Hello,

I'm a bit lost at what distro should I choose for my desktop, since I study electrical engineering, I've dabled a bit into Linux mostly in VM's in my telecom/network/electronics/control courses (energy production is completely chained to legacy software and Excel). This would be for my somewhat outdated desktop build, mostly used for gaming and some light work now and then. Any recommendations?

Thanks

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I'm on Zorin 17.3 and have updated the Linux kernel to 6.15.4, Mesa upgraded to 25.0.5, and made sure my BIOS is on its latest and I'm still showing generic drivers in the About panel instead of my card. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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I am playing the original call of duty on steam and my colors are all messed up. Any Idea to fix this. Using Ubuntu with proton 9.0 on steam.

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I have a miniPC with a ryzen 7 8745hs and 780m graphics. I want to make it into a console I can mount behind my tv and mostly not think about. I’d like to play some games like rocket League and Tetris effect as “pc games”. But mostly emulation. (Nintendo stuff up to a slightly less than cutting edge console)

I see 2 options:

Batocera + Steam big picture.

Bazzite + Emudeck

In your experiences, which will let me have the easiest, hands off time with setup and maintenance?

Is there another option I haven’t considered?

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hey all, so I have a 9070xt and i was on mesa-git for fsr4 support, but it seems like that's been added to mesa proper now and i would like to go back for better stability in games (namely games like spiderman 2 that just crash with rt on with mesa-git) but every time i try to swap back, even if i have the mesa driver selected for download, it stops me for dependencies. Any way i can swap back? i think most of them are related to steam if that helps. I'm also using vanilla arch with the cachyos repos

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So I just installed linux Pop!_os as a dualboot on my gaming laptop with intel cpu and 40 series nvidia GPU. What to do now to start gaming and what games do I play. (Also do Pira*ed games work)

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Hi all! A few months ago my cousin gave me his gaming PC so he could buy a higher end rig. I’m normally a Mac guy and absolutely hate Windows, but I’ve had Linux on a couple of old computers to play around with. That being said I’m very interested in switching from Windows to Bazzite, and I’m hoping to find out if my hardware is compatible? It has:

11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11600KF @ 3.90GHz 3.91 GHz -NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12gb -16GB RAM

I’ve seen some posts saying NVIDIA isn’t great with Bazzite but I figured I’d ask. Also, I do play games with anti-cheat but I’m willing to separate with them if it means no Windows, as the bulk of my gaming is story games anyways. What’s the process for getting games to work with Proton? I know of it but not how it works.

I’m very much a noob when it comes to computers and Linux, even with my minimal experience. Thanks so much in advance for your help!

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Has anybody installed portproton on their pc? If so, what do you think about it? What are the pros and cons, what distro are you using? I’m using LMDE Faye, thinking about installing it. Thanks in advance

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I've been a longtime Linux/Mac user for schoolwork and my day job as a software engineer, and last week I decided to finally take the plunge and try converting my desktop gaming PC from Windows 11 to Linux.

I chose Bazzite because Google told me there's built-in HDR support in the display settings. My monitor is an LG 27GR95 OLED 1440p 240Hz, and HDR really makes a difference thanks to the OLED panel. I frequently used it with supported games on Windows, such as Helldivers 2 and Hitman World of Assassination.

My GPU is a Radeon RX7800XT 16GB. I didn't install anything driver-related - I just installed the desktop build of Bazzite with KDE Plasma and started gaming, since the Bazzite kernel is supposed to handle all of that.

So far everything works like a charm except for HDR - I've been banging my head on the desk trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. From Bazzite's built-in settings, I did find an HDR setting, and it does alter the appearance of my desktop (somewhat greyish, similar to when I enable HDR in Windows outside of games). But when I launch a game with built-in HDR settings (e.g. Helldivers 2), the game does not recognize that I have an HDR-enabled display and disables the HDR toggle entirely.

I did some more googling about Gamescope and launch options. None of the Gamescope commands I put into the launch options helped (in fact many of my attempts simply prevented the game from launching at all). I did find one command that sort of "worked": DXVK_HDR=1 %command% However, while Helldivers 2 finally enables its HDR toggle, when I toggle HDR to "on", it creates a totally washed out grey-toned image. I get similar results in Hitman and Cyberpunk - this command allows HDR to be toggled on, but the effect is completely wrong.

Any help would be much appreciated. For the time being I've been gaming in SDR and it doesn't look bad at all, but it would be nice to utilize my OLED monitor to its fullest!

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Im using Cachyos Linux and have started to be unable to run some programs like Steam, Warehouse, Flatseal, and Pavucontrol. What do these programs have in common, and why won’t they run? Also, the system monitor shows the CPU at 62 degree hot , and Psensor shows it at 51 degree hot. What are these issues caused by, and how can I fix them?

