my TLDR opinion : - it works fine and I advocate for Linux gaming for people who play only steam games and don’t need to go through setups and vms - the performances were good - steam games worked plug and play often - if you want to play different stuff and especially competitive games with anti cheats it’s a lot of work, for each game - really happy with how Linux gaming evolved and the community it was awesome and I had a blast !

Earlier this year I attempted to switch from windows to Linux for gaming.

I play not that many games but they are very different and require a lot of different things, we will come back to that.

I went to bazzite first, it was really nice but I play sim racing, needed to make my wheel force feedback work and everything, it felt doable but the os restrictions were making it a bit too hard so I went over to Nobara

I loved it, many steam games worked out of the box I managed to get my simracing games work, the wheel and everything setup.

But I also play league, competitive shooter games, …

Playing league on Linux is doable, competitive shooters too.

I did make league work but when I wanted to play comp shooters I gave up, everything work and is doable but it’s so much effort when you want to do many different things, I wouldn’t have given up if I only played one kind of game

I’m not the happiest to back to windows but it’s a lot less work for my needs but for many people Linux gaming is viable and I would recommend it for sure !

On Wirusdows for quite sometime there was DLSSTweaker that overwrote the dll of DLSS and allowed to force denoise preset (those A, B, C...K ones) and forcing from what resolution DLSS was scalling the image to native resolution (like forcing 100% resolution meant DLAA in games that didn't offer such option).
Now the only way is through NoVidAI App or NoVidAI Inspector to do so.

I have few games that I play sometimes on Wirusdows and sometimes on Arch Linux (same installation instance, same files) and on Win I enjoy DLAA while on Linux I want to puke at the quality of DLSS (because it uses defaults for which such game was developed).

Is there a way to force such overwrites on Linux as well? I've searched, but either I wrote search prompts wrong or it's not a thing (yet?).

*I call Nvidia as NoVidAI as an insult

Anyone got a solution for that? I have no idea why is it doing that now, it was working just fine till a little ago.

Tried with most recent Proton versions, all of them have the same issue. Both GE and official.

https://preview.redd.it/arafxssial3f1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=d1623cbb286bfaab06724fd87da5324336ffe8e9

My specs are:
Distro: Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900KF
GPU: GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
RAM: 16 Gb

I just got the DBD PTB and I wanna play, but for some reason, no matter what I can't find a match! I know there are people online, so whats going on??? please help!

im pretty sure elden ring doesnt use this so im worried and this was not listed on the nigthreign page initially

Hello! Now that Epig Games is suing Apple to make Fortnite work on Apple and with it being bad for consumers that there is only one means of payment on their closed system, what stops anyone from suing Epic Because they don't have Linux support?

You could say the same about Xbox and Playstation but now I keep it strange that they do not have support for us who use Linux

This pops up and wont launch the game tried validating files proton hotfix, experimental, and 9.0.4, and reinstalling the game

Review of the Miyoo Flip. They finally gave the link to the GitHub with the custom OS source code.

I need to play a game, that needs to be installed with an exe, and also needs to be played by selecting a game with the web browser which redirects to the app. I can't seem to figure it out, any solutions?

https://preview.redd.it/55v34ui0tk3f1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=b013020beaf13e3e7fbb163741caa4ecffa01c60

My specs are:
Distro: Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900KF
GPU: GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
RAM: 16 Gb

I have already tried moving EAC to the same drive as the game instead of the other drive it was on (this was originally a windows 11 PC but I have since switched it to a dual booting machine just because I'm in college and wanna still be able to use windows just in case theres some piece of proprietary software that I need) nothing has worked though, please help!

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New Features :

Better detection of existing prefixes on system.

Game library backup and restore if upgrade AppImage.

Twitch IGDB is now built in , no individual setup . This is trial to see how many hits we get to the DB , hopefully not too many failures.

Coming Soon,

Emulator support

Better backup support and also adding compressed backups of games to library which auto unpack and repack if file changes detected.

Your suggestions welcome.

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Hello all, first post here and all that.

Long story short, how to install SOF2 from ISO, I have no cd in my computer anymore, but I've stored the 2 disc isos.

I've tried to mount them, I've tried installing from usb sticks, I've tried to copy them in different ways to either a single folder or 2 different folders on the hard drive....no luck.

Always craps out on "insert cd 2"

Any tips?

Hey everyone,
I'm currently thinking about installing Bazzite on my gaming PC, but I'm a bit unsure about the GPU support, especially when it comes to drivers and whether the missing Gaming Mode is still a thing or works well these days.

The last time I read up on this was quite a while ago, so I’m not sure what the current state is. Maybe someone here has more up-to-date info or personal experience?

I'll list my full specs below in case that helps.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x16GB 3600Mhz

GPU: Palit GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Infinity 3 16GB

I guess the rest of the components are probably less relevant for running Bazzite.

I’d really appreciate any advice or feedback – thanks in advance!

Esentially the title.

Currently running Bazzite on a Desktop.
Bazzite is great and I love almost everything about it. There is very few but major caveats that are getting increasingly annoying.

• dnf not being available
• wine is a little buggy and I can't be bothered to reinstall it completely
• NVIDIA drivers can't be changed around manually
• cursor problems (randomly changing)
• some essential functions not working

After some reading online I heard a lot of praise about Endeavour. I am quite familiar with Arch but would you recommend me switching?

Specs

• CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x
• GPU: RTX 3060 12GB
• RAM: 16GB DDR4

Hey everyone,

I've been dealing with a frustrating issue on my arch setup and wanted to share in case others have encountered something similar or have insights I might’ve missed.

CPU: Ryzen 7 5700X3D

GPU: MSI RTX 3060 Ti (Lite Hash Rate)

Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro Wifi

PSU: Sharkoon 750W Gold (Most likely the cause of my suffering)

OS: Arch Linux (Wayland, KDE Plasma 6, using systemd-boot)

Kernel: Tried both Linux 6.14.7-zen2-1-zen and and linux-lts 6.12.30

My PC instantly reboots no freezing, no logs, just a straight hard reboot when both the CPU and GPU are under high load, such as:

• Playing Battlefront II (as soon as game loads) or Overwatch 2 (as soon as i enter a match) with uncapped FPS.
• Playing CS2. (after like 10 minutes of playing)
• Running CPU stress tests in parallel with a game. (Ran on 8 threads while playing Overwatch, GPU was limited to 200W)

• GPU at full load (220W, or even 200W)
• CPU near max draw (~70-90W)

The System is Stable When:

• I limit the GPU to 170W with nvidia-smi -pl 170
• Games that don’t push the CPU or GPU too hard (like Elden Ring) run fine.
• CPU-only or GPU-only stress is usually fine, only full-system load causes a reboot.

• Thermals: Temps are totally fine GPU ~75°C, CPU ~70°C at crash.
• Different GPU driver versions: 550 vs 570.153.02 both crash above 170W GPU.
• LTS Kernel: Tried linux-lts 6.12.30, no difference.
• No UPS interference: Tested plugged directly into wall.
• No software panic or kernel error: journalctl shows nothing, system reboots clean.

My Theory:

It seems like power delivery is hitting a limit, either:

• My PSU can’t handle transient spikes, or
• My motherboard VRMs can’t sustain full-load delivery from both CPU + GPU at once

What’s odd is that this NEVER happened on Windows, even under full load. I used to game at full draw with no issues before switching to Linux. Maybe Linux power management is more aggressive or just less forgiving of spikes?

Could my 750W PSU really be the cause? Would something like a Corsair RM850x solve this? (Or just an overall better PSU)