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Hi guys,

its been quite a while since i posted the gaming optimizations guide i wrote.

Since the last time there has been quite a lot of changes.

https://github.com/WhitePeace36/LinuxAMDGamingOptimizationGuide

Even though it says AMD, most of it is for linux in general.

I hope this updated version helps at least a few of you out there which try to have a better gaming experience.

Instead of you just removing my post that was quickly gaining support https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/s/pe0tPa1oVT

Trying to hide it is not a great way to run a sub

Honestly i think it is bad form as the author of a webpage calling readers idiots etc.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/10/if-you-use-polymc-for-minecraft-you-should-switch-away-now//page=2#comments

Liam, you have to stop being so defensive. It's like you take everything personal. It doesn't look very professional. You do not have to agree with the comments (Or like the person behind them), but this is not the way....
Also:: Before someone gets the bright idea... I am not the poster of the comment, and have no stakes in it. I would just like GoL to act a bit more professional.

Or are there any other roblox clients that i can use?

every single wifi external, bluetooth external, off brand wheel and off brand gamepad just works on windows because they have standardized driversets, something that linux has struggled to implement for a while and only now Valve has cooked up with "SteamInput" (funny name but it does genuinely wonderous work) for wheels and gamepads that wont even get detected by the linux kernel but the things that most people absolutely need, such as wifi cards, they are still heavily unsupported, try plugging in a TP-Link wifi card(one of the most popular) and you will be greeted with either 1kb/s download, unable to connect to any network or literally not even being detected.

Hell, even when you need to install a driver, on windows its Download -> Install, in linux its find git -> install git, dkms, build tools -> build it yourself -> whoops dependency error -> hunt dependency -> 50% brick your system 40% Whoops 2nd dependency error 10% it actually works on first try.

P.S the wifi issue is what happened to me for the previous 3 times(2017, 2019, 2021) when i was switching to linux. No one should be forced to buy NEW hardware to switch and linux really needs to work on standardized drivers that use windows standards. Before you say "you should have known better" i think you need to understand that if you say that then you should not expect linux to succeed, because when Windows wanted to expand to non tech savvy users they made things work with 2 clicks, not by "you should've known better".

My wife has this win 8 laptop. It has been bugging us about 8.1 upgrade we kept hitting ignore and were fine. Then it started coming more and more, then few days ago it didn't even give us an option to ignore, just kept delaying it by days, then hours. And now it just force restarted. The problem is not update itself but just that it forces you to do something. Not to mention it was while I was working on something, not only that the whole process took forever.

with Proton Hotfix.

I have many experiences with Linux, i also did many distro hops.

I used for a long time arch with xfce and i3wm.

But now, i just installed ubuntu and it works well. (It also looks very pretty out of the box, where stock gnome fails in my opinion)

I also dont get it why so much people hate on snap. For now, Snap just works for me like Flatpak.

So here is my Question, why everyone hates on Ubuntu?

EDIT: It seems like Steam Community has problems, no posts were removed. If you checked your subscriptions while Steam Community was having problems (as I did), some subscription may have been removed but you just need to look for the posts and subscribe again. If you remember which posts you were following.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

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Hi guys!

I was subscribed to several posts of different games that were asking the developers for a Linux version. For some reason a good number of them were removed today (I can only remember Deus Ex Human Revolution).

Those posts had a good amount of comments and pages already, so it seems like a bad idea to just remove them. It makes no sense.

Have you seen something similar lately? Why would a developer remove a post with several pages of comments without saying anything at all to the people posting there?

I hope I could remember the name of those games.

PS: Now I remember that one of the posts was for the game Knights of Pen and Paper, asking about the Linux achievements because they don't work. It seems like they aren't going to work and they would like to look better without those annoying post asking to solve bugs :D

Last night I was able to play Stadia with an Xbox controller literally just plug and play, on a ~120Mb/s up and down connection (no bandwidth cap).

I know Stadia has been controversial but between this and Steam's push for more native Linux games and the Proton compatibility layer, we might finally put an end to Microsoft's hold on PC gaming.

Also with Stadia we can play AAA games without having to run their proprietary software on our machines (aside from Google Chrome itself).

I just wish it had more indie and strategy games.

Thread that explains it: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1524615058688724992?s=20&t=Yr7_zw0sfSI-UPVHcXFHoQ

Nvidia couldn't have their drivers in the kernel because of licensing issues with their binary blobs. They simply moved all the functionalities to firmware and they leave in the kernel some remote calls. This solves the licensing and philosophical issues but let it be very clear THERE WILL BE NO OPEN SOURCE DRIVERS, for what we think and open source driver should be. We are basically moving towards an UEFI pattern where the core of the functionalities are moved in an inaccessible hardware component which is even more a black box than before.

Now and always: "Nvidia, FUCK YOU!" - Some handsome man years ago

I'm looking to upgrade from a 1080Ti to a 7900XTX and someone told me that if it's idle and goes into power-saving mode, it'll crash and require a hard reset of the system.

Is this true? I've been looking into it and there's reports of several problems that require you to force it to run in high-power mode. Given how much this sub fanboys for AMD, I'd think someone would have mentioned this by now. It's not the end of the world but it's pretty annoying to be drawing 100W idle.

There's also supposedly another crash that can happen if you're above 80% VRAM usage which might be fixed in a future kernel update, but that's more reasonable for this sub to not mention, since it's only really going to be a problem for productivity/AI workloads.

Is there anything else I'm missing? (other than the HDMI 2.1 issue ofc)

EDIT: Seems like the person I got it from had a issue specific to them?

I did find this when researching, though, not the same issue but had the same fix, is this a thing for you guys? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1500

seriously, every time someone expresses interest in linux and gaming the name bazzite is bound to pop up, it's neither a good beginner distribution or a good distribution at all. i can only see bazzite being good at one thing and that's for a tv gaming setup, where it's only use case will be gaming and gaming only, because good luck getting anything productive done on that thing.

I've had people ask me about this, so I thought I would make a quick vid on how to install it under WINE

https://youtu.be/8nQA2xaVGqI

Enjoy,

-F

This used to be working properly before, the checkbox in the Store settings has been broken in a long while, nobody seems to be working on it by now?

Steam Machines are launching in less than 3 days, come on Valve, get your hands out of your ass and don't expect those few unlucky customers to be as patient as we are!

Here's a topic in the steam-for-linux github issue tracker and while we're at it I'd suggest we all install the steam beta and try to flood github with whatever issues we can find (like this one too).

I understand these guys have been working on a whole lot of things recently but this issue is a tier1 priority with steamos/machines launching.