seriously, every time someone expresses interest in linux and gaming the name bazzite is bound to pop up, it's neither a good beginner distribution or a good distribution at all. i can only see bazzite being good at one thing and that's for a tv gaming setup, where it's only use case will be gaming and gaming only, because good luck getting anything productive done on that thing.

Picked up the PXN CB1, and trying to get it working.

It's being detected in lsusb, evtest aswell.

Linux mint 22.1

So figure there's something I've gotta do to get it presented to the games properly.

Any guides/advice welcome

Fellas. I'll be moving to Linux in a few days, just waiting for my RX 9060 XT to be delivered, since I'm new on Linux (only tried multiple distros via VM) I need to properly figure out what distro I should choose. I really like Mint for being stable and newbie-friendly but I'm not too fond with the idea of it having EOL plans unlike other distros (but I can see why they do that), and I'm also not too fond with having to manually install the more recent kernels if I want better gaming performances.

So I started poking through multiple distros in the past couple of months and tried a few of them:

• Bazzite seems a wonderful option but I've heard it has frequent crash issues despite its growing popularity? I'll let the experts give me a heads up on this.
• Then I saw CachyOS, I haven't tried it for long but it looked pretty stable and I noticed it even surpassed Mint on DistroWatch and lots of people sound very supportive about it! Although I read it is Arch-based, and even if I don't have real issues with Arch stuff since I'm not a guy who customises much stuff or installs weird packages (I'm not a tech-guy, lol)... I'm not too sure about its stability.

I know the safest options are usually the most popular, because they get the most support and updates, but again... I'd like something that doesn't break after a couple of days :')

Extra info: I mostly do gaming, draw with Krita and do video editing with DaVinci Resolve

Thank you in advance for all the replies! Can't wait to finally say goodbye to Windows

some people seem to suggest just not using any other apps will solve it but it didn't, my unpacking crashed at about 44% with the -1 error code

hi, someone have this working on steam archlinux? https://store.steampowered.com/app/999020/Mega_Man_ZeroZX_Legacy_Collection/?l=spanish is listed as platinum on protondb but only works in steamdeck, i tried every proton version, same result, silently close, i have nvidia rtx 3060, 64gb ram, and a 13900kf.

I'm gonna make this short , after doing some tests on kde arch i can tell x11 have the upper hand when it comes to input delay , idk why exactly Wayland is trash in input lag

i9-13900H
32GB of DDR5 at 5200 MT/s
RTX 4050 (75W)

in terms of driver compatibility with the laptop (I'm basically happy if my keyboard backlight, trackpad, and brightness adjustment for the native display, and Wi-Fi + Ethernet function) and driver compatibility with the NVIDIA card.

intensive and light games will be played. prefer a high compatibility for games.
would prefer the distro in general to be customisable but also somewhat Windows like (beginner friendly)
also need a good replacement for nitrosense but I've read and have been told general Linux utilities an cover most of that in terms of fans control, performance profiles and the works.

coming from an even lower end machine than the one i have now, very used to configuring both my machine and the games I play! also the types of games I play, older ports and console titles require quite a bit of configuring to get them where I want them. I like to think im pretty good with physical and digital tinkering. I know Linux is not a plug and play experience/solution! half of the reason for making the jump is leisure, Linux will be something to do in my down time with uni, hoping to get into ricing and the such, love customising. other half of the reason for making the jump is just being so fucking sick of windows 11 - windows bloat in general kills me and

much prefer something that's not trying to cosplay as macos, (really shittily too, as a macos user also!) and additionally really sick of how W11 navigates (settings). Will probably dual boot with Windows 10 for compatibility and comfort tbh.

system will also be used for leisure (video playback and reading). On the point of being windows like, I'd probably like a tiling manager similar to that on windows? if that's what you guys call it? I just miss the way window snapping was back on 10. Now it's all picky and floaty.

at the moment I'm between the NVIDIA based distrobution of Pop!_OS and Bazzite, which has been making waves, but I don't care for it mimicking SteamOS all that much. don't care for the Big Picture mode stuff, so I went with GNOME as opposed to KDE for my enviroment.

IK you guys might suggest Mint since I want something so Windows like, or lighter Windows ISOs like Tiny10/11, but I've found these expereinces generally lacking. VERY open to other distro suggestions!
(sorry about the paragraphs in bursts! I'm aware of the limits of Linux gaming when it comes to online play and the such, so no worries there either)

When I installed for the first time around 3 months ago things were looking fine. I used to get good frame rates and no problems as such.

But with the update a week ago 0n 31st July things started falling apart. Before that even Wayland video drivers were working. After this I am getting 30 fps sometimes 60 fps instead earlier I was getting 200 fps on average. On top of it even lags on launching and closing.

Issue raised on the github: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/4129 and https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/4131 .

System Info:

Ryzen 7 7435hs

rtx 3050 mobile

16gb ram

Cachyos 6.16 kernel with updated drivers.

It is truly disheartening to know that the most popular games on steam-linux is broken af.

PS: I disabled shader precaching in the settings. Would it matter because it downloads few gbs everytime I launch and takes even longer to compile it.

I don't wanna go back to the devil's OS. I've tried disabling split lock and only using one monitor (the other one has a different refresh rate). I use a RTX 3070 laptop. I've heard it's most likely a Wayland issue, is there anyway to use X11 on Gnome ?

When Steam does exist ?

For example i wanted to play an abandonware from 2007 (Sega Rally Revo), with Lutris/Heroic/etc impossible to make it work.

I just went on Steam -> Add a Non-Steam game -> Play. It worked instantly.

