I'm a windows user but been interested in Linux for a while and have dip my toe barely. I've played briefly with pop and mint os and even run a Minecraft server of it. So I know a little bit how to navigate a little.

I wanted to challenge myself by trying Linux for 1 month since I've been interested in it but never really givi it a proper try

My questions are,

1- As a windows user and fairly inexpensive with Linux, what distro do you recommen?

2- Any tips and/or tricks for a "new" user ?

3- What to do and what not to do ?

4- What are the things I should avoid ?

I would really appreciate any advice this community could give me

Idk why my lap is not working marvel rivals I have I7 and a GTX 2060 and is a Lenovo legion 5 and on windows work fine and now I can't open anything only Helldivers 2 cause .. idk why. So any tips if someone can like enter my computer and twitch some settings to make it better I'm no computer genius

This is my genuinely cooked Debian setup with a bunch of kernel tweaks + patches and recompiled packages. Because I'm lazy didn't compile my own mesa, Minecraft doesn't get to actually rendering yet, but still works really well as a server.

installing a single package can literally take an hour (I had to put in hyfetch tho :3)

idek if I can get a browser 'working' on this, but hopefully my next update is from the xbox itself!

I'm completely new to linux and I've been trying to install and play genshin and zzz, but everything I've seen for at least genshin (I haven't tried downloading zzz yet due to space) seems to be outdated and the furthest I get with only some is the actual game is downloaded and when in the genshin launcher i press "run genshin", it closes the genshin launcher, then nothing else happens, and after some time, other launchers (like epic and lustris) that launch the genshin launcher stop running genshin. Is there another way to get genshin running in lenux mint now?

First of all, I pretty much only use PCs for reading docs and I know just a little of programming (a college course) but that's it

I'm just trying to get into PC gaming without spending much, I have an i7 6700 + 16GB DDR4 RAM and for GPU I'm thinking of buying a RX 6400 because I have one of those Dell office PCs with proprietary motherboard so I can't get a good PSU.

So I want to know if it's recommended to game in Linux or if I just have to suck it up and go with windows? (I don't like windows, I feel as if they were trying to prevent me from using the PC properly)

Thanks

CSGO is back on Steam and I'm thinking of trying it out on my laptop. Running Linux (PikaOS) and wondering what kind of FPS I can realistically expect.

** Specs:

· Dell Latitude E7270 · CPU: Intel Core i5-6300U (2.4GHz, turbo up to 3.0GHz) · GPU: Intel HD Graphics 520 (integrated) · RAM: 8GB DDR4 **

I know the game is old and well-optimized, but integrated graphics are still integrated graphics. Anyone running similar hardware on Linux? What FPS are you getting at low settings? 1024x768 or 1366x768?

Also, any Linux-specific tips (launch options, drivers, etc.) would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I tried connecting my controller to my pc after using it on my phone for bedrock mc with friends and now when I try connecting it rapidly connects and disconnects on my pc about as fast as the conect ping. The notification in the corner doesent even show in between. And taking the batteries out of the controller just slows it down to just long enough the notification can show and disappear before the next. Anyone know what the fuck is going on im confused on how. Update mid post. After about a minute of the controller being off it stops. Still idk how this even happened

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I'm starting on playing on linux, tried lutris but the ui ain't for me (couldnt eveen get anything to run in fact), si i tried HGL, downloaded myless than paid for games, nstalled the c++ redistributions (the latest versions, aswell as the 2019 library), disabled umu for ge-proton, since wine alone wasn't being able to run them, and it ran th 2 test games, but poorly cuz my pc is bad. So i downloaded a bunch of lighter games, did the same thing by disallowing the umu, and now i can't even open the winetricks GUI, let alone run the games.

The error is the same for all the games when i try to launch. There is no error for winetricks, but it wont open

I'm on Zorin OS 18, 64 bits. do not know what other info can be helpful

I'm actually getting higher FPS in some games than on Windows 11. Also, to anyone about to tell me to use Bazzite or CachyOS, let me just say I've already tried them both. SteamOS is just more fun for me right now :)

Hey everyone, just wanted to share a game I'm working on, it is terminal-based (although it doesn't run on an actual terminal, I made everything in godot) where you can explore the machines and find secrets.

There is also a demo if you want to check it out at https://store.steampowered.com/app/4354840/BeyondHelix/

If you have any questions or comments please let me know.

Cheers!

So here's the situation:

Some of my online friends are on Playstation and we like to play cross platform games like World War Z or Need for Speed. Some of them are young and their parents don't allow them to download discord, world war z for example doesn't have in game party chat.

Back on windows, I solved this by downloading the ps app from bluestacks (I made my account on a friend's Playstation in order to login cause I don't have a Playstation). And then we were able to party chat normally.

But now that I'm on CachyOS, I finally set up my games on lutris, but I just found out that bluestacks isn't available on linux. Is there an alternative way to get the Playstation app without a virtual machine? I am looking into an android emulator preferably as I have other uses for it.

But If anyone has experience with party chat on PS app with the broadcast functionality working too as some of them live stream, any help is great.

Let me put this straight right away. Game title exclusivity only and really only serves the corporation behind it. It's a plain vendor-lock-in strategy to allure customers to a proprietary platform where the control of all products including hardware and software is completely in the hands of the vendor. It is not something a console gamer should ever be proud of but in fact a highly anti-consumer strategy that forces consumers to buy special hardware every time. Everything is closed here and should remain like this even for decades after the death of the platform. Nostalgia fans trying to make those old games run in other ways are literally treated like criminals and even persecuted by government forces as if they were an arch enemy of society.

