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[The Fartist]

SteamOS is for turning your PC into a console. If you want your PC to be a PC, but you hate Windows, check out any of the most popular Linux distros. Fedora, Ubuntu, Manjaro are good places to start. Try both the major desktops KDE (more classic windows like) and Gnome (more Mac like).

I run Fedora and Debian, I have a Windows partition just for gaming. I thought Valve was making their own distro?

 

[HogIsland]

I run Fedora and Debian, I have a Windows partition just for gaming. I thought Valve was making their own distro?

They are yea, but it's not a good replacement for Windows unless you overwhelmingly use it to game. It boots to a Gamepad/TV interface.

 

[The Fartist]

They are yea, but it's not a good replacement for Windows unless you overwhelmingly use it to game. It boots to a Gamepad/TV interface.

Yeah, I basically only use it for gaming, YouTube, any content creation, photo/video editing I do on my M1 MacBook Air. I use fedora for work and media consumption.

 

[BeardSpike]

I have been using Ubuntu for the last 10 or more years but after taking a look at CachyOS that was mentioned earlier in this thread, I might give it a go on my next PC build. I just installed it into a VM and it looks pretty good. It's nice that I can choose which WM I want to use instead of the distro choosing it for me. I have never been in the Arch ecosystem before but it doesn't look that different outside of the package manager. I am also considering PopOS but I think I favor CachyOS at this point.

https://www.youtube.com/@Mattscreative check out, for tips on CachyOS and general Linux gaming tips + emulation and also how to install mods for games on Linux. His main is CachyOS.

 

[BeardSpike]

Never even heard of cachyos. Ranked #5 at distrowatch i see. And mint still at #1. Funny. I have this machine that was on Nobara for years and for some reason recently I wiped that. I can't remember why. But I ended up with mint so clearly my heart wasn't in it lol.

I was distro hopping a lot. The only distro I've settled for a long time was Ubuntu Budgie - 2 or 3 years of usage. So I got GNOME more in-heart than ZorinOS Windows like interface.

Being able to choose a WM in Cachy and doing the dash-to-dock look I loved similarly to Ubuntu Budgie is a huge plus for me.

20-30 mins setup

I love how clean this looks. All the programs I have ever used are there. So it was a nice test run.

 

[Crayon]

I was distro hopping a lot. The only distro I've settled for a long time was Ubuntu Budgie - 2 or 3 years of usage. So I got GNOME more in-heart than ZorinOS Windows like interface.

Being able to choose a WM in Cachy and doing the dash-to-dock look I loved similarly to Ubuntu Budgie is a huge plus for me.

Mint is a default around here because wife just sticks to that. If I installed mint on here then that means I was out of ideas lol. I remember trying something else that didn't work out.

I never had a strong preference for any distro, really. I liked that Nobara with gnome well enough to stick with it for a long time.

 

[Soodanim]

Using linux for gaming or anything desktop is a bad idea. You better stay on Microsoft widnows. Trust me.

How can I possibly deny such a well reasoned argument? In light of this much evidence I will never game on Linux again

 

[nowhat]

this forced Nvidia to take some action and make part of its drive open-source (in 2023)

Just to be pedantic (hey, it's the Internet, what else I'm supposed to do?), the driver was, in a way, already open source and has always been - it interacts with the kernel code and thus must be GPL v2. But previously only like the "glue" that binds the driver module to the kernel was open source, the rest of it was a BLOB (think a firmware that's tens of megabytes in size). So if/when things went wrong with the driver, there was no way to debug it, much to the annoyance of Linus et al.

 

[Wolzard]

Just to be pedantic (hey, it's the Internet, what else I'm supposed to do?), the driver was, in a way, already open source and has always been - it interacts with the kernel code and thus must be GPL v2. But previously only like the "glue" that binds the driver module to the kernel was open source, the rest of it was a BLOB (think a firmware that's tens of megabytes in size). So if/when things went wrong with the driver, there was no way to debug it, much to the annoyance of Linus et al.

