Hello first time writing here

I am planning on switching from windows 11 to a linux distro, however i don't know anything about linux or distros in general, so i would appreciate some reccomendations on a linux distro that is closest to windows 11.

I mainly do: gaming: playing any new or old titles, modding: i use map and level editors like the hammer editor,sandbox editor,tes construction set,halo mod tools and other sdk's, scripting: making cfg/text executables and scripts for games.

My pc specs: windows 11, cpu: ryzen 7 5700x, gpu: rx 6600 xt, ram: t-force vulcan-z 4 X 8 GB (32), motherboard: tuf b450 plus gaming.

hey guys,

i’m putting together a new gaming pc build, and i’m planning to run nobara os. from what i’ve read, amd hardware seems to be the best supported for linux gaming, especially with drivers and performance, so i’ve gone all in on an amd-centric build.

i’ve selected all my components using pcpartpicker and wanted to get the community's feedback before pulling the trigger. here’s a quick breakdown of the components:

pic of the build from pcpartpicker. would love your input, especially if you’ve used similar components with nobara or another linux distro!

goals for this build:

• gaming performance at 1440p and 4k.
• nobara os for a linux-native gaming experience (and to avoid windows bloat).
• minimal aesthetic (no rgb, clean & sleek).

i’ve heard great things about amd and nobara working well together on linux, especially in terms of driver support and game performance. i’m also hoping this will be a strong setup for the next few years, with room for upgrades if needed.

a couple of questions for the community:

1. do i need the noctua nh-d15 for the ryzen 7 7800x3d, or is that overkill? would a noctua nh-u12s suffice?
2. do i need a 78 liter corsair 6500x atx case, or would something much smaller do? how large roughly?
3. is my power supply too powerful for this build? i’ve gone with the evga supernova at 850 watt. is that sufficient for this build, or should i go higher for future-proofing?
4. and finally; has anyone tested high-end gaming performance on nobara with the 7800x3d and rx 7900 gre? are there any optimizations i should be aware of for 1440p/4k gaming?

thanks so much!

I came back to my arch linux install and after getting the system updated, my controllers don't seem to be working properly. They are detected by the os when I plug them in but other than my steam controller, won't show up in the game controller window.

When I boot up any game though steam (Forza Horizon 5, Hades, Vampire Survivors), the game does not recoggniize any button presses but I can still use the steam controller to bring up the steam overlay.

Currently I have the steam contrrollerr wirreless dongle, microsoft wireless adapter, steam controller and xbox contoller pluggged in through usb.

https://preview.redd.it/e2kdpocrx9rf1.png?width=688&format=png&auto=webp&s=d697db21bfdd0973a9bd9aa1030cef39763be277

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Any tips diagnosing orr fixing this issue appreciated.

Distr: Arch

CPU: Intel 12400KF

Motherrboard: MSI Z690

GPU: Sapphire 6800XT

GPU: Sapphire 6800XT

Hey! So i want to try out Fsr4 on my 6800xt now that the files have leaked a few weeks ago. I heard that on Linux it's supposed to work even better and has worked for even longer but how is that possible if the leaks are newer than fsr4 on Linux? Do i need the new files or do the old guides for Fsr4 on Rdna3 still apply? Does anything change for the setup when using Rdna2?

So, recently windows corrupted my ssd and i had enough with it, i changed to mint (i think the name is cool), i was having a problem like "steam folder is not executable" i solved with "exec" but now i always have to set my hdd on steam manually, its normal or i can do something to steam always start my with my ssd and hdd already installed?

hey guys, i switched from Win11 to Debian13 a few days ago. I have a little Linux experience (Used Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Debian12 and Mint) but i am not that good with it (for now). I wanted to play a game with a friend of mine via Steam. Proton - check. Drivers (should be good but i am not sure). So i started the game. Loading screen. Then, after 5-8 seconds, the screen gets completly black. My GPU starts cooling as hell (getting noisy and loud) and the screen says „Power Save Mode“. Then i have to restart. This has happend a few times (i tried it with different Proton etc.) but nothing helps. I also tried other games - they worked. I have no clue.

The Game: Police Simulator - Patrol Officers — Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/997010/Police_Simulator_Patrol_Officers/

GPU: AMD Radeon 580 (an old one ik)

Thanks in advance!

So I've recently been dual-booting Windows 11 and Fedora KDE Plasma. Dual-booting because of gaming mostly. I'd like to switch completely, but I'm worried about my non-cloud Steam Saves. I've used Game Save Manager to find all of the saves on Windows and back them up into one folder, however GSM can't restore this backup to Linux. I could maybe manage this manually? My plan is:

1. Uninstall all games on Windows
2. Re-install on Linux (Proton)
3. Move non-cloud saves to their Proton equivalent folder on Linux

This will require a decent amount of work looking up all the save paths, transferring, troubleshooting etc., so just wondering if I'm missing something obvious? Is there an easier way people have done this?

Another option would be to just point Steam to a shared library on an NTFS drive, but I tried that and had a lot of issues with my system downloading the game twice for some reason (taking up 2x the storage).

Any advice greatly appreciated ☺️

I just use mint for the last few months. Work really well. I can even play games, native Linux and wine.

3 days ago I bought a new Logitech F310 controller. Cheap but really good when playing native games like dead cell. But when I tried to use it on wine games, apparently the controller is not recognized. There's nothing in the game input setting (I tried some titles)

How to fix it ? Do I need to install some drivers in wine ? Or need to toggle some setting? Please help

My mint is 22.1 cinnamon 6.4.8 and the wine 9.0

Thanks in advance

After the update to season 13 I get an error saying "network error" "No anti-cheat module has been found for this game and platform" when I try to launch. I've tried adding %SteamDeck=1 %command%" just in case, but this doesn't seem to help at all. Re-installed 5 times but it's still the same. Can somebody please help me.

