I am currently running arch linux, but i am using Cachy's kernel, settings and some repo packages. However, probably because i'm on Nvidia, i'm having some issues that i never ever had before when i was using Nobara or other distros, and i am pretty sure it's on me. But i love arch, i love the aur, i love the control i have, even though i'm a dummy.

So, my question is: is cachyos as a distro actually good? The idea of an arch based, optimized and easy to install distro sounds incredibly appealing to me, but i am not sure if it's worth it. Thanks for the answers :)

Currently, with the newly released GNOME 48, both it and KDE support the Wayland Color Management protocols, so that native Wayland apps can display HDR correctly. AFAIK, only Wine (and in turn Proton) is missing support, both to set their Wayland driver as default and to support and use the new protocols. Is that the only step missing? Also, as a sidenote, how does the VK_hdr_layer fit in all of this?

Hello i got an i5 12500 and a 4070ti and wanted to go into linux but i neverd had a dedicated gpu or a decent processor before, any tips to make them work fine, not overclock or nothing like that just an optimal use for long time. Thanks

I just bought a new bundle from Microcenter alongside a new 9070 XT GPU and the deadline to return my products is coming up in a day or two. I've been so busy with work that I haven't gotten a chance to set up my computer and test it out.

Assuming I install some distro like EndeavourOS to get the necessary drivers for my new GPU, how can I run any tests to validate my hardware is up to spec/not missing ROPs/etc. so I know I don't need to return parts? This is my first PC, so I've never validated hardware before. Is there some software tools people recommend?

For those who don't know, Mesen is a multi emulator that emulates quite a few 2D retro systems and does it well and accurately.

The problem is that unless I use the software renderer it refuses to actually display anything despite the fact that I have SDL2 installed. The appimage doesn't help, however running the windows version through wine does work but then I miss out on controller support. Has this happened to anyone else?

And to preemptively answer this question, Do I want to use Retroarch? Not really. But if push comes to shove I don't mind just using it.

Hello, does anyone here play Helldivers 2 on Linux? Does it work well?

For me, it sucks. Basically, my GPU is ALWAYS at 100% (even in menus) (RX 7700 XT). Some would say - cool, game uses it all. Wrong, Fps often drops to ~20 when fights happen.

I tested on Windows with same settings - I can maintain rock solid 60 fps, while GPU usage is at ~ 60 - 70%.

This must be some kind of bug? I did test dx 11, too, with no luck. I used proton experimental, proton 9, proton ge 9.26, same issue.

I use Ubuntu 24.10, with latest kernel installed via mainline, as well as latest Mesa 25.0 And other games do run fine, it's just Helldivers that has this weird issue.

Ok so yesterday at around 6-7pm CET I played Helldivers 2 and everything was fine, then I changed games for a bit and a friend wanted to play with me about 8-9 pm but I couldn't launch it. I don't have mods installed, I have tried verifying + reinstalling but neither works. I tried changing Proton from Experimental to Hotfix to 9.0 but nothing changed. I then updated system components etc, gave up and spent the night playing Warframe...

Basically i would click on "Play" and it would say "Launching" then "Playing" and instantly go back to "Play" with no signs that the game actually launched, nothing pops up etc. I tried "PROTON_LOG=1 %command%" in launch options but the log didn't show anything besides basic information about the game so I think steam is failing to launch it? Or atleast not giving proton an opportunity to crash.

Today I tried Helldivers 2 again but it still wouldn't launch, BUT NEITHER WOULD WARFRAME. After some time trying to reinstall, move folders between SSDs, etc and just opening those games I got my OS to crash thrice. Now for the big reveal I am using Ubuntu 24.04 (Seems everyone on this subreddit has a burning hatred for Ubuntu). But I don't see any new threads complaining about this issue on this subreddit, helldivers 2 discussion or Ubuntu forums, if it was wide spread it would probably flood these places, right? The crashes were the "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occured and the system can't recover." The crashes only happen while interacting with Steam in some way, clicking different games or trying to launch games. Steam is the latest version. Also sidenote even after crashing I can press the windows button to alt tab and see my desktop and even took a screenshot but that might just be a linux thing.

I also randomly got a steam cloud sync error for Balatro and then couldn't launch that game either which might be a clue. I also got a disk write error on steam when downloading Proton 9.0 at first which might suggest steam is lacking rights to write data? However I doubt that would apply to both SSDs? Balatro, HD2 and Warframe were all on the same SSD aswell. But HD2 doesn't work even after moving it to my other SSD and verifying files.