Nothing is open source on the Nvidia side. The userspace is proprietary and it communicates with a blob that runs alongside the kernel and interacts with it. The entire ecosystem is obscure.

GPLv2 allows this, so much so that one of the reasons for creating GPLv3 was to avoid this kind of thing and for this reason, Linus Torvalds disagreed with Richard Stallman and kept the kernel in GPLv2. Without this, I believe Linux would have less hardware support. It's not just Nvidia's proprietary blob that exists in the kernel, there are several others, such as Broadcom's wireless drivers.

What Nvidia did was migrate most of the blobs to the GPU firmware and created open source kernel modules, although they are not yet present directly in the kernel. Maybe they aren't, but it's easier to manage now. There will still be the proprietary userspace and there you will have access to Nvidia features such as DLSS, ray tracing, CUDA.

Red Hat is creating an open userspace in Mesa 3D called NVK. As far as I've seen, it has better performance than the proprietary one (in one game), but it still doesn't have the same features, as they will depend on their implementation in Vulkan.

For At Least One Game, Mesa's NVK Driver Can Outperform NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

Here's an interesting video explaining the Linux graphics stack, if you're interested in finding out more.

 

[Unknown?]

SteamOS is for turning your PC into a console. If you want your PC to be a PC, but you hate Windows, check out any of the most popular Linux distros. Fedora, Ubuntu, Manjaro are good places to start. Try both the major desktops KDE (more classic windows like) and Gnome (more Mac like).

I always felt Zorin OS was great for Windows users who just want something that works like Windows.

 

[BeardSpike]

Just put in a third SSD.

Started dual booting with rEFInd boot manager.

Win10 + CachyOS.

I couldn't wait any longer... I like tinkering too much, I guess.

Seamless experience, stable as F.

Better gaming experience on CachyOS than Win10 with UE4 basically all "compiling shaders on the fly games".

I had crazy shader compilation stutters on Evil West on Win10 I bought on sales with cheapest non-keyshop option on https://gg.deals

I decided for shit and giggles to install it on native steam app with enabled shader pre-compilation and CachyOS optimazied proton, I basically followed this guide 1:1 https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/gaming/

I know that pretty much all work was through Valve efforts on their end because Steam app just downloads pre-cached shaders from Valve servers for Steam Deck... But it works so damn well on desktop I can't even.

All my 8bitdo controllers just work.

I couldn't get Ultimate software to work through Bottles unfortunately. But I downloaded Ultimate Software on Android and I can load different profiles through there.

Funny thing games work through Bottles no problem, lmao.

Clean install.

I installed NTFS-3G to mount my other SSDs. Last one I use as a data swap between OSes.

 

[Wolzard]

NVIDIA DRIVER 570 promises a lot of news. Corrected VRR and use in multiple monitors. DLSS4 is already working natively.
There was also performance gain in DX12 games.

The driver has not released yet, some people managed to pick up through the update of Cuda 12.8.

* Fixed a bug that caused the nvidia-settings control panel to crash
when querying VRR attributes on some monitors.

* Updated the nvidia-settings control panel to use NVML rather than
NV-CONTROL to control GPU clocks and fan speed. This allows related
functionality to work when using Wayland, where the NV-CONTROL X
extension is not available. Note that as a result, some operations
which were previously available to unprivileged users, due to the
privileges of the X server, may now require elevated privileges.

* Added support for VRR on systems with multiple displays.

* Added an application profile to improve performance on Indiana Jones
and the Great Circle.

* Added an application profile to resolve a corruption issue on
Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Assassin's Creed Mirage.

* Implemented support for the VK_KHR_incremental_present extension.

* Fixed a bug that could cause some Vulkan applications to crash when
responding to window resize events.

* Updated GPU overclocking control to be available by default in
nvidia-settings, for GPU boards that support
programmable clock control. Previously, this was only available
when bit 3 was set in the "Coolbits" X config option.

