To start with, my hardware is full AMD - a Ryzen 5 7600 paired with RX 7700 XT, not exactly the newest tech on the scene.

Been using Mint for a couple weeks now and I'm happy with it, but I just have this constant feeling that playing games on Mint is suboptimal and that I should change distros, despite me liking every other aspect of Mint.

I hang around some Linux gaming communities and seems that my fears are often "confirmed" by some people saying that Mint isn't ideal for playing games and that one should use a distro like Arch or Fedora for the best experience. The biggest complaints I've heard about Mint when it comes to gaming are old packages and the Cinnamon desktop sometimes not playing nice despite having compositing in full screen turned off.

My PC isn't "gaming-only" so to speak, it's multi-purpose - sometimes I spend days doing work on it and sometimes all I want to do is just play some games in peace, so gaming-oriented distros like Bazzite and Nobara seem a little too much for me.

So far I'm playing games like War Thunder and Cyberpunk, both of which run well, except for Cyberpunk having the one problem of weird annoying shadow/shader artifacts in certain situations which I've yet to fix. Other than that I'm not really running into problems.

I don't really know what my question is, I guess I'm just paranoid that I've picked the wrong distro. I don't want to end up sinking too much time making myself at home when I'll probably just hop distros soon enough. If it does come to that though, I'd be perfectly happy on something like Fedora KDE, but I'd rather change distros as a final resort.

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One script logs game session start time/date and the duration you played. The other calculates the total playtime for each game and the sum total and puts it into a summary log for easy viewing. Rest explained here :

https://github.com/SkoomaFiend/Steam-Playtime-Tracker/tree/main

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I try to buy a new laptop in the upcoming months, because the old one start to die. But I'm totally unsure, what I should get. Yes, I play games. And I know ideal would be a AMD GPU. But it seems there is nothing newer/better than a 7900M. And I have not find available laptops with this card in Germany. At least nothing with 18 or better 19“ display. If I'm right the 7900M is from 2023… is there nothing newer?

Or is nvidia now fine to use and if so, which model? I will be prepared a little bit for the next years and don't buy again in 3 years. I need at least a 18" display, because it's a desktop replacement without extra monitor. Minimum RAM should be 32GB. Besides gaming, i do a lot coding, editing photos with Darktable and some video editing.

Can someone please recommend me a future proof laptop? I will not use a desktop...

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Now I need a dumper/flasher, case and power supply. Any suggestions?

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Hi - I'm migrating to Linux and like to play games from Japanese studios. In my research, Japanese studios seems to prefer to optimize their titles with Nvidia hardware. Square Enix, Koei, Bandai, Capcom and Sega seems to release their games with Nvidia optimization.

Should this be a factor when building my gaming setup?

I want to steer away from the AMD vs Nvidia reductionist discussion. From what I gather both hardwares are heavily supported nowadays with some caveats that AMD still provides all the drivers open source where Nvidia doesn't.

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https://reddit.com/link/1ktuohw/video/3t4gm65bkl2f1/player

Hey Everyone

So, here's the wild thing: I’ve been solo-devving this weird roguelike deckbuilder that reimagines Ludo (yes, the Indian family-destroying board game 😅) as a cosmic dice war between gods.

After months of work and feedback from our earlier demo, I finally added a comic-style story intro, rebalanced the whole system (especially Spirit Cards), fixed bugs, added QoL polish... and launched a fresh demo AND trailer.

🔥 Here's the new trailer: 👉 Trailer on Youtube

🎮 Here's the updated demo on Steam:
👉 Try the Demo on Steam

I'm really curious:

• Does the trailer make you feel something?
• Would you play this game after watching it?
• And if you tried the demo, did it feel tighter and more strategic now?

I'm deep in the trenches and honestly, outside eyes would really help. Would love to hear what works, what doesn’t, and what could be cooler.

Thanks in advance, and if you enjoy dicey roguelikes with deckbuilding and a twist of Ludo madness — give it a shot and roast me gently 🔥🎲

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Hi guys. I tried to run GoT Kingsroad. But the game shown itself moved to the right bottom. Does anybody knows what's wrong here? I'm using steam

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I just got Linux Mint Mate (yay!) on my new computer. This is the first time I've used it as my main OS, and I've used Windows (ugh) until now. I just put Lutris 0.5.19 and Wine 9.0 on it. I tried to download the enhanced edition of Baldur's Gate using the GOG portal on Lutris. I did it under the GOG tab, but when I click play, the button changes to stop, and nothing ever opens. After a few seconds it goes back to "play." I've got an icon of a sort on my desktop, but that appears to be a text file, and the only thing it allowed me to use to try to open it was LibreOffice Reader.

What am I doing wrong that I need to fix so I can install and play my games?

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This has been happening to every game that I play for awhile now. I just attempted to screen cap it, but to my surprise, it doesn't even show up in a screen recording. I'm going to post the video here anyway to demonstrate when the flicker occurs.

