hi, i've been active in lots of linux subreddits recently, and actively searching for this, but it seems that most videos are tad bit old/same with reddit posts and such.
trying to get the best configs to run linux mint the best i can in this very low end system i have. i cannot afford upgrades yet but i still really want to troubleshoot this because in windows i had some impressive FPS in certain games (like CS2) And i can see if i can get a similar performance here.
i have installed The TLS version of xanmod, it helped a bit, got gamemode, running anything non-steam related on heroic, etc. But i feel like there is something more i can do to get some more stuff.
OS: Linux Mint 22.1 x86_64

Kernel: 6.12.44-x64v2-xanmod1

Uptime: 15 hours, 36 mins

Packages: 2599 (dpkg), 29 (flatpak)

Shell: bash 5.2.21

Resolution: 1360x768

DE: Cinnamon 6.4.8

WM: Mutter (Muffin)

WM Theme: Silk (Mint-Y)

Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Blue [GTK2/3]

Icons: Yaru [GTK2/3]

Terminal: gnome-terminal

CPU: Intel i5-2310 (4) @ 3.200GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Memory: 5278MiB / 15948MiB
this is my full specs!

I have an Nvidia RTX 2060, I'm having trouble with the drivers, (specifically, they just won't download) any advice?

Recently upgraded to a 3060 and I liked Waydroid and now I would like a way to play Clash Royale on my PC.

As you may know it's not a particularly graphically intensive game, but I really don't think using software rendering would be good to play with. Of course there is the option of just using something like scrcpy to mirror my phone to my PC, but that's no fun. Are there any alternatives to have the game running natively/with translation on my PC? I also wouldn't mind using a virtual machine + VirGL approach but the last time I tried that didn't go too well.

For reference(because it's basically mandatory), I'm running CachyOS, kernel 6.16.4, with a R7 2700x(which will be upgraded soon, to be frank I might grab a Zen 3 APU but I'd much rather have more cache over an extra graphics chip for CS2, but that doesn't really help the problem *now*) and an RTX 3060.

Hey everyone,
I'm new to Linux and currently using Bazzite as my distro.

I have a 1080p monitor that supports 100Hz, but it's currently stuck at 60Hz, and I can't seem to change it. This also happened on Windows when using this same HDMI to DisplayPort cable — so I know the cable is the issue, not the OS. With a different (but now broken) HDMI-to-DP cable I was able to run at 100Hz just fine on Windows.

Back on Windows, I used to change the refresh rate through the NVIDIA Control Panel, but now on Bazzite I don’t know where or how to do it — and I’m not sure if it’s even worth trying with this cable.

Is there a way to manually set a custom resolution/refresh rate on Bazzite, or is the refresh rate just being limited by the cable/EDID info and I’m stuck at 60Hz until I get a better one?

Any help or tips would be appreciated!

Hi guys i want to playing roblox on linux i use Pop! _os distro, I heard about an application called sober that runs Roblox on Linux. Is it good?

Hello and thank you for reading this. As the title says, I am helping a friend go to Fedora 42 from Windows 11. The major issues we are running into since yesterday has been related to graphical issues or vulkan errors when trying to launch some games. I have been troubleshooting with them for quite some time now and we really haven't got anywhere. I feel I am missing something crucial and I would hate to try a different distro since Fedora is good. I have seen others have success even with NVIDIA cards on Fedora in prior posts from years ago and tried what they did but it didn't end up resolving the issues we were running into. The biggest issue we are having right now is games will not launch and will crash if they use Vulkan shaders. Example would be For Honor & Black Myth Wukong. These games run fine on my system just fine and run great according to ProtonDB as well.

I also followed pretty closely to the documentation here on RPM Fusion:

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

Here is their system info:

OS: Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64

Host: MS-7D91 (3.0)

Kernel: Linux 6.16.3-200.fc42.x86_64

Uptime: 1 hour, 23 mins

Packages: 2685 (rpm), 7 (flatpak)

Shell: bash 5.2.37

Display (LG ULTRAGEAR): 2560x1440 @ 144 Hz in 31" [External] *

Display (C27): 1920x1080 @ 75 Hz in 25" [External]

DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.4

WM: KWin (Wayland)

WM Theme: Breeze

Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze [GTK3]

Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK3/4]

Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK3/4]

Cursor: breeze (24px)

Terminal: konsole 25.8.0

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900K (32) @ 6.00 GHz

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 [Discrete]
GPU 2: Intel UHD Graphics 770 [Integrated]

Memory: 6.89 GiB / 62.56 GiB (11%)

Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)

Disk (/): 821.34 GiB / 3.64 TiB (22%) - btrfs

Local IP (wlo1): 10.0.0.49/24

Locale: en_US.UTF-8

I speculate that this is caused by possibly the integrated graphics, but I am not too sure. I tried circumventing this, but any guidance here would be helpful. I never ran into these issues as my CPU & GPU are both AMD and run great on Fedora 42. I do think a lot of this might stem from possibly the kernel version too or even the NVIDIA driver version too..any insight would be helpful as I am at a lost now. Thank you all and I am willing to even try a reinstall for them as well.