HD2 and Warframe did get updated this week but so did The Finals which works fine, different games I know but still.

I haven't downloaded anything recently so if it's something caused by that or malware I've been infected for a while, but doesn't hurt to check if anyone can vouch a tool!

I am kinda new to Linux so if anyone knows the solution right of the bat or can just point me in the right direction I would appriciate it.

Random list of other information:
- I am using the official steam linux version from their website, not a SNAP or something like that
- Using the recommended NVIDIA driver from Ubuntu "metapackage from nvidia-driver-550 (proprietary, tested)", terminal says: "NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 550.120"
- Build: ASRock B650 PG, AMD Ryzen 9 9900X, 4080 Super
- Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
- GNOME version 46
- Linux 6.11.0-19-generic

Hi.

I have bought DayZ on Steam.

I use Linux Fedora.

When i press "play", the DayZ launcher appears, and when i press "play" on the launcher, everything closes.

How to do ? it's gold on ProtonDB and it seems working for everyone. I have tried many versions of Proton (9.0, hotfix and experimental)

Hi r/linux_gaming. I bought a 9070 XT day-one. I've been an NVidia user my whole life, and I primarily bought it because I was under the impression AMD had significantly better Linux support. I've been having this issue with my 9070 XT since I got it, and considering I'm not really seeing anyone else post about it anywhere (I've been searching for a while), I'll see if I can get some help from the individuals here.

Symptoms of the issue are that my monitors freeze and I cannot swap to a different TTY, but audio streams via PipeWire seem to continue working just fine. I'm able to talk to my friends through Discord and tell them I need to force reboot my computer.

At first, my assumption was that it occurred only while under excessive load (OOM?). It happened yesterday just when closing a really easy-to-run game (osu!lazer) from just the main menu, so it might be related to some sort of incompatibility? I noticed that it often occurs during loading of some sort, be it loading a map for a game (i.e. Marvel Rivals) or something as simple as closing a game or tabbing out (i.e. swapping DE focus).

Versions I'm using (Arch Linux):

- linux 6.13.7.arch1-1
- linux-firmware-git 20250307.bd3d8a8b-1
- mesa-git 25.1.0_devel.202858.25875f5e79c.d41d8cd-1
- lib32-mesa 1:25.0.1-2
- lib32-vulkan-radeon 1:25.0.1-2

I am using mesa-git because when I got the card Mesa 25 was not in primary Arch repos.

End of the output of journalctl -k -b -1, where it seems to be complaining about the issue: https://pastebin.com/VQtD9kZn
This is the end of it. There is nothing after this. I had to hard-reset my computer to continue using it.

Output of inxi -Gxxx:
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 48 [RX 9070/9070 XT]
vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 32 GT/s lanes: 16
ports: active: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-2,HDMI-A-2,Writeback-1
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:7550 class-ID: 0300

I'm playing in arch linux, with nvidia RTX4080 but that graphic distortion is very annoying.

https://reddit.com/link/1jfs1k4/video/temleop19vpe1/player

So i am playing Spider-Man 2 on Arch linux with the cachyos kernel, settings and proton, on my nvidia 4070, the drivers installed are the latest nvidia-open-dkms.

For some reason, if i go to the display settings, it doesn't show me the frame gen option, and frankly, dlss works meh. Has anyone else found this issue? can it be a simple driver problem?

I was able to install the launcher with lutris but I still can't play the game I bought on steam because it's tied to the steam account, even though I logged in with my steam.

Hello, I've some DRM-free games on an other hard drive that I used for windows. Is there a way to launch those .exe games, some needs Microsoft visual c++, so I can't launch just by clicking the exe file.

I know how to play it through lutris but I can't figure out how to launch directly from their location.

Thanks for help !

I cannot get this game to launch, it always get's stuck on this screen. Does anyone have a fix? The ProtonDB page is not updated yet...

Distro:EndeavourOS Linux

Kernel:6.13.7-arch1-1

RAM:32 GBGPU

Driver:NVIDIA 570.124.04

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

GE-Proton9-26

I've seen conflicting answers on this when searching online. Some say to look in the compositor settings and some say it can't be done. If it matters I'm on MX Linux 23.5 xfce "advanced hardware support" edition. I don't see anything like this in the settings other than MX's Tweak tool having some options with the compositor to swap from compton to the regular xfce compositor to no compositor at all. I'd like to have a compositor when just using my desktop since it has some nice transparency effects, if possible.