Hey everyone!

I'm considering switching to Linux for gaming and general daily use. I've been on Windows 11 so far, but I’d like to explore Linux to see how viable it is as a full-time OS for both gaming and everyday tasks.

Here’s my setup:

Hardware:

• Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus B550 Elite
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5800x
• GPU: AMD RX 9070XT
• RAM: 32GB DDR4
• Cooler: Corsair H100i RGB Elite
• SSD1 (NVMe 2TB): Currently has Windows 11 and most of my games
• SSD2 (SATA 2TB): Empty

Peripherals:

• Logitech G915 TKL
• Logitech G502 Lightspeed
• SteelSeries Arctis 7P+
• 8Bitdo Ultimate (2.4GHz dongle)
• Xbox One Controller (official wireless dongle)

Monitors:

• Gigabyte AORUS FO27Q2 (1440p OLED / 240Hz / HDR)
• AOC C24G1 (1080p VA / 144Hz)

Games I regularly play:

• Elden Ring
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Diablo 4
• Skyrim

Launchers I use:

• Steam
• Epic Games
• Battle.net

I’d also like to use Linux for general tasks like:

• Web browsing and media consumption
• Managing my Apple devices (iPhone + iPad)
• Maybe some light productivity (docs, email, file management)

I am looking for distro recommendation and have some questions:

1. How's HDR support on OLED monitors under Linux?
2. How’s the support for my peripherals?
3. Is my cooler H100i manageable with Linux?
4. Is it possible to manage iPhones/iPads on Linux? I don't really use iTunes, except for wireless files transfer and iCloud drive.

Any tips, suggestions, or distro recommendations are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Disclaimer: Maybe its just me and my stupidity, and everyone already knows about this, but I will still post it in case other people are encountering unexplainable performance issues while using gamemode.

Ever since about a year ago, some of my games were running at suboptimal performance, and nothing i did in regards to graphics settings would lead to any improvement.

I recently upgraded from an AMD 6900XT to a 9070XT, and i got almost no improvement, i.e. in Helldivers 2.

This caused me to investigate further and I realized that all games that I run with "gamemoderun" are only utilizing 4 CPU cores.

Turns out, Gamemode introduced CPU pinning, which is enabled by default, about a year ago. The way this works, at least for an Intel CPU, it seems to check for the cores with the highest max_frequency and pins the game to those cores.

I run an i9-12900KS, which has 16 p-cores, but only 4 of those report a max frequency of 5500Mhz, the other twelve are running at 5200Mhz.

This caused gamemode to pin my games to those 4 cores which run at 5500Mhz, which led to a severe bottleneck in CPU heavy games.

This option can be enabled / disabled in your gamemode.ini file. I now set "cpu_pinning" to 0-15 which corresponds to all my p-cores, and the difference before and after is severe.

Helldivers 2 now runs at >90fps in 4K/ultra settings instead of 40-50fps with dips into the low 20s.

TLDR: if you are having performance problems and using gamemode, check your cpu_pin settings.

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Paradigm Island developers End-all Entertainment are looking for Linux testers of their upcoming comedy narrative-driven isometric adventure.

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Vampire Survivors just had two entirely free content drops! The first is a free DLC cross-over with Square Enix's SaGa series, along with a chicken-themed free update.

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We're working on Paradigm Island, and we currently have access to a Steam Deck for testing, which has worked decently.
We believe Linux is greatly underrated in the gaming space, so we aim to create a smooth experience on it as well. Any thoughts, changes or problems you have in mind are exceptionally important to us.

Feel free to test out the free demo and leave any suggestions in the comments!

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Egosoft have revealed that their expansive space sim X4: Foundations is getting another major upgrade named Diplomacy, scheduled to arrive some time this year.

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shapez 2 is a fantastic factory building sim and on June 2nd it's going to level up in a big way with 3D platform building.

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I've been playing the Epic Games version of Bloons TD 6 via Heroic Games Launcher, but the game consistently crashes when trying to load certain maps (I've confirmed it happens on Ancient Portal, Polyphemus, and Erosion. There may be others). Specifically, while on the loading screen, it'll pop open the Unity crash window and then close after a few seconds.

I'm running Proton-GE 9-27 (I've tried some other versions, including Proton-GE 9-25, Wine-GE 8-26, and Proton Experimental).

System info:

Pop_OS 22.04
Ryzen 7 5800X
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
32GB RAM
LLVM 15.0.7
Mesa 25.0.3 (Using Kisak PPA)

Here's a log file I got after it crashed.

I believe the crucial line here is the following:

wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 27c at address 00006FFFFCEF07E1 (thread 027c),wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 27c at address 00006FFFFCEF07E1 (thread 027c)

The game seems to play perfectly fine on any other map. I've completed many maps (plus many boss events) thus far.

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World of Goo 2 from Tomorrow Corporation and 2DBOY has a Steam release date just revealed of April 25, which will include Native Linux support.

