When the plans of recycling an old HP 250 G5 with a 1050 Ti eGPU fell short, I was lucky to move on quickly and to this absolute abomination that somehow works. This is supposed to be a cheapy HTPC build, made with parts i had more or less lying around, that can also do a bit of gaming, entirely on Linux.

Starting life as a broken Yamaha RX-V25000 receiver, I gutted it to make way for a motherboard tray, which was superglued on given my incompetence and lack of a welder. I wanted to watercool it initially via a NR200P CM 280 i had lying around, but there was no decent way to mount it anywhere, so i stuck with a stock cooler, blowing cold air from the top via a Fractal GP-18 fan i had lying around in my old Torrent case. I also sold my PS4 and was left with the stock 500GB HDD that i decided to use for laffs. I picked up a used RX480 in place of the 4GB 1050Ti i had as i knew Linux would run better with it anyway.

Specs:

AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650 w/ stock Wraith Cooler - Asus Prime A520M-K AM4 mATX board - Kingston Fury 16GB-3200 Expo Ram, Sapphire RX480 8GB - Crucial P310 1TB SSD - Toshiba 500GB PS4 HDD - Fortron FlexGURU 500w PSU - Noctua NF-B9 connected via USB temporarily, Fractal GP-18 Fan

Currently, I'm using the LTS version of Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma, kernel being 6.12.48-1. Reason being I wanted something that is closer to Arch, but would in theory be like Debian with the stability, and Manjaro simply speaks to me unlike Fedora, Pop!_OS and others, but we'll ser how to situation develops. Temps-wise, playing Helldivers 2 at 1440P Medium-Low with game tweaks at 40-60FPS, the CPU never went beyond 60 C, and the GPU never beyond 80 C, but more testing is required.

Let me know what y'all think.

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Anyone get World of warcraft midnight to launch? I have BNet installed via steam, tried on proton GE latest and proton experimental. Retail wow launches just fine (same prefix), but clicking Launch on Midnight Beta just sets its back to play after a few seconds from bnet launcher

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its my first time gaming on Linux
so when i was playing on windows and get like 180 to 200 in cs2 and now i got half of the performance
can anyone help me ?

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greetings redditors, I want to play minecraft so I have installed the official launcher using yay (I am on Cachyos), and when I put in my microsoft email and password, I get an error that says, "Please retry with a different device or other authentication method to sign in. For more details, please see this link." Lunar client also does the exact same thing. I have already tried to clear my keyring cause I saw that in a different post but it didnt do anything. Any help would be really appreciated, thank you!

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So i just installed garuda linux and have been trying to run warframe. Whenever i hit play in steam the launcher wont open. I have done a little troubleshootingand this seems to be a comm on issue, but whatever i do i cant seem to fix it. Ive made sure all my drivers are up to date. And ive tried proton expeirmentel and proton GE. Can anyone help?

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i heavily believe its due to being played on hdd, i'd love to use my nvme but its my main drive for linux and has a crappy amount of space sadly. is there anyway to make it load faster?

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I am having trouble installing steam via the terminal and I can't get it to work. Up here is the error display I get when I try, and I get it even after inputting sudo apt install steam-libs-i386 to my command terminal. I've tried getting it straight from the steam website but then Medieval 2 doesn't work, and tried a snap version but then mods don't work.

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