OS: CachyOS x86_64 Host: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (WI-F Kernel: 6.15.4-zen2-1-zen Packages: 1453 (pacman), 38 (flatpak) Shell: zsh 5.9 Resolution: 1920x1080 DE: Plasma 6.4.1 (Wayland) WM: kwin_wayland_wr CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (12) @ 5.281GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Memory: 31997MiB submitted by /u/Time-Initiative1670
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I'm a solo developer working on Mythscroll, a D&D-inspired text RPG featuring deep character building, choice and stat-based encounters with branching outcomes, and turn-based combat with a variety of fantasy/mythological creatures to discover.

I just launched a major demo update that added some new features and content, and along with that I created a linux build of the demo, which is now live on Steam as well. As I said in the title, I don't have a linux machine to test the build on, so I'd be interested to hear any linux gamers experience with the demo.

The full description, gameplay trailer, and demo can be found on the Mythscroll Steam page

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I'm getting this exact same error in almost every game I play. I don't know if there's an issue with my drivers or pc, or if it's an issue with the engine or what??

Specs:
Distro: Arch
WM: Hyprland
GPU: 4090
CPU: 14900-KF (under-clocked)
RAM: 32GB, 6400mhz

please help.

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When I start Battlefront 2 in Steam, the EA window opens, then minimizes and nothing, the game is not running, the EA window says that I am already in the game, and after about a minute the EA window closes and the play button reappears.

Here `PROTON_LOG=1 %command%` log file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hOVWQyHDBmMsIZNRe6X6yN9xMY5Rb-f9/view?usp=sharing

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Hey everyone, I'm making the reddit post I wish existed yesterday before I semi blindly rebuilt my steam machine and tested going back to Nvidia from AMD now that there's been a ton of work with Nvidia and gamescope in 2025. The way it's worded on the Bazzite website leaves some doubt about how well this actually works these days. (Before I get flamed for switching to Nvidia, I have a 6600xt I bought for gamescope features last year, and my 4070oc has just been collecting dust)

If you've been waiting for Nvidia support to get good enough to run Bazzite with an Nvidia graphics card for a htpc, the wait is over. It's good now, it boots right into controller friendly steam deck ui, the quick settings menu and performance overlay menu works now, and the best part, it's stable. Install the Nvidia os version (I've seen weird issues with rebasing breaking gamescope, but try it lf you want), then set max resolution to 1440p and max game resolution to 1440p. Then go through desktop mode -> steam -> settings -> enable hardware acceleration for web menu views. That's it, now you've solved all the known issues on Nvidia. Go play games, it just works.

I had tried Nvidia about a year ago on my htpc, but it only went to desktop mode, you needed a keyboard and mouse for those first few clicks to get going, and gamescope didn't work, so that handy right hand menu for performance overlays etc, just didn't exist. So I went out and got a 6600xt to tide me over. Now Nvidia has same features. I've yet to try 4k or HDR, which I believe there are known issues with, but I'll try and confirm later today.

Side note, if you don't have a living room gaming PC, throw $500 at one. I did an older ryzen 5, 16gigs of ram, b450 mobo, and a 6600xt for about that price (Canadian dollars, boxing Day sale), and it averaged 60fps at 1080p, and 40fps at 1440p. I did PS5 controller because it has a touch pad that works with the mouse on Bazzite beautifully. Now with the 4070 I'm running 1440p at like 80 fps on everything. PC games in the livingroom is awesome, go do it!

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I recently decided to push Linux Mint a bit further to see how well it handles gaming in 2025 — particularly with a mid/high-end GPU under pressure. The goal was to test how well the system manages memory, drivers, and real-world gaming performance without any terminal tweaks or custom scripts.

Test setup:

• AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (6 cores / 12 threads)
• NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super 8GB GDDR6
• 16GB DDR4 3200MHz (2x8GB)
• SSD NVMe + 2TB HDD
• Linux Mint 21.3, using Steam via Flatpak and Proton

I ran Resident Evil 5 on ultra settings at 1080p, and the benchmark showed 351 FPS — no stuttering, no config hacks, just install and play.

What really surprised me was how smooth the experience was. The proprietary NVIDIA driver worked flawlessly, and using Flatpak with Steam made installation completely painless. Everything just worked.

Is anyone else noticing how much easier it has become to game on Linux lately? Especially with Proton, Flatpak, and NVIDIA drivers?

If anyone’s interested in seeing the full video with gameplay and benchmarks, just let me know in the comments and I’ll share the link. Didn’t want to drop it directly here to respect the rules.

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We just released spotlight images for several playable heroes in Dark Quest 4, their latest tactical RPG inspired by Hero Quest.

Works great on Steam Deck and under Proton so far sharing this in case fellow Linux gamers want to take a look !

Hero Spotlights steam link : https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2453840/view/546739082808525498

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I updated the installer and the various packages that needed installing, understand Proton and steam play from my time on my steamdeck. I tried Resident Evil 7 as my first game and it chugs like absolute crazy. Like chugs the actual desktop as well, not just the game. The driver i installed was the nvidia 570 open one, and I've gone all throughout the various Proton versions and it still chugs. Would I be better off just downloading a VM and running any steam games in there?

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