I understand the point of Heroic which is to get "easy access" to other launchers, but in fact, for me, i ALWAYS get into troubles to make something work.

Steam just make everything work out of the box, i can even download GOG Launcher and add it to Steam instead of using another app.

I honestly think that Lutris/Heroic/etc make everything much more complicated than it really is and that Steam is the only real easy solution for Linux gaming.

But maybe i am wrong, that's why i post here.

So I tried the Black Myth Wukong Benchmark tool on my new PC. Screenshots are in the order Windows, Linux Mint, CachyOS.

Not sure why the VRAM usage is only showing on Linux. I use a 24 inch 100 hz monitor btw.

Hey all, I've got two boys who are itching to play Minecraft and a PC running Arch which they currently use for gaming (steam+lutris stuff).

What's the right "stack" for split screen Linux Minecraft and controllers currently? Prism? MultiMC? I think I need a mod for controller support? Too many options, too little time with the day job. Point me in the right direction, I can figure the details out - I just can't be testing a whole bunch of different combinations.

They don't have mojang accounts (or own the game) currently, but that's a minor issue if I know what stack is needed.

Hey all!

Recently I've picked up mmos into my gaming rotation alongside my typical 3d modeling workflow and I figured it's time for a mouse upgrade! I'm looking for something with ~12 reprogrammable side buttons (macro support), multiple on-board configuration profiles, an infinite scroll wheel, and supported reprogramming software on pop os. I don't care if its wired or wireless, rgb lights or not, or anything consmetic like that. I'm purely looking for function. I know razer and logitech have piper and openrazer support, but I was looking for something a bit more budget friendly if it's available. I saw redragon had some good options as far as price and functionality, but I couldn't find any support for configuration software.

If i need to, I can look into VMs or something of the like, but I'd prefer to keep it simpler if possible. Also, if the mouse has on board memory, in theory, could I configure it on a windows machine and then plug it into my linux machine and have it work fine? Cus that'd be quite simple as well I guess lol

If you've got a recommendation or something else for me to consider, lemme know!

Thanks a bunch,

-Eliksni

Kernel: 6.15.9.arch1-1 and tried 6.16.arch1-1 in testing with no success

nvidia-open: 575.64.05-4

NVIDIA 4080 super, cpu AMD 7800x3d

KDE Plasma 6 wayland

All of a sudden, not sure why but this started happening today, I was in the middle of playing some games, the gpu crashed, and now I cannot launch any games without it crashing the gpu driver like shown in the logs. I tried turning off adaptive sync, lowering the refresh rate, but no success. I was considering downgrading my drivers and kernel, but I haven't updated anything since a couple days ago.

Could it be a monitor issue? I hooked up the cable to a different cheap 1080p spare monitor I have lying around and the issue is resolved, but it is not exactly ideal. The monitor I want to use is a Dell Alienware aw3225qf. Testing after I found this out shows that games on the main monitor in 1440p windowed mode will run fine but go to 4k windowed or fullscreen will crash the drivers. With this in mind how would I solve this?

Logs:

Aug 05 22:51:29 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: Detected wine exe for client 4969 [C:\windows\system32\sERROR:> Aug 05 22:51:29 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Skipping ioprio on client [4976,4976]: ioprio was (0) b> Aug 05 22:51:30 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Refused to renice client [4947,4947]: prio was (0) but > Aug 05 22:51:31 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Skipping ioprio on client [4998,4998]: ioprio was (0) b> Aug 05 22:51:31 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Skipping ioprio on client [5000,5000]: ioprio was (0) b> Aug 05 22:51:31 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Skipping ioprio on client [5007,5007]: ioprio was (0) b> Aug 05 22:51:32 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9> Aug 05 22:51:32 ethan-desktop systemd[964]: app-org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher@c1a2362e89f44cba8b00305fa3294> Aug 05 22:51:32 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kf.windowsystem: static bool KX11Extras::mapViewport() may > Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Could not inspect tasks for client [4944]! Skipping ioprio optimisation. Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Unable to find executable for PID 4944: No such file or directory Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Registering ":1.95/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Service ":1.95" unregistered Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Registering ":1.96/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Service ":1.96" unregistered Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Registering ":1.97/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Service ":1.97" unregistered Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Registering ":1.98/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Service ":1.98" unregistered Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Skipping ioprio on client [5148,5148]: ioprio was (0) but we expected (4) Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Refused to renice client [5148,5148]: prio was (0) but we expected (-10) Aug 05 22:51:35 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-37 noise=9999 txrate=585000 Aug 05 22:51:38 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9999 txrate=585000 Aug 05 22:51:41 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-32 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:44 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-32 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:47 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:50 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-40 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:53 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:56 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-37 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:57 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the nvidia-drm kernel driver Aug 05 22:51:57 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/linux Aug 05 22:51:57 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0' Aug 05 22:51:58 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the nvidia-drm kernel driver Aug 05 22:51:58 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/linux Aug 05 22:51:58 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0' Aug 05 22:51:59 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the nvidia-drm kernel driver Aug 05 22:51:59 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/linux Aug 05 22:51:59 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0'

I’m looking to get a handheld gaming PC and originally I was planning on getting a steam deck, but given that the specs are dated at this point, I wanted the most powerful hardware I can get for sub-1000 dollars. I came here to ask are Z1 extreme handheld still worth picking up in 2025? e.g. the ROG Ally X

OR

Is it worth waiting for Z2 extreme handhelds, like the XBOX ROG Ally X?

What do you all think? I really appreciate the feedback!

Idk if this is th3 right tag, im just curious if anyone has tried ror1 on linux, any distro, and if so, if wine is better or a native port(if there are any)?