So I have two laptops, one for personal use - Omnibook Ultra 14 (Ryzen 375HX with 890m) - and one for work, Omnibook Ultra Flip (Intel 258 with Arc 140v). When benchmarking them in Superposition - they are pretty much exactly the same.
However, when gaming the Omnibook Ultra Flip is getting like 1/3 in Cyberpunk 2077 with exactly the same settings (compared to the Omnibook with 375HX). Tested with Company of Heroes 3 and it's way worse there as well, maybe like 50% of the Omnibook with 375HX.

I do think it got something to do with power profiles and power delivery - that Arc 140v gets like no power when the CPU asks for juice. And that is why Superposition (more or less no cpu usage) works decent on 140v but CP 2077 requires a lot of cpu power = horrible performance. I have been playing around with different power profiles, linux-firmware-git, different kernels, etc. but no real difference.

So if anyone has experienced similar behaviour and have any tips - please let me know.

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I want to play Minecraft Bedrock on my Linux machine, I tried to install the Windows version of the MC Launcher using bottles, it didn't work, I heard about running the Android version of the game but that's a big no no to me since I don't own the Android version, and most importantly, the Android version has many missing features unlike the PC/Windows version like better video settings customization, Vibrant Visuals support and more, so can you help guys how to install the Windows Minecraft Bedrock edition in Linux?

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I've been using linux mint as my daily driver for quite a while now. I've used it on my old laptop that only had intel integrated graphics and recently moved to a new laptop with a dedicated nvidia GPU. Moving was mostly fine, I did a fresh install then copied my home folder and reinstalled the programs. But for some reason, playing games through steam proton would lag and stutter really hard even though I was hoping the dedicated GPU would make it much smoother. And i know that something was wrong because it actually ran worse than on my old laptop.

So I did a bunch of stuff to try and troubleshoot it. My main suspicion was that it kept using my iGPU because it had really high CPU usage and low GPU usage, so i tried adding the environment variable on launch command, changing the NVIDIA PRIME profile to performance mode, updating NVIDIA drivers, using optirun, but it didn't work (I also wanted to try disabling the iGPU but there wasn't any option in the BIOS). Then I thought it was steam related (because i played osu! and it was fine), so I tried changing the proton version, then tried GE-Proton, also tried with shader pre-caching enabled and disabled, but it was still there. I spent several days researching and trying out a lot of solutions that people used online on forums and still no luck.

The problem was that it worked well a few times and I could go play on an online gaming session with my friends, but retrying the settings I used before didn't help. But then it hit me. At that time, I tried to move my laptop to a bedroom with an AC (because I also thought it was maybe overheating). When I did, it suddenly worked normally and the game went smoothly. But I also then moved out of the bedroom because my family wanted to sleep, and the game still went smoothly so it was probably not heat. The only difference was that I had to disconnect the charger while the laptop was on to move it. Just now, I tried disconnecting and reconnecting my charger and... it somehow worked. I dunno how the hell that works but it works I guess.

Wanted to share just in case someone goes through the same, and also maybe someone can explain why it works because I'm so confused

TL;DR: reconnecting my laptop charger while it's on somehow fixed my steam games performance

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Hello! I want to try to migrate my main gaming rig to Linux again but I'm in quite a pickle. I have a few games that aren't on steam or anything, with save data in appdata and documents. How could I play them on linux? I really care about the save data and I don't think I'd be able to migrate to Linux fully if I can't get them working. What could I do? Would I be able to point steam's proton to the save files somehow? Any help is appreciated!

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Now this sounds stupid as it should be a good thing, however my problem is that it makes shader cache times UNBEARABLY slow, and according to BTOP I’m only using 655Mb out of 8GB VRAM when doing the pre-cacheing.

What makes it even weirder is steam is telling me that it’s downloading the files at 25Mbs but it feels more like 2Mbs, and on top of that it’s telling me that there is 0 disk usage.

As for my system specs, I’m running an RTX2060 Super, Ryzen 5 9600X and 32GB memory @6000Mhz (CL36). And as for WiFi, it’s unfortunately wireless as the router is downstairs so no Ethernet for me :/

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At the moment Minecraft has to run through XWayland which in my case looses about 10% of FPS compared to X11 native. I am wondering now that they are rewriting the rendering backend to implement the new shaders, are there rumors this will support Wayland natively?

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GOG have announced an expansion of their GOG Preservation Program again, to keep classic retro games running nicely with a bunch more games added.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Valve released another Steam Client Beta update and this time, they're giving Desktop gamers a whole new Performance Monitor HUD.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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Hi, I can hear static on audio, it sounds like "woosh" at the start of any intentional sound - system notification - and crackling static after it.
I do assume this is connected to the sound card going sleep mode as when there is no audio playing there is complete silence.

