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If you’ve read the FAQ and still have questions like “Should I switch to Linux?”, “Which distro should I install?”, or “Which desktop environment is best for gaming?” — this is where to ask them.

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Since Friday, I haven't been able to use my graphics card for display. When I boot the machine I can see the splash screen and I can enter UEFI, but briefly after the OS loads it stops displaying video through the GPU ports.

I tried a fresh install of the OS (upgrading Kubuntu from 24.04 to 25.04) and video output worked when using the live environment and after the initial install/reboot. But after the first update the problem returned and I can no longer use the GPU ports to display video, though I am able to use the CPU's integrated graphics.

Any ideas about what's causing this? I've tried using the display port connection and a few different monitors to no avail. 'lspci' shows the graphics card, and I can't find any indications that the machine is failing to find it. I think my next step is trying a different distro, but I'm not sure if that will make a difference and would like to avoid if possible. If any other info is needed please let me know.

Thanks in advance!

System info:
Operating System: Kubuntu 25.04
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.8.3
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-22-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 20 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Memory: 31.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® UHD Graphics 770
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7E06
System Version: 2.0

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If you're using ProtonGE 10-X and GNOME, and you're having issues with Forza Horizon 4 (no sound and no input when in fullscreen mode) try switching the game to windowed mode.

Everything works fine in windowed mode – input and audio return as expected.

This issue seems to happen specifically in fullscreen with this setup. At least until it's fixed, using windowed mode is a good workaround.

Hope this helps someone!

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I was just about to switch to Bazzite because of Windows 10 ending, but I'm reading about it maybe shutting down? I don't want to have to reinstall everything again if Bazzite dies. How real is this risk? Is it a good distro in the first place?

Thanks y'all <3 🙏🥹

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I recently got a steam deck and have been playing with it. Although I'm not a huge modder, I did notice that if I were to mod, I'd need to either struggle in desktop mode with touch controls or plugin a mouse and keyboard.

So is there any good alternative out there? Otherwise I'll just start coding one myself.

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Just bought a wireless SteelSeries mouse and experiencing an issue I have not experienced before - whenever my laptop is doing something somewhat resource-intensive (running a game), the mouse movement occasionally stutters in bursts, sometimes outright disconnecting the mouse (the mouse's LED indicator flashes for 1-2 seconds as if it is not attempting to (re)connect).

I've used two different wireless mice with the same system before (all 2.4 GHz as well) and have not experienced this issue. I reduced the new mouse's polling rate to 125 and to 500 Hz and the issue seemed to occur less frequently, but still happens regularly.

This only occurs on my KDE Plasma (NixOS) system - on Windows (with the proprietary SteelSeries software installed, have not tested without), no matter how much I have running on the system, the mouse moves smoothly.

Any ideas on what the cause might be and if this may be fixable on Linux or if I might need to buy a different mouse?

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I think clearly a overhaul is needed to the rating system.

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Recently, I switched my MSI Raider GE68 HX 13V to Fedora Linux. For several reasons (mainly due to my RGB keyboard not functioning without secure boot and the extra security secure boot provides), I want to keep secure boot enabled. However, this prevents the Proprietary NVIDIA Drivers I downloaded using RPM Fusion from working. How do I get the drivers running while secure boot is on? I do not know much about linux, so I am hoping to find a simple, safe solution.

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Anyone had any luck installing and launching EVE Frontier on Linux? Specifically Debian. Tried bottles, tried wine-staging, lutris, and proton. Closest I got was with wine-staging, I was able to install the launcher and download the client, but the client just crashes immediately on launch. Anyone had any luck?

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Proton GE, Linux Mint 22.1

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When I run OBS Studio on Manjaro (KDE, xWayland), Pipewire always asks me which windows to share - it doesn't remember my choices, even though I select the option to have it do just that. It's not a total disaster, but it's quite annoying. Do you know of a solution for this?

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Finally gaming in HDR is possible in gnome/amd without gamescope. I got gnome HDR running in games, with Proton-GE 10.4 and the following steam run command:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

However my. box controller does not work if steam input is enabled. Any idea what the problem could be?

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I've been running arch with my 9070xt for about a month now, and haven't gone in to windows for essentially anything. But the frequent crashes in the amdgpu driver for the 9070XT are absolutely soul crushing. I have crashed 4 times this morning (full system lock, tty to reboot) and lost progress in expedition 33 every single time.

This amdgpu driver instability is the thing that's going to force me to go back to windows temporarily even though I have no desire to. I'm following the open bugs about this, and have provided dmesg logs etc to the open bugs, but to date there isn't a resolution that I'm aware of.

I should say, this isn't exclusive to expedition 33, it's most games using the gpu (sometimes it crashes just using desktop applications). I really hope this gets sorted soon!

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So I just wanted to share the experience I had with gaming on linux. Im very pleased and it was smoother than previous attempts.

Background: Ive been able to get my games running in the past, wine to get StarCraft running. So I have that as experience. At some point I had tried SteamOS but found the compatibility wasn’t there.

Yesterday, I installed fedora 42, opened software and installed steam. Noticed that the install button was grayed out, so I went to preferences and enabled compatibility (cant remember if steam restarted or my desktop) either way, then it came back on, I now saw the install button, great! After the smooth install, I ran the game but noticed 14 fps, so I immediately knew it was running off the iGPU. I opened software again and installed nvidia drivers. Ran the game again and got 100 fps.

Great experience overall! Almost getting to excellent!

I think Im ready to completely ditch windows.

Thank you to all the developers that made this dream possible. Let me know how I can buy you a beer or coffee or tea.

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Decided to switch Linux mint. So far this is good. I hope one day anticheat systems can run on Linux as well. For instance faceit anticheat.

Why not the anticheats are not running on Linux?? Can someone explain me?

Enough of Windows

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i use bigbig won gale hall and i daily drive cachyos. i can play some games with the default layout but most of them doesn't work with the default one, or any layout for gamepads. i can only play them when i apply a keyboard&mouse layout, but it is annoying as you can guess. can anyone help me.

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GE-Proton10-5 Released

Repository: GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom · Tag: GE-Proton10-5 · Commit: 8d993b5 · Released by: GloriousEggroll

Nothing too major here, mostly just an update to upstream's code since it's been about 30 days.

• Wine-wayland patches have been updated/rebased, should fix some nvidia crashes, and no longer need this mesa patch: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/34918
• patches added to help with Wuthering Waves.
• protonfixes updated
• protonfix added for Artificial Academy 2
• protonfix added for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
• protonfix added for Anno 1800 from Ubisoft Store
• protonfix added for Anno 1800

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Randomly when playing Path of Exile anytime I move the mouse the CPU graph / performance starts stuttering all over the place every second. If i stop moving mouse, its smooth. Whats going on?

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