Today, I move to Cachy OS.

Goodbye Windows. Part of me feels nostalgic, I won't miss the gigantic bloatware you've become over the years, but I also remember when I was a child and had access to a PC (without internet, without games). It was Windows Millenium. I spent time exploring the menus, and it was my first contact with computers.

But anyway, the more time passes, the less I can accept all the crap that is constantly pushed into the system.

I'm having a lot of problems with CachyOS, from difficulty playing GTA V Enhanced to not being able to play Batman Arkham Origins. I wanted to know if there's another distro I could install.

Hi, I'm trying to run Rocket League on Arch via Heroic. I get stuck at the "Press any key" screen - pressing a key makes a sound but doesn't go to the menu. Starting the game offline fixes the issue temporarily, but it comes back when online.

I think this might be due to the game trying to do something like get me to accept the EULA, but it's hard to tell. The logs are opaque and don't seem to show anything wrong, but you can find them here anyway: https://gist.github.com/jthistle/a452351912dca48f24ff3f8c08792fd5

Using Proton-GE-10-29, Heroic 2.18.1.

Anyone else experiencing this issue?

Software: CachyOS (updated), Steam (repo), SteamVR, Steam Home, HL:A

Hardware

CPU: amd 5800x3d

GPU: nvidia rtx 3080 10gb (driver: proprietary, 590.48.01)

Ram: 32gb

I was looking at the Advanced Frame Timing graph and noticed that every few frames it seems the headset is put into idle mode and it spikes. I wonder if that is where all the stuttering stem from.

Does anyone out there have insight to this?

Any thoughts on how I could test this?

I'm considering building a Linux gaming PC for use with a monitor and a TV but I'm concerned about the limitations of HDMI 2.0 as the HDMI forum does not allow the 2.1 spec to be used on open source platforms and TVs don't support Display Port.

Is there a good HDMI/Display Port switch that allows you to connect Display Port 2.1 in and HDMI 2.1 out without compromising image/audio quality?

Or is there another way to get the full HDMI 2.1 signal to the TV? 4K, 120fps, HDR (Dolby Vision when applicable).

I need help on which graphics card i should choose for using Manjaro. I'm planning to get a HP Omen 16 Laptop for uni and i'm wondering which has the best support for it. There's the Nvidia 3000 series, 4000 series, and the 5000 series editions. I'm planning to use it for ocassional video editing, Minecraft, Fortnite, running Virtual Machines, and for Coding. Which one should i pick?

Unfortunately the AMD versions which have a AMD GPU are no longer are up for sale, so i'm forced to use an Nvidia GPU. All AMD models are equipped with an Nvidia GPU, and i'm not sure why.

Title says it all. For some reason I run into a weird problem where Minecraft beta 1.7.3 fails to fullscreen. To my knowledge, this happens from all of the old pre-release versions all the way to some of the old release versions. The oldest version I know of that doesn't have this problem is 1.8.9, and I first noticed it on 1.5.2 when I was playing that a couple months ago. Does anyone know what I might be able to do to fix this problem?

• Distro: EndeavourOS
• DE: KDE/Plasma
• Display Server: Wayland

I have to press F11 a few times in order to get it to finally fullscreen

I saw an older thread stating in someone else's case that it was a problem with Wayland having issues with the LWJGL library. Would that be the case here, and if so, is there any way to get around it that doesn't involve switching to X11 or using a newer version of the game?

I have a low end laptop with an AMD Ryzen 3 3250U with integrated graphics but I want to play some light games like Minecraft but since I have only 4gb of RAM and that cpu I struggle to play decently. Should I switch from Windows 11 to a Linux OS to save some performance? I have no idea which are the best versions of Linux to play games

My current desktop

I hope this post removes some of the FUD that exists about NVIDIA on Linux, or at least, alleviates some of the worries that everyone has.

It has been one year since I've moved to Linux for good. The trigger for me, as uninstalling Destiny 2 which was the last game that I played online almost daily and that did not have Linux support. As soon as that happened, I started planning my migration.

My hardware right now is:

• RTX 5080
• AMD 9800X3D
• 32GB RAM

First I found an old SSD that I had for spare and installed Bazzite into it, to test the waters. Everything was fine and dandy, even support from the get go for my Nvidia card. It was all working perfectly on all, and the first boot stayed for one day... then three, then a whole week went by and I had no need to ever go back to Windows. All my resources that were "windows only" previously such as Cloud storage and even Office were now all accessible through webapps so one of the blockers I always had when I tested Linux since 2004 were gone.