* Disabled a power saving feature on Ada and above generation GPUs
for surfaces allocated with the DRM Dumb-Buffers API, for example,
when using a DRM fbdev. The power saving feature could cause black
screens for DRM Dumb-Buffers which use front buffer rendering instead
of KMS flips.

* Fixed a bug that could cause some multi-threaded OpenGL applications,
for example Civilization 6, to crash when running on Xwayland.

* Added support for querying Dynamic Boost status via the 'power' file
in /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/*.

* Enabled 32 bit compatibility support for the NVIDIA GBM backend.

* Added a new kernel module parameter, 'conceal_vrr_caps', to the
nvidia-modeset kernel module. This parameter may be used to enable
usage of features on some displays such as ULMB (Ultra Low Motion
Blur) which are incompatible with VRR. See the "Direct Rendering
Manager Kernel Modesetting" (DRM KMS) chapter of the README for
further information.

* Fixed a bug that could cause games to crash when the
"PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER" environment variable was set to a value of "1".

* Added /usr/share/nvidia/files.d/sandboxutils-filelist.json
which lists all the driver files used by container runtime
environments such as nvidia-container-toolkit and enroot.

* Added support for the systemd suspend-then-hibernate method of system
sleep. This feature requires systemd version 248 or newer.

* Enabled the nvidia-drm fbdev=1 option by default. When supported by the
kernel and the nvidia-drm modeset=1 option is enabled, nvidia-drm will
replace the system's framebuffer console with one driven by DRM.

This feature can be disabled by setting fbdev=0.

* Implemented a feature that allows low latency display interrupts to
be serviced even when the system is under heavy contention. This
is especially useful for reducing stutter when using virtual reality.

This feature is experimental and disabled by default.

This feature can be enabled by loading nvidia.ko with the
`NVreg_RegistryDwords=RMIntrLockingMode=1` kernel module parameter.

 

[BeardSpike]

Found this awesome program for video games captures with replay buffer to RAM with better quality than Steam Captures, and it is more minimalist than OBS Studio.

You can even turn on little UI similar to AMD Adrenalin Overlay / Nvidia ShadowPlay - you can change the color scheme in settings I think.
And bind your own hotkeys.

Default is left alt+z to show the overlay.

On CachyOS hotkeys only works if you logout and change to GNOME (Xorg) session aka X11. But on KDE I think it works without any problems.
The app is called GPU Screen Recorder.

Install GPU Screen Recorder on Linux | Flathub

A shadowplay-like screen recorder for Linux. The fastest screen recorder for Linux

flathub.org

Tried to compile it with YAY from AUR but it didn't work I think. Flatpak works though.

Lots of settings in advanced mode for capture quality, popups that video was saved - little one at that. It is not forcing you to rewatch mini replay buffer vid like in AMD Adrenalin soft...

I also set it to store vids in individual game named folders. Pretty nice app and just exactly what I've been looking for hopping right up from Win10.

 

[BeardSpike]

NVIDIA DRIVER 570 promises a lot of news. Corrected VRR and use in multiple monitors. DLSS4 is already working natively.
There was also performance gain in DX12 games.

The driver has not released yet, some people managed to pick up through the update of Cuda 12.8.

@Mattscreative already is using those, hmm...
His newest stream, uploaded 10h ago.

I'm not on Nvidia but dudes channel is awesome and I might wanna follow these stuff just in case. I never know which card I might upgrade to.

I'm not in a rush, gonna squeeze my RX 6700XT a lil bit more - till march-june.

Then I will decide, probably something like RTX 4070 Super TI, RX 7900XT/ XTX - slightly used still on warranty would be nice.

I also wanna see how RX 9070XT will fair. I would definitely want to up my VRAM from 12GB to at least 16GB, if not more. Otherwise it may not feel like an upgrade, rather side grade - and AMDs drivers on Linux are tempting.

So it's wait and see for me. FSR4 is actually interesting to me more than Ray Tracing, so no rush.

 

[BeardSpike]

So my 8BitDo Ultimate 3-mode controller on 2,4Ghz just didn't connect suddenly on CachyOS.

