No point in forcing it upon itself, you’ll just hate it Just if you are to try again, remember you can always ask about recommendations, maybe there will be a setup for you which works smoothly and out of the box
Directx 11 in this case, played bg3 on Linux and that was the only option that worked, and it did work quite well.
As for when to use one or the other, just check protondb. People usually leave what they played on, they even leave some useful launch commands or solutions to issues that could possibly arise, so it’s always worth a look.
I believe the quickest way to get the best possible answer to your question, is through their discord server or their discourse forum. Devs and mods are more likely to point you in the correct direction.
I don’t think you’ll have any issues, none that you didn’t already anyway. If you use archinstall it installs the drivers for you. Not sure about freesync as I can’t really tell the difference, but there’s a setting and it seems to do something.
Not sure if xwayland flicker (including on some games) is a thing on gnome, but on kde you’ll need the nvidia 555 beta driver to get it mostly fixed. It’s on aur but you need the flag -Syud (on paru) since the dependencies can’t seem to be resolved automatically.
About the mount points, I can only think of backing up fstab and swapping the uuids.
Highly recommend kde, although don’t get your hopes too high with hdr. It’s still not finalized so most programs don’t support it. You can run games inside gamescope to make them see the hdr support but since gamesope doesn’t support multiple windows any game with a launcher makes it crash. And when hdr is enabled the color profile is set to the built in color profile of the monitor, which for my monitor makes all the colors extremely dull and boring in comparison to no color profile.
What’s the deal with the flicker? The screen flickers when playing a game? That’s definitely not an issue I’ve encountered with Pop and Gnome. I’ll definitely use the 555 driver. Thanks for that warning. That probably saved me a bunch of time.
Oh good idea about fstab. That’ll simplify the setup since I have like 7 hard drives.
Damn, that’s disappointing about HDR. I was pretty excited about getting it working. Hopefully they get it dialed in soon. I suppose I’ll still benefit being on Arch since I’ll be able to use the fix whenever it comes out rather than waiting for the next LTS version.
In some xwayland programs on Wayland with nvidia gpu it looks like the last couple frames alternating instead of being shown in order once. Steam completely glitches out on first launch until you resize the window (still on 555).
Not sure if the hdr color profile issue is fixable since windows 10 also does the same thing, but that might not be an issue for you either way.
Yes, using X-server. You can toggle it on just like with the Nvidia control panel in Windows. You said nevermind, but there’s the answer in case someone else comes along and sees this later wondering the same thing.
Edit: you said most things don’t have it to begin with. Do you mean that the flicker issue is only present on a few games?
Holy hell! The first time I installed Arch for my laptop it took me like 40 minutes, but I forgot to install a DE and had to go back to the live USB mount every, chroot in, and install Gnome. All in all it took about an hour. This time it took me literally the entire night and part of the afternoon too!
I installed grub and ran the command to install it on the EFI, but I forgot to make the config file. So I spent hours trying to figure out why the hell it wouldn’t boot into Arch. I ended up completely reinstalling Arch 3 times in case I had borked the install since I have another EFI partition, another OS on this drive, and 7 partitions total. When I finally figured out that I skipped the config file I wasn’t even mad. I was so freaking relieved to figure out what I had done wrong that I was happy.
Then I installed Plasma, but it needs a bunch of other packages that either aren’t in the man page, or I missed them since I was pretty tired by that point. Got that all installed finally and set up, restarted, and realized that I can’t even log into KDE with a root account! Haha. I had to go back to the live CD and install sudo, and set up the sudoers file.
Holy shit man, that was the hardest time I’ve had with an install in over a decade. I’ve been doing this a long time and it usually goes pretty smoothly, but I guess my brain was in my pocket or something today. But it’s done!
KDE Plasma seems pretty slick. I still need to install my Nvidia drivers, steam, and all that jazz, but it’s way past bedtime now. I’ll do it after work tomorrow.
Oh, I installed yay too and wow, what a time saver! On my laptop I’ve been manually making packages for stuff like Firefox and whatever the whole time I’ve used it. I don’t have a lot of software on that laptop since it’s old and mainly just an Internet portal, but I’m definitely going to be using yay for that from now on.
If you’re still reading, I’m so exited to have finally made the switch and have it done. None of my friends are into this kind of stuff and my wife has no idea about any of it, so I just had to tell someone, and you seemed kind of invested earlier. Thanks for listening! Lol.
I guess I felt like that would kind of eliminate one of the benefits of Arch, being able to manually select every package that gets installed. I totally should have though, because in my frustration I installed the kde-applications package, which includes like 50 packages, including a bunch of games and stuff, instead of kde-desktop. Now I need to go through and uninstall all the ones I don’t want. Oh well! Next time.
Hey, have you ever run into an issue where the Nvidia driver is installed, and listed as working, but the Nvidia control panel doesn’t have any options? The graphics information section is completely blank. I’ve done a bunch of troubleshooting, and I’m pretty sure that I’ve completed every single requirement. I even tried a different Nvidia driver in case that was the issue, but with that one it was really clear that it is the wrong driver since it threw a bunch of errors. I’m confident that I’m running the right driver, I have grub set up to load it early, I have all of the modules listed in the intramfs config, I ran Nvidia options config and all the other stuff, but I am still seeing blank options.
If you’re on Wayland, nvidia settings doesn’t support it. Although I just checked X too and nvidia settings doesn’t have an options tab there neither. Is there a separate nvidia control panel than the nvidia x server settings?
I don’t see a different UI app for Nvidia options, just X Server Settings. So, if I can’t use that, how do I control the more advanced features of my GFX card? Command line only?
