Hello all,

My gaming laptop died on my birthday and I figured I'd build a desktop again because the laptop was so expensive I was afraid to take it anywhere.

I prefer AMD CPU and GPUs... last I knew they were preferred over Intel/Nvidia for linux but I wanted to check in and see if that's still the case. Budget is probably 4-5k USD and I generally prefer a better build I can stretch an extra year or two rather than rebuilding or replacing parts more frequently. Also I haven't touched linux in about 15 yrs, but I'm sick of bloat and figured I'd give mint-cinnamon or something lightweight a try. Are there any recommendations for hardware that just works with linux better? I want to spend my time learning the new OS, rather than fighting to get hardware working and would greatly appreciate any input be it hardware and/or easier linux version. I play everything from stardew to borderlands 4 and do love to mod the heck out of games (nexus mods or steam workshop mostly), which I thought might also cause issues. I have a steam deck and meta quest 3 as well.

Any troublesome parts like RAM, MoBo, NvME that might trip up a new build, etc?

Thanks for your time!

i know shared resources was figured out ages ago so theoretically there's nothing stopping linux from running it. why is it still unplayable? has anybody been able to get it working?

okay, so i changed proton to proton 7 (i was trying to get Devil May Cry to work), but when i changed it back to the default proton (proton 8) it stopped working for some reason?

I'm not a linux user myself. I just have a 9070 XT and the news makes me a bit worried for the future in case I do decide to hold onto my card for 5+ years. Would switching to linux in that case eliminate this concern if the time ever came where it was a problem on windows?

Hello everyone. Im currently trying to figure out my graphical bugs in WoW im having since a couple of weeks. I have "sharp edges" around most of the visual effects. The pictures are while ParticleDensity is "enabled" and disabled.

With Particle Density

No Particle Density

Its really confusing and i tried everything i could think of:
- Reinstalling the Game and disabling every addon (Clean reinstall)
- Reinstalling the Battle.net launcher
- Different Proton Versions in Steam, even starting the game from steam without battle.net launcher.
- Switching ingame from DX11 to DX12 and back

My PC Stats:
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (24) @ 5.74 GHz
OS: Nobara Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.17.5-200.nobara.fc42.x86_64
Memory: 11.13 GiB / 30.45 GiB (37%)

Im using Proton Experimental Bleeding Edge without any extra commands on Steam
Do you have an idea what i could try out?

From the ashes of my RTS game Virtueror, I restarted the development after 18 months and created a new game that continues where the old one had left: VIRTUALORD.

If you want to check it out, alpha testing is starting next week and every Linux user is welcome to join and to contribute to the development with feedback and comments.

I identified the problem as the generic HID driver taking the device over the Logitech HID++ driver as shown in dmesg:

[ 43.725454] input: Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-4/3-4.4/3-4.4:1.0/0003:046D:C08B.0006/input/input25
[ 43.725517] hid-generic 0003:046D:C08B.0006: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse] on usb-0000:00:14.0-4.4/input0
[ 43.726377] input: Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-4/3-4.4/3-4.4:1.1/0003:046D:C08B.0007/input/input26
[ 43.777398] hid-generic 0003:046D:C08B.0007: input,hiddev97,hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse] on usb-0000:00:14.0-4.4/input1

The kernel wouldn't let me unbind the generic driver and bind the logitech driver, so I grepped my mouse's VID:PID in the list of usb ids in the hid-logitech-hidpp driver with modinfo, but it outputted nothing, meaning the driver doesn't even know my mouse.

What can I do? Arch on kernel 6.17.5-arch1-1

i installed it via lutris, its started, did past "loading game info" but then at "loading live games..." just makes transparent and does nothing. console show nothing. tried restarting and etc. help pls idk what to do. version of byond is 516

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Hey guys

As the title may suggest im experienceing some issues with Linux overall and i am a bit unsure as to why. I got these specs more specifically:

GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700KF 10th Gen Core

RAMs: 2 x 8GB Corsair DDR4 [16GB total]

Storage: NVMe Disk 1TB SSD [Where Zorin is installed]

I have the issue that a lot of games i download lags a good amount more than it would on windows 10/11, and i am not really sure as to why, because apart from the games being installed on linux, through other meassures such as alternative launchers i feel like the experience should be somewhat the same if not even better, considering that Linux takes up less space.

I have looked at which drivers that is installed "Additional drivers" and the version which are being used is the latest one by Nvidia themselves and not the open source one.

[NVIDIA Driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-580 (proprietary)]

So to sum up, im really unsure as to why all of these games that runs "very well" on Win10/11 runs between Low/medium on Linux. Any suggestions and or help would be appriciated.

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So this game has a native Linux version. It will not run. I'm running EndeavourOS, trying to play this on my HTPC with my XBOX 360 controller. When I click the Play button in Steam it briefly turns into a Stop button and flashes what I think is the vukcan shaders compiling window before the Stop button once again because a Play button and nothing else happens.

I've tried the default version of Proton, Proton Experimental and GE-Proton 20 and the result for all three is that the Play button will become a Stop button, the game will ask me whether to run config or play the game. I can run config but when I try to play the game, nothing happens. The Stop button remains a Stop button but the game never actually launches.

This native Linux game does not run in Linux and I can't make the Windows version work with Proton.

Does anyone have any ideas? Any other version of Proton I should try? At this point I'm shooting in the dark and if someone can suggest a specific version so I don't have to just blindly try every version, that would be great. Or maybe there's some launch parameter that would work?

I showed my launch options and fastfetch

this problem started after I set cs2 to use wayland so I could play streched