SEGA have revealed that Sonic Rumble, their attempt at a sorta-of racing Battle Royale, is scheduled to release on May 8. It's also Steam Deck Verified, which I already wrote about earlier this month.

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I just bought a new PC for gaming and I would like to replace Windows with a Linux distribution.

I already installed Kubuntu on old PC I wouldn't mind losing, not this time.

I've read a bit and so far all I have to do for the PC to work at full potential is :

1. Install my OS
2. Install GPU drivers

Do I get things right or I missed a lot of major steps ? It seems too simple to me.

I thought about Ubuntu or Pop!_OS.

Here are the technical details in case you're curious :

• Reference : MSI Pulse 16 AI C1VGKG-010FR
• CPU : Intel 7 155H
• RAM : 16G DDR5
• Storage : 512G SSD
• GPU : RTX 4070

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Hey all,

I am not stranger to Linux, but recently I've had issues trying to setup Linux on my desktop. I was set on Ubuntu but then the on mobo Bluetooth not working inside of Ubuntu was a huge turnoff for me.

Specs: Radeon RX 7800XT Gigabyte AORUS Eagle X870 Elite WiFi 7 Ryzen 7 9700X 32GB DDR5

I have tried to install Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and now Im trying to decide between endeavourOS, Garuda or Bazzite.

My machine is used for a lot of gaming but its also a workhorse, but I don't want a strictly gaming Linux distro where everything else is unoptimized or something because I do more than just gaming.

What's your recommendations?

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Hi so im a linux newbie, on mint rn, and i tried to run Honkai Star rail through lutris, and everything to download went smoothly, and when i want to turn on the game, it crashes instanly, without any error message, any workaround?

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I’ve been having so many issues with gaming and crashes and windows errors I’m getting to the point where I’m debating on switching to Linux. Is it better for gaming ?

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Just got my XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Mercury Gaming Edition today. Just yesterday Computerbase did some tests on the 9070XT in combination of UV and reduced power limit. Exactly for this reason I got my new GPU, I wanted to reduce power consumption in gaming. Just FYI I'm using Tumbleweed.

So the first thing I did take a look at after installing the GPU was CoreCtrl. Doing that came with quite a big surprise: The Power limit can be reduced not only by just 30%, negative off-sets are completely unlocked (you could set the GPU to 1W^^), while - and this is good to see - increasing the power limit still is restricted to +10%.

Did some tests with the power limit while running Space Marine 2: Even at 120W and -75mV the game was still running fluidly.

https://preview.redd.it/35hew0wvgtte1.png?width=1711&format=png&auto=webp&s=07183b0bead9975c1bbd91e027b8bf98a9c0fe7f

This was an extreme test - you can get to comparable results by limiting FPS or reducing the resolution, etc. Just did it to test what could be possible.

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Not sure if this is the correct sub, but:

I dual boot. Tried this on two different computers.

Dota 2 looks less sharp/crisp on Linux.

Slightly dimmer. Slightly oversaturated.

It's not game breaking, but noticeable.

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Thought i wanted to move away from Windows, but Linux has been giving problems after problems, often introducing new problems before i've managed to fix the previous one.

I'm using Linux Mint, Kde Plasma, gtx 1060 3gb.

My issues began with x11 not supporting mixed refresh monitors. My main monitor would run at 165hz, but moving windows would stutter at 60hz. When i try to play games, i seem to get some sort of sync issues where i get occasional stutters. Opening games also sometimes makes the screen go black and i can't do anything. Even alt+tab etc. are not responsive. I tried forcing full graphics pipeline in x nvidia settings but that didn't help.

I tried switching to a Wayland plasma session. I am greeted by a black screen and nothing working. Turns out that the Mint driver manager only goes up to version 550 of nvidia's proprietary driver. Fine, i manually install the newest 570 driver. Now the desktop works, and moving windows seems smooth. I have Discord installed and it justs randomly goes black until i hover my mouse over it. Fantastic.