Has anyone seen this issue? wanted to make sure it wasn't just me before I covered it in more detail for my channel.

basically there's two bugs I've encountered with this game which came out with a linux port in the last week or so. the first is that unless you're forcing scout runtime it sorta laggs a bit when not in windowed mode.

The second and major bug that could be considered game breaking. The map screen is bright pink with no map data and the map icons barely visible against it. This happens both with Scout runtime forced and without it. I got the game from the steam store and not from itch.io which is where I got the release date of the linux port from. as the official port was published there 8 days ago in the latest update.

only happens on the native port. not on proton.

here is my specs.

AMD Ryzen 9 7900x
64gb of DDR 5 5600mhz ram.
RTX 4060ti GPU with Nvidia driver 580.76.05 released 08/12/25 (latest stable non beta release)
Cachy OS Linux (arch derivative)

For proton I ran it with proton 10.0 (beta) and it ran fine but the linux native port seems to have that bug.

So has anyone else encountered this yet? I did notice that as of last year linux support wasn't even in the pipeline so I appreciate it regardless from the developer (seafloor games LLC)

Hi

I use ALVR to play vr games on my pc. The games play like normal. But when I want to watch my desktop in vr, I only have black screen and only see my mouse cursor.

I have put the good launch command in SteamVR properties. What could be the solution?

for some strange reason, i played this on steam and it worked fine the first time, but after that it stopped working, i tried new proton versions, deleting the game and reinstalling it, but nothing worked

Forgive me if I sound dumb cause I just got Linux today. I’ve been trying to uncap my Roblox frame rate using sobers file configurations, but the file is locked. It won’t let me get in. The tutorials I’m seeing all let the people in without any issues. I have already tried reinstalling ubuntu and deleting and reinstalling sober. I got tried downloading it from their website, and from flathub and neither work. Help!

So I'm on Bazzite running a Ryzen 7 4800h and Rtx 2060M-P. The game itself runs fine after installing .net 4.8. However, I'm trying to install a content manager so I can import files from automation and this error keeps popping up. I'm following along with a YT video https://youtu.be/8qy_RQr8LbM?si=TiaDGYmkP8ujn9nX And this guy seems to also be running a fedora build, so I'm not sure where i went wrong.

Hi there I’m using proton experimental and tried launching with vulkan dx12 and dx 11. No launch. I have an Intel Xeon e3-1200 v3/ 4th gen gpu. Am I cooked? Mind you, I got this pc for free and very novice so any help and advice is appreciated

I'm on bazzite with a Ryzen 7 9700X and 7800 XT, with a 1440p monitor.

I'm usually not interested in the newest pretties games but now 2 games are giving me a headache.

Stalker 2 and lost soul aside both do this, or to be more precise it's after them.

The games themselves run fine without issues but if I quit the games and try to turn off my computer my main monitor hangs on a black screen and my secondary turns full green and I have to force shutdown by holding the power button.

If I don't want to do that and go back playing later, half the screen will flicker until it dies similarly a couple of minutes later. And after a forced shutdown and turn on later the game runs fine and if I do it this way, if I want shutdown the PC after I'm done it does it normally instead of dying.

I don't really think it could be hardware because I played throught stellar blade without a single issue at max settings, and FF 15 at max settings with 4k textures(yes on a 1440p monitor) without issues.

No other games or tasks show any abnormalities outside of these 2.

I'm playing stalker 2 with GE 10-12 at high setting(so not the highest) and LSA on epic settings(one below the highest), without ray tracing, with GE 10-15(I think that was the latest)

I really don't think it could be a hardware issue, my PC isn't even half a year old and everything was brand new. But I really have no idea what could be the problem. I am on the latest version of bazzite(kde no gaming mode) because I ran the updater icon basically every day.