- If Sony is to blame for vendor-lock-in then so is XBox and also Microsoft's windows due to it's proprietary "gaming service", "DirectX", "Win32-64 libraries" etc. Wherever there is a proprietary standard with no good reason it is usually intended as a vendor-lock-in strategy to serve the corporation's interest behind it. It is really that easy and no rocket science.

- If Sony's return to game exclusivity was due to steam being a platform for gaming with a big game library then what can be said about the Windows PC led by Microsoft in the first place? Why would Sony even port games to the PC if other platforms were such a threat? This doesn't make any sense from Mike Ybarra.

- It rather looks like Sony's managers just as Microsoft ones realized that they could sell way more games and make more profit if they ported their games to other platforms as well. Hardware PC Parts became really expensive to Game Console vendors too and so their profit margins went down over the years. The people don't have the pocket money anymore and exclusive games will just push people more away from overpriced game consoles. Additionally AAA titles became very expensive to produce and increase the revenue risks. As a manager you would want your game to sell as much as possible but not to increase the obstacles and worsen the conditions to buy them. This is really stupid. Mike Ybarra seems to want to distract from all these substantial facts but especially from this one.: Microsoft became one of the biggest game publishers worldwide just as Sony who also have many big game studios and owns popular IP content worldwide. So if there is a competitor or threat to Sony in that sense then it is not valve but actually Microsoft 110%.

- Let's not forget that Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming doesn't even need a certain hardware or platform to be in your home or to compete. Some may see Microsoft's own Game Streaming service as the cause of death to their own Xbox over the years. The numbers went up for the one while going down for the other at the same time.

A big point why game exclusivity is probably a shot in the the foot especially in our times is the changed hardware situation. In the past game consoles were a real bang for the buck packed with state of the art hardware and revolutionary features at a lower cost. They held up for many years. But meanwhile one PC vendor overtook with really big features like modern Upscaling, RT and even PT pushed by Nvidia while AMD and intel felt secure with their conservative investments and slow pacing. Nvidia owns 94% of the dedicated GPU market now according to the latest JPR report. And their N1 chip with an integrated 5070 iGPU sounds quite revolutionary as well. In comparison the XBox and PS5 aged badly. The PS5pro already needs an upgrade for their PSSR upscaling technique while the steam machine with AMD RDN3 and restricted 8 GB VRAM really seems like a cut back and low cost PC, something that can be overwhelmingly bought already in the millions but with Microsoft's increasingly restrictive Windows OS instead. It really sounds like a Red herring what Mike Ybarra is claiming.

Cant get more than 20 FPS with Steam Deck preset 1080p an no Ray Tracing. Tried different Proton versions (e.g. ge-proton ). Mesa should also be on the latest Version: 25.3.6

ı bough a new pc for gaming, game developing and modeling but ım not sure which distro would be the best to use

here my pc's specs in case its needed:
MSI GEFORCE RTX 5080 16G SHADOW 3X OC VGA

AMD RYZEN 9 9900X3D 4.4GHZ TRAY

KLEVV Cras V RGB 64GB (2x32GB) 6400MHz CL32 INTEL XMP 3.0 – AMD EXPO DDR5 Heatsink Brilliant White Ram

ASUS X870 MAX GAMING WIFI7 AMD AM5 DDR5

KIOXIA EXCERIA PLUS G4 1TB NVMe SSD – M.2 2280, PCIe Gen5

MSI MAG A850GN PCIE5 850W 80+ GOLD PSU

Thermalright Frozen Infinity 240 Black 240mm

ı tried to use pop_os once on my laptop since ı heard it was a gaming nitro and was compatible with nvidie cards but none of the games ı downloaded worked

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Hi Guys,

Relatively new to linux, I use cachyos, tried to play Rome II Total War and noticed that the mouse won't show. It does exist cause I do see and hear the menu buttons respond when being "hovered" but I can't see the mouse itself.

Is this a common bug? any way to fix this?

I recently installed aoe4.
I have cachyos with everything up to date.
I have lenovo laptop rtx 3050, i5 11320h and 16 gb of ram.
my problem is that I have been experiencing a lot of freezes lately. I am using latest version of proton-GE.
help is appreciated.

Hey r/linux_gaming,

I use Lutris on a TV setup and got tired of reaching for a keyboard and mouse just to launch a game, change the volume, or connect a Bluetooth headset. To fix this, I built Lutris Gamepad UI.

https://github.com/andrew-ld/lutris-gamepad-ui

Core Features:

• Gamepad Driven: Navigate the entire UI with a controller. Button prompts automatically adapt to your connected gamepad (Xbox, PlayStation, etc.).
• Zero Setup: Automatically imports your installed Lutris games, cover art, and categories.
• System Integration: Built-in menus to manage BlueZ (scan/pair/connect devices) and PulseAudio (volume/output switching) without dropping to the desktop.
• Overlay & Process Management: Press the Guide button in-game to bring up an overlay to pause the game process or force-quit frozen games.

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I play fallout 4 and fallout 4 have adaptive triggers mod. how i use adaptive triggers mod on fedora?