I remember searching about setting a fan curve on Wayland and iirc the ‘solution’ I had found was running the thing on an x server on a different tty. Didn’t look into overclocking
I’m replying here at the top of the thread again because it’s getting pretty crowded down there. I got steam installed and it’s working. I ran Baldur’s Gate 3, which worked flawlessly on my Pop install with Gnome, but in KDE Plasma on Arch the screen is going black for about 10 seconds at a time, then the game shows for about 5 seconds, and it goes black again. Is that the flicker issue you were talking about? It’s a pretty bad issue. I’ve been unable to resolve it so far. I’m pretty burned out working on it for now, so I’m going to take a break. But I wanted to see if that describes the flicker you were talking about or if I’m experiencing something different.
Edit: I disabled screen tearing in the KDE options and it stopped. I also made some changes to my config files, so I probably should have tested without disabling screen tearing first, but at least it’s fixed! Sweet! I have a working Arch Linux gaming setup now.
That’s not the flicker I was talking about but I do remember the screen intermittently going black in games for like half a second when the 550 driver first came out. Had to downgrade the driver to get rid of it. Eventually upgraded again and it didn’t happen so I thought it was fixed. Maybe those two or three bugs are related
Ah okay. I think I did see the flicker too when I was playing the game. It happens when changing views, like going to a loading screen, or opening a menu. That’s at least tolerable for a game like Baldur’s Gate. You said if I just resize the window it will stop?
Despite many people in this thread saying KDE, GNOME has been recently been financed to work on accessibility with the STF fund contract work, so major advancements in accessibility are likely to hit them first. They are also looking into getting more contract financing for it. KDE might be fairly equal right now, but I foresee GNOME getting more stuff sooner. Especially in regards to screen readers and just general app accessibility with changes to Libadwaita.
As someone who recently switched to Linux and doesn’t like to tinker much and doesn’t have very deep knowledge of Linux, I’ll share my experience. Whether you ultimately try or not is up to you.
Your requirements for accessibility suggests you should look into a distro with KDE Plasma as many said already. It is an extremely flexible and customizable DE.
I personally started with Mint and ended up somewhat wedging KDE in it because I didn’t like how cinnamon was handling multiple monitors. It worked but was a little rough around the edges in that setup, as it should be expected with a distro running a DE it wasn’t meant to. If you don’t mess with the DE however I’ve found Mint to be super easy and approachable. But ultimately it might not be what you need.
After doing a lot of research and comparisons I then switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with native KDE plasma. A few things took a little extra tinkering and learning to get them to work but after that it became the setup I am happy to stick with for a long while.
I have no experience with them but KUbuntu and Fedora Plasma Spin might be also good alternatives to look for.
Running games is very easy through stream and still relatively easy with Bottles, which is rather easy and straightforward to lean to use. As long as you have the right video drivers installed. I have an NVidia card which made it a little more complicated but I made it work still. My understanding is that this shouldn’t be any issues with AMD cards right out of the box.
Ultimately it will require you to learn a little here and there whenever you come across something you don’t know. But as someone who only has an extremely shallow understanding of how the OS works and basic common console commands I have found no problem so complicated that I couldn’t handle with a quick web search.
Asahi Lina is a VTuber who made the kernel-space driver for the M-series Mac GPUs. She’s currently working on making Steam run on Asahi Linux, the distro for M-series Macs.
My first distro was Ubuntu and I’ve been very happy with it. Many hate it for being bloated or because of the snap package manager, but in my uninformed opinion I think it’s a solid choice for beginners, since everything is already set up and ready to go. On my laptop I’m trying out NixOS, but I’m having more trouble setting that up and it’s better for advanced users, I believe. Many also recommended Linux Mint, which is also good for beginners, but doesn’t have the snap package manager like ubuntu does.
Kububtu is a good place to start, too. I notice that people recommend Ubuntu but some may be also including the other flavors when saying it. I think KDE is a nice DE, specially because of Dolphin.
It might? I don’t use exclusive fullscreen ever. :P I’m too ADHD for that. I always have chat windows on my second screen and am constantly tabbing out on load screen and shit.
Yes, this happens automatically for me when I launch games. I don’t remember doing anything special to set it up (Kubuntu with nVidia drivers on X11). I do mostly game in true full screen though, not “full screened window”
Proton used to disable compositing back in version 5 or 6, then one (minor) update messed it up. iirc it was reported to the issue tracker but still hasn’t been fixed. proton-ge still keeps the compositor disabled.
probably not, Linux isn’t running when you’re in Windows, and Windows isn’t running when you’re in Linux
it could, but I think you’d need a targeted attack for malware to jump from Windows to Linux, since that’s a pretty niche target
yes, if it has write access, you’re open to ransomware attacks, which are a fairly common form of malware; if your NAS has a rollback option, you’re probably fine, but definitely make sure your remote backup restore works (you do have off-site backups, right?)
If you want to be extra secure, encrypt your Linux partition. They could still corrupt your Linux partition, but they wouldn’t be able to read anything on it without your password. Both of my Linux machines (laptop and desktop) use an encrypted root partition, and they run games and whatnot just fine (I don’t notice a slowdown).
the only thing that wasn’t working {for me at the very least.} were the direct downloads from Nexus via MO2 but that’s inconsequential since you can always just install the mods manually.
but yes, MO2 works perfectly in Wine/Proton. it’s especially easy to set up a shortcut to it using Lutris. for example, installing New Vegas using the GOG install script and then editing the settings to replace NV’s executable with the MO2 executable.
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