I bought a Steam Deck and I'm in love with the system. Every game I play seems to have no stuttering or freezing issues.

Is this thanks to Linux? I'm thinking of installing Bazzite on my PC and is it better than Windows 11 for gaming?

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Connex is a Wi-Fi manager built with GTK3 and NetworkManager.
It provides a clean interface, a CLI mode, and smooth integration with Linux desktops.

Features: - Simple and modern GTK3 interface
- Connect, disconnect, and manage Wi-Fi networks
- Hidden network support
- Connection history
- Built-in speedtest
- Command-line mode
- QR code connection

GitHub: https://github.com/lluciocc/connex

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It's been years since I played a game, and I've been wanting to play classic games like Warcraft 3 or even Spore. I recently discovered that Warcraft 3 Classic only comes bundled with Reforged, and my PC can't handle Reforged (besides, I don't like it). I wanted to know if it's advisable to use PlayOnLinux (although I've never used it) or if you recommend other alternatives.

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Hello, I am trying to run Dark Souls Remastered and facing low resource usage leading to low fps. Could anyone help me in this problem. I have tried using multiple proton versions, enabling/disabling gamemode, fsync, esync. I also have a nvidia gpu. I'll list all of my specs below

Ryzen 5 3550h Nvidia Gtx 1650 mobile, Proprietary drivers 580.xx Using DXVK, Proton versions tried: Proton 9, Proton GE 9-25 X11/i3wm as window manager. Composition disabled while in game.

I also checked launch logs and didnt find anything suspicious. I also have resident evil 2 and some other games on my system which runs perfectly fine and tanks me gpu to 100% usage hence this issue is game specific.

Thanks in advance! P.S. sorry for the pic, haven't setup maim/flameshot on i3 yet :p

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Vinegar, the app used to run Roblox studio on Linux freezes my computer on the loading studio screen and a force shutdown is needed. Any help would be appreciated

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Whenever I try to connect to someone's lobby it fails to connect or times out.

This started some time in November betwen the 2nd and 4th, depending on one's time zone.

I run CachyOS, one child runs openSUSE and the other runs Bazzite. None of us can connect to multiplayer lobbies specifically in Helldivers 2.

All other MP games we've tried work fine, though I don't have any other Sony/PSN related games to test.

I've tried every flavour and version of Proton I can get my hands on.

We can connect instantly if we boot into Windows though so that's wierd and annoying... because Windows.

Finally, for shits and giggles, I VPN'd to the Netherlands in linux and it works?

So I guess my questions are...

1. WTF?
2. What could be different about connections under proton vs connections in Windows that would do that?
3. Is there anyone else in NZ who has something similar?

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Above is confirmation in Firefox that I did everything right and now have support for VP9 hardware decoding but when I check my gpu useage when streaming youtube videos, only the graphic part of the gpu is active, not the video part so 50% is offloaded to my cpu which I didn't want.

After doing more research I now understand that decoding video is a 2 part process, one which uses the graphic decoder and the second part using the video decoder in the gpu.

Any idea how to fully utilize my gpu for this in linux. Obviously I missed something somewhere.

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So i have the original trilogy of Combat Flight Simulator, Crimson Skies and Air Warrior III and i've tried to install them but i'm having mixed results from not running at all to only displaying a black screen.

Also it's a SATA drive and it doesn't fit in when i have the case closed because of space and cable limitations, so i would like to install them and remove the drive.

I thought that installing the game would be enough but seems like they still need the disk.

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Specs: CachyOS, i9-12900K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia 3080

I have been trying to get my Valve Index to function with SteamVR to absolutely NO avail for weeks now. I've had headaches with other games as well, but the complete inability of VR to function at all is the most glaring. My hunch is that the Nvidia GPU is the culprit, but for now it's what I'm stuck with. Should I just go back to Windows? Is Linux just not meant for owners of Nvidia GPUs?

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SO when i last tried ALVR on windows it was trash with my quest 2. Now that I'm running Linux, I didn't really have much of a choice.

I have to say though Its working so much better! Some people have seen online to use constant bit rate but that doesn't seem to work at all even if i set it to 100Mbps it still garbage, However with adaptive with 100 min and 500 max its been pretty good even though it still floating around actually using around 250mbps on average.

I have a dedicated wifi 6 router setup for the quest Its a travel router i got off amazon that the quest connects to at 1200mbps according to its settings anyway, and the router is then wired to my main router As a AP. The PC is Hard wired into the main router.

I'm decently happy with the performance but I don't quite get why it refuses to use more bandwidth and why consistent bit rate is such trash.

I'm guessing its something to do with the extra Hop from the router to my PC maybe there's a issue there. Or its possible its because of my smart home setup, Even though the quests wifi is its own separate one, the environment is probably quite noisy.

Specs

OS: Kubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.17.0-6-generic Shell: bash 5.2.37 Display (LG ULTRAGEAR): 1920x1080 @ 165 Hz in 27" [External] * DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.5 WM: KWin (Wayland) CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 4.85 GHz GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX [Discrete] Memory: 7.21 GiB / 31.26 GiB (23%) Swap: 111.88 MiB / 15.40 GiB (1%) submitted by /u/Lumpy_Stranger_1056
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Is it possible to update the game to version 1.21.123.2?

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I'm playing Borderlands 2 and when I hit play, it spends 10 minutes loading vulkan shaders. From what I see on proton.db, Borderlands 2 is native.

My understanding is vulkan shaders only need to be loaded if a game goes through the proton transition layer from Windows graphics to Linux graphics. So why is Borderlands 2 needing to load the vulkan shaders then? Since it's native, it shouldn't need to.

I am not forcing the game to run any specific compatibility tool in the properties of the game.

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Hello All!

I've been running the Pop_OS 24.04 beta for about a month, love it and not looking to go back to Windows ;)

The issue I'm running into is that I have two displays and it looks like I'm hitting some of the classic NVidia/Wayland edge cases. If my computer goes to sleep, neither display will be able to wake up. When launching a game, it often displays on my primary display but is limited to the resolution of my secondary display. When a game doesn't have a display picker, this makes it rough. When I run with a single display, I don't have these issues.

I'm thinking right now that I should switch back to a distro that still supports X11. Some questions for this wonderful community:
- I'm thinking about going to Linux Mint. From my research it should have good support for NVidia property drivers and since it doesn't live on the bleeding edge, it still rocks X11. Any other distros I should consider? I'd like to avoid a immutable OS at the moment.
- I wasn't able to find any fixes to my issues, but maybe y'all have some clever solutions. Anything I should try to work around my issues?

Thanks!

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Hi so i got linux today and wanted to play some aba but i remembered im not on windows anymore so i need to install roblox somehow so i looked for tutorials and asked my friend so i installed sober but im getting an error and im not sure how to fix it, from what my friend told me it says that i have outdated graphic drivers but i used the driver manager downloaded the latest one it showed "nvidia-driver-580-open" but it still doesn't launch

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