Guys a bit of a rant here, paragraphed.
I am quite noob. The only experience that I have with Linux is installing mint xfce on a different laptop.
Recently, I had installed installed Linux on 28/07, latest CachyOS KDE. Crashed multiple times, whenever I used Dolphin for quickly going through folders or drives. Sometime I could access the TTY(virtual console 4, to be exact) to shut it down manually sometime it didn't.
Moved to Nobara 42, seemed promising when tried it on the Live USB. So I installed it. The same experience, but also as an addition, two times Nobara wasn't even able to Boot into the system. Yeah loading screen froze somehow. Sometimes I couldn't even open applications, even after the jumping animation ended, and even after the software popped up on the terminal, but only to vanish again. Same setup, latest Noabara with KDE. Ooh one thing, made me mad, when I couldn't even update the system from the terminal, literally crashed from "sudo dnf update"
Next when I booted into the LiveUSB, the system didn't froze for once, which I had seen for CachyOS live usb stick sometimes. So I thought this is it, I can settle down. Installation was smooth. Same setup, Latest Endeavour with KDE. Was going smooth, tried to freeze the system while popping the application launcher or the start menu multiple times and etc. But the problem came with Dolphin, the file manager for KDE. Just finished copying my files from a external drive, was moving through folders and the items in it, then it crashed. Used TTY. Booted again and then did the same thing again. I had to use TTY again.
CachyOS: Manually downloaded X11 after few crashes, but it still crashed in the end.
Nobara42: Used as it is. Got mad and didn't stick long enough.
EndeavourOS: First tried Wayland then X11. Crashed in both cases.

Post-rant:

Here's my po-aah-ooh setup:

Intel core i5-6200U (4)
Intel HD Graphics 520
8GB RAM
HP 440 G3

Suggest me a gaming (preferably Arch based, I don't like bloats and Ubuntu) distro with a good DE (I am still a noob, can't setup stack myself). I had installed Cachy with XFCE, but the meta key doesn't work like it does in KDE, so please help if you can regarding this or else suggest another one (I don't like GNOME).

I plan to game and daily drive the Linux distribution, no more Windows, only Linux.

This was always my partition scheme.

/boot/efi/ --> 512 MiB / 1GiB (Nobara) || another 1 GiB for /boot for Nobara specifically.
SWAP --> 8GiB
/root --> rest of SSD (512GB)
/home --> whole HDD (1TB)

FAT32 for boot/efi/ and ext4 for the rest.

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Also shoutout to Faugus launcher…. Truly the goat

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Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3456800/Rock_Crusher/

Rock Crusher is an incremental game with a massive skill tree. Control a little rock-crushing machine stranded on a mysterious planet. Crush rocks, collect materials, evolve through upgrades, uncover the planet’s secrets - and maybe, just maybe, find a way to escape.

I'm here to answer any questions you have!

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I got an email saying my account was banned. All I can think it is from is playing Titanfall 2 on my Linux box. Is this a known issue?

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So I recently learned that the finals latest update introduced Colonel level anti-cheat. I do not support companies who use kernel level anti-cheats so I decided to uninstall / boycott the game. Then I realized under steam store page steam lets me know that they have a granola level anti-sheet but I have to remove it manually. I'm using a Linux machine running Arch. I asked chat GPT for some advice on it on how to uninstall it and it told me that if I played directly through steam using proton that it does not install a kernel level driver. It said that it only installs on windows machines is this true?

What I had done when I found this out is I went into the .steam folder and found The Finals folder and deleted it. I think I am safe from the kernel driver did I get rid of it correctly or did I do it wrong?

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This might be a bit too specific for most users, but it's an issue I have that feels like I'm very close to solving, but also still missing something.

Long story short, I'm trying to make a homemade/cyberdeck palmtop with a pi4 for its brains. It's working fine, but I'm having one main issue - the touchscreen is vertical and I need to rotate its touch input.

With that said, I already found tons of ways of rotating the screen on different systems I'm planning to use on this, but they all have the same screen rotation issue if I have the screen set horizontally for whatever reason. The input and output of the touch aren't matching.
I looked at a lot of things and most of them seem to point to editing a coordinate transformation matrix, but most of them are focused on xinput. What I'm dealing with atm is libinput under the batocera system.

