For reference, my specs are:

- AMD Ryzen 5 7535hs

- AMD Radeon RX 6550m

- 32gb RAM DDR5 4800

- Debian 13

EDIT: Sorry for not clarifying, ntsync is on the left, whatever other *sync on the right

It's not really a tech support post, I just don't know how to flair it. It's more of a way to know if my pc is crazy or if it has happened to anyone else.

So, I tried Hogwarts Legacy on Windows 11 and CachyOS and what shocked me is the RAM used while gaming...

Windows 11 ends up using up to 26gb of ram, while CachyOS stays below 10gb...

Anyone else had this experience? Non necessarily with HL, mind you. Just an interesting observation.

Have a good day.

Recently, all of my steam games that use proton have been freezing after a few minutes of play. I have tested them with wine, and on there they work fine, but there are a few games that only work on proton, so i need help here. I have tried changing proton versions, clearing steam cache, and other things, but it always freezes after a few minutes. Please help!

These are modern ports of the original Marathon games. If you're unfamiliar they're a trilogy of 90s FPS games developed by Bungie, the same team behind Halo. At least when Halo was good.

They previously ran on a Windows version of the Aleph One source port. The three recently got updated with a lot of new features including bespoke, native Linux ports.

The best thing is they're 100% free!

Classic Marathon (1)

Classic Marathon 2

Classic Marathon 3

https://preview.redd.it/id69jt42o5mf1.png?width=274&format=png&auto=webp&s=096d65c310eab6167857c4256b03382e220bfcac

at the beginning it required a dll file , i downloaded it and it came up with another error , i googled it and faced a complicated fixes as i'm new to linux

Most likely a recurring topic within many subredits that are about gaming on linux, but I still haven't found an answer to this from whatever source I look at. Long story short: just installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, went through whatever crap I had to go through installing, finally got on and installed the essentials (Discord, Steam, etc.) and upon launching steam I'm getting a steamwebhelper error. Any advice?

Apologies for the awkward video but it is the only way I can show it.

A couple days ago I wanted to play warframe witch a couple of friends, so I install it and make it full screen. Now almost every game I try to play has the issue shown in the video. It seems quite inconsistent but generally will either freeze my main monitor when I full screen a game or freeze whenever I am not in a menu. OBS still picks it up like normal and if I have my taskbar or another window over the game it seems to run fine.

I tried playing games on my windows install and they work fine there, so it's a linux issue, I just don't know what could be causing it. I think it could be warframe, but I've uninstalled that and from what I can find no one else has ran into this issue so it could be something that was going on for longer that I just noticed or made worse somehow. Only other cause I can think of is layering a VPN and the associate browser (When I rebooted after layering the browser all that loaded after logging in was my wallpaper, though everything else loaded after a couple minutes and I ran into no other issues.) but I don't know why that would be causing this and the issue persists after uninstalling. If there's a better place to find a solution for this issue feel free to send me there.

Specs:

Bazzite Fedora 42
Ryzen 7 5800x3d
RX 7900XT
32gb ram

Setting a Linux system for a friend who has used Mint for years, but still I'd consider him a newbie. He's into general productivity apps (ranging from astronomy, to music, to ancient Greek studies) but would also like to play Witcher 3...

Which Linux distros would you recommend based on his setup (subject)?

I was leaning towards either something general purpose (Fedora KDE) or something more gaming oriented (bazzite, cachyos, endeavour). Not sure if the latter ones have a solid package base for other stuff besides games though.

I am switching to Gurada Linux (Arch Based)