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nekusoul , in Suggestions for a GameCube controller for PC Linux
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There are a few good answers here already, so instead I’ll go ahead and ask: Why a GC controller in the first place?

This is just my opinion, but unless you’re going for absolute authenticity over any kind of comfort, I’d just use any modern controller instead. Unlike the Wii Nunchuks, the layout maps to modern controllers pretty well, particularly to Xbox-style controllers. The GC doesn’t have that many exclusives either that would make a purchase worthwhile, since many of them got ports/remasters/remakes over the years.

So my advice would be to start emulating using a regular controller first, and only grab a GC controller after a while, if you still feel the need to get one at that point.

cyborganism OP ,

I appreciate your answer. I’ve tried with an Xbox controller and, yeah it works. But, line you said, I’m really looking for that authentic feel.

YamiYuki , in PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default

I figured that GNOME’s insistence on CSD few years back will bite them in the rear.

github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/10179#issuecomment-17…

And I don’t wanna be that guy that’s wants something to fail just because it’s not to my taste, but I’m glad to hear that the dev thinks KDE’s Wayland is in much better shape than GNOME’s, especially since GNOME’s pushing it really hard.

For me, personally, I won’t switch away until Plasma 6 comes out, if it’s in much better shape than Plasma 5’s Wayland, and games running through Proton work well enough in Wayland competitively.

limitedduck , in Wine-GE-Proton8-25 Released

Glad to hear it was just a wine bug. It came right as I installed a new GPU and I got worried

const_void , in Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmarks

What does “gaming focused” even mean? In what way is it focused on gaming?

nyakojiru , in Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmarks
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Linux, is not for gaming. Period.

dallo ,

And here I am enjoying my steamdeck

nyakojiru ,
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With non Linux games with reduced performance :D

CeeBee ,

You didn’t read the article, eh?

nyakojiru ,
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Why would I, I know Linux sucks for gaming

CeeBee ,

Well, the article mentions multiple games that are “Windows only” and yet then run better on Linux. So how exactly does Linux suck for gaming?

dallo ,

With both native and non native game with good enough performance for my taste. I have a desktop running linux for where the performance matter.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup. If performance isn’t good enough, I upgrade my hardware. The delta between Windows and Linux is generally not interesting enough to have separate installs.

nyakojiru ,
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Your just trying to convince yourself

dallo ,

You wish

thejodie ,

Then you must be lost.

nyakojiru ,
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I’m lost playing all possible and available video games on Windows with all theirs mods and addons :D

CucumberFetish , in Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November

Looking to reinstall Linux on my dual-boot. For legacy robotics reasons, I still have ubuntu 18.04 on it.

Which distro would be the best for gaming + CUDA software dev?

Linus_Torvalds ,

Honestly: Any Ubuntu Fork (such as Mint, Kubuntu, etc) is fine, Arch as well(but harder). Vanilla Ubuntu is ok.

This is not the definitive answer, and you should reevaluate after a time, what you like and don’t like, but for a starter, give those a spin.

voodooattack ,

I’m using Fedora and it’s been great, a bit iffy with nVIDIA out of the box though.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has the most up to date nVIDIA stack. Mainly because the packages are controlled by nVIDIA directly.

CucumberFetish ,

I’ll check out Tumbleweed. Any downsides to it compared to Ubuntu forks?

It has been a while, but nVidia drivers have always been a pain to install, especially when you also need an older version of CUDA. If tumbleweed has a better compatibility/easier installation process, it is a big win.

voodooattack ,

Tumbleweed is rolling release (kinda like arch), although they have a pretty rigorous testing process. So that could be a pro or a con depending on who you’re asking.