The things I figured so far are the libinput info, that I need a 40-input.conf file to set the modifications, and its contents.

libinput info:

Device: Waveshare Waveshare -079-HD
Kernel: /dev/input/event0
Group: 1
Seat: seat0, default
Size: 512x293mm
Capabilities: touch
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: identity matrix
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: 0.0

base 40-input.conf file contents:

Section "InputClass"

Identifier "libinput touchscreen catchall"

MatchIsTouchscreen "on"

MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"

Driver "libinput"

EndSection

I also got a few links while searching for this, but I just need to figure out how I can adjust the rotation value in libinput info, or if I need the whole transformation matrix shenanigans.

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I used to work on this game in my spare time on my Linux machine, while having a day job as a games programmer somewhere else.

However, now that I have the support of MicroProse, the publisher behind one of my biggest inspiration (Rollercoaster Tycoon), I can now work on the game full time!

If you are interested after watching the trailer, you can wishlist the game on Steam if you like!

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Hi there. Per the title, recently I tried playing Portal but was surprised by that Portal got to run absurdly slow (10-20fps) meanwhile my laptop (i5-7300HQ/8GB RAM/GTX 1050) is highly capable of playing the game. Checking out the resource monitor (I use btop) showing that it pushes the GPU to 100%, while the graphics card is incredibly idle. I also tried Portal 2 and it appears to just immediately crash.

https://preview.redd.it/kv29w25gnegf1.png?width=797&format=png&auto=webp&s=52d728d8e2109cafa6ca2e6902d40857e094b86e

inxi -xxACGS produces the following results:

03:47:40 barnacl437@crunchbonk Portal → inxi -xxACGS System: Host: crunchbonk Kernel: 6.15.8-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.48 wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM Distro: RebornOS base: Arch Linux CPU: Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-7300HQ bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake rev: 9 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 3143 min/max: 800/3500 cores: 1: 3143 2: 3143 3: 3143 4: 3143 bogomips: 19999 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:591b Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia v: 575.64.05 arch: Pascal pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c8d Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 1bcf:2b8a Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP-1-1 model: AU Optronics 0x38ed res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 diag: 394mm (15.5") API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland,device-1 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 575.64.05 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2 Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo de: kscreen-doctor,xfce4-display-settings gpu: nvidia-smi x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr Audio: Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a171 API: ALSA v: k6.15.8-arch1-1 status: kernel-api Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin

here is the link to the log file (ran steam within terminal). also glxinfo.

can you all tell what's wrong? given that other games works fine in general, sometimes certain games running via proton do freeze though (but they are not the main topic in this post).

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Using the Minecraft Bedrock Launcher downloaded from Flathub, and it works flawlessly. The performance on it in better than Java with Sodium or whatever other performance mods. Thing is, buying Minecoins isn't possible on it for some reason? The price of the Minecoins is "10000#" and clicking on it says "Something went wrong - Sorry, we were unable to complete your purchase". Is it possible to get them via the actual copy of Pocket Edition? It should work, since I connected with both the Microsoft and Google account I use for said Pocket Edition account.

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so I'm trying to play the game but for whatever reason, it defaults to 4:3 and I am unable to set it to 16:9. I have tried setting launch options to skip the launcher and setting different proton versions, none of this seemed to change anything. I am unable to change anything ingame as the menu options go passed the 4:3 boarders that the game wants to set. I have tried setting 16:9 in the launcher but it goes back to 4:3. I am on cachy os 6.16 with the latest nvidia drivers and the game sees my nvidia gpu (an rtx 3070)

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i have been creating a device that has whatever linux distro, and is dualbooted with android (yk the smartphone) and i want genuine opinions, not calling it dumb, actual opinions.

on a deeper dive: it is fully modular, meaning the battery can change out with anything with usb-c, the storage is m.2 and can also upgrade to any desirable amount, alongside that, the motherboard can swap out in case of upgrade and modifying.

i am well aware pinephone is a thing, but this is much more modular and will have differences.