After a 5 minutes tops of head scratching dual-booted back to Win10, paired it with the dongle, hopped right back to CachyOS - because I followed what I did recently and I just put it on dock to recharge basically first time since I booted up CachyOS.

And to my surprise it did connect, and also back again to my surprise other folks had similar problems on Linux with 8BitDo when in 2,4Ghz mode when I did google it and Bluetooth always works it seems...

Anyways, I made my first account on GitHub since I found a fix there for regular Ultimate 8BitDo controller in 2,4Ghz mode. Replied there.

I thought I would share the solution here too.

I did the lsusb command in Terminal and it did show up as: Bus 001 Device 007: ID 2dc8:200f 8BitDo 8BitDo Ultimate 3mode Xbox after CachyOS finally picked it up.

Then with help of somebody's else guide on GitHub about regular 8BitDo Ultimate 2.4Ghz I managed to fix it.

sudo mkdir /etc/udev/rules.d

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/99-8bitdo-xinput.rules

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2dc8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="200f", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe xpad", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 2dc8 200f > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/xpad/new_id'"

ctrl + o, then enter.

sudo udevadm control --reload

For the record ammuench solution from GitHub for regular Ultimate controller

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2dc8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3106", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe xpad", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 2dc8 3106 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/xpad/new_id'"

I hope this one helps someone out : >.

Now back to playing The Last Faith on Steam .

Edit: Ultimate 2C product ID from GitHub 310a ; alternate 3mode product ID 201b apparently product ID 3106 works for Ultimate C too.
This is so confusing.

Edit2: With the help of /r/linux_gaming one of the users there pinpointed the issue. It it not a CachyOS problem... It is a charging dock "problem"...

The dongle should be plugged into the charging dock at all times. I didn't read the manual that thoroughly, I use external charger for that one and I have the WiFi dongle plugged in directly into the PC.

I managed to make a workaround with GitHub help at least and even if my method doesn't work out of the box, it is working now .

 

[RoboFu]

Did a new pc build this week so I decided to try bazzite as an intermediate while waiting for the official steam os release.

Holy cow! I have multiple Linux systems for work but haven't tried steam on them in years... every game I've been playing runs flawlessly. It really is the ultimate setup if you just want a consolized pc. My new build is a ryzen 9600x with a 7900xt with 32 gigs of ddr5 6000 mhz. No hardware issues at. Everything on my Msi motherboard works.
I really am throughly amazed. It even has zero hdr issues unlike my windows pc. lol.

 

[BeardSpike]

I had issues on CachyOS with my cursor getting stuck in weird icon positions / motions in GNOME.

Haven't have had any issues on Nobara 41 GNOME Edition but since its maintained by one person and is behind in updates I started to dig a little on Matts channel.

Both Nobara and Bazzite is based on Fedora.

This is his guide to setting up Fedora with CachyOS Kernel.

Gonna try this guide 1:1 since I already picked up a bit of experience with dnf package manager on Nobara.

If it will be a bit stable Nobara expierenece with most recent updates + CachyOS Kernel improvements I think I'm gonna stay on this distro.

Edit: Part 2 of the guide



Posting this if someone has similar issues as mine.

I could switch to KDE or smth but I just love GNOME+dash-to-dock look and it's workflow.

 

[Diseased Yak]

That guide for Fedora 41 with the cachyos kernel is exactly what I followed when setting up my current system.

Currently I'm unable to use the 6.13 kernel because the Nvidia driver doesn't load. Tried 6.13.1 last night, same issue. I'm just going to stay at 6.12 until Fedora adds in the 570 Nvidia driver.

 

[BeardSpike]

That guide for Fedora 41 with the cachyos kernel is exactly what I followed when setting up my current system.

Currently I'm unable to use the 6.13 kernel because the Nvidia driver doesn't load. Tried 6.13.1 last night, same issue. I'm just going to stay at 6.12 until Fedora adds in the 570 Nvidia driver.

Thats good to hear. Can't sit still at work lmao.

I want to tinker with Fedora soo much.