But it doesn't matter if I do use front combo jack (mic/audio out) or rear audio out (green) noise is still there. Additionally I can't source audio from microphone connected to combo jack.

OS info : Linux asrock-x600 6.14.0-15-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Apr 6 15:05:05 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I do have Asrock X600 and according to spec there should be Realtek ALC897, quick lspci | grep audio scan to confirm

06:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio Controller 06:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio Controller

Ok... AMD GPU Audio (from iGPU over HDMI) but "Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio Controller" ?
After closer search for any realtek related device nothing is listed...

aplay -l check

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [Acer RT280K] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC897 Analog [ALC897 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Ok... so ALC897 is detected

Meanwhile I had a meeting and really needed headphones with microphone so I grabbed spare us 005 Device 009: ID 047f:430c Plantronics, Inc. Poly Blackwire 3325 Series That I sometimes use as my backup USB-AudioCard
Card got detected card 3: Series [Poly Blackwire 3325 Series], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] and even microphone is working (after further testing I was wrong, that was direct loopback and software I use for video meetings picked up webcam microphone) but the static noise is still there

Ani idea why on both independent audio devices there is the same problem?

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Im trying to change my processor setting to the max (in my case its 2) and I cant cuz its not letting me to change the CPU...

can somebody help me ?

https://preview.redd.it/b4a0omvu2n7f1.png?width=511&format=png&auto=webp&s=23e77be53733fc985e649192e127e5b05b03ad5b

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Before I hear (its just a placebo) Its not but this isn't about that haha.

Is there write up somewhere that can guide you through on how to add these optimizations they've done to my own Linux Distro?

I think Nobara had similar or has similar changes? I wouldn't mind a write up for that if that is also an option and I believe other people might find the information useful.

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So I already have a good gaming setup but I decided to download linux mint into my old laptop to breathe some new life to the machine it has an old amd radeon hd 7600m gpu.After testing out some indie games I found out that they all run at 1 fps. So I used lspci -k command on my terminal and found out that the kernel is using radeon instead of amdgpu. I already followed this article https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/For-AMD-users-having-issues-with-non-OpenGL-games but it didnt work so I dont know what the issue is.

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Well, I recently switched to linux with Cachy OS with hyprland. I chose this arch based distro because I like the customization and being able to handle everything, but one thing I have been experiencing bad things is in the games, specifically Stellar Blade, I don't know if it is because it is a new game, but the reviews I have seen on protonDB don't seem to be bad, it even seems to be better than other ports.

As such my problem seems to be only this game, games like Ghost of tsushima or Cyberpunk 2077 (At least if I don'tt put 1000 mods) I have no performance problems

System:

Intel i5 12400F

16 RAM DDR5

Nvidia RTX 4060

Kernel: 6.15.2-3-cachyos

In stellar blade I have experienced more than anything absurd fps drops, the game goes well (high quality 90-80 fps in 2k) but has too many frame drops, as seen in the image. I don't know if it's normal, but heavy games take up a lot of VRAM, however, unlike windows, I don't think there is a VRAM limiter that stops games from going over 8gb (which my graphics card has). It is very annoying this, it does not crashes my system, but I believe that it is what causes the drops of frames, or I do not know it, what if I know is that even if I put it in low graphics it occupies the 8gb and it continues with drops of frames.

It should be noted that when you start the game the first 5-10m goes decently stable, then start the annoying framedrops.

Please if anyone knows how to fix this I would be very grateful.

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Just Want to Share My Experience Installing Pika OS — Might Resonate With Someone

The time to finally ditch Windows came yesterday. Programming on WSL was such a headache, especially with Docker, at least for me. So, I started looking for a Linux distro with:

• Updated packages
• Ease of use
• A hint of stability

Basically, I didn’t want something that breaks every other month.

I considered Nobara and CachyOS, but most mainstream applications I rely on are .deb based and plain old Debian wasn’t cutting it for me.

Why I Chose Pika OS

During my research, I stumbled upon Pika OS. The idea of an up-to-date Debian really sold me. Someone even described it as Debian on steroids so I had to try it.

So I finally settled on:
Ubuntu 25.04 & Pika OS

My desktop specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 2400G
• Graphics: Vega 11 integrated (no dedicated GPU)

I created a Ventoy disk, added Pika OS, and booted it up. It took a while to get into the live image, but it eventually did.

The Display Nightmare

The first issue hit immediately:
The resolution was completely messed up. Windows were huge—so large I couldn’t see the edges, especially the installer. Resizing was impossible, and progressing through the installer was a pain.