the hardware is much like a regular pc, so keyboards, controllers and mouses are fully supported through usb-c --- and in terms of the build and design, it is 3d printed (for now) and is just 3 screws away and a magnet from upgrading. --- dimensions (for now) are 16 mm thick and 6 inches in height--

the uses are: server hosting, gaming: regular android phone usage, regular pc usage (and literally anything a pc can do)

how is this actually different: ever heard of the steam deck? ever heard of the nokia 3310? lliterally any phone that has a removable battery? all of that in one compact design, where what you own is actually yours, any app or software can be yours natively. (no android or ios 'modularity' that they may or may not be lying about) it is literally yours, meaning you can literally put multiple of these phones in a server rack and it will do it natively.

pricing: no more than 400 usd probably 300 (hopefully)

please, give advice and opinions (or even ask a question) but don't call it dumb without summing it up on why. i probably do have an answer for whatever you may criticize or ask about.

-Thanks

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I am trying to migrate a Windows-based arcade cabinet that I had built to Linux, namely Bazzite. Due to limitations on the inputs on the control boards I used, I have each control stick plugged into the machine as a separate input device, and then the buttons as an additional input. On Windows, I used UCR to unify those inputs into two Xbox-style controllers. I have searched, but cannot seem to find a similar feature in the remapper options available on Linux. Has anyone come across a remapper with such a feature?

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Every time i open cs2 on my pc, it jusr sits on the valve logo and freezes my pc somewhat completely. I dont know what to do

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Hello!

Please explain to me what the advantages of Gamescope are.

I use AMD CPU/GPU, CachyOS (GNOME), only Steam gaming, proton-cachyos/proton-ge (PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1).

I have heard many times that people use Gamescope, but I still don't understand what its advantages are.

Please advise.

(Text translated using a translator)

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First off, I'll just mention I'm a noob. I've tried to include every scrap of information that might be useful, but I had an LLM point me in the direction to relevant logs. I apologize if I've missed something because of that.

I'm trying to run Warframe on EndeavourOS, under Wayland. In the past the game has worked extremely well, but more recently I've been unable to play for more than ~20 minutes without a crash, sometimes a rather spectacular one where my entire DE flickers in and out and all my programs close. It started with an error box that read status && vkcreategraphicspipelines as an error, which led me down a troubleshooting rabbit hole of methodically changing one thing at a time to try and get a stable experience.

I've got:
GPU: RTX 3090
Driver: Nvidia 575.64.05
DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.3 + Wayland
Game: Warframe (via Steam)

I've tried:
- Proton Experimental, Proton GE 9-23, Proton GE 10-10
- Warframe with both DX11 and DX12
- Verified game files
- Reinstalled entirely
- Nuked Proton prefix and shader cache
- Tried PROTON_USE_WINE3D=1
- Tried PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command% (launcher just appears black)
- RAM tested with MemTest86
- Ran another game (Last Epoch) without problem

I snagged some logs with journalctl which points me in the direction of it being a driver issue maybe?

Jul 31 22:41:52 andrew-desktop kernel: traps: Z:/bin/warframe.x64.exe [189938] trap invalid opcode ip:7c98e2 sp:22b7d4e0 error:0 in libnvoptix.so.1[7c3000+15d7000] Jul 31 22:41:53 andrew-desktop kernel: NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 31, pid=189938, Ch 0000, intr 10000000. MMU Fault: ENTRY_NOT_PRESENT 0c0041c000 Jul 31 22:41:53 andrew-desktop kernel: traps: steamwebhelper[189558] trap int3 ip:7f8eeb3cb172 sp:7ffd00e63160 error:0 in libc-2.39.so[7f8eeb388000+177000]

Also ran dmesg which gave me: [Fri Aug 1 00:34:03 2025] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 31, pid=54202, Ch 0000, intr 10000000. MMU Fault: ENTRY_NOT_PRESENT 0c0041c000

I've browsed around on Protondb and Linux gaming and can't really find a solution. I'm not technical enough (still learning this whole 'linux' thing) to figure it out on my own, so I was hoping one of you might have a suggestion.

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