The title says it, basically. I want to assemble a new gaming PC. Mini-ITX base and watercooled with a custom loop. But it has been a while that I was considering hardware compatibility on Linux and I am pretty sure a lot has changed in the 15 years since then. And please don't say "everything works" - There are just some products that are better on Linux than others, some others are easier, some more are better documented, some allow firmware updates in Linux which others don't, some have native Linux apps while others don't.. So which brands do you recommend concerning:
- CPU
- Graphics card (I realize AMD seems to be better supported, Nvidia has the more performant chips though, so how dire is the situation for current gen graphics gards really? And does the manufacturer matter in any way?)
- Mainboard (drivers would be the big point here I guess)
- Drives
also I would be happy for a tip about which brand to for concerning pump and fan control
I know it is quite a broad topic, but throw in your thoughts, even if it just covers a small part of it. Thanks a bunch :)

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Hi everyone, early i play firestorm in my arch linux but in this day i reinstall system. Now i try to download client and have a problem, in last time project firestorm have only launcher his worked but don't size free size in my disk

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Some guy on nvidia developer forum might just found the problem with lower nvidia performance in DX12 games.

Also lower performance in ray tracing on Linux seems to be intended feature, i don't really understand everything but you can read yourself below.

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/directx12-performance-is-terrible-on-linux/303207/335?page=2

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I have a Ryzen 5800X coupled with a Radeon 7900GRE. I’m currently using the latest ZEN kernel with KDE Plasma on Wayland @3440x1440. I’m thinking maybe a configuration problem? On Windows I am seeing 102 average fps in the benchmark but only around 75-85 average fps in Linux through Steam. I am using stock Proton and have tried RADV and amdvlk drivers. Also image quality is not as good. I also notice similar in GTA 5. My expectation for image quality is an unimplemented API in Proton however running under gamescope looks better. Other games run fine and I didn’t think anything of it until I saw that it runs faster on Steam OS and thought to check. Thank you in advance for any feedback!

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Recently downloaded the Linux version of Summertime Saga on my steam deck and yet I can't play it for some reason even boot it up when I try to use Proton to play it please help me

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im surprised that despite having my sd card listed as the primary drive, all shaders and background info is getting spilled into the 64 gig internal. over a week its gone from 44 gigs or so at OOB to having 4 gb full, even after deleting games bc the shaders are deep in weird internal locations and also dont actually say the game name, just the steam app id. i would really like a step by step guide, written by a person, for a person with little to no linux knowledge on how to make this move to my sd card. i tried moving the compatdata folder to the root of my sd but i dont think its actually linked. i heard something about a symlink? i dont know, this is a lot for someone who only moved from mac to windows like 4 months ago, and is now having to learn linux stuff. thank you!

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My TF2 won't launch if my Vulkan shaders do not render to 100%. I am not resilient to wait 1 million years for Ubuntu to load the shaders. Is there any solution solution for this?

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So if you want the run down of what I did, the modlist I'm using has community shaders. So you can use the free upscaler mod, once you set it up correctly make sure XESS is set in the ini file. After that, setup optiscaler I have a stock game folder so I just set it up in there. And you should be good. You need to be on mesa-git still I think, and you can get both of the required dll's via this:

wget --referer https://support.amd.com https://drivers.amd.com/drivers/amd-software-adrenalin-edition-25.3.2-win10-win11-mar20-rdna.exe 7z e -r amd-software-adrenalin-edition-25.3.2-win10-win11-mar20-rdna.exe amdxcffx64.dll amdxc64.dll

And then you put these two DLL's in your system32 folder, I have mine setup via steam so I would run protontricks -l to get the appid, and find it in my steam compatdata folder. Add this to your launch options: DXIL_SPIRV_CONFIG=wmma_fp8_hack %command%. Launch the game and choose FSR 3.X and profit. I can make a video on this if anyone want's as well.

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I have 8BitDo Ultimate 2C and i want to play on geforce now, but when i trying to play in chromium, gfn just doesn't see my controller, however in hardwaretester it works ideally. In firefox works everything except triggers (LT and RT). I tried asking chatgpt, but it was just "try downloading steam-devices" and "try reloading it". How can i fix that? I'm using Arch.

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Hi, I'm starting to switch over to Linux Mint but am having problems setting up my gaming mouse. I have a Corsair Scimitar that I used iCUE to configure my mouse buttons while on windows.

I've tried various FOSS alternatives but have found nothing that works. Piper doesn't support it, and neither does ckb-next.. I want something with a UI and Profiles to swap through.

After much grief, I've decided to set up a VM to run iCUE and switch my profiles from there, no big deal. However, the software in my VM doesn't detect that I have a Corsair mouse plugged in, unless I enable the device as a USB device. At which point, the iCUE software recognizes it but now I'm unable to move my cursor at all! Neither on the VM nor my host machine. The only way to escape is to use host key shortcuts to close the VM, and sometimes it locks up completely and i have to restart my whole system to try again.

What am I missing with this passthrough?? I can get my keyboard to pass through easily, but not once have I been able to get the mouse to move after enabling it as a USB device.

I've tried adding guest additions and the ext-pack with no luck. Please help before I lose all will to continue.

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Hello,

I have an issue with my RX 6600 XT eGPU crashing randomly (sometimes immediately) on LMDE 6. This Thunderbolt dock works fine on windows but it doesn't work on linux (I had the same issue on Ubuntu).

