Not sure if this post goes against the rules, but idk where else to put it.

I understand there's been an influx of people switching to linux recently and I'm relatively new myself only having switched about a year ago, but with the amount of repeat questions I've been seeing about simple things like games not launching or performance differences it makes me feel like a lot of these people looked up the most popular/beginner friendly distro and installed it without any further research and it just aggravates me. While I'll admit the amount of research I did before switching was likely more than necessary, I still feel like people should do a little bit before installing

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If it was compatible with Linux everyone would overlook just how unbelievably invasive it is of your privacy.

Now you're forced to dual boot and run BF6 on a separate drive away from your main OS.

Thank you EA for shooting yourself in the foot! Can't harvest Linux users's data now

I've been screaming at windows users to dual boot as well, but they won't listen. Their funeral I guess.

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I’m running Discord on Arch Linux with KDE. I noticed that whenever I minimize Discord, it seems to “freeze” or disconnect from voice/video calls. Checking the logs, I see things like:

[RTCConnection] Disconnected [GatewaySocket] Session is no longer valid

I’ve already tried:

Turning off Wi-Fi power management (sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off)

Checking powerprofilesctl list – using balanced, but no effect

No GPU throttling; Discord is running on CPU

It doesn’t seem to be a network issue, because reconnecting is instant and everything works fine when Discord is not minimized. My suspicion is that KDE might be throttling background apps or putting minimized windows into some sort of low-power state, causing Discord sessions to drop.

Has anyone else experienced this on KDE/Linux? Any workaround or config to prevent apps from being throttled/minimized?

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Hi guys. I bought a System76 Pangolin this last February, to work. Anyways, I recently noticed that this hardware actually performs really well in some games, so I'm thinking in get an eGPU for it, I would like to install a Radeon rx 9060 xt. Do you guys can give some tips or recommendations about what's going to be a good fit for me?

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Hello, I'm having trouble running the game on Garuda Linux, it runs fine framerate-wise, looks fine, but randomly crashes frequently often during a race. has anyone else had trouble with this and has anyone found a way to fix it? thanks in advance for any help.

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So as I'm getting more and more fed up with Windows and trying to find ways to make windows apps work on Linux (hail WinBoat(unrelated to gaming)), I'm still wondering how exactly gaming works on Linux.

I've heard people say that they use X distro for gaming, but then Y distro for everything else. If I were to use Arch for daily use, and Cachy or Pop for gaming, would I then have to relog or reboot my PC, to then startup the other distro for gaming? Is there like a quickswitch? How's it work

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currently on cachyos and battle 6 on steam wont fully install,it keeps saying not released even though it is,anyone got a solution

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I have no idea what is happening. I just recently moved to linux mint because this laptop could NOT update to windows 11. And i don't get an error message or anything. It just runs, then stops immediately. Has anyone encountered this? And would i fix it?

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Hello, yesterday i tried starting ghost of tsushima on steam and it gave me this popup followed with a popup saying shader 6.6 not present current gpu rtx 470 l, it used to work before but i dont know why it started doing that

I tried using prime but it still did not help, tried reinstalling nvidia drivers too

OS: CachyOS (KDE)

CPU & GPU: i5-1245HX, RTX 4050

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Hi all-

On Fedora42, I have installed SteamTinkerLaunch via ProtonUp-QT. My game launches via SteamTinkerLaunch successfully, however the standard repos listed in ~/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/downloads/shaders don't actually download.

- The repos show up under steamtinkerlaunch "Shader Repos" and are checked. However under "Game Shaders" I only see AstrayFX as it hasn't downloaded any of the provided repos in the list.

- ReShade itself is selected to Install under Game Menu, and it does download successfully to ~/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/downloads/reshade/5.4.2 as expected.

- Steamtinkerlaunch is selected as the Compatibility Tool for the game. I launch the game and can access it via Steamtinkerlaunch.

- I have all Hard Dependencies installed. Hard Dependencies seem to check out ok when I run which [dependency](see snippet below from Konsole)

- Steam was installed via dnf. ProtonUp-QT was installed via Discover/Flatpak. (But again, steamtinkerlaunch was able to download ReShade without issue.)

- Lastly - if I launch the game and press HOME, I don't see the ReShade menu either. But, the symlinks from the game folder -> the source steamtinkerlaunch/reshade folder appear as expected.

user@hostname:~$ which awk
/usr/bin/awk
user@hostname:~$ which bash
/usr/bin/bash
user@hostname:~$ which git
/usr/bin/git
user@hostname:~$ which make
/usr/bin/which: no make in (/home/user/.local/bin:/home/user/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin) (make is only relevant for system-wide installs, if I'm correct)?
user@hostname:~$ which pgrep
/usr/bin/pgrep
user@hostname:~$ which unzip
/usr/bin/unzip
user@hostname:~$ which wget
/usr/bin/wget
user@hostname:~$ which xdotool
/usr/bin/xdotool
user@hostname:~$ which xprop
/usr/bin/xprop
user@hostname:~$ which xrandr
/usr/bin/xrandr
user@hostname:~$ which xxd
/usr/bin/xxd
user@hostname:~$ which xwininfo
/usr/bin/xwininfo
user@hostname:~$ which yad
/usr/bin/yad

I've scoured the wiki for common troubleshooting issues and feel like I've covered all steps so I'm not sure what I'm missing. Many thanks for any insight. If I can provide any more useful info please let me know.

