OS: Arch Linux
DE/WM: BSPWM
Kernel: Linux 6.17.1-arch1-1
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 256V (8) @ 4.80 GHz
GPU: Intel Arc Graphics 130V / 140V (0) @ 1.95 GHz [Integrated]

Issue: When playing GTA V, particularly when driving or moving fast in general, the game begins to lag/stutter. I only play single-player (story mode).

Some things I've already tried: Using Proton-GE, adding DXVK_ASYNC=1 to launch options, disabling pre-caching in steam settings, enabling vsync in GTA V settings. Doing all of these resulted in the stuttering/lag being much less prevalent and severe, but the issue still persists and is quite annoying.

What other steps should I take? I'm not well-versed in Linux gaming, so I'd appreciate patience with me.

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J'avais pensé a steam OS mais pas assez bon pour le multitache

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Just wanted to double check as I am not sure but even with Secure boot and TPM on my machine BF6 is still not going to work correct?

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This is a very fun surprise, Effulgence RPG is an upcoming party-based sci-fi role-playing game rendered entirely from text symbols arranged in 3D space.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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I was playing the game just fine two days agora on my Steam Deck, but tried to play now and the game doesn't even launch, It just shows the first screen and then crashes. A person created a topic on Steam community having the same error using Linux. My guess is that some update broke the game.

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Into The Grid from Flatline Studios is an incredibly promising blend of a cyberpunk roguelike deckbuilder and dungeon crawler and it's arriving November 10th.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Pre-requisites

1. You don't need Secure Boot. POP_OS doesn't support natively Secure Boot. You can do it manually if you are an advanced user. If you dual boot with Windows 11, this will be probably a deal-breaker. You can look at other distro, such as Linux Mint, Fedora, Ubuntu or Bazzite.
2. If you are a beginner, I recommend a distro like Bazzite, or something more gaming oriented. Follow any of the guides from your preferred Youtube channel.

Quick start guide

1. Before switching from Windows, make sure you don't have any deal-breaking incompatibilities with your hardware/software.
2. Backup your data !
3. Disable Secure Boot in your BIOS
4. Flash the ISO with Rufus onto a USB stick. Choose the correct ISO, depending on your GPU.
5. Follow the installer, it should be easy and intuitive. You can choose which drive will be wiped for the POP OS install. It doesn't wipe the other drives. You can also do a custom layout.
6. When logged in, update your system
   1. Easy: use the COSMIC Store app and update everything
   2. Command line: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
7. If you get a weird error pop-up, just execute this in the command line (COSMIC Terminal): sudo dpkg --configure -a Then, restart step 6.
8. Add extra drives (optional): If you use a dedicated drive for your games:
9. Steam install (optional)
   1. In the terminal: sudo apt install steam-devices -y
   2. Browse the app store for Steam and install it, or use the corresponding flatpak command: flatpak install com.valvesoftware.Steam
   3. Launch it and login

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Hi,

Can someone please explain to me how I can block justcause3.exe from the internet.
It's about the Steam version and I´m on Linux Mint.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Just_Cause_3#Reduce_load_times

I can´t figure out how to make a rule in Mint's Gufw and firejail doesn´t allow me to skip the intro's.
But the loadingtimes and popups really make this game annoying to play otherwise.

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In Diablo 2 Resurrected, cutscenes (.webm videos) look like absolute crap when I start Diablo with wine wayland (DISPLAY= wine D2R.exe). Dark areas are full of square block artifacts, whereas under Xwayland (wine D2R.exe) they look fine. Also, what should be black looks almost purple-ish.

I noticed that under wayland I have to reduce the gamma with respect to Xwayland in the game settings to get the same overall brightness, but still the quality is waaaay worse. The gamma slider goes from black crushing to slightly too bright in a couple steps (see video above: 1 step, logo very visible; 2 steps, leftmost square visible; 3 steps, logo too bright), whereas under Xwayland the brightness raises much more gradually: https://streamable.com/2ouq1q (many steps to make the logo and leftmost square visible).

