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Back in 2018-~2021 I was on Linux full time. Ran Arch at first then moved to Fedora. It was ROUGH, but really fun to watch the constant improvement in real time.

But eventually I went back Windows due to several headaches with gaming and other hobbies.

I'd been popping my head in every month or so, slapping Fedora on a spare drive and testing, but the results just weren't good. I kept hearing that Nvidia had gotten better but in KDE and GNOME, my desktop animations were laggy. Games ran OKAY but definitely not super great on both x11 and Wayland

Then a freind of mine amd me decided we'd both give Arch another go. He did vanilla arch and I installed Endeavor and holy crap. Everything worked. Games runner as good or better. OBS behaving and giving basically no performance hit. Video editing working great. GNOME animations smooth as butter.

I don't know if there's an issue with the Nvidia rpm fusion package or what, but it's so good to be back. I haven't ran into a single deal breaker yet.

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First, Let me say right off the bat that I am NOT looking for advice or technical support. I already got a heap of that, and a lot of it came from this very subreddit, so thank you everyone for sharing your knowledge and experience with people looking for solutions.
But read on, dead reader! For you may just find a problem similar to yours here, and with that, some guidance toward the solution that you seek.

This is just a tale of a senior software dev with many years of experience tinkering with many machines and OSes, wanting to get away from the rapidly deteriorating Windows 11 experience, and ending utterly disappointed and saddened, crawling back whence he came, after wasting tens of hours of his precious time.

Installing Linux (I chose Mint this time around) is always the easiest part. After first boot comes the obligatory updates and installation of apps and utilities that you know you'll be needing. The first hour is smooth as a baby's powdered buttcheeks.

And then it's all downhill from there.

Fist, getting Steam to access the drives where I have my over 2TB of games was quite the ordeal. And that's with me being lucky enough to not have installed it as a flatpak to begin with.
Fiddling with fstab always ends up with an unbootable system the first few times. That's two hours of looking at very tiny text on my 55'' 4K OLED TV with the keyboard in one hand, my phone in the other, and typing with my nose.

I manage to get a desktop again, and my drives are auto-mounted in the designated paths. But Steam does not show me the option to add a new library! This one is Valve's fault. Turns out this option does not exist while in Big Picture mode. It only appears if you access the settings screen in desktop mode.
So, Steam shows me the other drives. I select them. And it imports the games! Finally some progress!
But, when I try to run any of them, I get an error. I'm sure a lot of you have encountered the same problem. It's either that the partitions are not mounted with execution permissions, or that they are mounted as read-only.
Turns out that, if you have a hiberfile in Windows, Linux will only mount those NTFS partitions as read-only, because reasons. So, two more hours troubleshooting and looking for answers. Boot into Windows, disable hibernation (whatever I need to do in Windows is always the easiest and quickest part), and check again.

Finally, it seems like Steam is launching a game! But no. It shows a short logo animation, and then just stops. No error, no explanation. Nothing.
Frustrated, I decided to install another game, instead of using one of my existing ones. And I also installed it to the ext4 partition that I created for Linux. And everything worked perfectly!
So, I moved that game (Animal Well, because it's super tiny, and therefore easy and quick to move around) to one of the other libraries in an NTFS partitions. And now it doesn't work.

This time, it took me 3 hours to find out that certain explicit permissions must be set for those NTFS folders in order to allow Steam to do its thing. So I do that. And the game started! OMG! I'm so close to the finish line after two days of faffing about and losing more hair that usual.

Next, the controller. OMFG the controller. I know everyone here knows that getting a BT controller to connect to Linux is a hassle. To get it to be recognized by Steam is a triple hassle. And to get it to reconnect after it is disconnected for whatever reason, like, I don't know, turning the PC off, is literally impossible. You have to jump through the same spiky hoops set on fire EVERY SINGLE TIME you want to connect a BT controller!

Before I get into the game I really want to try (Monster Hunter Rise), I must call attention to yet another feature that simply does not exist in any way, shape or form in most Linux distributions, and that's HDR.
And even when there is a way, it also requires jumping through hundreds of spiky hoops on fire, just to try and enable a feature that is now commonplace, and that has been supported by Windows for many years without any issues, right out of the box.

So, I lauched the game, knowing that it will not look as good as I'm used to. But i just want to at least see if it can be played. Now I see multiple messages about downloading and installing Proton files and .net versions... And the game starts! I can't believe it! It actually works! I'm stating to feel some elation from seeing my just reward after so much effort and suffering. I'm ready to hunt some monsters, baby!

I load my character, I take a dozen steps towards the quest counter... and the entire computer crashes hard, with all fans furiously roaring at full speed. I had to turn the power supply off to make it stop, because the Reset and Power buttons didn't respond at all.
At that point, I disconnected the drive where I installed Linux, and booted back into Windows, where everything just works, without jumping through any hoops.

I have been doing a lot of gaming on Linux for almost a year, since I bought the Steam Deck OLED the day it launched. I specifically waited for a Steam Deck that supported HDR. That's how important it is to me.
And the experience has been pretty great. In no small part, I'm sure, because I've never even paired a BT controller to it, because I don't have to. I only use it as a handheld. I have 3 other PCs that I can use for big screen play, and the main one is like 10 times more powerful than the deck.

All I wanted was to see if I could replicate that same experience on a full gaming rig. Unfortunately, at this point in time, it most definitely is not possible. There are far too many compromises, far too many chores, far too many nuisances, far too many frustrations. And, at the end of the day, I don't even have to deal with the worst aspects of Windows when I playing games, because I'm in the game, not even thinking about what's underneath. And when, for whatever reason, I get annoyed by Windows, I can just pick up my Steam Deck, and continue exactly where I left of.