On the first month I started hitting some limits on what the Immutable distros gave me. I wanted to have more bleeding edge Nvidia drivers since they were fixing some great bugs throughout the year, and I also wanted to install some additional software that I did not want to use through Flatpaks. I decided to rebase my setup to CachyOS and run with a classic distro.

The CachyOS experience has been going great for 11 months. Since then my computer is perfectly working and stable, with reboots just for some Kernel installs and drivers.

I have managed to get everything working in the last year with all my major topics:

1. VRR works, and gaming is overall SMOOTHER than Windows (don't ask me how, despite the known performance penalty there is)
2. HDR is also working, first with the VK_HDR_LAYER hack, but right now, with the Vulkan Beta drivers, I don't even need that anymore.
3. Ray Tracing also works, but tbh, the last games I've played have not been RT powerhouses
4. DLSS upgrades are even more automagically with CachyOS Proton with the PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE=1 variable.
5. Overclocking works through LACT, which allowed me to offset the 25% perf penalty on DX12 games

I did not have a single game where I had any issues so far. Doing all the classics I have done such as installing Reshade, RenoDX HDR mods, applying PCGamingWiki fixes... it all just works.

Even running my Plex Server works better with a container + Docker nowadays since it's just ontop of a Linux kernel.

Everything is more stable. My life has been pretty great away from MS for a whole year.

I only booted twice by mistake into Windows, which I kept for some multiplayer games like Battlefield 6... that I ended up not buying. I'm happy with all of the current state.

Thank you Valve and all the other thankless maintainers that allowed us to have WINE, Proton, and soon, the DX12 fix for Nvidia. It has been a great 1 year, and I can't wait for the next decade.

Recently switched to Linux Mint and I’m enjoying it so far. Only thing I’m kinda bummed about it is not being able to use Wallpaper Engine.

I searched around and saw there are quite a few alternatives and workarounds for Wallpaper Engine, but most that I’ve seen are just for the wallpapers and not the editor, which is what I’m wanting to use to make my own animated wallpapers.

Would anyone know if it’s possible to use the editor on Linux through something like a VM, or if there’s an alternative software I could use to make animated wallpapers? Otherwise would my next best option just be to dual boot Windows?

Hello. I have used both Equibop and Equicord, and both have issues when screensharing.

Equibop: Screensharing changes the color of my Kagamine Len cursor (Yellow) to blue and my Hatsune Miku cursor (Blue) to yellow unless I do the KDE mouse shake the enlarge it. very weird... Screensharing with "Entire Desktop" enabled allows my friends to hear themselves, even if I disable "Speech-Dispatcher-Dummy's" audio. Doesn't relate to screensharing, but how do I enable global hotkeys? I know that you can do KDE Shortcuts with Equibop --toggle-mic or deafen, і think, but what about for toggling a screenshare? is there anyway to toggle a screenshare on a Specific Monitor woth specific audio properties?

Equicord: Screensharing a specific application window still shares the audio of my desktop.

I've tried looking into these problems myself but the solution has either been "Use Equibop instead of Equicord" or "Disable Speech-Dispatcher-Dummy". sooo... :P I haven't even been able to find anything on the cursor color changing issue. I heard that it may be fixed in the KDE Plasma 6.5.6+ updates. Im on 6 5.5 right now so і guess we'll find out later.

any solutions?

P.S sorry і labeled it vencord / vesktop; I just figured it would get more attention cause its more popular than equicord / equibop.

Heya,

After OpenRa, we would like (me and my friends) to play Red Alert 2 online.

Anyone knows of a multi-platform (linux, mac and windows) support?

Thanks!

This didn't happen before, but now when I activate Opti-FG frame generation alongside HUD Fix in OptiScaler, the frame gen stops working. Mangohud somehow displays the frame gen FPS numbers instead of the actual FPS I'm getting. I have to disable HUD Fix to make the fg work.

Hi all,

I switched my alacritty font on this new install to Jetbrains Nerd Font.

https://preview.redd.it/5utpmqtf1gfg1.png?width=2555&format=png&auto=webp&s=37aa7a92911c9c61fcfef7975e11c004675efd6a

I'm having a hard time figuring out why fastfetch isn't reporting it correctly. According to Alacrity logs, it is loading and using it and not falling back.