Let's try to play some games. I have Ultrakill and Mordhau installed through steam and use Proton. Runelite installed natively. Runelite works smoothly and i have no issues. Ultrakill seems fine at first, but the frame rate seems to drop and i get frequent hiccups as i play for a few minutes. I launch Mordhau and get a black screen again, but i can hear the audio. If i click outside the game window, the game start displaying. if i click on the game window again, the screen goes black again. Also while a game is running, dropdown menus in plasma start glitching out, like some menu entries not showing, or my mouse looks like it's erasing a part of the menu background.

Overall Linux just feels a lot clunkier and slower compared to Windows 10. I've also got a vr headset and a direct drive wheel for simracing, but i'm dreading the installation of Monado for VR and open source drivers for my Moza wheel. I'd like to sort all of these problems out but i'm not sure where to start. Install another distro? install an older nvidia driver?

I'm looking to upgrade to an amd gpu at some point when i find a summer job or something to get wayland working right.

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Hey all, I've been lurking here a bit and noticed no one suggests EOS for gaming or even just normal use. Is there a reason for that? Is it just not well known? Are there hidden drawbacks?

I ask because after distro hopping including garuda, bazzite, popos, manjaro, I settled on EOS for my nvidia based gaming desktop and it has been fantastic performance wise. I'm able to install just the tools I need easily with no extra bloat while still having a dedicated nvidia install process that made setup easy.

Looking to discuss and learn, let me know your thoughts on this!

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I installed Bazzite on a Beelink Ser9 mini PC with 32GB of LPDDR5. The Steam menu shows 26.99GB of RAM and 11.66GB of VRAM, which doesn't add up (BIOS correctly shows 32GB). Should I be concerned?

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Red Rogue Sea is one high up on my wishlist! After being completely hooked by FTL: Faster Than Light when it originally released, I'm always keen to see more like it and now a demo is available.

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Might and Delight have revealed Twinkleby, a new cosy decoration game where you map out an archipelago of floating islands and build dioramas for a society of spacefaring neighbours.

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https://youtu.be/6T_-HMkgxt0?feature=shared

"Linux gaming has slowly been on the rise since our last video – Just how far has it come a year later, and can it run better than Windows?"

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Developer .Gravity announced recently that Little Sim World will be entering Early Access on May 1st, and it appears it will also get Linux / Steam Deck support.

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A recent update to Monster Hunter Wilds has been causing problems for players on Linux platforms including SteamOS / Steam Deck. Valve has now put out an update to Proton Hotfix to work around it.

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Hi, I have a laptop with enough specs to run ROTR, and I have successfully played it well on windows.

I recently switched to Fedora KDE and when I try to play it, it has frame drops to 12 or even 10.

I tried to play it using both lutris and steam, and I find the same issue in both settings.

Lutris as well as steam were installed via RPM and I did not use flatpacks.

I used the proton-experimental.

I also followed the RPMFusion guide to install Nvidia drivers and I believe that they are installed correctly.

I am a real noob when it comes to gaming on linux so a little help would be appreciated, cheers!

These are some of the logs if they help:

nvidia-smi output:

Wed Apr 9 15:34:28 2025 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 570.133.07 Driver Version: 570.133.07 CUDA Version: 12.8 | |-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | | | MIG M. | |=========================================+========================+======================| | 0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A | | N/A 57C P8 2W / 50W | 34MiB / 4096MiB | 10% Default | | | | N/A | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 1742 G /usr/bin/kwin_wayland 1MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

inxi output : https://pastes.io/inxi-output

glxinfo output: https://pastes.io/glxinfo-output

vulkaninfo output: https://pastes.io/vulkan-info

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Hello guys, i updated my WoW today and after that it keeps telling me that add on:s is not updated, well i have updated them all and also when i open the game my cursor don't change and the game do not let me click anything its like this freeze screen, sometimes music plays. Can someone help me what to do?

https://preview.redd.it/yz3r2dr1aste1.png?width=2434&format=png&auto=webp&s=bffa9ca8bee01fd35b373df0c0f288b9f5750e92

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