Valve has made huge strides toward a viable alternative to Windows for serious gamers. But only in their proprietary platform, and only with their proprietary software. Which is not that much better than the other alternatives: consoles. In a pinch, you can use a Steam Deck as a PC, and do PC stuff. It's not a very good PC, but it works.
But the truth is, at the end of the day, nothing works quite as well, quite as smoothly, and quite as painlessly as Windows when it comes to playing modern videogames at peak performance.

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I just switched to linux ubuntu, I've been fiddling around with it for a bit and am trying to run Factorio on it, however, even on the lowest graphics I get around 20fps with frequent drops, the audio is also janked and randomly makes insanely loud hisses.
My specs are:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H
GPU: NVidia RTX 3070 Mobile
SSD: Samsung 1TB

I also have Windows on my other hard drive.
Right now I've tried to run it in game mode and haven't been succesful, and I also tried to run Elden Ring but it just crashes half a second after launching.
I would also like to add that I had zero problems like this on Windows 11.

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I've been looking for info about comparasions between windows vs linux distros for nvidia 4000 cards, but I can't find any modern info on benchmarks, I've found that for AMD cards its a clear win for Linux in cards and processor, but for Nvidia I've not found anything modern, is there any place to keep myself updated on this?

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European Consumer Organization (BEUC) has called on the European Commission to deal with various game publishers, that the BEUC claim are breaching EU consumer protection laws.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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Solo developer ARASLANIX are working on WINCH IT OUT, a physics-based driving-platformer, a game that reminds me of a simpler time with lots of different Flash games.

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Wow, haven't heard of this one for a while. Released back in 2016, Turmoil is a game about drilling for oil like it's 1899 and it has a new expansion available.

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I was in the game, played, then decided to go to one application, a long time did not close the game and then returned to the game, the game lagged, the Steam interface does not appear when you press Shift + Tab, I restarted the game, and it says that already EA account on my Steam account is connected!

https://preview.redd.it/yvy4bj0cglod1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=362c83d69f37a1388ea88cf7dd4be131a8064c1b

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Canonical are continuing to advance their own Snap packaging system, with the Ubuntu 24.10 development builds getting a new permission prompt feature.

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Time for a little testing over the weekend, as the KDE team have released Plasma 6.2 Beta along with updated Plasma Wayland Protocols.

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I wanted to play Geometry Dash on Fedora 40 so i installed it and it can't boot. I have one error message saying that an compatibility tool failed and then the game can't boot. I've search everywhere and i still can't find a solution. Can someone help me?

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I'm currently on Pop! I like it but I want to try Garuda. It's on its own separate SSD. How do I remove pop and replace it with Garuda. I have the OS ready to go I just need to know how to wipe Pop

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I am currently dailying an "ASUS TUF Gaming F15 FX506LI_FX". 16gb DDR4, i5-10300H, GTX 1650 ti/intel iGPU.

NOTE: I'm not trying to find a significant GPU upgrade, I'd be ok with "a little better" as long as it's *an* upgrade.

I really want a team red laptop and the Ryzen AI units look really enticing. The one comparison I could find between the 890m and 1650 ti said the nvidia GPU was barely 4% faster on average even though various stats on the 890m blew it out of the water. I'm sure the tests were done on windows, and I know AMD is bad about getting their drivers to squeeze full perf out of something til pretty far in the life cycle so that 4% follow could turn into a 15%+ lead down the road and I'm ok with that.

However, the fact those tests were almost assuredly done on windows means I have no idea what the comparison means for linux. Whats the state of AMD on linux as of September 2024? Whats the state of the Ryzen AI with the 890m in linux gaming? Would it be an upgrade at all? I ask specifically about the Ryzen AI because the lack of a dGPU coupled with the 5c cores *should* mean it's usable for lightweight tasks on battery as well, but that's not a requirement by any stretch - just a cool bonus if everything else works.

So the options I'm looking at are:

MSI Bravo 15 - 16gb DDR5, Ryzen 7 7840HS, and RX6550M for $650 USD

ASUS TUF A16 - 16gb DDR5, Ryzen 7 7735HS, and RX7700s just over $1,000 USD/"open box" ~$775 USD

Are there other options, or should I wait for the newly announced rx7800m to hit laptops in god knows how much time?

Lastly, I apologize if this is incoherent in any way, I've typed this up amidst a hellacious fever. I'm gonna hit post and when I get back from the DR if the post looks like chicken shit I'll delete it and wait til I'm not borderline delirious lol.

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Linus Torvald's famous remark echoes through ongoing Linux gaming discussions but others are saying that Nvidia is much more friendly to Linux these days, so what's the current standing with the GPU market?

I'm coming up to building a new gaming PC and it will be my first to only have Linux on it. Choosing between the two manufacturers is already difficult as I'm deciding between affordability or DLSS, so need an up-to-date and futureproof understanding of the driver situation in digestible terms.

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I installed Battle.Net, and created a folder outside of it for Battle.Net games. I linked that folder into the prefix for Battle.Net I installed.

I can launch battle net from steam provided I point to the setup file. If I try to change the exe to be the battle net launch in the prefix, it exits before the launcher even loads.

If I exit steam and run it from terminal so I can watch the logs, I get this error when trying to launch Battle Net launcher from the prefix.

gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Just keeping it pointed to the setup file works, and that's how I ended up using in the past as I didn't want to be bothered, but I'd like to get it setup right as I revisit the game.

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