Hi everyone so i have thoroughly tested out the above all of them have pros and all of them also have cons. Help me pick which one I should use as my daily going forward.

Bazzite: seems the most polished experience where stuff mostly just works when it comes to launching games and playing them everything is pretty seemless I didn't have to troubleshoot anything untill it had this weird bug where it would treat my external SSD slower then an old laptop HDD. I mean slow to the point where textures couldn't load in. The internal storage was fine but it really didn't like external storage and out of the 3 distros it also ran my temps at by far the highest with the CPU constantly going above 80 which isn't ideal.

Cachyos: was perfect, absolutely perfect! Untill I updated it once and it broke my decky pluggin and removed a bunch of user settings but up u till I updated everything just worked amazingly well as good as bazzite and even my external storage worked like normal and I'm not kidding my temps ran on average at about 9 degrees cooler with more or less the same performance as bazzite but unfortunately I don't have the time to troubleshoot every time I update and something potentially breaks due to its update nature and also despite what the internet will have you believe in my testing cachyos was the worst performer not by a lot to mKe it meaningful but yeah those cooler temps came at a cost.

Nobara: now this one is frustrating cos I am getting the best performance from this whilst temps are a little higher than cachyos the performance gains are worth it and it doesn't run as hot as bazzite it's kinda of in between tempature wise. This also recognised and used my external storage fine without me even having to reformat it. It also grants you the freedom that bazzite doesn't in desktop mode. Nothing is locked down and you can install or change settings as much as you like however out of the 3 this is the most buggiest which is why it's so frustrating cos if the bugs weren't they're it'd be a no brainer but for some reason it won't pick up rumble or haptic feedback on my dualsence. Wired or wireless. It also has strange bugs when you launch games with a launcher it will freeze on the launcher screen and you can get around around it by holding the home button and that works for making it disappear and also the controller sometimes will bug out even further and start pressing buttons without input but it does get the best performance and it does grant you the freedom so it's very frustrating that these bugs exist.

Which one should I go with?

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GE-Proton10-21 Released

Repository: GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom · Tag: GE-Proton10-21 · Commit: eff374f · Released by: GloriousEggroll

• wine updated to bleeding edge
• dxvk updated to latest git
• vkd3d-proton updated to latest git
• wine-wayland/em-10 patches updated
• fixed news not loading in black desert online (revert GL/VK patch in em-10)
• hotfix added for blue protocol player count crash (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9218)
• re-added accidentally removed wine writecopy options for battlenet. uplay, ea app

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I'm getting more excited about the open source cross-platform Nexus Mods app, especially as we're getting closer to Bethesda games support.

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The game is currently on an all-time biggest discount on Steam and I am thinking of getting it, but could anyone share their experience of running the game on Linux? I am particularly interested in performance - I checked ProtonDB for comments and while they are "positive", people at times added that they get a frame rate around 40 fps. Personally, I would be interested in playing at smooth 60 fps.

Obviously, this relies a lot on hardware and my PC meets the recommended requirements except for the GPU (the recommended specs list "Nvidia GeForce® GTX (sic!) 2080 Ti", while I have GeForce RTX 2060), so I probably need all the performance I can get from my rig and thus I am interested how Linux fares here compared to Windows - is the performance comparable?

Also, if it makes any difference I would be interested in running this game specifically under Debian.

Please share your experience with running the title under Linux, preferably along with listing your hardware and used distro. Thanks in advance.

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Another development release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine is out, with Wine 10.17 bringing lots of changes.

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From KOEI TECMO, the newer Atelier Ryza DX series is coming to Steam on November 13th and as of today all three of them have been rated Steam Deck Verified.

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From KOEI TECMO, the Atelier Ryza series is coming to Steam on November 13th and as of today all three of them have been rated Steam Deck Verified.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

So, I've recently decided to give Linux (Mint specifically, though it probably doesn't matter for this discussion) a new shot over a decade after giving up on it due to the how much more complicated gaming on it can be. While I expect to have some extra difficulties in installing or running certain games, one issue that is new compared to my last attempt to move to Linux is that one game that I play (Honkai Star Rail) does not work at all at the moment with either Wine or Proton due to anti-cheat. One option would be to have a dual-boot setup (which is what I have for now), but then I would have to have at least some other personal accounts, apps, and files stored or duplicated on the Windows side of the machine for when I'm doing a longer gaming session and might need to briefly switch away for some other task or while auto-farming (this happens often enough for me that it's a genuine issue). So one option I though might solve the anti-cheat issue while allowing me to mainly remain on Linux would some form of virtual machine. I have two monitors so it would be easy enough to run Windows on one of them while still having access to Linux on the other. But I have a series of questions about this idea.

1. Are there any potential issues with anti-cheat that I might not be aware of? Would it just work as if it was running directly on a Windows machine or would the fact that it's a virtual machine actually trigger the anti-cheat in some way? Is there a general answer to this or is it different from game to game? I would rather know the answer to this ahead of time rather than find out when my account gets banned.

2. How does running games in such a way affect performance? I expect that there will be some performance hit, but how big would it be? Would my current PC even be up to the task? My specs are as follows:

Intel i5 11400 (6C, 12T), 32 GB of RAM at 3200 MHz, RX 6700 XT, 3 TB of total NVMe storage (650 GB dedicated to the Linux installation at the moment).

1. What apps are out there that can run a virtual Windows machine and how do they compare to each other? I know about Virtualbox, but from what I've read it's not that great with 3D acceleration so probably not the best choice for this use case. Are there others that might be a better pick in this situation or is this a general issue with no real solution at the moment?