If what you’re specifically after is older CUDA toolkit compatibility, then I’d recommend using distrobox instead. That’s what I do for ML workloads. (If you plan on redistributing binaries then you’ll have to strip them with binutils though)

bighatchester ,

I recommend Ubuntu 22 don’t recommend pop despite all the articles you will find saying it is great for gaming

sugar_in_your_tea ,

That take depends on what you need from Ubuntu 18.04. I’m not to familiar with how robotics stuff works, but perhaps a docker image would work? That way you can keep whatever libraries you need, and run it on whatever base OS you need. That said, I don’t know how much of CUDA or whatever is in the driver vs the userland library, so I’m not sure if it would work.

As for distro, it doesn’t matter as long as it’s relatively decent. I recommend Linux Mint Debian edition, but I personally use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

I saw a question below about Tumbleweed, and you may want to look into OBS, which is OpenSUSE’s way of building whatever libraries you need in a repo. So you’d basically find or build a recipe for your version of CUDA and install that alongside whatever else is in the system (assuming the Docker option doesn’t work). If you’re using a relatively popular stack, chances are someone has already gotten it working.

kariboka ,

Check out Garuda

OtakuAltair , in Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmarks

Been using Nobara for the last 2 years. Haven’t noticed much of a dip in performance coming from Windows, if anything.

tmjaea , in Linux vs Windows, my experience

Maybe try another distro:

lemm.ee/post/16666175

JTskulk , in Workaround for broken Battle.net update 14542

See gamingonlinux.com/…/battlenet-broke-in-wine-proto… for details. I went this route as I play in Steam, I had to do a little bit of googling to find out that he means go to the properties of Proton (like you would a game) and change it to Beta there. My beloved SC2 is now running fine again :)

heleos , in Recommended linux variant for gaming.

I use tumbleweed, but I had a strange issue with the flatpak version of heroic launcher. I ran a benchmark of cyberpunk 2077 with the flatpak heroic, and was averaging 100 fps. I had nixos installed on a separate hard drive and that benchmark was 160 fps. I thought there was an issue with opensuse, but I installed the flatpak version of heroic on nixos and also got 100 fps. So I installed the regular version on tumbleweed and have 160 fps. I would keep that in mind when looking at programs to launch games, whether it’s wine, bottles, heroic, lutris, etc

KiranWells , in Linux Mint 21.2 multiple Problems
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Just going to ask this just in case: have you tried doing a full update and reboot? If you updated and have not rebooted, sometimes drivers get messed up.

Makoto009 OP ,

Yes - already rebooted after “apt dist-upgrade” :(

Gamemode and Hogwarts Legacy are still not running.

Makoto009 OP ,

Ok i found a few things.

Hogwarts Legacy wasnt able to start because an error with the automatic backup of the savegames. When starting steam from terminal it showd some errors and so i tried to move the backup folder away from there and after this it worked again

But mangohud still shows that gamemode isnt running. So i searched a bit and it seems that gamemode IS running but mangohud just shows a wrong stat. With gamemoded -s i get the info that it os running. How can i get mangohud to work again correctly?

Thanks for the help.

KiranWells ,
@KiranWells@pawb.social avatar

Unfortunately, I don’t have experience with mangohud. Does Legacy work without it? And does mangohud work with other games?

Makoto009 OP ,

Mangohud on its own seems to work. Just the Gamemode Info ist shown wrong. Maybe trying to reinstall it.

But thank you very much for your Help.

brenno , in Recommended linux variant for gaming.

Anyone that has video drivers and flatpak should work in your case. If you dislike Ubuntu and don’t like the direction, usually poops and mint are the ones recommended.

the_q , in Workaround for broken Battle.net update 14542

For folks using Lutris and confused by where to type this in here are some instructions:

System Options → Environment variables → Add the following:

Key: WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY Value: 1

Good luck!

JoeKrogan , in Recommended linux variant for gaming.
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I use Debian with steam installed via flatpak

Nyfure , in Recommended linux variant for gaming.

I have EndeavourOS, but with the nature of Bleeding Edge packages, things can break, so setup automatic snapshots with btrfs (you want this for your data anyways).

Bleeding Edge packages have the advantage of you getting the latest features, patches and improvements, which is required for some gaming cases.

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