Hey folks,
With Windows 10 reaching end-of-life this year, I'm seriously thinking about switching to Linux. I’m a complete Linux newbie, so I’m wondering how well it handles gaming in 2025.

I mainly play newer titles and upcoming releases like:

• Counter-Strike 2
• Rust
• Wuthering Waves
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Elden Ring (and possible DLCs)
• Future gacha games coming this year

Are these games playable on Linux with good performance (especially through Proton/Steam Deck compatibility)? How’s anti-cheat support these days for online games? Is dual-booting still recommended for some titles, or has Linux gaming matured enough to go full-time?

Also, any distro suggestions for beginners who mainly game?

Depending on how well I adapt, I’m seriously considering switching to Linux full-time.

Thanks for the help!

edit: really curious about how Linux handles new releases, especially because I’m super hyped for Stellar Blade. would love to know if day-one compatibility is something i can expect or if I’ll need to wait/work around things.

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Hi everybody, I've been on Linux Mint 22.1 for just about a month and I've noticed that my games are quite a bit darker than when I used to play them on Windows 11, It gets to the point where I can't really see anything on darker areas and tweaking the settings to when I'm able to see only makes the game look weird or way too bright. Idk if it changes anything but I'm running a NVIDIA GPU. Any idea on how to fix it?

EDIT: I'm not sure if it makes any difference but I've been running my games through Steam

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Hi everyone Is there is anyway I can play gta online on Linux? Bypass battleye or tweak linux to make the anti cheat don't ban me or there is any solution for this anti cheat and to be safe Thanks.

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I am currently using EndeavorOS, I searched for information about it but I have not found anything, the common problems are when opening the game, not when installing... This is the official installer of the game

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https://forum.manjaro.org/t/development-q-a-zotac-gaming-zone/177928

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Hello, I'm new to Linux desktop and Linux gaming, but after a bit of a setup process, I'm generally up and running.

One question that I have is how, currently, gamescope works with Wayland, and just generally speaking what Wayland is vs XWayland vs X11.

I'm running EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma 6.3 for a DE. As far as I understand, that's a Wayland session. And for some games, to get things like HDR working (for example, Forza Horizon 5 or Helldivers 2) I need to use gamescope, which as far as I understand, runs the games in an XWayland session(?) and using gamescope on these seems to get HDR to work (as far as I can tell). But I don't know the advantages vs disadvantages of it. Nor why it seems like a game like Counter Strike 2 runs just fine without gamescope. Furthermore on the Arch Wiki for gamescope, it says I need to use a command to "expose the Wayland session to gamescope". I don't really understand what that does or why I would want to use it, or when I should use it?

I've read several posts and what not about it, but the most comprehensive seems to be from 11 months ago, but none of them really just flat out answer my question of what exposing the session does, as well why I might want to do it. So looking for a bit more up to date info on all of this, and some of the other questions.

One further question, as an aside, does turning DLSS on in the game settings just function normally or do I have to do some weird command to get that working too?

To further add, my machine uses the latest Nvidia beta drivers (575.51.02). Thank you for any help or insight into all of this.

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So Clair Obscur is the game that started my long journey of distro hopping, and I finally landed on EndeavorOS...X11 (Gnome) though. After playing around with drivers straight from the Linux git, whatever is the latest Mesa, and Zen kernel, I got a nice 45 fps on Epic settings at 2k Resolution. On Wayland, this dropped to low 30s/high 20s. Don't ask me why this is.

But randomly, my screen had Parkinson's during cut scenes and completely glitched out/went down to 10 fps. Particularly rainy scenes were hell on my rig.

So I decided I had nothing to lose and installed this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/mods/4?tab=files

Changed the launch settings to start the mod and we're gucci. Now I get ~70fps on Epic settings and no more Parkinson's? Occasionally I can see the screen start to glitch out but it immediately goes back to normal. Oh and using Wayland on this game is now actually better than X11. I don't really understand this.

Don't get me wrong, beautiful game. I haven't played a game this good in years. But holy optimization failure, Batman!

