Recently I built my dream gaming pc, and while I love it to death, I probably only use it two hours a week due to work and responsibilities.

I debloated windows on install and get strong performance from my pov, but turned off updates, because I knew Microsoft would eventually fuck something up. Well, they did with their SSD killer update, luckily I dodged it because I had the foresight. However, this has made me consider switching to Linux. I’m looking for suggestions for distros to try if I’m solely using this pc to game, and only playing indies or single player graphical intensive titles.

Specs:

CPU: 9800x3D GPU: 9070xt RAM: 32gb DDR5 6000 MB: STRIX X870E-E

I have a SteamOS machine running ChimeraOS in my living room, and it works great. I spent 4 hours last weekend trying to launch Immortals Fenyx Rising only to realize I had to manually set the MTU size so that Ubisoft Connect could sync my save file.

I tried doing the same last night on my other linux-based computed (running PopOS) and, well... nothing. I tried different MTU values, tried enabling MTU discoverability, nothing works. The game launches from Steam, Ubisoft Connect pops up and tries to synchronize save files, only to timeout after a few minutes.

Gaming on Linux has been a godsent, and 9 times out of 10, if not more, it works brilliantly thanks to Proton and/or SteamOS. But man, Ubisoft Connect is just a nightmare to deal with.

Has anyone else made Ubisoft Connect work w/ Linux? Is there something I should check or tweak? I'd love a few pointers.

I'm a windows user that currently switching to Linux

I'm probably will use Mint, and just going around asking question and checking if things that I like work there.

But I can't find any normal responses about 2 things:

1. Does Star Rail work on Linux on its own, or I need that "honkers railway launcher" that listed on lustis site. And if it needed, it's safe to play through it? My account can get banned or not?
2. Is there any normal instruction to transferring game saves from the "AppData" folders to linux?

What are your specs if so? I have an i5 10400 + 9070 XT and thinking of going 4K but I'm afraid I'd need to turn down graphics settings in AAA games

I know benchmarks exist but I want to hear some real world experiences

yo everyone so i got this game for steamrip so im trying to use it on lutris its working but my problem is it has no audio how can i enable or fix the audio

I've been on Linux Bazzite for 2 months now, specifically because I game a lot, and I look back and feel like I was in the Matrix when I used Windows. It's incredible that I never tried Linux before until I bought a Steam Deck and thought: have I been missing out on this for so long? goodbye Windows will not be missed.

I've read on Proton DB that many Ubisoft games run well on Linux but I cant even get the launcher to run!

I'm on CachyOS and have tried adding the launcher as a game in Lutris and that doesn't launch and I've tried the inbuilt Ubisoft section in Lutris and that claims to have installed the game after like 10 seconds even though its a 100GB download and then obviously hangs when I click play.

Any advice appreciated.

Hey Guys!

The support from this reddit makes me so happy!

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Hi,

I've been trying to stream games from my winos pc that runs Apollo, to my deck that runs Moonlight via Tailscale, and haven't been able to get this setup to work so far. I mostly stream via LAN. This setup via Tailscale is supposedly for when I am away from home.

So for the basic requirements:
- I have installed and logged in to Tailnet on both my pc and my steamdeck as both are shown on the Tailnet admin console. However, its not possible for Moonlight to add my pc using the tailnet IP. It just says not being able to find/add the PC (or something along those lines).
- Both devices are connected to my router via wifi (including the PC)

Now here are the things I have tried:
- Let devices connect to different wifi channels when testing the tailnet connection (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)
- Ping: my pc can ping the deck's tailnet IP, but my deck can't ping the pc's tailnet IP. The deck can only ping the pc if I use tailnet ping <PC tailnet IP>
- Rules: I have tried to add TCP and UDP inbound rules to all the ports that Apollo uses. Still not working
- Firewall: I even tried to disable the firewall on my deck, but still, it didn't work.

So a couple of questions:

- I can still stream games over the internet using Steam directly. I know for sure Moonlight + Apollo is smooth and better quality over LAN, but is it still the case when streaming over the internet? The internet is fairly fast where I live. My home internet is 500 Mbps - 1Gbps, and when I am away, it's often 100-300 Mbps.

- Does Apollo + Moonlight just not work via Tailscale, or is there something else that I am missing? I have exhausted all the options suggested by ChatGPT, and you guys are my last hope.

Hey all!
still trying to tinker and figure out linux as a gaming OS.
been daily driving Manjaro with KDE Plasma for about a year and a half now, and I don't ever want to go back to windows....
that all being said, have a recent big problem that I'm scratching my head on.

whenever I boot a game (from either of my drives), steam says its starting, or running, but nothing happens... in fact, the entire desktop environment does one of 2 things:
1. the system refuses to open any new windows, and commands such as "shut down" or "restart" from the Application Launcher (start menu equivalent) do absolutely nothing. if I have anything open before attempting a game start, I can use the programs just fine, and typing "sudo -reboot" into Konsole gives me a system notification and sound saying it's preparing to shutdown, but nothing happens. computer requires hard reset with button.
2. the system does the first part of the first outcome, but quickly freezes and requires a hard reset.

I have tried different proton versions, reinstalling all versions of proton, reinstalling the games that cause it, switching kernal versions, running the "sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/1/amdgpu_gpu_recover" command, and a few other small things...

so far the 2 games that for sure cause it at RDR2, and Helldivers 2. a game that does NOT do this, is Peak.

I have a journalctl output of the events that are triggered by attempting to start the games, if anyone wants it.

specs are:
Kernal: 6.12.44-2-MANJARO
XWayland
KDE Plasma: 6.3.6
Ryzen 5950X
32GBs RAM
Radeon RX7900XT

Doesn't really matter in my case because the monitor is 240Hz refresh rate.
But still cool that nowadays we can get the most out of games on max graphics at higher performance than Windows.
Plus I am running the rest of my OS in ~2 GB of RAM.

Hey guys so I've been playing PoE2 but having some performance issues, and I noticed via LACT that strangely while my GPU usage shows 99%, it weirdly caps out at 75W draw? It's limit says it's 135, and I ran a benchmark via Furmark and it was able to draw 135 no problem.

Distro: CachyOS

GPU: AMD Radeon 6600XT

Not sure if any other info is needed there but man I've been trying to troubleshoot this for awhile and really cannot figure this out. Is this just normal somehow? I was under the impression that if it's running a game then the GPU should draw it's maximum amount of power.

This happens regardless of proton distro and I've tried checking power profile settings too like via powerprofilesctl and setting it to performance manually or adjusting the options in LACT but nothing seems to work.

I'm able to join regular games just fine, but for whatever reason, the system just hard crashes when i try to boot a 17+ game. Anyone else having this problem?

Estou tendo sérios problemas para instalar o Mod Manager TR2013 no linux mint 22.1 Ta sendo um verdadeiro desafio com Bottles e suas dezenas de dependências tentei muitas coisas até mesmo pelo terminal, resultado = nada funcionou para minha terrível frustração.

Hello, I recently switched from microsoft 10 to Linux mint. although I do not have a dedicated GPU for gaming I was previously able to run low end games like Roblox, Shellshockers, etc, now that I have installed Linux I can no longer play these games, when I boot up a game I get 400 to 500 ping and my laptop sounds like a jet taking off. Please help me find a solution to my problems.

I downloaded undertale from freelinuxpcgames and then I installed it .
But when I click Desktop icon ,I cant open it. Nothing ever happens.Not even an error message is appearing .just nothing.
I am new to Linux .