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I run a brand new GPU, I like to play both very old and brand new games. I sometimes overclock my hardware, I’ve been really into modding games in the past.

Stable isn’t really how my gaming ecosystem is on Windows either. Not to mention Windows, Nvidia, AMD etc have always had a element of instability to it. I’ve ran beta updates on my PC for years and also do that on my phone. The amount of times I’v messed around in regedit, cmd, bios, eventviewer etc. is beyond what I can remember. I’ve been adopting windows versions early since Vista came out too.

I’ve never really been happy with stable. Maybe I this question should be «Arch vs Fedora» instead, but I’m not cocky enough(yet) I guess 😂

Diving into daily driving Linux in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

[–] Parptarf@lemm.ee 5 points 4 hours ago

The kernel doesn’t support Mesa 25 drivers out of the box, so Radeon 9000 cards wouldn’t work properly. No games would run. Also the version of Steam downloaded directly from their website didn’t want to start, no window shows up and it just runs in the background.

Easy fix after a quick ~~Google~~ Qwant search. But someone who doesn’t have at least some deeper experience with either MacOS or Windows wouldn’t know where to start to fix such an issue either.

Other than this it’s been fine.

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[–] Parptarf@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

It did definitely do that for me. Tried that and Pop.

Luckily this community helped me figure it out together with information found searching the web. If I wasn’t persistent and somewhat tech savvy I’d be stuck for sure.

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[–] Parptarf@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I like this answer!

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[–] Parptarf@lemm.ee 8 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

Nobara is actually one I highly considered. But I keep reading that base Fedora is more stable.

Of that’s not true I love the features Nobara comes with.

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Diving into daily driving Linux (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago) by Parptarf@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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I ended up with Nobara

As some of you already know I’ve been playing around on a small partition with Linux Mint. Learned basic troubleshooting and fixed some driver issues.

Now I’m very impressed with how it runs and decided to daily Linux and keep Windows for things Linux can’t do. Currently installing Windows on a new small SSD as we speak. (240Gb for the OS plus it’s gonna get a 500GB NTFS partition on my 2TB gaming drive)

This brings me to my question. Which Distro? I’ve narrowed it down to keep using Mint or Fedora KDE Plasma 41. Mint is something I’ve already screwed around with and there’s loads of guides online about it.

But Fedora seems like a better for for me. I’m not afraid of tinkering at all. But as long as I came game and daily it for browsing, emails etc. without too much issues, I’m good.

What’s the consensus? Setting it up tonight after my new W11 install is up and running.

Can't get a singe game to run on Mint or POP in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

[–] Parptarf@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

This community gave me the best kind of help. Gave me ways to figure out my problem, understand why it was happening and then a solution.

I’m probably buying another SSD to put in my system for an alternative OS. And at this rate I might put Windows on it and main Linux.

Can't get a singe game to run on Mint or POP in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

[–] Parptarf@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Yep.

Issue was found to be Mint or Pop won’t install a Mesa driver new enough to support a 9070 XT.

Fixed that and now pretty much everything works. (That I install on a Linux drive, games on my Windows partitions doesn’t work, but that’s fine)

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Can't get a singe game to run on Mint or POP (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Parptarf@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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PROBLEM IS FIXED:

Games now run when installed from within Linux through Steam and the EA App. Everything so far have worked flawlessly. Here's a good mix of what I've tried so far. Hitman 3, 9-Bit Armies, Divine Divinity, Metro 2033 Redux, C&C Tiberian Sun, C&C Red Alert 2

Solution: Pop!_OS and Linux Mint doesn't have a kernel new enough to support the Mesa 25 drivers needed for my 9070XT. These commands in the terminal was the fix for this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Original Post here:

Hi guys, it’s me again.

My issues is that no windows game on Steam will run. With any launch option or proton version (tried about 10). Most just doesn’t open at all. (Click play, nothing happens)

Tried for hours last night and resorted to just throw shit at the wall to see if something would stick for the last hour or so. Exhausted dozens of fixes found on ProtonDB and forums.(I want to try some again after another fresh install though)

Testing Linux on a dual boot system. First I tried Mint and had a pretty bad time due to me messing up the size of one of my partitions(Just made everything a bit more work) later reinstalled but tried POP, which went good and it’s a lot nicer to run now.

Here’s a few I tried a bunch of different troubleshooting on:

Hitman 3 - doesn’t open or artifacts and freeze before getting to the menu (Mint, both from a NTFS and fresh install EXT4 drive) 9 bit armies - doesn’t open at all or crash after splash screen (Pop and fresh install on EXT4 drive) Civilization Beyond Earth - Artfacting and 10fps (Mint and Pop, NTFS drive) Cyberpunk- Doesn’t open (Pop and Mint, NTFS drive AOM: Retold - Doesn’t open (Pop and Mint, NTFS and fresh on EXT4) Ready or Not - Doesn’t open (Pop and Mint, NTFS)

Also tried 5-6 more games old and new. None would open.

One thing I will note is that both installs failed to install GPU drivers properly. But I fixed that with a guide and the console.

Specs: R7 7700 RX 9070 XT 32GB RAM

Any tips on where to start ? I’m gonna start from the bottom with a fresh install of either Mint or Pop tonight. (Or any other Distro, honestly)

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Curious about making the switch from Windows (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Parptarf@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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With all that’s going on. I’ve been really considering setting up a dual boot and testing Linux Mint properly. (i hate virtual desktops, but I have Mint running on one now) I know I have to make some changes to my productivity workload, as I’m an Adobe Lightroom user. I’ll keep that on Windows for now.

But my question is regarding gaming.

I play a lot of varying games, from new singleplayer and multiplayer stuff to old games back up to about 1999. I know I have to do a bunch of research setting things up, but right off the bat I have a question.

What games will not be possible to use on Linux?

For example, will something like Escape from Tarkov work? That’s a game I do not want to even install of there’s a chance it will lead to a ban.

And is comparability with older games better or worse than W11?

Edit: I just wanna extend a huge thanks to the community already! There’s some great info here so I’m gonna set up a dual boot soon!

Edit 2: Dual boot is now setup! Even though Mint makes sense from a long time Windows user. There's a bit of a learning curve. But I'll try it as a daily driver for a few days. Right now my disk setup prioritize Windows, obviously. But if I end up loving Mint, I'll make a full switch and keep a small partition for Windows to run whatever Mint can't.

Edit3: Spent hours trying to get anything to work. Games just would not launch and I exhausted everything I found online. Trying a reinstall and Pop Os this time. Learned a bunch of lessons my first try

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Chromium (lemm.ee)

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I’m looking into Firefox alternatives as I wanna see what’s available. Being Norwegian, Vivaldi seems like a good choice to replace Firefox on desktop and Safari on iOS. Tried it for a night and it works pretty good. I do however have reservations about it being based on Chromium.

How much power does Google actually have over Vivaldi? And would it actually matter for my quest for degoogling myself?

In case anyone’s wondering. I’m also looking into LibreWolf.

Edit: Rewrote the start as people got too hung up on Firefox.