I had one issue on Nobara it failed one time to power off the system.

Fedora on the other hand is powering off / shutting down a lot faster. So this was a nicer impression overall, I guess.

Plus this guide has instructions to download a CachyOS Kernel so I'm willing to bet it will be more stable after all.

 

[BeardSpike]

So I did follow this guide 1:1, so far no issues at all with OS.

Did some light gaming session but can't really form any opinion if it's faster than Nobara or not with CachyOS Kernel.

I did have issues with native Steam RPM package. It wouldn't open, it would just sit in the tray with AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support extension and that's about it.

What fixed this issue was this post on reddit:


I also did setup some of my apps to run at system login automatically and just stay minimized in tray until I want to click on them.

Just make some files in:

 ~/.config/autostart/

Or copy .desktop files in there.

Useful command for terminal found with AI:

ln -s "$(find $(echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS | tr ':' ' ') -iname '*insert_name_of_the_app*.desktop' 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)" ~/.config/autostart

It automatically searches OS for an .desktop file and just drops it there.


Useful flags for starting apps in tray I did found with a 2 minutes of using google

Discord flag:

Exec=/usr/bin/Discord --start-minimized

Steam flag:

Exec=/usr/bin/steam %U -silent

Just edit .desktop files in /autostart with a text editor and add those there.

Heroic, for this you can set it without any flags in Heroic settings, there's need to be heroic.desktop file in /autostart though.

You can run

ln -s "$(find $(echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS | tr ':' ' ') -iname '*heroic*.desktop' 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)" ~/.config/autostart

in terminal for this one.

Edit: I set Steam to never power off my controller we will see how this will go with it always running in tray minimized.

 

[BeardSpike]

Some Thaumaturge tests GOG x Heroic Games Launcher so no Steam shader pre-compilation.







Wine-GE-Proton8-26.

OS works out of the box with my 8BitDo controller, no tinkering.

I'm amazed by this games UI and camera control, I can game equally good and comfortable both on m+k and my controller. I like the impulse vibration on my 8BitDo when I use "Thaumaturgy/ Witcher sense" perception I think it is called in game lmao, so I game on it more than on m+k with this game.

Edit: This games port is pretty messed up so I had to lock it with mangohud to 60fps. No 60fps lock in game, only 75hz.

Game was constantly switching from fullscreen to borderless window and turning off 60hz vsync - but stopped doing that after turning on mangohud lock... And now I can also have in-game vsync turned on too...

Dual booted back to Win10 to check this one out and it's doing that there too... So these are not Linux or Wine/Proton issues at all.

Volumetric clouds and lighting also can have my GPU top out at 180/185W like Indiana Jones snow storm scene, which is well down to UE bad optimization so I turned these settings off - it also doesn't make any sense to use these settings in mostly isometric camera game but what do I know.

 

[Durin]

I've dabbled with Fedora and Bazzite, and it's been an alright experience so far.

The progress in the last year alone with Nvidia has been great to watch. Driver performance/stability has improved considerably, most DLSS features are supported now, and HDR + VRR support looks like it will be in a complete stable form before the year is over.

Proton keeps improving with version 10 making the transition to Wayland, and a completed NTSYNC driver might release in March that has shown benchmarked frame-rate improvements ranging from 100+% in various games (Dirt 3 got 678% higher frame-rate). Hopefully a solution for anti-cheat will come into existance for competative multiplayer games, because that is the last major weakness left. The rest is just refinement.

All good stuff, but I'm kinda glad Valve is sticking with handhelds still, as I think we're a year or two away from Linux being viable for Desktop/Laptop gaming for the average joe PC user.