It looks like a bad gamma curve, right? Is there any way to get the same gamma in wine wayland and xwayland? By watching the cutscenes, it is obvious than the Xwayland curve is the correct one. They are a mess in wine wayland.

This is with amdgpu (9060 XT) and sway.

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Hello everyone! As a bit of context: some months ago I watched Pewdiepie's Linux video and as my old PC was not suitable for Windows 11, I said F*** it and started learning about linux. Me being me I chose the hardest linux distro I knew then: Arch Linux and started playing with it by watchinng Youtube Videos, reddit posts, Arch Wiki, Chat GPT and of course playing with it on my computer. I can't even recount the number of times I deleted it and reinstalled it because I wanted to try something new like: KDE Plasma, Gnome, Hyprland, different filesystems, etc. In the meantime, I have grown quite comfortable with the command line and recently I tried Ubuntu and it was weird to use their package manager and use the GUI so I think I will stick to Arch.

What I wanted to ask you is some advice from noobs, intermidiates and pros to help me choose some things because I want to finally move 100% to Arch Linux and stop using Windows. I haven't completely switched to Linux because I kept messing with DE-s or distros. Now that I made up my mind I want to ask you some questions.

I managed to get a new PC so, first, I will give you some specs and what I want to do with it:

• motherboard: rog crosshair x870e hero
• CPU: amd ryzen 9 9950x3d 16 core
• GPU: amd radeon rx 7900 xtx
• Memory: 2 2TB Samsung NVME Cards (on one I have windows and want to continue distrohopping and on the other one I wan to build my ideal setup)
• RAM: 64 GB RAM
• Use case: Home Desktop PC
• Goals: performance (gaming, video editing, programming) and security

Questions:

• What file system layout, format and mounts should i use?
  • Besides the efi and swap partitions, how should I organize the rest: root, home, ...: create different partitions for each or format the root partition and then create subvolumes inside it and mount the the mount points that i need in their respective subvolumes?
  • From what I have read I keep oscillating between BTRFS, ZFS and LVM with XFS.

1. BTRFS:
   • Pros: Tons of guides on the internet, snapshots, subvolumes, good integration with the linux kernel
   • Cons: From what I have read, people keep saying that it is slow compared to ZFS and XFS.
2. ZFS
   • Pros: One of the most used filesystems in the servers industry, a more mature version of BTRFS (snapshots, pools, native encryption)
   • Cons: It's not integrated into the linux kernel, not a lot of guides, needs its own bootloader to work with the snapshots
3. LVM with XFS or EXT4
   • Pros: Extremely good speed compared to other filesystems
   • Cons: No native subvolume, snapshots
   • I tend towards BTRFS and ZFS because of the snapshots, data integrity and subvolumes/ pools feature. I have read that ZFS is a more mature version of btrfs and has tons of features and better performance, but would all of that matter for a home desktop? I want to add: in the future when I get bored with distro hopping i plan to delete everything on my second nvme and add it to my setup through RAID(sorry if i get sloppy, I am not that well documented in this topic). Again from what I have read, BTRFS is not that great for Raid scenarios. However, I might be misinformed, so I will accept advices, critiques or sources.
   • If I want ZFS so much why don't I use it? Well, cause: I m still a noob when it comes to this, there are not a lot of guides out there, in the future my system could break due to incompatibility issues between the linux kernule and the zfs modules (although this problem could be soilved by using the cachy os kernel; I have read on their wiki it has some implementations for the modules and they update them at the same time with the kernel so they will not break/ the chances of the the system breaking is much lower from my understanding).
   • I guess my main question would be: people who have used both zfs and btrfs on your desktop setup, did you notice any significant performance differences between the 2 filesystems? I know zfs' performance is better at the servers ' scale, but is it noticeable in home desktops?
   • If there is not a signioficant performance difference I would go with btrfs in a heartbeat because I am scared I will not understand the zfs documentation and have to try and learn it and it will cost me some time.
   • Also is it possible in the future, let's say if I choose btrfs right now, to change my file system formats to zfs once I get more comfortable?