2. Are there any other questions that I might want the answer to but didn't know enough to ask them?

Overall what I'm doing right now is an experiment to see if I can do everything that I currently do on Windows on Linux instead, how much more difficult it is compared to Windows (especially gaming) and if I can handle the extra hassle. I plan to run this experiment for the next 6-12 months (I just started this week) and decide if when my extended security updates on Windows 10 run out I can safely switch to Linux or if I'll just have to stick with Windows and upgrade to 11 despite not really wanting to.

Thank you ahead of time for anyone that can help with some answers. :)

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I have two PCs

1 9950X3D x 5090 2 9800x3D x 9070 XT

I want to experience Linus as a first timer and want to know which PC would have a better experience. I love playing older games and I’ve tried watching some videos and seen that Nvidia cards work well now, but do i need to do this on a dedicated drive and what kernel do you all recommend now? Is there something that looks similar to my Mac? (This is really what prompted my curiosity)

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Currently trying to find ways to run Roblox twice on Linux.

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So. I downloaded battle.net with proton litus or whatever (im new and forgot the name my bad) but it worked after alota struggling i had sc2 open and running. I went away to make food then it went into sleep. Then i came back everything was closed so i re opened it trying to find sc2 i couldnt so i re installed it. Then my full screen was fucked. Full screen windowed puts my screen locked in the middle of it. Windows puts it top left, and fullscreen puts it on the fulll left side in the middle leaving the right side empty. Not a black screen but just a whole to my wallpaper.

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I have an X1 Carbon gen 6 that uses i7 8550u and 16 LPDDR3. I use Fedora as the main OS for this laptop and wanted to try if games would run on it without any issues. I actually tried playing L4D2 and CS2 before on Fedora with this laptop but for some reason, they didn't worked smoothly even tho they are both native Linux games. L4D2 crashes when joining a server or starting a single player campaign and my guess is because of the mods that I use. CS2 is choppy and crashes after a few minutes of playing and turning down its graphics settings makes the game freeze so I can't adjust it at all.

Any games would do as long as it's free and is not graphic demanding. Tho, I haven't tried Half-life yet which went free (idk which Half-life) before so I might try it later. PS2 emulation runs fine but since it's an old laptop with a low powered cpu, I can't run most PS2 games smoothly.

Yes, I use the Steam compatibility feature and set it to Proton Experimental.

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Hello,

I've had my deck for a while now and I switched to mint a few months ago. I have some GOG games that are installed on both devices and I wanted to know if there was a way to make them use the same compatdata appID, since for nonsteam games, the appID is random.

The usecase was mostly to make it easier to Syncthing/Decky Ludusavi while keeping the proton profile the exact same.

Anyone know if that's possible? If there is an alternative? Or if it's even useful?

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Hello,

Not strictly gaming related, but does anyone know of a way to run Autodesk Fusion or Altium Designer on Linux

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I'm on Fedora with two DE on my system GNOME and KDE.

Steam (rpm version) works great and no issues on my first user (GNOME session) but I can't add another drive on steam for my second user (KDE session). When I add a drive, nothing is happening.

I tried using the flatpak version of steam and using flatseal to add permission but it's not working for both so resulted to using the rpm version. I think it's a permission issue.

I was hoping both user can access the same drive when I play games on steam.

What am I missing?

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I switched to linux mint 3 months ago and it was fine on my old laptop I saw some people talk about gaming focused distros like bazzaite cachyos pop os etc my laptop is kind of old it specs are intel i5 3210m 4gb ram 700gb hdd amd radeon hd7600m (doesn't support vulkan) should i stay with mint or hop to another distro i mainly play games like tf2 and silksong

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So, I know for a fact genshin is playable on linux mint, I've done it before.

However, I can't choose my HDD as installation path, at all.

For context: I have a 256 GB SSD (with linux on it) and a newly ext4 formatted 1 TB HDD that is mounted somewhere in /media....

I already have the issue that I need to add the drive anew to steam every time I plan to install a steam game on it, since I dont wanna clog up the space on my ssd. Quite annoying but atleast it works.

Now for genshin, I added the launcher as non-steam-game and run it with proton, all fine so far. However under installation path it opens this window that doesnt show my HDD at all...

sorry if this is painfully obvious, but I found nothing regarding it online.

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I just want to take a minute to appreciate this game. A UE5 game that runs without hiccups or any faults on my Linux machine. Im using a 9070xt and using the RTXGI epic preset with medium on the rest and native 1440p. Getting 120fps+ !!. Now in was under the impression that RT took a huge hit on Linux but here that doesn't seem to be a huge factor. IDK what id get on W11 but this is definitely a good experience. I could even just do fsr4 quality and probably go above medium to still have high refresh. I'm still getting the hang of what the game is, but so far i really like the calm but intense at times vibe. Amazing game!

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I was a windows user my entire life, so I'm a little bit of a newb.

My NVIDIA 3D application started birthing me problems when gaming. I simply used to open the GeForce app and disable it. Then, the game would flow amazingly well again.

I switched to Linux Mint Cinnamon and need help to disable the gpu 3d app when gaming.

I tried understanding how the NVIDIA settings work (the profiles) but I'm no expert and I'm already stressed for existing.

Driver: nvidia-driver-580-open (580.95.05-Ubuntu0.24.04.2) OS: Linux Mint 22.2 GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

Help, PLEASE. (sorry if bad english)

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