The flicker never goes completely black. It's more like the screen brightness toggles between high and low, over and over. Several times per second. If I alt + tab, or press the 'windows' key on my keyboard, the flickering stops. It literally only ever happens if the game I'm playing is my active window.

I honestly have no idea what's causing this or how to fix it. For awhile I assumed the back light on my monitor was dying, but that wouldn't explain why it only happens if the game is the active window.

I'm running Arch, KDE Plasma, Wayland, and using Proton Experimental.

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hi all, sorry for the repeated posts here--trying to run games on my new laptop and keep running into issues. I just put Debian 12 stable (GNOME) on an Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402RJ with a ryzen CPU and a dedicated RX 6700S card.

Finally got steam itself to run on the dedicated card without crashing, but now when I launch a game it crashes right away. Running games in the iGPU is fine, but obviously leaves me with lackluster performance. There's also incessant screen tearing when launching any application with the dedicated card, to the extent that most apps are unusable.

I originally had a 6.1 kernel, so I tried updating to kernel 6.12.22 (backport) to no avail. I was sure to follow this guide (https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo) to the letter, so all my drivers and gpu firmware should be up to date. My bios is up to date as well. I'd be very grateful for any suggestions.

edit: here's the output of vulkaninfo --summary https://pastebin.com/BZAr5Q0y

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I have dual boot windows and linux , if I find a way to make league of legends work on linux I can go all in as main OS , is there anyone that managed to do that ? or is pretty much impossible

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got home from work, booted my little bazzite PC, launched WoW and the game was lagging like crazy and the graphics were stuttering and missing textures. Once I click play the game crashes and I get an error message saying that steam was us8ng too much memory. Is this due to an update or something? Played last night without issue. Apologies I'm very new to Linux.

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I have a weird problem with my Xbox Core controller. I prefer to run it wired, and generally that's a pretty seamless experience. Plug and play. The problem is it consistently does this thing where, after a few hours of play the controller will start to bug out and shut down randomly. After that point even unplugging it, turning it off and on again, and plugging it back in won't get it to work. It's almost like I have to let the thing cool off for a day something.

So I figure the first thing to try is a firmware update. Sidenote about that, is anyone else annoyed at the idea of having to update our controllers? It's a controller dude, not a computer.. Well, I guess they are a little bit computers too now days, right?

Anyway, every instruction I look up says that I have to use Windows. But I'm a Linux-only enjoyer, so how do I do this Linux-only? Has anyone had luck simply loading the program through Steam/Proton maybe?

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Hi,

I am using Fedora 42 and Steam. I am choosing Proton 9.0.4 for my Windows only games.

After checkin 2-3 games I've found out that cutscenes not showing correctly. A monoscope picture and a small ant-football which appears.

Could someone please help me find out what causing such issue?

Thank you!

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Hey guys, I was playing the new Doom and just encountered this super weird issue where the game stutters very consistently and ONLY when i throw the shield. I have played the games a number of times earlier this week and this wasn't happened not even once until today. I'm really puzzled by this and I hoped someone may have an idea of what's happening.

This is my system info:

Nvidia Driver Version: 570.144

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.14.6-arch1-1
Display (27GL850): 2560x1440 @ 144 Hz in 27" [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.5
WM: KWin (Wayland)
CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.00 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Lite Hash Rate [Discrete]
Memory: 10.81 GiB / 31.15 GiB (35%)

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So i bought the Genesis magan 400 and everything works fine on Bazzite i love the experience with Gaming mode but big problem is that Guide button dont do anything and i cant open steam overview in games or in the main screen. The controller uses xbox 360 layout even Linux recognise it as xbox and also can use PS3 layout. I tried using Guide button + A because that works on Xbox but not for me. Even steam dont recognise the guide button in test option.

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I've decided i'm moving to linux as a first timer but i have like more than a two terabytes of installed games, some from steam, battlenet, ubisoft and some that i got from the high seas.

Do i need to reinstall everything once i start over or can i back them up in an external drive or my 2nd hdd ? will there be any compatibility issues ?

I have 1tb ssd that i'm gonna use for the os and 2tb hdd for the games

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I have been highly considering switching over the linux from windows 11 and I was curious on how well nvidia graphics cards are supported on linux? I made a boot drive for dual booting between linux and windows around 3 years ago and I had problems with the nvidia drivers working on linux. Has this been remedied over time or is it about the same?

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I have no idea if it's always done this, but Mangohud is showing me Throttling for Temp.

I have an AMD RX 7800 XT. It's over a year old, but still under warranty if needed.

System is cleaned regularly. Fans are all working. I can still game, but I feel I'm not getting what I should be out of the card. (60fps wouldn't stress the GPU to 80% kinda thing)

any tips or advice? I've been using Fedora w/ KDE Plasma for desktop, but couldn't tell you nothing about wayland stuff.

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