While looking online for solutions, upgraded my kernel to 6.12 and upgraded Mesa to 25 but I still get the freezing problem. I even tried switching from Xorg to Wayland but it didn't change anything.

The weird thing is that my mouse doesn't freeze only the rest of the desktop.

I am fairly new to linux and completely new to this subreddit.

Output of 'inxi -Gxxx': in the image (I didn't even have time to copy it into reddit that linux crashed)

Thank you for taking your time reading this.

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Shoutouts to this post that inspired me to do this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ljykcg/latest_vkd3dproton_massively_improves_fsr4/

Might follow up with some detailed benchmark numbers later.

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Greeting,

I installed Turtle WoW using the Lutris script, and the game works fine when launched via WoW.exe (or using Vanillatweaks). However, the current client used by turtle wow is ancient, has a few bugs and bad performance, so I would like to mod it. There are 4 mods I want to load, but 2 of them do not work for me.

I must run the game through flatpak, but I talked to many players who use native proton-ge/Heroic launcher etc, and mods work for them. If you have modded the game successfully, but you don't use flatpak, then you may not be able to help. I assume that it may be a sandbox issue, but I don't know how to test that.

The mods for Turtle wow are dll's injected by the launcher (WoW.exe). There is a dll.txt file that you can use to list which dlls to load.

I made a post on r/turtlewow, if you need more info, but I will add some context below.

The two modds that I can't figure out how to install are:

• https://github.com/balakethelock/SuperWoW
• https://github.com/pepopo978/nampower

Is there anyone who has made it work (through flatpak)? Have you had any similar issues in other games? I'm not sure how to even troubleshoot it.

From the original post, I quote the following:

If I add nampower.dll or SuperWoWhook.dll (alone or with the others), the game does not launch. With the latter, I get a small window titled "error" with the message "Fail writing at 4367186", then another window, "Fail writing at 8438712", then another... until I stop the game.

From someone claiming to be a Turtle wow dev (maybe true, but didn't verify):

Also please don't use any other dll injectors like SuperWoWLauncher or VanillaFixes launcher because our modified WoW.exe already has the dll loading from dll.txt built in. If you use other dll launchers the mods will get double loaded.

My dll file contains the following:

nampower.dll # game won't start. SuperWoWhook.dll # game won't start, but the small error window appears. twdiscord.dll # game starts UnitXP_SP3.dll # game starts VfPatcher.dll # game starts submitted by /u/Yiannis97s
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Hello all,

With the end of Windows 10 coming up, I figured now would be a good time to move their desktops over to Linux; their PCs have 7700s and do not have TPMs.

Currently with Windows 10 they are managed via group policy, our parental control app suite and firewall/hosts file changes. Their mobile devices (phone, laptop, ipad) are managed in a similar way.

Seeing as they have docks for their laptops, their is no need for the desktop to be a full fledged usable PC, so I am looking to install linux and steam and pretty much lock it down to only run Steam. Is there a distro like this? Or what would be the best way to implement this?

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Hi, and today I am looking at The Alters. It is a sci-fi game with elements of adventure, survival and base-building.

The graphics and sound design is excellent and the game runs really well. Hard to believe games are still optimised in 2025. The story is engaging and the voice acting is really good. 11 Bit once again delivers a masterclass in story telling and character development.

The game mechanics are well thought out and the time based elements enforce the urgency that the story is trying to convey and with each alter you get dragged deeper into it.

I am about 6 hours in and from what i have read the main gameplay loop takes about 30 hours, and I can say that it has been an engaging 6 hours so far. It is a great game at a great price and for that I need to commend the developers, this could have been priced higher in my opinion.

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When playing games on Steam, the game randomly freezes. Sometimes it is every few minutes, sometimes it can go an hour or two without freezing. It's unpredictable. I've noticed this on both Expedition 33 and Split Fiction. I haven't tested this on other games. If you wait a bit (20 seconds to a couple minutes) it will either unfreeze itself or crash. If you press a key to say, open the app menu and force the game window out of focus, the game will resume as if nothing happened.

Hardware specs:

GPU RTX 5080 Asus Prime

CPU: Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Motherboard: Asrock B650i Lightning Wifi (BIOS 3.25)

Power Supply: Corsair SF1000

Drives: Samsung 990 Pro 4TB, Samsung Evo Plus 2TB

Case: Fractal Era 2

Cooler: Fractal Lumen S24 V2

OS specs:

CachyOS (problem is also persistent on fresh Bazzite gnome install) KDE (KDE version 6.4.1)

Nvidia drivers 575.64-3

cachyos-gaming-meta and cachyos-gaming-applications meta packages are installed.

The weird thing is that I have two CachyOS installation: one on each drive. The one on the 2TB drive does not seem to have these issues so far (knock on wood), but the one on the 4TB drive does. The biggest difference in the two installations that I can see is that the 4TB install is newer and has KDE plasma 6.4.1 whereas the 2TB installation has KDE Plasma 6.3.x. I don't necessarily think this is a plasma issue since I experienced this same issue on Bazzite gnome. I also don't experience this on my other desktop with a Ryzen 7950X and AMD RX 7900XT running Fedora 41, so this is very likely related to some interaction between the nvidia drivers and some other aspect of the system. I could just use the 2TB drive, but I would really like to get to the bottom of what is causing this so I know how to avoid it in the future.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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