It could be that I'm missing something but I've been trying my best to actually get games to run at a decent frame rate. I'm on a Rx 6750 with a Ryzen 5 5600x and despite this strong hardware, Elden Ring for example is struggling to get 30 fps but when it runs under windows, its 60fps stable (in most areas, I would be lying if I said it was 60 all the damn time). I heard using gamemode would fix it, but despite getting it to run (checked with Konsole) it still runs terribly. It's been driving me mad, not even corectrl is helping. If anyone could help, I would appreciate it. I'm running Fedora KDE spin at the moment, so maybe I'm missing something

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I finally made my first foray into Linux Initially I chose Nobara because of the Steam support but I've since also tried Garuda and I'm currently on a Bazzite asus-nvidia distro on my Asus G712LW-ES74 gaming laptop. Installation of each of the distros was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be but I've had the exact same issues across all distros - for the life of me, I cannot get my laptop's speakers to work. I plug in my headphones through USB-C, no issues, but no sound through the onboard speakers at all. I even used ChatGPT to walk me through a bunch of stuff over the last couple of days but still nada. Wanted to know if anyone ran into a similar issue. Thanks!

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I am running the game using Proton GE and while the game runs fine in cyberspace the open zone is unplayable at 8 fps considering the fact that it runs at around 60 fps on windows, also the game crashes often when loading into the open zone

I am using mods btw because my pc can't run the game well without them

https://preview.redd.it/vp2jn2f3lq8d1.png?width=1360&format=png&auto=webp&s=7216ed0d87b062d418fd30dd9070cfa86fe66eba

https://preview.redd.it/ucuxsa94lq8d1.png?width=585&format=png&auto=webp&s=cf1c3f8f022a3dc97175799d830c9aed4d1be31e

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I will just be installing a switch emulator and one or two games for now since i'm trying to save storage

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how do i install express vpn on bazzite

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I'm running Linux Mint on a minipc, other machines on the network are all macOS. I'm looking for a simple server/client solution to manage games on the Linux machine and play from the macOS clients on my local network. Is there something that fits the bill, or am I asking for disaster trying to use a client in this manner?

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Hey all I have installed Minecraft with the bedrock launcher, everything is working inside of VMware but my mouse/camera is all over the place any advice? (Running Linux mint inside of VMWare workstation Pro)

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I was doing some tests with Mesa 24.2 and decided to do a quick comparison between Windows and Linux performance on raster, raytracing and pathtracing.

PC specs:

5800x3d

XFX 6900xt

32GB DDR4 Kingston Fury 3600 CL16

ASUS ROG Strix B550-F

On Linux:

Arch

Kernel 6.10.0-RC4

Mesa 24.2.0_devel.191095.a7ad53d550b.d41d8cd-1

On Windows:

Windows 10 latest version as of 24/06/2024

GPU driver 24.5.1

Resuts:

Setting Linux - Avg Win - Avg Linux - Min Win - Min Linux - Max Win - Max Raster 131.90 FPS 128.83 FPS 110.96 FPS 110.20 FPS 158.04 FPS 150.80 FPS Raytracing 23.77 FPS 29.19 FPS 19.33 FPS 24.54 FPS 32.12 FPS 38.53 FPS Pathtracing 11.89 FPS 11.60 FPS 10.02 FPS 10.00 FPS 15.15 FPS 14.49 FPS

Those are results from a single run each, I wasn't planing on posting this so it's not super cientific, but I've run the benchmark multiple times and the results are consistent, with almost no variations between runs.

Raytracing performance is still lagging behind significantly on Linux with about 23% faster raytracing performance on Windows, pathtracing really surprised me because last time I did this test I got about the same difference in performance compared to windows and this time was basically the same with a slight advantage to Linux.

Game settings were configured the exactly the same between Linux and Windows with the exception been the AMD SMT setting, on windows it gives slight better performance when it's on, but on Linux i get better performance with it off.

Settings:

https://imgur.com/a/9lQqvw6

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Hey!

Seen a lot of similar posts here and firstly thought that they don't make a lot of sense on Linux Gaming subreddit as we all play on linux already. But then it hit me that there are a lot of people still on Windows lurking here and thinking about the move, but not yet convinced. So this is a short port to help these people in similar situation to decide.