 

[El Muerto]

Just installed Cachy OS and man is it quick. I realized on my pc my 2nd m.2 slot wasnt for nvme drives, it was msata. I didnt want to have both Windows and Linux on the same drive sharing a bootloader because if either os updates then the bootloader sometimes messes up. So, got Cachy OS installed on the msata drive, and got my 2 windows drives to auto-mount upon bootup. Added my game folders to Steam so i now i can use the same hard drive where my steam games are in both Windows and Cachy OS, no need to re-download anything or format anything.
Once i got my folders added and enabled steam play all my games popped up and was ready to go.
I'm noticing some pretty decent performance gains. I have a Ryzen 5600x/Rx6600/32gb DDR4, not bad but not great. In some UE5 games i'm definitely seeing a performance increase, games run much smoother.

 

[Crayon]

Finally loaded up Bazzite (desktop image) last night.

Seems nice so far but wtf is this os-tree thing? I don't even know if I want to know. Takes a minute to install VLC (that's long)? have to reboot? What is it rebuilding? WHAT IS IT DOING?!?!?!

It's ridiculous that this is bugging me because I don't really understand what any package manager is doing in the first place.

 

[Drew1440]

My general experiance is to simply run Windows games under Wine or Proton. A lot of older Linux ports are broken or not compatable with newer distros, and messing about with packages has resulted in a broken OS

 

[BeardSpike]

Just installed Cachy OS and man is it quick. I realized on my pc my 2nd m.2 slot wasnt for nvme drives, it was msata. I didnt want to have both Windows and Linux on the same drive sharing a bootloader because if either os updates then the bootloader sometimes messes up. So, got Cachy OS installed on the msata drive, and got my 2 windows drives to auto-mount upon bootup. Added my game folders to Steam so i now i can use the same hard drive where my steam games are in both Windows and Cachy OS, no need to re-download anything or format anything.
Once i got my folders added and enabled steam play all my games popped up and was ready to go.
I'm noticing some pretty decent performance gains. I have a Ryzen 5600x/Rx6600/32gb DDR4, not bad but not great. In some UE5 games i'm definitely seeing a performance increase, games run much smoother.

Never had any problems with rEFInd bootloader, hasn't messed up anything for me. But those OSes were on separate drives so there's that.

On the same drive it makes sense things can get hectic.

I remember back in the day when I either used Zorin or Ubuntu Budgie that something like you are describing happened. But those never had rEFInd.

 

[BeardSpike]

My general experiance is to simply run Windows games under Wine or Proton. A lot of older Linux ports are broken or not compatable with newer distros, and messing about with packages has resulted in a broken OS

Tried to run Native Linux games when I was on CachyOS and they didn't even boot.

So I just simply run everything in Wine and Proton as you are.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Finally loaded up Bazzite (desktop image) last night.

Seems nice so far but wtf is this os-tree thing? I don't even know if I want to know. Takes a minute to install VLC (that's long)? have to reboot? What is it rebuilding? WHAT IS IT DOING?!?!?!

It's ridiculous that this is bugging me because I don't really understand what any package manager is doing in the first place.

I know this is late, but as far as I know, you should install mostly Flatpacks, Snaps and Appimages with Bazzite, as it is an atomic distro. The OS tree stuff is for installing programs that can't be or don't have Flatpacks,etc. That's just my understanding of it, never used it myself.

Some info I found:

Installing and Managing Applications - Bazzite Documentation

Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.

docs.bazzite.gg

 

[BeardSpike]

I know this is late, but as far as I know, you should install mostly Flatpacks, Snaps and Appimages with Bazzite, as it is an atomic distro. The OS tree stuff is for installing programs that can't be or don't have Flatpacks,etc. That's just my understanding of it, never used it myself.

Some info I found:

Installing and Managing Applications - Bazzite Documentation

Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.

docs.bazzite.gg

Weird both Nobara and Fedora (which Bazzite is based on) don't need to be rebooted. And dnf manager it's not that far behind Archs pacman, just slightly. Obviously not all packages are there and sometimes I have to use flatpaks on my Fedora x CachyOS Kernel.

But I dunno what atomic distro means, I would have to google that. And I didn't try Bazzite.

 

[Diseased Yak]

So I've been running Fedora 41 KDE Plasma spin w/CachyOS's kernel for a while now and really like it. However, I got the itch to try something only slightly different so I moved completely to CachyOS.