Relevant info:

• AMD 5800X3D
• AMD 9070 XT
• Samsung 990 Pro 4TB
• 5120 x 1440 Samsung Odyssey G9 (Don't buy this monitor)
• Some Asus motherboard that I hate (X570 I think)
• 64gb DDR4 3000
• RGB everywhere (for extra frames)
• EndeavorOS Mercury that I type "yay -Syu" into the terminal every two hours it seems
• Proton 10.0.0.1 (I should check out GE proton...)

So yeah, someone explain this to me.

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I noticed a new NVIDIA driver (570.153.02) has been released on 19 May
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/245669/

• Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL applications and compositors to stall when using NVIDIA as a PRIME Display Offload sink ("Reverse PRIME"), potentially resulting in a black screen.
• Fixed a bug that led to increasing memory usage in X11 OpenGL and Vulkan applications after suspend/resume cycles.

I'm currently on Fedora 42 and have installed the akmod-nvidia driver.
How can I update to the new version, or when is it usually available through the RPM Fusion repository?

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Hello! How are you?

I'm having trouble with FH 4. The game runs fine, but only in windowed mode.

If I put it in full screen, I just get a black screen. The strange thing is that the game still works, the music plays, the menu works, but nothing is visible.

When I open the application launcher, or do ALT + TAB the game is visible, but the moment I go back to the game sale, it goes to black screen again.

Any ideas? Thanks a lot!

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Hello, how are you? I recently migrated to Linux Endeavor, I'm still learning how to use it and I tried to download Genshin through Lutris/Heroic and in every attempt the PC would crash and force me to restart. I'm using version 10.3 of protonGE now, these are the Lutris settings so far. I kept the default when I installed and, at most, I tried to change the DXVK version. I tried using AAGL to download and at one point it worked to run the game, but there were a lot of graphical errors. I still haven't been able to find a solution. I don't know if this is where I could post this, but could someone help me?

https://preview.redd.it/34wmhynhn02f1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=07fc3d190d1706e73798fc338ef766e77f541650

https://preview.redd.it/m9ia8902o02f1.png?width=835&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c7d30c98e9abe4adb6abc0dbe42eadb79aea3a2

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There’s a rumor that Steam will be integrated into the Xbox app, as Microsoft is reportedly planning to release a new OS for handheld PCs and their next-gen console.

What’s your opinion on how this might affect Linux gaming? Wouldn’t this be bad for Valve, especially as they’re expanding SteamOS to other devices? And how could this impact Proton, Steam Deck and Linux gaming in general?

In my opinion, it would be great if Game Pass were integrated into Steam instead.

Link: https://wccftech.com/microsoft-rumored-to-be-testing-steam-integration-within-microsoft-store-potentially-for-next-gen-xbox-too/

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Is it possible to use KWIN as the compositor while using Hyprland for the DE? I want the latest benefits of KWIN for gaming, but I also want to use a tiling window manager

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Hi,

I am in need of making it so that I can use the windows build of CS:GO through steam proton, i am currently stuck in a limbo of getting the error message that steam isnt connected (when launching through steam linux client) and launching it succesfully through wine steam but then crashing due to using vanilla vine (Steam wine doesnt work with proton) I tried adding the -steam to launch options but nothing is working..

(I have to use the windows build for specific reasons, I will not use the linux build.)

Kind regards.

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Hello, I wonder how you can move your Minecraft installation to a different location? I have an SSD only for games but currently it's located on my home drive. I can't edit the installation via launcher GUI.

/home/username/.minecraft to

/mnt/30b698bf-1dc6-4bf7-b114-db8cd09a399a/.minecraft

Moving the data is one thing but how to I tell the launcher to use this new location as working directory?

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This is with GE-Proton-9-27. Trying with GE-Proton-latest instead gives an "Assertion Failed" error. Disco Elysium works fine for what it's worth.

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I've looked just about everywhere and nowhere i have found one that includes them. I did setup app armor just fine on my own, with other predefined profiles from a developer, on vanilla Arch. It was kinda plug and play. But other than that I haven't seen a arch distro with them enabled by default. I wanna game on one of those distros.

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