I was thinking to make that move for at least a couple of years. All my attempts ended pretty quickly when I have encountered some first issues that I wasn't ready or willing to solve. But recently I have installed Bazzite distro and basically everything worked out of the box! Well almost, tobii eye tracker 5 is going to be sold and replaced by Delan Clip soon.

All joysticks, throttle, rudder pedals work great! Headphones and mic - no issues.

Star Citizen, Falcon4, MSFS, DCS (some tinkering here thought) - works perfectly.

I also play normal games as well, not mostly Elden Ring new DLC - no issues what so ever.

I have AMD GPU - so I heard it makes my life easier on linux though.

Now I plan to extend my rig with racing wheels, pedals and shifter - and some quick google shows that it should work seamlessly with the major brands.

The major pain was actually linux youtubers who were completely confusing me on what distro to choose - pure Debian - S Tier; next one - Debian garbage tier, use Arch; another Arch is a dumpster fire, use Fedore etc. I've landed on Bazzite (based on fedora kinoite) - seems very stable and has everything I need out of the box.

So yeah, if you are like me - have no fear, linux is a very good place to be for simmers! :)

My rig just in case :)

https://preview.redd.it/cbr0nwwifp8d1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6530d662d738ba9a1720ef77cc012f7ae2be32c3

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I'm talking about this thing. https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo

1: Is it safe?

2: Will it get me banned on games?

3: Does it support Secure Boot?

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Alright, now OneDrive BS is happening I’m more than ready to go to Nobara.

Any way to get game pass on Linux though? I’m about to be a father so the spend on new games will be sporadic and usually not as readily available as it was. Having game pass means when I do get gaming time with the friends and family overseas, we will have the same library and no issues.

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I can't seem to get mangohud to run correctly on 7D2D.

I have tried many different launch options to get it to run on the full game, but no matter what I do it only runs on the small 1sec pop up that loads before the games enters full screen.

Some of the options I have tried:

magohud %command% - gamerunmode mangohud %command% - MANGOHUD=1 %command% - mangohud --dylsm %commmand%

So my question is has anyone got it to run on the game itself?

This is on ver1.0 and I am on Nobara.

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Every day on my feed I see more and more people trying out desktop Linux and actually enjoying it, especially after getting their hands on a Steam Deck but also compounded by Microsoft announcing Recall, and it just puts a huge smile on my face. I remember even just 2-3 years back that desktop Linux wasn't quite where it is now in terms of features, polish, and general hardware/software support. It's been more accessible than it's ever been and people are now realizing that. There has and always will be growing pains, but things have been moving so rapidly in favor of desktop Linux that it wouldn't be hard to see it taking on an even larger portion of desktop market share in the next 5-10 years. Year of the Linux Desktop anyone? I jest. In all seriousness, welcome newbies and I hope you enjoy your stay! 😁

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I was having trouble for half a month trying to figure out how to setup and install Reshade for Linux until somebody gave me a fix. There is a lack of straightforward information out there on reddit and discord about how to install it, so I thought I would make a post about it.

We are all not on the same Linux distros, so the way I installed wine and its other packages, and the way you installed them was not the same process for me most likely. For this very reason you will be expected to already have installed Wine, Winetricks, and Protontricks.

Important:

(openSuse btw)

Steps:

1. Download Reshade from their official website https://reshade.me/

2. Open your terminal and type winecnf

3. Open the drives tab in the top right part of the little window and select the show .files, then hit ok (if you don't know hitting ok will apply the change and close the program)

4. Clear your terminal window by using the clear command, and then type without hitting enter protontricks-launch(with a space after the word launch)

5. Open your file explorer (🐬 in my case) and open your downloads folder(or wherever you put directed the download to), and then copy or drag the reshade file out into the terminal window

6. Select your game and navigate through the protontricks file explorer for your exe launcher, and then start the install.

I hope this works, I'm going to try it out tomorrow, good luck have fun

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I have downloaded Asphalt 9 from Steam as it was already rated platinum on protondb but the game won't open even if it says it is running in the Steam library

PLZ help

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