I think I am ready to switch from Windows 11 to Linux on my desktop, which is primarily used for gaming.

I am not new to Linux at all, its all I use on my laptops - primarily Arch due to how light and efficient it is, but If I switch my desktop over I'll go with Mint purely because of how stable it is, however I am open to suggestions for what to go with.

The reason for this post first and foremost is to clarify a few things for myself and see about some work arounds.

The first thing is my GPU. It is an Nvidia RTX 3060, and I know Nvidia cards arent exactly known for being the most simple option with the Penguin.

Secondly, any games I want to play that rely on anti cheat, Battlefield for example, how does this work? The last I heard this can be close to impossible on Linux due to how anti cheat works. Could I not just run games like these through Wine? Any other games I'll be checking how they run on Proton DB. Does anybody play Microsoft Flight Simulator, the 40th anniversary edition? How is it?

How do modded games work, such as Skyrim? Will I need to redownload all the mods or Vortex?

Every single time I have had to reinstall Windows or when I have previously tried Linux on the desktop, I have had to redownload my entire Steam library as I cannot get it to work after reinstalling Steam. ANy good guides to follow for this?

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everytime i try to run steam from the shortcut or the terminal the pc starts freezing and when steam opens its just a black window i cant do anything. Tried a lot to fix it but nothing worked can someone help i am on ubuntu and get some error messages from the terminal but i am new and dont know what they mean

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hey i newly installed linux mint on my wifes computer and the elite series 2 controller we share works flawlessly on my system but refuses to on hers. i plug it in and the xbox light logo button just keeps blinking and blinking until it just shuts off

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I've not been using Linux for vrey long, but I'm using Ubuntu.

So yeah, steam won't open, I've literally reinstalled the whole operating system and it still won't open, but this morning I woke up to steam just open waiting for me for some reason? It still doesn't open normally.

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I'm on Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon with an NVIDIA RTX 3050 Laptop GPU. I've been using Proton for running Windows-only games for a while and all of them run (mostly) fine except Lost Judgment.

so the issue I have is: the game launches, has audio, but does not render anything. I've tried multiple Proton versions over the course of weeks, ran numerous chats with GPT to troubleshoot but I just come up empty.

GPT pointed out the troublemaking line in the log as this:

vkd3d-proton:dxgi_vk_swap_chain_recreate_swapchain_in_present_task: Got 3 swapchain images.

the weirder thing is that it ran fine a couple of times, but for some reason just stopped rendering the visuals (including Steam overlay) regardless of fullscreen, borderless or windowed mode.

I ran it on Wine3D and it launched cleanly again, but was less responsive to inputs. I've tried everything I could and still can't seem to make it render anything on dxvk consistently.

I'm currently on the Denuvo lockout because of all the tinkering but if anyone has faced anything similar to this, please help me find a solution.

I was just about to try it on Proton 8 with the exact settings that made it run (once) on GE 10-17 (didn't work even once on Proton 9) when I reached the activation limit. so if that's the solution, ig there was no point to this post.

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so, ive heard that steam link vr now has a beta on linux. how well does it work? im switching to ubuntu cinnamon soon with the death of win 10, and im curious to see if anyone has tried the beta for steam link for a quest or has any tips about getting vr working on linux

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I want to install and run old games from myabandonware. However at the same time i am also worried about getting a virus to my PC or network in the process. Is bottles a good option to run old games in isolation from my other files and wifi?.

I use bazziteOS on the Legion go.

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With 1.5 years of development, HARD VOID will enter Early Access this October 2025. The expected development time until 1.0 is one year.

This project is a solo development journey, fully developed on Linux with C language and OpenGL, and includes native Linux support! You can try the demo on Steam and itch.io.

The Early Access will be a direct follow-up from the Demo version.

I wish to develop HARD VOID alongside player feedback to try new, wild, and experimental ideas. You can join the Official Discord server https://discord.gg/YbJjr3yuys or post in the Steam forums to suggest and discuss game content and features.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2978460/HARD_VOID/

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I spent September trying out Bazzite, Pop!_OS, and finally got to Kubuntu. So far it is smoother to get things like new Vegas and Skyrim modding going. I like the familiar environment and I've developed a workflow.

Are there any distros I should consider before fully committing to Kubuntu?