Doesnt show up in recordings. And the problem is a lot worse in person as my phones camera shutter speed isnt fast enough.

Fedora 42 kde. Proton 10 beta, all amd build

Anyway to fix this other then turning off adaptive sync

I tried under proton_Wayland=1 as well

Hey guys, im a indie technical artist and game designer im looking to switch to Linux cause im honestly tired of windows id appreciate any and all help you guys can provide me any guidance on what distro to choose what's the easiest to get into and will work with my softwares. softwares i use for work are Unreal Engine, Houdini, Blender, Substance painter and maya, i also game on the same device from steam games, tarkov, epic, or ea... appreciate all the help I can get

I installed BloodStained ROTN on my device via Heroic. After install, the game automatically launches fine. When I close it and relaunch, I get an error that says "DX11 feature level 10.0 is required to run the engine."

Using Wine-latest on Heroic with a Nvidia graphics card.

SteamTools wont allow me to import files onto the overlay thing (cant put video rn because of "Server error. Try again later."

Recently I decided to switch back to Windows on my ROG Ally. My main reason wasn't over wifi issues, but at home the Ally struggled to get good internet speeds on Wifi and it frequently dropped connection. After I switched back to Windows the Wifi problems went away. I switched back to Windows on the Ally because I'm starting to use it docked more, and on game mode multitasking didn't work super well. I tried to use Spotify and Borderlands 2, but every time I switched between the 2 on a 4k display with game at 1080p, the game would look all pixelated and have big black bars until I reset the resolution in game (not sure if its a borderlands or Game Scope specific issue). I also miss having Dolby Atmos, on my Windows laptop with my gaming headset (Corsair HS80) music sounded better because it had Dolby Atmos.

I think that MediaTek wifi drivers are holding back Linux on any laptop or device with MediaTek wifi. On most laptops you can swap them out with a better wifi chip, but sadly on gaming handhelds you stuck with what you have.

Hey good day everyone, just got gifted a copy of SHF for my birthday and so far it has been working great! So I wanted to share the experience.

I have a 9800X3D CPU w/ a 9070XT, running on CachyOS KDE (Proton CachyOS) and the game boot up for my with absolute no config required.

Performance is pretty good I think, I used the optimized settings from Digital Foundry video, at 4K w/ FSR Quality and most of the time it runs around 100+FPS, the most I've seen it drop is to low 80s on some forest areas, like the literal first area of the game.

I added FSR4 w/ Optiscaler, and a quick warning, install optiscaler w/ d3d12.dll, not sure if maybe this is a know issue w/ UE5 games or something, but using the default dxgi option was crashing the game.

And from what I seen on other videos like Daniel's Owen and Steam Deck HQ it seems to scale well on other hardware.

i switched my desktop to linux at the beginning of summer this year and after finally thinking i got all my issues with drive mounting figure out, it turns out that was never the case. right now it appears to be specific for three main titles: sifu, elden ring, and rivals of aether. the issue is that the cloud saves for these games will not sync no matter what i do. they will very quickly go from 0-100% when i try to retry a sync, but they will never actually sync without erroring out. it also doesnt help that steam isnt giving me any specific error codes or messages, meaning this is pretty much the extent of my knowledge. i initially assumed it was because most of my drives are still NTFS drives mounted with the guide valve had on github, but that doesnt really explain things either since most games still work perfectly fine. any ideas what could be happening?

for a little context, im on the latest manjaro linux.

I have been trying to launch and play the elder scrolls oblivion (2009) GOTY and it keeps failing to launch. I tried multiple proton versions (9.0-4, hotfix, experimental, GE-proton10-17) and keep getting the same results.

I am seeing the same issue with Half Life 2 (proton version), and Steins;Gate. Pretty much all of my other games work fine. I ran steam through the terminal and got this when I tried to launch oblivion, similar results for the other games

fsync: up and running.
WARNING: radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.
chdir "/home/*/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Oblivion"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/*/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCL
ASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/*/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCL
ASS32): ignored.
Error: powerprofilesctl not found
Game Recording - would start recording game 22330, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 17852 for gameID 22330
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=22330]
Removing process 17852 for gameID 22330

I am unsure how to even diagnose this issue as all of these games are platinum on protondb and I have had no issues so far with any of the other games I tested.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
GPU : AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Kernel: Linux 6.16.8-cachyos1.fc42.x86_64 (tried with native kernel, no difference)

Any help would be appreciated

I really love Linux (especially Hyprland) but I just can't get it to game. I thought maybe it was a hyprland issue so I tried Pop instead since it could still tile when I want but should offer the more stable Gnome for full screen gaming.

No go. There's always an issue. Vulkan always wanting to pre-bake or whatever and taking an hour, bad performance including stuttering and crashes, obscure bugs that take hours to days to fix just so I can use a particular piece of software.

I've never been able to get gaming working on Linux, but I've seen so many posts of people showing off good benchmarks of gaming on Linux. What gives? What's the secret sauce?

So I am on steam deck but it’s Linux so I’m hoping someone can break it down for me, I’m trying to decrypt Pokémon roms, I’ve downloaded cia Unix for decryption but I don’t know how to execute commands, just placing my rom in the folder and starting both dltools( or dhtools I forget lol) and cia Unix and clicking on the icons doesn’t do anything. I know I can just get a flash drive from my windows pc to my steam deck but I figure the deck runs on Linux so I may as well learn how to do it all on just that device.