It sure is fast! I'm still in the process of settling in and configuring, but stuff like World of Warcraft worked right out of the box with kernel 6.13 and Nvidia drivers 570. (going through proton 9.0)

 

[BeardSpike]

So I've been running Fedora 41 KDE Plasma spin w/CachyOS's kernel for a while now and really like it. However, I got the itch to try something only slightly different so I moved completely to CachyOS.

It sure is fast! I'm still in the process of settling in and configuring, but stuff like World of Warcraft worked right out of the box with kernel 6.13 and Nvidia drivers 570. (going through proton 9.0)

Maybe I should try KDE Plasma - or so was the the plan.

I did try it yesterday both on Nobara live boot and CachyOS live boot, I think I even installed CachyOS on KDE Plasma environment.

I guess my monitor is too old. I have weird no signal issues but only on KDE, and I get a weird sound signal like it something was connected off and reconnected.

I did leave my monitor x tv to upgrade last. So it may be that. It does not have a display port only two HDMIs, when I have a no signal issue on KDE I just switch it to a second HDMI and I have a signal just for a few minutes. And then repeat over and over again.

I did took a glance on something useful in KDE Plasma though it has a separate tab in settings for gamepads, GNOME doesn't have that but I like the DE more I think, and that it doesn't do weird stuff with my monitor. The only issue I encountered with GNOME was cursor issues on Wayland.

But guess what, I reinstalled CachyOS on my third SSD which was supposed to be a swap file SSD between OSes, I did dug up external 2tb HDD so I reformated it as a NTFS to swap files between Win10 if needed, not that I boot it often.

And... Well I did everything I did on Fedora, only pacman no yay, if there's no app flatpak it is, icons I install manually no OCS shit.

Just simple

sudo mv <from> <to>

I just put my icons and themes in

/usr/share/icons

And it works, no issues with cursor so far.

And now that I have a comparison 1:1 dnf to pacman, arch is faster.

I did setup CachyOS faster than Fedora or Nobara. Substantially, so I take back my words it is just slightly behind. Don't get me wrong, dnf seems faster than apt - but man pacman is just *FAST* in class of its own.

Maybe I did break something like dependencies with YAY and I shouldn't use that.

I will test it on my third SSD throughly, only then I will get back to it.

So for now Win10, Fedora GNOME+CachyOS Kernel and CachyOS GNOME, rEFInd bootloader works pretty good so far.

If I break something with Cachy or I will encounter any issues Fedora will be on second SSD, no issues there fortunetly.

BTW Mattscreative is testing GNOME 48 beta on CachyOS.

 

[Diseased Yak]

BeardSpike You're not wrong about pacman, I am still setting up CachyOS the way I want it and my eyes were bugging out last night at how fast it pulls stuff and installs, just insane.

I should give GNOME a try, I've just gotten so used to KDE Plasma that leery of switching.

 

[BeardSpike]

I don't know what is going on with CachyOS on my machine. Cursor problems still are aparent on GNOME in CachyOS, and something did break my Fedora distro while at it... So maybe booting Win10, Fedora and CachyOS is not a good mix. Even on separate drives with rEFInd.

I had on both OSes some kind of memory crash, like out of bounds call or smth.

And it did crash and burn file managers on both Fedora and CachyOS. They didn't open, all system apps didn't open at all including terminal. I had an error code on Fedora because the error app that's there worked. But I have forgotten it.

Long story short, I did loose my Dino Crisis GOG save files...

Reinstalled everything on Fedora, and only have Win10 and Fedora + CachyOS Kernel and no issues so far.

At least I managed to run Dino Crisis on Heroic Launcher instead of Lutris only.

Solution:

anyone manage to get Dino Crisis 1 to work on Steam Deck?, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

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So this time I'm pretty sure they will be in cloud.

And I'm not touching anything anymore, I wanna do less tinkering, more gaming this time.

Also added Dino Crisis to Steam and I'm using Steam Input to map keyboard keys to dpad.

There are also quite a few templates available, made by other users.