Hi, I'm a kind of new to linux (close to a year using it) and at first when I tried to use the nouveu driver that is included on my distro it was very slow and I could not open any 3D titles (factorio and city skylines worked fine), so I installed the Nvidea proprietary drives and switched between than everytime I wanted to play games (sway is more stable in the open source drives).

The thing is lately I don't need to switch to play any game that I tried, I don't play a lot of heavy titles, but I'm playing Thrones and Liberty just fine, that is kinda of heavy for my gpu (1660).
Could I remove the proprietary drivers and everything would just keep working or is the open source extracting something from them?

ps.: Maybe this is not the best forum to post this, but giving it is more about gaming than computing i choose to post this instead of the linux for noobs subreddit, if it is better posted let me known and I'll repost there and close this one, thanks...

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Hello folks.

I'm currently running Windows on my desktop, but I plan on upgrading to Linux sometime before Windows 10 reaches EOL (2025 = the year of the Linux desktop? /j) and I'm also planning a hardware upgrade sometime soon for unrelated reasons.

I've heard that Nvidia GPUs don't play well with Linux, since their drivers are proprietary, but I've also heard that things have gotten way better in recent years.

What would yall recommend I go with when I get my new hardware?

I do see the section on this in the FAQ, but I'm not sure how up-to-date it is.

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Basically whenever I play Yakuza 0 on arch linux through wine, it never saves the game no matter how hard I try it. I tried proton but on proton it would just say "unable to create interface isteamuser". I am really confused on what could be the issue. I have tried RDR1 as well with Proton and it's working perfectly but for Yakuza 0? Not so much. I tried Lutris as well and it doesn't do anything as well(other than giving additional fps drops)

My PC:
CPU: 12th Gen Intel i5-1235U (12) @ 4.400GHz
GPU: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [UHD Graphics]
Memory: 7666MiB

I use arch btw

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I got a second gpu recently and its been fun messing with VMs and such but I like to play games on proton that usually max out my VRAM, my second GPU is basically empty so I thought it could be cool to just render all my games on it, I looked online and nothing seems to work or its specifically for people with AMD and NVIDIA cards while I have 2 nvidia cards. steam seemingly just doesnt let me do this at all buut in heroic it actually did work by enabling the dedicated gpu setting which was mainly intended for laptops

in short I have 2 nvidia cards and I just want some help or guidance on how I could use my second gpu for game rendering could someone tell me or point me in the right direction with this? if you need more info just ask me

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Fedora Workstation with GNOME is the main edition of the Fedora Linux distribution, but their Fedora KDE Desktop Spin just got approval to become a lot more important.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Out now with Linux support is Death of the Reprobate, a comedy point and click adventure game styled like renaissance artwork from Joe Richardson.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I can't tell you how excited I am for the future of modding, with Nexus building their cross-platform open source Nexus Mods app. Another new build is out now with v0.6.3.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

hai i was wondering if there was a way to get bloxstraps working on linux cus ik this is weird but i like my roblox looking a certian way and its the only thing keeping me from fully swapping to linux

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While we still have no idea when Deadlock from Valve will get a properly public launch, since it's still invite-only, they do keep expanding the game in some major ways. Another big update just rolled out to this third-person MOBA.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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Back in September Nintendo and The Pokemon Company filed a lawsuit in Japan against Palworld developer Pocketpair, and now we actually know why.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

ever since they added their shitty video recording I cannot run apps off my exfat drive (due to symlinks)

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Hello,

So I don't know if it's just me but I recently decided to bite the bullet and sell my 4080 SUPER since I was able to sell it for a good price on Ebay and then bought a 7900XTX. I WAS planning to buy a 5090 when it comes out and then keep the 7900XTX as an extra card for testing, but I found out that thermals are much better on AMD for some reason. I don't know if it's because of my graphics card or because it's winter time where I live. Although for some reason compared to a week ago, my thermals on my 7900X are at minimum 42c and a max at 89c, although it used to get at hot at 93c when on NVidia. From my understanding the Zen 4 line makes it so it intentionally runs hot even in idle to max out performance, but I was thinking of upgrading to the 9800X3D in a few months once stock replenishes and was even considering replacing my AIO with a 360mm instead of the 240mm I have now. Still, I'd like to keep the AIO.

Anyway is it just me or are thermals somewhat better with an AMD GPU?

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As the title said I made a badly written guide on how I modded Skyrim on the Steam Deck.

I compilated the experiences and most common questions I've seen people stumble upon when they tried modding Skyrim on their Steam Deck. Considering we get Steam Deck users here, I decided to share this here too. I hope it will be usefuo to some.

It only contains how to setup MO2 to the point where you can follow any other windows MO2 guide. That means I'll shittily explain how to install MO2, setup a instance, how to allow MO2 to view hidden .dot files do that you can actually find your Skyrim game of installed locally, how to downgrade if you still want, how to get visual studio and .NET SDK and how to fix a vanishing voices and music bug.

Except skse being installed, no game files will be messed with unlike what that linux installer does. So the only errors will be user made wrong installation of mods.

If there's anything unclear, you can tell me and I'll expand upon it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xtmxe0uTIIvI62YH8d22EUq07vRYwSRJSuZuidm3E_Q/edit?usp=sharing

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Can i use it with something like wine or proton ?

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Across my distro-hopping from every distro from Fedora to Ubuntu to Arch to Debian, I ALWAYS enable shader pre-caching and turn background shader cache processing on.

my system:

debian trixie with linux 6.11.5

Intel i3-10100

16 GB RAM

AMD RX 580

Not only does it always try to process shaders every time I boot a game even when it hasn't updated or any system changes occurs, I can turn the background processing on and monitor the file size of the shadercache folder and see it isn't doing absolutely anything. My CPU is also always idle too. This setting has been broken since trhe start of my linux gaming, from back in october 2023. Is there something I'm missing here? Is the feature broken or am I doing something wrong?

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I've been running Linux on my computer for about a year now, I love it a lot. That being said I do miss some of the games that I simply can't play on Linux. I don't want Windows on my computer proper so I want to know if I can install windows to an external drive and just boot into whenever I want to play one of said games.

If the answer is no and you can't do this then I plan to stick with linux; I'll just be cursing the companies that refuse to support it.

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I had a new kernel and got crashed gnome because of the new kernel on Linux Mint and got this error

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I tried most of the more popular distros/DEs, fedora, ubuntu, arch/cachyos, gnome, kde, xfce, budgie, etc. etc., on my 5700X and 7700XT nitro+.

The best gaming performance for my system, with the best and most consistent lows 1%s and 0.1%s and the least discernible input lag, have been i3 and sway (I am currently on fedora sway spin). They are also the best at using my system it seems, in terms of GPU/CPU utilization. I had to re-arrange my fan set-up due to increased temps from the higher utilization.

If you can put up with the knacks and the more complicated entry requirement, the experience is buttery smooth with no hiccups.

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Im trying to download something but steam keeps saying I have no disk space even though I have over 500gb free on my D drive. I dont even have the option to choose between my C drive and D drive. I already cleared my download cache and restarted my pc but nothing seems to work. My D drive is also marked as my default in settings on steam, anyone know what to do ?

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