Hey all, I'm finally past my breaking point with windows and am ready to switch. I was holding out hoping that valve would drop Steam OS for desktop before W10 EOL but alas that hasn't happened. I've gotten fairly familiar with using it on my steam deck over the past few years so I was hoping to find something similar. As with most people the amount of flavors around is kind of overwhelming and im not sure what I should go with, but am more than willing to learn and tinker as needed. This will be used almost exclusively for gaming. I may need to dualboot windows for programs that only work there for non gaming things. Any advice and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, I appreciate it!

Edit: System hardware in case needed Ryzen 9 3900x Nvidia 2080 super 32 gb ddr4 3200mhz ram

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My Computer Specs

CPU Intel Xeon E5 1650 GPU GTX 1050TI Ram 8GB

Mostly i refuse to upgrade to Windows 11 I don't also really play alot of intestive games and I'm willing to take this risk.

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Here we go again, you've got a week to check out a bunch of games having their first or updated demos now in Steam Next Fest - October 2025.

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https://preview.redd.it/8m9bexogzwuf1.png?width=3440&format=png&auto=webp&s=c6c5a5e257951656dcf8dc1b7075ccc26027a891

With an Nvidia on Fedora / Wayland / G-Sync fully working. And everything works perfectly, never going back to Windows!

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i have a steam deck, but i’m wanting to swap, i have an intel i9900k and nvidia 3070. what should i go with? i’ve heard of mint and bazzite but i know nothing

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To start, I want it noted that I am still somewhat new to Linux. Somehow I have managed to dual boot windows and Linux while secure boot is still enabled. I am currently on CachyOS, and I have NOT followed the guide to enable Secure Boot as described on their wiki. However, I previously ran Nobara and Bazzite and both worked fine with Secure Boot also.

Now, I am not certain I am secure booting into my Linux side, however I know for a fact I am on my windows side as any games that require secure boot enabled for anti-cheat still work perfectly fine. When I switch back and forth between Linux and Windows, I change nothing in my bios. All I have ever done, each time I switched distros, is wipe my Linux drive and reinstalled the new distro of choice. I could probably do this again with another distro and all works fine.

I am beginning the think it might be something specific to my motherboard but I do not know.

So to the title, what have I done and how do I repeat this (asking for a friend)?

Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix X670E-E

CPU: 7950x

GPU: 4080 Super

Dual Boot: 2 separate NVMEs, one for windows and one for Linux

I don't know what else I can provide for clarity or to help others understand what I have done but just ask and I can try to provide more details.

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Hi everyone, new to Linux gaming, having just switched to Garuda this weekend. My question: how can I get addons to work when WoW/Battle.net is installed through Heroic Launcher? Thanks!

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Moonsigil Atlas is by far one of the most interesting and promising upcoming games I've played in a while, taking deck-building roguelikes in a fun direction.

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Clearly still a work in progress but a taste of things to come, Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown now has a public demo available.

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Hello everyone, and thanks to whoever is gonna give me an answer. Considering W10 support is shutting down, and my pc can't run W11, i thought about switching to linux. i've got some questions about compatibility and performance:
I mainly play GTA 5 (offline, with mods, no online), Rocket League (online), IW4X and Plutonium (old cods launchers), steam games, minecraft (bedrock and java, bought on microsoft store).
I know not everything is plug and play. chatgpt told me i should be able to run them without issues, but i want to ask to some real people and not an AI. the main question is if i can run these games and how good they run. also if u guys can recommend me some beginner gaming distros it'd be better for me :)

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Hello,

I'm in the process of switching to Linux Mint, and I'm trying to set up my peripherals (with a priority for my G502 Lightspeed). I can't find anything on automatic profile switching, though.

I heavily rely on this feature, which basically automatically switches between G HUB profiles, depending on which app is focused. I can have a set of buttons working in a way when I'm browsing the web, and in another way if I ALT-TAB into a game.

Do you know a way I could make this work, in Mint?

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I recently switched from windows to CachyOS.

I installed the GOG version of The Witcher 3 using Lutris. And I want to enable HDR. I tried gamescope but the mouse movement is too fast and the sound is too low.

Then I tried the wayland using the following environment variables:

DXVK_HDR = 1

ENABLE_HDR_WSI = 1

AMD_VULKAN_ICD = RADV or AMDVLK (I tried both)

But using this method results in washed out image.

I have tried this method with some other games and it works fine but gives issue with this game.

How can I fix the issue and use HDR and which proton version should I use

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New Box64 v0.3.8 Released for ARM64, RiSC-V and Loongarch Linux Machine. Introducing DynaCache and more fixes and optimisations.

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kernel Linux 6.17.1-arch1-1 de Xfce4 4.20 vulkan 1.4.318 - radv [Mesa 25.2.4-arch1.1] Proton-GE 10.7 Windowed full screen 3440x1440 Vsync Off Uncapped FPS FOV and camera distance at default values

(edit) running the game native hits 300 constantly. Still baffled as to why it makes such a big difference with this particular game.

I recently made the switch to AMD from NVIDIA so there could be something I missed in the prerequisites.

On Windows, Megabonk hits 300 FPS constantly, while on Arch I'm getting very big drops, sometime as low as 40 even with every graphic setting turned all the way down. Deadlock, Warframe and Rocket League run perfectly fine.

While typing this I can see Megabonk (active window) sitting at the main menu with an FPS going all over the place. 130, 170, 260, 70, 295...

Should I be playing the game native? I'm honestly very surprised by the huge performance difference for such modest looking game.

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I have installed fusion fix on GTA iv but rockstar launcher keeps telling me the files are corrupted and it worked fine before even with the mod. Do you know any way to fix it?

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Enter the frightful world of The House of Hamelin and take control of Perdita, a young woman tasked with finding her missing cat, Paige.

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I still have a few things to do before it's ready for a demo. I hope you guys are interested in something like this. (Please don't judge my choice of distro)

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Greetings all!

I’ve just installed Kubuntu on a separate SSD on my PC, which has been running Windows 10 for years. I’m now dual-booting between the two.

I saw several videos suggesting that it’s possible to install Linux and simply point the Linux version of Steam to an existing game library on another drive. I tried this by linking my Linux Steam installation to the HDD where my Windows Steam library is stored. However, I’m not satisfied with the results — some games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain do load, but the frame rate and graphics performance are terrible, practically a slideshow.

I suspect this might have something to do with my graphics drivers, but since this is my first time using Linux, I’m not entirely sure how to proceed. Any advice would be deeply appreciated!

System Specs:

Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (dual-boot with Kubuntu)

Processor: 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11700K @ 3.60GHz (16 CPUs, ~3.6GHz)

Memory: 32 GB RAM

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

DirectX Version: 12

Storage Setup:

128 GB SSD – Windows 10

1 TB SSD – Kubuntu

6 TB HDD – Steam Library & RetroArch

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Hey guys. Recently bought a new pc. Took the nvme with my games from my old windows pc and put it into my new pc. Steam didnt really start the games on my old drive, with some help from chatgpt I added some pointers on a local drive and got the games to start, but i never was able to make the mods load. Pc gaming without mods is for me a no go so i just went back to windows. That was half a year ago. Now win10 is pretty much eol, so i gotta think about what to do. I stilm have dual boot activated and can load up my linux. Does anyone know why my mods didnt load? Do i have to format my drive and reinstall all games and then it works? Or do mods and mod loaders just not work with linux? Tried tales of berseria, monster hunter world and code vein for example

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