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So, i use endeavouros and i do some lightgaming, atm playing silksong, stardew valley, and a few small games, nothing high performance. The thing is, a few weeks ago i notices my performance was dropping on prety much every aspect adn playing was impossible. I tried everything, downgrading mesa, vulkan-radeon. I broke my OS, fixed it, and nothing worked. After that i just said fuck it and deleted all my games and steam. Yesterday i installed steam and silksong again and it was working amazing, just like it used to, and like 24 hours later i started noticing the lag again while playing. What should i do?

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Right now I’m dual booting Nobara and Windows and I’m planning to upgrade from an RTX 2060 6gb to an RX 9060 XT 16gb. I know that on windows, I have to remove the nvidia drivers then install the AMD drivers. I also know that the Linux kernel natively support AMD so I’m a little confused. Do I have to uninstall the nvidia drivers on Linux? And if I so, how?

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Years ago I had "Deer Hunter The 2005 Season" running on Linus using Wine. Honestly, it seemed to run better on Linux than on Windows. Fast forward to now. I have several laptops running Linux and with Windows 10 dying off I figured i might as well go full Linux. Deer Hunter kis thge only game I miss playing. I tried installing with Wine, Lutris, etc. and it won;t work. I get "could not init graphics". Why am I having some much trouble with this, does it need an old Wine version, or is there a simple way to do this? . Log file looks like this:

LOG file "Game.LOG" created in 10/11/25 19:50:10

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

ASPEN Engine v4.5 (RELEASE)

[DEBUG] Using application explicit settings data.

Pentium IV processor detected...

WinNT/2k/XP detected...

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I am running MH Wilds on a fresh Bazzite install. I am new to Linux and don't know what I don't know. I checked the proton (experimental) and mesa version (25.2.1) and I think those are the latest and greatest.

I haven't done anything special for my gpu drivers, I have a 9070XT.

Any suggestions on where to start would be greatly appreciated.

For comparison, in windows the game sits at 60-72 FPS without FSR on high settings. In bazzite, it is sitting at 30-45 FPS with drops into the 20s.

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Hi everyone, I’ve gotten back into Linux. And I installed Bazzite so I could play games it runs really well out of the box was pretty impressed. One thing I want to do is replace my console as I use it as a media streamer instead of the TV’s awful ui. Is there a good Distro or apps I should look for to run Netflix, YouTube and all the streaming apps? I saw chimera OS but I have nvidia graphics card so that’s a no go.

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and it's really not that bad. there's no junk to get in the way. just a clean OS to build upon. the windows store isn't even installed. massgrave.dev might be worth looking into for anyone wanting to dual-boot for the few games that just don't quite work on Linux.

Don't get me wrong, I'm primarily on Linux but having a clean windows environment that I feel comfortable letting it update itself from time to time is nice. No ads, no copilot, no ad-sponsored games, nothing. Steam works as expected, though some games might complain about the missing xbox game bar but it's not required for play. ADHD users might be bothered by the popup though.

not sure about any potential privacy issues yet but it's gotta be better than the mainstream home and pro editions.

oh and works without secure boot and tpm 2.0. both enterprise and iot versions, despite what massgrave says. secure boot is not enabled on my desktop or laptop. :)

bonus points, windows is installed to my 2nd positioned nvme and did not clobber my rEFInd bootloader. nor did it overwrite grub on my single disk laptop.

• note: don't shrink btrfs. I think that broke my laptop's nix install. XD

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I've been trying to play gmod singleplayer, but the game crashed from time to time - firstly, when I tried to load maps, secondly - when I tried to spawn something.

Also, how critical would it be if I'm missing some dependancies

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First off, I just want to make it clear that I'm not a beginner to Linux, so you don't necessarily need to walk me through every step.

I have an issue when recording Minecraft. Sometimes, a part of the screen on the top randomly becomes black (it's very hard to explain) and I'm not sure how to resolve this. I didn't notice this happening with vanilla Minecraft, but when I use mods I noticed this. It only happens in Fullscreen. I tried turning off Cinnamon's "Disabling compositing in full-screen windows" but it didn't help.

Here is a clip of what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNHrjfzxmUE

Here is my Xorg.conf.

Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" Option "Coolbits" "24" # Option "TearFree" "on" # Doesn't seem to do anything in recent driver versions Option "TripleBuffer" "on" # Doesn't seem to make any difference Option "ForceCompositionPipeline" "1" # I need this or I get really bad screen tearing in all games EndSection

My operating system is Linux Mint 22.2 Zara, and for drivers I am using nvidia-driver-570-open (version is 570.172.08-0ubuntu0.24.04.1). 580 drivers cause other unrelated issues, so I'm not using them.

