hi, just wanted to gave you some experiences with gaming on linux as a total newbie that uses it for more than a week now:) And maybe "help" someone if they are hesitating?

Well for first few days i was in love with linux - customization, the fact that i had CONTROL over everything i wanted (and more, which might be overpowering for a newbie), or how snappy my laptop were compared to w*ndows... just really nice. But then i started to see problems. Its just annoying that only few people talk about this while everyone just say how good linux have become for gamers.

First, battery life. It is really bad compared to windows - 4/5 hours vs 1,5h on battery. I tried workarounds, turning off hybrid card so my laptop uses integrated one when not playing - nothing. And is lowkey illogical that system who takes 2% of my RAM on idle eat my battery much more faster that one that takes about 20% idling. (yeah i know optimalization, linux is not windows blah blah - its still insane!) I saw some workaround that does sth with voltage but i am not going to try that because it can brick my laptop. This shouldnt be necessary.

Second, playing on NVIDIA is still crappy af. Or maybe it is if you play newer games that rely on directx12. Ones that are simpler or older work fine or even faster.

For example, i play infinity nikki and 1st launch was so buggy that i couldnt even see my character XD and it was laggy as hell i got maybe 15fps. I tweaked something in heroic launcher and while i was in menu game was snappy, in a world it was playable but when i teleported game was back at 15fps. According to chat gpt my game didnt cached shaders or sth and i cant for shit make it to work. With FFVIIre it was sth with dvxk + directx12 + nvidia incompability that made game laggy af, whatever that means. Likw I am willing to learn new things and even that made me encouraged to switch, but man, if someone just want to switch cause windows annoys them they gonna say fuck this i am going to back to windows. And i am considering that cause until nvidia become more linux friendly (probably impossible) linux wont be ideal for me. Its sad that i didnt know shit about AMD and just picked laptop that has familiar parameters for me, now i would do different choice:(

thanks for coming to my ted talk

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On ubuntu 25.04 any kernel image I install with apt doesn't matter what version I don't have wifi in them if I switch to them. Do the kernel images not come with wifi or something?

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I recently switched from Windows 10 to Arch Linux (LTS Kernel) with KDE Plasma 6 as my Desktop Environment, running Wayland as the display manager.

My issue is with Lethal Company: whenever I play, I get unplayable screen tearing and lag. It doesn’t matter if I enable VSync or cap my FPS at 30—it behaves exactly the same. On Windows 10 this game ran fine, so I don’t think this is a hardware bottleneck. For reference, I’m running a 3060 RTX Nvidia GPU with 128 GB of RAM.

What’s strange is that I had almost the exact same issue with CS2, but I was able to fix it by editing the cs2.sh startup script and changing the SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER setting to force Wayland instead of X11. After that tweak, CS2 ran smoothly. With Lethal Company, though, I can’t seem to find any equivalent script or startup file to edit.

So far, I’ve tried running the game with Proton GE, Proton Experimental, Proton Hotfix, and Proton 9 which yielded no difference. I tried adding launch options like SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland DXVK_FRAME_RATE=0 DXVK_PRESENT_MODE=mailbox %command% but the game launches but tearing and lag remain. I've also confirmed that this issue happens consistently on Wayland, and I’d prefer not to fall back to Gamescope or X11 if I can avoid it (Gamescope just caused the game not to open for me).

Has anyone else run into this same tearing/lag issue specifically with Wayland + Lethal Company? And if so, is there a Wayland-friendly workaround similar to the cs2.sh fix?

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I kind of plug&play configured it so it starts The Legend of Zelda: Ocraina of Time by default. I only need to turn on the laptop and the controller, that's it.

System: Linux (CachyOS)

Emulator: Mupen64Plus

Controller: 8BitDo Ultimate 2c

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I know most people seem to be able to run this game fine, but I cannot for the life of me get it to work on basically any proton version I have installed, and none of the common fixes like PROTON_SET_GAME_DRIVE work either. The game reaches the "extracting" dialogue but instantly crashes when the launcher tries to appear.