In display settings, I only had one aspect ratio: 640x(something), 4:3. My monitor is 1440x990, so you can imagine how terrible it looked.

I couldn’t even reach the "Agree" checkbox on the license page, so I rebooted, hoping the resolution might fix itself.

The Black Screen

But this time, the live image got stuck on a black screen.

I panicked. Gave it 30 minutes, nothing. Went through forums, nothing. During this time also I learned about the rEFInd boot manager and decided to try that. I followed a YouTube guide and installed it.

When I booted again, I was met with the rEFInd welcome page... which was empty. I couldn’t boot into anything now—not even Windows. At this point, Pika OS had to work.

5 Hours Later…

I had tried everything—even creating another bootable disk on a different flash drive (thinking maybe Ventoy was the problem). Still the same black screen.

Finally, I got an idea:
Install Debian first, then get Ubuntu 25.04 and install Ubuntu instead.

My laptop runs Debian and didn’t have enough storage for Ubuntu, but Debian is less than 700MB. So I went for it.

Installing Debian was fairly easy—until I got to network configuration. It couldn’t detect my Realtek WiFi dongle. I ended up installing a minimal terminal-only Debian install. No GUI. Super dark. Too nerdy.

Tried configuring the internet—no luck.

It was almost midnight. I gave up. Planned to get an ethernet cable the next morning.

One Last Try

As I was powering down, I thought: “Let’s give Pika OS one more shot, maybe Windows was the issue.”

Boom—Pika’s live image booted again!
Still had the resolution problem, but I could finally get through the installer (with great pain).

Pika OS was now installed. I rebooted and…
Black screen. Again.

I was beyond frustrated—but I decided to do some real digging.

The Fix (Kind Of)

I booted again and got into the rEFInd screen.
Clicked the Pika OS icon, hit F2, got more boot options.
Hit F2 again on the standard option—got a one-line boot instruction.

At the end of that line, I added:

nomodeset

Hit Enter—it booted.

Progress, but Not Quite There

Resolution improved to 1024x768—still bad, but usable.
Apps opened slowly—like when AMD drivers fail on Windows.

After installing some updates, I rebooted.
Black screen again.

Only fix: add nomodeset every time.
(It provides a basic framebuffer to avoid driver failures.)

Tried launching the AMD/ATI - Raven Ridge [Vega series] driver, hoping to fix the aspect ratio.

Got this error:

["pkexec","/usr/lib/cfhdb/scripts/sysfs_helper.sh", "start_device", "pcl","0000:09:00.0","amdgpu"] exited with code 1 So After All That...

I still have two major issues:

1. Black screen on normal boot — have to use nomodeset every time
2. This graphics driver error:["pkexec","/usr/lib/cfhdb/scripts/sysfs_helper.sh", "start_device", "pcl","0000:09:00.0","amdgpu"] exited with code 1

If anyone out there has ideas on how to fix either issue, I’d be super grateful. But yeah, that was my Linux transition story so far. Hope this helps someone else who's stuck in a similar loop.

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Yes! finally 100 FPS stable this took way too much time to get. Note: Looks smushed because of Spectacle fine on my end.

System Specs:
CPU: Ryzen R7 8840u (GPD Win 4)
GPU: Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB (DEG-1 Docking Station)
RAM: 32GB LPDDR5X 7500Mhz
Distro: Bazzite Linux

Graphics Settings:
Resolution 1920x1080 FPS capped at 100hz
High Shading and Foliage
Low Post Processing
Medium everything else
FSR3 Quality Preset
Frame Gen Active/ FPS without FG: 60-80 FPS.

Mods:
Optiscaler
COE33 Improve Cinematics
COE33 Optimized Tweak
Clair Obscur Fix

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My friends that use Linux for gaming seem to be needing to compile shaders a lot on games that aren't native to Linux, especially after a game updates. I plan to switch to Linux soon because Windows 11 is dogshit, it seems like there's a huge opportunity to save on power usage and time across the world if Linux users could download shaders from similar hardware instead of having to compile them again. It's really inefficient to have each person compile their own shaders if there's someone else on Steam with Linux that has similar PC specs.

Thoughts?

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Has anyone had a game recognize your controller but then the controller inputs stop after 1-2 seconds?

I installed Spider-Man: Web of Shadows via Lutris, everything installed like any other game. But when starting the game I realized the Xbox One controller I plug in wasn't doing anything. I unplugged, plugged back in and it recognized the controller, changing the button display from keyboard to controller buttons, but then it stops taking inputs from the controller after 1-2 seconds. Unplugged, plugged back in; same thing, works for 1-2 seconds then stops.

Has anyone experienced/fixed this issue before?

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