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I've been noticing more and more issues while running Proton, and Proton-GE versions while playing cracked installs of games like Mass Effect LE, Cyberpunk 2077 with mods, and Ghostrunner 2. The problem is definitely with Proton, unable to access prefixes or something, cause it works with Wine-staging 10.5 as of now. Please use the SODA version of wine which comes with bottles (there in most package managers), instead of proton. It's much faster and actually works with cracks.

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im currently trying to speedrun Cry of Fear and everything is settled. im using livesplit via proton on steam and capturing the window via obs on top corner but as soon as i start game or change any maps. autosplitter doesn't recognize any inputs at all and if i don't toggle manually it won't work.

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My setup is a AMD 5700X3D, 32Gb RAM and nVidia RTX 3080. While I know Debian isn't the best for gaming, I will not change distro. I don't play the latest games (Satisfactory may be the newest of all)

Debian 12 current nvidia driver is version 535, it's old but it work fine I guess.

Now, I have been looking for AMD GPU for a few month, especially the AMD 7800XT.

Would it worth it to change GPU ? Or I just wait for Debian 13 (and newer drivers) ?

I also stream on that PC, how does AMD hardware encoder compare to nvENC at low bitrate (6 Mbps) ?

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I was using CachyOS with KDE Plasma. I recently switched to GNOME and deleted KDE. However, few KDE libraries remain. Everything is currently working fine, but is a clean install necessary? I don't want to reinstall the entire distro if it's not required.

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Hey guys. Anyone know why I can’t input the password to Ubisoft Launcher? The keyboard did open but somehow the password box doesn’t receive any button, cursor is not blinking in that box neither.

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Game updated but it doesnt seem to get pass that screen anymore, and pyroveil is being detected.

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Hello everyone! A little backstory, I've been running Linux/Debian flavors for almost 15 years, I've been through Ubuntu, debian, mint, Lubuntu and many more, but for the last 5 years I've decided to keep using mint with a dual boot to windows so I can play valorant with some friends. My question is, is it worth the trouble of learning/configuring a "new" distro? I mean, everything works on my current build of mint, I don't find any big issues with it. I'm sorry for any mistakes on the formatting, I'm on mobile I've got a Ryzen 7 8700f/RX580/16GB RAM

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the last couple days ive been trying to download steam and after awhile i did get it to work but.. the game i wanted to play (ENA: dream BBQ) just straight up wont launch no errors at all it says it is launching then it says im playing but nothing pops up i just wanna play this game if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated

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Much like the user in this thread previously, out of nowhere all my proton games are suddenly no longer working, and I haven't the foggiest idea why. Every single time I go to launch a game, Steam acts like it's about to launch something, but then the green Play button pops back as if nothing happened. I tried consulting that thread, but the only solution one user found didn't apply to me (They had integrated graphics which were causing their issues; I do not).

I've done all the usual suggestions - graphics drivers are up to date, distro (Zorin OS) has all the most recent updates applied, have verified integrity of multiple games, restarted, uninstalled and reinstalled both the games and Proton editions... Nothing has done a thing. Some other things I tried that I didn't see referenced in that thread though was running a Log for Proton, which unfortunately showed no useful errors, and running things with Wine, which at least got games to the splash screen! Wherein most of them crashed afterwards. So the issue seems pretty laser-focused on Proton specifically.

Some details in case it helps: Any game that has a proper Linux build still plays just fine. There doesn't seem to have been any precursor to this (IE, games that I was playing fine just suddenly stopped working). System Specs are Zorin OS, Ryzen 2700X, 64GB of 3200MHz RAM, Vega Frontier Edition, various SSDs and HDDs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

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So I have noticed When trying to play Mary Skelter Nightmare. On Steam Deck the Game Runs fine, Other than the Opening Cut-scene/Anime Opening not having Audio until using Proton Experimental and Proton Hotfix The Issue is I want to play it on my Main Rig. But anytime I try the game just does not boot, it just luanches exe then CTDs. I even Tried launching from Steam Big Picture mode because sometimes that Works with Games that seem to require Gamescope. ProtonDB is not much help because it seems to run fine in gamemode under Bazzite according to a report on there but I don't know what Bazzite has that Garuda does not.

My Specs are:
OS: Garuda Linux: Dragonized KDE Gaming Edition.
Secondary OS: Steam OS 3 from the Deck Repair Tool
CPU: 5700g.
GPU: Radeon 6700XT.
PSU: Corsair Fully Modular 850 Watt White (2020) .
Storage: not includind the Two 1TB NVMe Boot Drives. Five Crucial 1TB SSD, One Team Group 2TB SSD, 2 Barracuda 4TB HDDs and a one 14TB Exos HDD. Lastl an Optical Drive.
Case: Cooler Master HAF XB Evo High AirFlow Lan Box Case, Mesh Front Panel.

Thing is it will run when I boot into Steam OS, but I don't want to have to reboot into the Bios Everytime I want to Play it. Though I do Alternate between them. I try to run Steam OS on Weekends after Work and Garuda during the Week when I might do something other than Game.

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