Been using emulators for years, always wanted to ditch Windows, but there was always some system that just worked better in Windows, like PS2 or N64. Fast forward to today and I finally have all my games in Linux in one frontend and looking/running good. Emulationstation is great and I used it a bunch on the PI, but the desktop version forces a folder structure I can't deal with so I tried Pegasus. It takes getting used to like any software, but it's pretty amazing. Once you get used to Skyscraper for scraping from the command line you can create metadata files for all your games, the nice thing about this is, for instance, I had to reinstall linux (cachyos) due to being a noob to this distro and breaking it horribly. Since Pegasus uses metadata files it's super freakin easy to get everything setup again, all I had to do was backup the game_dirs.txt file and then add it to the new install of Pegasus and everything is there. I still had to setup retroarch and some other emulators, but the frontend could not be easier.

I tried a bunch of themes, but I like the default theme best so I kept it, but made a bunch of custom changes/fixes. For instance I changed the top bar to show 49 systems and I fixed the grid to go back to last game after closing emulator, it was going back to the start of list each time. For all I know this is a linux bug and Windows peeps don't even have this issue, anyway I made a github repo and put my custom theme in it if anyone want to try it out or grab some of the fixes from the code and use them. I made another change so you can easily change the platform name in the top bar, I tried to list all the changes in the github readme, hopefully I remembered them all.

https://github.com/daveerwin1/pegasus-custom-theme

It took 6 emulators for 8 systems and retroarch for all the rest. PS3 was tricky cause all my games are iso, so I made a script to mount iso, run the game, then unmount iso. It's slow on close, but works great.

The only emulator that didn't have a way to set hotkey for close was cemu, so I made a script to load an antimicrox profile with hotkey mapped to alt + F4 that runs prior to game and closes after game, just so I can close everything from controller. I can now sit on my lazy ass and play 20,000 games w/o touching a keyboard :)

During this journey I discovered BigPEmu, wow. Virtual Jaguar has always sucked big time so I pretty much wrote off emulating that system. Then BigPEmu comes along and now every game runs 100% perfect, other notables cemu, dolphin, xemu, rpcs3, yuzu, and of course retroarch which has cores from so many emulators. So many great projects by awesome people, it's truly amazing.

Cemu actually crashes a lot, but I tracked the issue to my video card having only 3GB vram, PS3 emulation is spotty as well, but my PC is almost 10 years old at this point so considering that I'm more that happy with what it can emulate.

Hi, I recently found these 2 projects on github to install a fsr3 fg/dlss enabler mod and a vulkan lossless scaling layer.

https://github.com/FakeMichau/fgmod
https://github.com/PancakeTAS/lsfg-vk

Did someone tried these yet? Are they safe to install or a bit sketchy to you?

https://preview.redd.it/86jc5e8f88mf1.png?width=2548&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c01c2ed2fadb53c05bdba43a3806395380f66d4

My apologies for a terrible waybar setup 🙂

I'd suggest anyone to try it out and see if it works but be mindful that it's a 100GB+ download.

What I also noticed is that it wants a lot of CPU, my Ryzen 8500G really struggles with everything maxed out (RTX 3080 can do stable 60 at 4K easily) and I should definitely upgrade. Reason is my 7900x died and I decided to buy a cheap one to just get me through the RMA process. Anyway, I digress.

I think we should show some support for game developers that don't prevent their games running on Linux.

I am trying to install steam here is a screenshot

I recently built a PC and installed Kubuntu on it. When I started playing Geometry Dash, I noticed my framerate wasn't stable, which was weird because this PC should've been a noticeable upgrade from my gaming laptop. My GPU fans weren't spinning much, so I checked the system monitor, and whenever GD was open, my integrated GPU usage went up, and vice versa. I installed Mangohud so I could easily check a lot of games, and none of them regularly used my dGPU.

I tested this on 5 OpenGL games (Geometry Dash, tModLoader, Celeste, Stardew Valley, and Moonstone Island) and 1 DXVK game (Palworld). Palworld used my dGPU for about a second near the start, but then only used my iGPU.

This issue happens out-of-the-box. My monitor is plugged into my GPU and no other monitors are attached. My launch options for all games I tested were:

mangohud %command%

And here's some specs I think are necessary to share:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600x

GPU: Intel Arc B580

Distro: Kubuntu 25.04

Kernel Version: 6.14.0-29 generic (64-bit)

It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help me find a way to fix this.

got this error sorry for the busy looking screen had issues takeing a screenshopt. Im running kubuntu 24.04 and am using heroic launcher, not sure whats going on game is on proton ge