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Hello everyone, i swaped to chachy os Gnome last week and i love it, everything works but there are some things that trigger me and i cant find a solution
i need:
Brighter colors (i used razer cortax) the colors on my screens look lil to gray
I need Rawaccel (ig i have a skill issue) cant play FPS games without it
i used stealseries GG, im trying Easy Effects but i cant make some profiles to use for Games, Discord etc separatly

if someone knows any tools or tips to get that i would appreciate

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It looks outdated and it's not with accord to my display

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So I'm currently using Gnome on Fedora.

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After the recent endorsement from Wendell on GamersNexus for CachyOS I've decided to go with that as my first desktop distro but I had some questions before starting the set-up.

My PC use is primarily gaming but I also program and 3D print and want to assure those transitions aren't to rough or even impossible.

1. I use "Anycubic Slicer Next" for my 3d print software and was curious if anyone new if it ran through proton/wine.
2. I do occasionally play games requiring intrusive anti-cheat, can I still play these games with a windows VM or do i HAVE to dual-boot.
3. Based on the aswer to question 2 what "Boot Manager" option makes the most sense for me from Cachy's options; I thought GRUB but might be systemd-boot.

I've set up many linux distros as server instances but this will be my first desktop use (other then my steam deck) installation so any additional advice/help is greatly appreciated.

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Hello. I was thinking of buying an ArcB580, but i am a linux user and i play games on linux, any linux user with a b580 that can share their experience?

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Worked fine yesterday...

Works fine on Windows....

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I've got two cards. A 5070ti and a 1650 Super, both working fine under 575.57.08. I've just installed 580.95.05 and rebooted and the second seat (the 1650's seat) hasn't woken up. The 5070 works fine.

journalctl -b shows me some

NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Module for x86_64 580.95.05 Release Build (dvs-builder@U22-I3-B17-02-5) Tue Sep 23 09:55:41 UTC 2025 nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Mode Setting Driver for x86_64 580.95.05 Release Build (dvs-builder@U22-I3-B17-02-5) Tue Sep 23 09:42:01 UTC 2025 [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002700] Loading driver nvidia 0000:27:00.0: Direct firmware load for nvidia/580.95.05/gsp_ga10x.bin failed with error -2 NVRM: RmFetchGspRmImages: No firmware image found NVRM: GPU 0000:27:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x61:0x56:1914) NVRM: GPU 0000:27:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0 [drm:nv_drm_dev_load [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002700] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002800] Loading driver nvidia 0000:28:00.0: Direct firmware load for nvidia/580.95.05/gsp_tu10x.bin failed with error -2 NVRM: RmFetchGspRmImages: No firmware image found NVRM: GPU 0000:28:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x61:0x56:1914) NVRM: GPU 0000:28:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 1 [drm:nv_drm_dev_load [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002800] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice

The 1650 it still on the supported product list. Come to think of it, I haven't yet seen 580.95.05 on Nvidia's Unix archive. Have they pulled it?

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Good (insert the period of the day)!, I would like to ask for clarification regarding a question I have. I already have a general idea of the answer, but I would appreciate confirmation from others. I currently have some Microsoft Store gift cards and I intend to purchase Minecraft. However, since I use Linux, I would like to understand how the license works. If I purchase the game license through the Microsoft Store, will it also be valid in the game launcher on Linux?

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I have built this Python script that uses OpenRazer drivers to play a game of Snake on a user's keyboard. I have only tested it on my Razer Ornata Chroma. If anyone tries it on other keyboards, feel free to reach out to report any problems or compatibility issues.

link

the game running on my Razer Ornata Chroma

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all was fine until ranomly this happened on one relaunch

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now the "play" button is off the screen and the battlenet app is no longer scaled to the window, further more clicks are registering in the wrong place (for example to press 'games' I need to press above the text rather than on it.

the "fullscreen" button does not work either, moving the window just snaps it back to it's original position, i have to manually scale the window to near 1080p in order to launch a game now, any way I can fix this without deleting and making a whole new wine profile?

thanks

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