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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I am Debian testing and I installed Sunshine via the .deb installer and installed Steam from flathub.

I could access the host desktop via Moonlight, but couldn't get the Steam big picture to work. My guess is because it is flatpak. However, I do not know the detached command to use un Sunshine to open Steam in big picture mode.

I have steam steam://open/bigpicture but it opens the desktop and I have to open steam manually.

Thank you

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Is flatpak version of lutris better than normal verson in linux mint be cause I know it is Ubuntu and debian based so that might lead to old packages

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Suddenly this week, most games became unplayable with frame rates between 10 to 40fps with extremely low GPU usage. Some games like Noita run in slow-motion with sudden spikes of 60fps for maybe a second. Watch Dogs 2 is completely fine. Schedule I has *constant* 15fps in game and normal fps in menus.

I have tried:
- KDE Plasma on Wayland, Cinnamon on X11
- ReBar on and off
- flatpak and non-flatpak
- Kernel 6.13.7, 6.13.8, 6.14.1
- many different WINE and Proton versions
- rebuilding initramfs, akmods

System:
- OS: Fedora 41 (all latest updates)
- iGPU is disabled
- Games are installed on NVME drive

I checked:
- GPU is running at expected PCIe Gen and bus width
- VRAM is not full
- Windows 11 runs everything fine
- Manjaro Live ISO runs everything fine

inxi -G:

Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA AD104 [GeForce RTX 4070] driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: nouveau dri: iris gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution:
1: 2560x1440~144Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia
platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 570.133.07 renderer: NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 4070/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de: kscreen-console,
kscreen-doctor, xfce4-display-settings gpu: gputop, intel_gpu_top, lsgpu,
nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo,
xprop, xrandr

I would appreciate it so much if someone has any idea where the problem could be. I have been trying anything for so long. Thanks.

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Title says it all, how are YOU playing it?

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I am trying to edit game properties in Steam, but no matter what, I can't get to the property's menu. Each time I try, it acts like the button isn't there, and click what ever is behind it. How can I resolve this?

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Been trying to make it work for weeks but no success on my arch (hyprland) install.

Wired: Works in dinput, doesn't get recognized (on https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad) in xinput
Wireless (dongle): Gets recognized in dinput but inputs don't register. Doesn't get recognized in xinput

'recognized' here means https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad picked it up.

It works flawlessly in all modes on my Nobara install

Packages I have tried: xboxdrv, xone-dkms, xone-dkms-git, xone-dongle-firmware, xpadneo-dkms-git, xpadneo-dkms, dkms, linux-headers, game-deives-udev

When I run sudo xboxdrv --debug

I get (when in wireless (dongle) xinput mode)

xboxdrv 0.8.14 Copyright © 2008-2011 Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel@gmail.com> Licensed under GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details. Controller: Microsoft X-Box 360 pad Vendor/Product: 0x45e:0x28e USB Path: 001:010 Controller Type: Xbox360 [DEBUG] USBController::usb_find_ep(): Interface: 0 [DEBUG] USBController::usb_find_ep(): Endpoint: 1(IN) [DEBUG] USBController::usb_find_ep(): Endpoint: 5(OUT) [DEBUG] USBController::usb_find_ep(): Interface: 0 [DEBUG] USBController::usb_find_ep(): Endpoint: 1(IN) [DEBUG] USBController::usb_find_ep(): Endpoint: 5(OUT) [DEBUG] Xbox360Controller::Xbox360Controller(): EP(IN): 1 [DEBUG] Xbox360Controller::Xbox360Controller(): EP(OUT): 5 -- [ ERROR ] ------------------------------------------------------ Error couldn't claim the USB interface: LIBUSB_ERROR_BUSY Try to run 'rmmod xpad' and then xboxdrv again or start xboxdrv with the option --detach-kernel-driver.

rmmod xpad gives
rmmod: ERROR: Module xpad is not currently loaded

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Has anyone tried connecting remotely to a Windows machine from Linux for gaming? I had an idea to basically have my gaming PC exclusively run windows, and basically turn it on exclusively for gaming (or video rendering and other high GPU power activities) and remotely connect to it from a relatively low powered Linux machine.

This in my mind would solve two things. I could still be able to enjoy Linux, the privacy it offers, and the functionality it can give outside gaming, but also still enjoy every gaming I want to play without having to deal with a dual boot and constantly rebooting from one OS to another. An unintended bonus is that it could save electricity in certain use cases.

For anyone who's done this successfully, how is the input delay like, and what software did you use to accomplish the remote connection?

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