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Greetings.
I've ran into an issue trying to run Dead by daylight on my Linux Mint 22.2 .
I tried to first run it OOB and then with different versions of Steam's proton, (Hotfix, Expertmental, 9.0-4 and 8.0-5) as well as looked a bit through the internet. I got nothing, so I'm going here.

EAC shows up and gives me the "Initializing..." on the bottom right. Then it disappears and the game just doesn't run, on 8.0-5 a black screen poped up but that was it, on 9.0-4 I got a unity crash report form with nothing that could lead me to what had caused it. ("You do not have any debugging symbols" message)

Does anyone have ANY idea what might be the cause and how to make it work?

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Bazzite, having other join my remote play together works fine, but I cannot join others, tried a number of games from the libraries of others (brotato, lego games). Asking for someone I am helping.

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what's the deal on this? where can i find more info/find out if this is true or not? im on cachyos on a 5080m and im not sure how it performs compared to windows. what do you guys think?

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So i just downloaded Borderlands GOTY (Again the original not the enhanced) On linux Mint Cinnamon 22.2 on steam and the game is locked at 60-62 fps while i dont mind in a way as i play all my games at 60 fps i would like to know why it is locked there is no option to lock it or even v-sync option and the Nvidia panel on linux doesn't allow to lock at games at 60 fps so normally the game should either be running at 180fps by default as that is my monitors refresh rate or at unlimited fps, using steam proton 9.0-4 ?

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i installed a repacked game, i need to see if it works on linux before purchase, but it needs an ms visual c++ redistributable, tried installing in on the game through winetricks but it does nothing. What now?

edit: I found a c++ visual in winetricks of the game. Then it told me my system didnt support dx12 and to try and run it without the -dx12 command. Then it told me that it needed dx12. So after 30 minutes, i found to go into wine configuration and found the game was running in win xp version of win. so i selected win 10 and now it works magically. Hope this will help anyone.

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Hi, so I've been playing Mech Arena via linux (Garuda dragonized) for about 3 years now. Linux is not supported but it runs almost perfectly. After a minor update yesterday the game launches, I can move the mouse (and see the cursor) but I can't select anything. So keyboard and L/R mouse buttons are suddenly useless. I thought maybe this was a Wayland issue, but the same thing happens using X11. Any ideas on how to approach this?

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thats it, the finals is not launching
nothing
System:
Kernel: 6.16.10-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.5 Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B360M MORTAR (MS-7B23) v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.40
date: 10/16/2018
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-8700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4300 min/max: 800/4600 cores: 1: 4300 2: 4300 3: 4300
4: 4300 5: 4300 6: 4300 7: 4300 8: 4300 9: 4300 10: 4300 11: 4300 12: 4300
bogomips: 76799
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A] vendor: Gigabyte
driver: nvidia v: 580.82.09 arch: Turing bus-ID: 01:00.0
Device-2: HTC (High Tech ) Vive driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
bus-ID: 1-8.1.2:11
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution:
1: 3840x2160~60Hz 2: 1920x1200~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast platforms:
active: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.82.09
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 drivers: nvidia surfaces: N/A devices: 1
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Device-3: HTC (High Tech ) Vive driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
bus-ID: 1-8.1.2:11
Device-4: HTC (High Tech ) Vive driver: hid-generic,usbhid type: USB
bus-ID: 1-8.1.5:12
Device-5: C-Media Audio Adapter (Unitek Y-247A)
driver: cmedia_hs100b,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB bus-ID: 1-9:7
API: ALSA v: k6.16.10-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.8 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: e1000e
v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) driver: btusb
v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 1-5:4
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.0
lmp-v: 6
Report-ID: ID: hci1 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.1
lmp-v: 7
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 4.12 TiB used: 1.15 TiB (28.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA100 size: 931.51 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0
size: 931.51 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB
ID-4: /dev/sdd vendor: TeamGroup model: T2532TB size: 1.86 TiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 78.19 GiB used: 42.75 GiB (54.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc4
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 396 MiB used: 45.7 MiB (11.5%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sdc2
ID-3: /home size: 117.56 GiB used: 77.84 GiB (66.2%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sdc5
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 79.0 C pch: 56.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 24 GiB available: 23.4 GiB used: 10.69 GiB (45.7%)
Processes: 392 Uptime: 2h 19m Init: systemd
Packages: 1500 Compilers: clang: 20.1.8 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.3
inxi: 3.3.39

the game is on an exfat partition, i used proton experimental

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