My system specs are an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti. I have the GPU overclocked +400 core and +2000 VRAM but I don't think that should affect anything.

I'm using OBS (Flatpak; version 32.0.1) and Minecraft 1.21.4 (via Prism launcher) with the following mods:

• AmbientSounds [6.1.3]
• Animatica [0.6.1+1.21.4]
• Auth Me [9.0.1+1.21.4]
• BadOptimizations [2.3.0]
• Better Suggestions [1.2.9]
• BetterCommandBlockUI [0.5.3]
• BetterF3 [13.0.0]
• BetterGrassify [1.7.0+fabric.1.21.4]
• Bobby [5.2.6+mc1.21.4]
• CICADA [0.14.2+1.21.4]
• Cave Dust [3.0.1]
• ChatNotify [2.5.1+1.21.4]
• Cloth Config v17 [17.0.144]
• Concurrent Chunk Management Engine [0.3.2+alpha.0.44+1.21.4]
• Continuity [3.0.0+1.21.4]
• CraterLib [2.1.5]
• CreativeCore [2.12.35]
• Cull Leaves [4.0.3]
• Dynamic FPS [3.9.5]
• Dynamic Fullbright [1.3.0+1.21]
• Enhanced Block Entities [0.11.3+1.21.4]
• EntityCulling [1.8.2]
• Euphoria Patcher [1.6.5-r5.5.1-fabric]
• Fabric API [0.119.4+1.21.4]
• Fabric Language Kotlin [1.13.5+kotlin.2.2.10]
• Falling Leaves [1.17.0]
• FerriteCore [7.1.1]
• Fzzy Config [0.7.2+1.21.3]
• ImmediatelyFast [1.8.1+1.21.4]
• Iris [1.8.8+mc1.21.4]
• Krypton [0.2.8]
• LambDynamicLights [4.1.3+1.21.4]
• Language Reload [1.7.4+1.21.4]
• Litematica [0.21.4]
• Lithium [0.15.3+mc1.21.4]
• MaLiLib [0.23.4]
• MidnightControls [1.10.5]
• Mod Menu [13.0.3]
• More Chat History [1.3.1]
• More Culling [1.2.10]
• NBT Autocomplete [1.3.11]
• NBT Tooltip [1.2.1]
• No Telemetry [1.9.0]
• Noisium [2.5.0+mc1.21.4]
• Particle Core [0.2.6+1.21.4]
• Polytone [1.21.4-3.3.23]
• Presence Footsteps [1.11.0+1.21.4]
• Reese's Sodium Options [1.8.3+mc1.21.4]
• Replay Mod [1.21.4-2.6.23]
• ScalableLux [0.1.2+beta.1+fabric.6d46f24]
• Shulker Box Tooltip [5.2.6+1.21.4]
• Simple RPC [4.0.4]
• Sodium [0.6.13+mc1.21.4]
• Sodium Extra [0.6.1+mc1.21.4]
• Suggestion Tweaker [1.20.6-1.5.3]
• Text Utilities [1.7.2+1.21.4]
• ThreadTweak [0.1.7+mc1.21.5]
• Visible Barriers [2.0.20]
• Xaero's Minimap [25.2.10]
• Xaero's World Map [1.39.12]
• YetAnotherConfigLib [3.7.1+1.21.4-fabric]
• Zoomify [2.14.2+1.21.3]
• cupboard [1.21-2.9]
• spark [1.10.121]
• uku's Armor HUD [0.7.0+mc1.21.4]
• ukulib [1.6.0+1.21.4]

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🖥️ System Details Report 🚀 🍷 Wine Configuration Steam Flatpak 🎮 Proton GE 10-17 🛠️ Environment Variables: LSFG_PROCESS=framegen MANGOHUD=1 %command%

🛠️ Hardware Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE 🖳 RAM: 32GB. 🧠 CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 7 5700X (16 threads) 🔥 GPU: AMD Radeon™ RX 7800xt 🎨 Monitor: LG 32UL750-W 32" 3840x2160 (4K) via DisplayPort 🖼️ Storage: 4.5TB (NVMe + SATA SSD) 💾

🖥️ Software 🐧 OS: Fedora Linux 42 (Silverblue) Kernel: Linux 6.15.8 🛠️ Desktop Environment: GNOME 48 🖌️ Display Server: Wayland for smooth visuals. 🌟

🎥 Recording Setup 📹 Software: OBS Studio Flatpak (VAAPI av1 18mb CBR) 🎬 Capture Method: Pipewire ⚡ Output resolution: 1440p60. 🎞️

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