• Should I encrypt my root partition with LUKS if I have a home, personal, desktop and not a laptop? I know it only protects data at rest.
  • I also want to encrypt my bootloader and together with the password for the account that I will use and the password for my root partition, I will have to introduce like 3 passwords everytime I want to use the PC.
  • People who did it, why? What advantages does it serve you? I read that it can protect your data if someone gets access to your pc.
• What bootloader should I choose: Grub, Limine or ZFSBootMenu?
  • If I choose BTRFS, then between Limine and Grub, which one is faster?
  • If i choose ZFS, then can I make Grub/ Limine work with ZFS snapshots or should I just go with the ZFSBootMenu?
• Swap partition vs swappartition + zswap vs zram + swap aprtition vs just zram
  • Again, the primary goal of this PC is performance in gaming, programming, video-editing.
  • From what I have seen, a lot of oeple use zram. However, I asked chat gpt and IDK how accurate this is, but it said that zram would only help me if I have not that much Ram in the first place?
  • Also I have not made my mind yet, but i think I want my pc to be able to hibernate so wouldn'yt that mean that i would need a swap partition which has >= RAM? In this case, wouldn't a swap partition of about 64-72 Gb + zswap be enough?
• Linux vs Linux Zen vs Cachy OS kernel
  • For people who have used them, did you notice any significant benefit in performance between them?
  • I gravitate towards the Cachy OS kernel because it's much more tweaked than the Linuxand Linux Zen kernels and right now I don't have the knowledge to tweak my own kernel.
  • Also the Cachy Os kernel has some impelmentations for zfs and it has it's own sfs package that updates at the same time with the kernel so I will not brick my system.

This is mostly it. Thank you first for managing to read all of this and I would be glad if you leave some advice or sources. Also I want to mention: this is the first time I post something on reddit so sorry if my post seems wacky. Please be kind.

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Battlefield 6 and Black Ops 7 aren't worth it. A large part of moving to Linux is to get away from lockdown nonsense like Secure Boot and TPM. If you want to play things like BF6 or BO7 so badly, please get a console. You're in r/linux_gaming, so you almost certainly have the money for a Series S at least. All reports suggest that BF6 in particular will be pretty good on a Series S.

Or you could just play literally anything else. There are countless better games to play that work plenty on Linux. You could absolutely play Battlefield 4 instead, for example. Last I checked, Black Ops III is doing pretty well, with the T7 patch anyway (don't even try playing it without it!). I've heard good things about Ready or Not as an actual game (I think you can completely bypass the Epic bits too) once all the awful fake controversy is filtered out. Not really the same thing, but games like Marvel Rivals and the upcoming Deadlock (but see here) are plenty fine on Linux.

Please don't suckered into believing that you have to accept this ridiculous deal you're being forced into. You didn't have to accept Windows 11, you don't have to accept this either.

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Valve has pushed the Proton 10.0-3 Release Candidate out for public testing, a significant step toward the next stable version of its Windows compatibility layer. This release focuses on stabilizing a vast collection of fixes previously trialed in Proton Experimental and Hotfix. The result is enhanced stability and substantially wider game support for the Linux gaming community.

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So I have a gaming pc with intel b580 installed and I tried nobara and bazzite which would both result in not utilizing my GPU it would recognise it but not use it, would sit at 0% all the time and default to software rendering for gaming. Linux mint right out the box recognises and uses my GPU fully.

Quite funny that a distro that doesn't advertise it's self for gamers has turned out to be the best solution for a gamer

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I'm a new Bazzite user, and don't know a lot about linux.

A friend helped me and we installed bazzite on a brand new 500 Go SSD and encrypted it in LUKS
But my system seems to think the entirety of the encrypted partition if full, even though I literally installed nothing else than bazzite on it.
It's preventing me from updating my system, but also from installing anything on that partition, and I can't understand why.

Has anyone an idea on what the problem is and how to fix it? Couldn't find anything with my search engine

https://preview.redd.it/4xmyhqjqt9uf1.png?width=751&format=png&auto=webp&s=ffb34d5b26d405445f90d8b81f8080db09f78c1b

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