I have been using TW (and its predecessors) for around 17 years and have no major complaints at all! KDE Plasma is my preferred desktop and TW comes with that option as a default. Wayland is available but still has a few niggles with KDE Plasma in my experience.
TW will play both indie and mainstream games with no problem and comes with many repos of up-to-date packages. CoolerControl is a good app for setting up your Kraken if necessary. Your GPU should work out-of-the-box.
TW supports Secure Boot and should detect it when setting up. My advice for installation is to create a bootable USB stick with the network install version of TW and go from there. The GUI allows you to select a default installation or set things up just how you like them.
I’ve been on TW for 3-4 years now (something like my 4th distro? Been on Linux for 15-ish years), and it’s great. I used KDE for the first 2-3 years until I replaced my NVIDIA card with an AMD card, and now I’m on GNOME because it has much better Wayland support.
I have no complaints about TW whatsoever. My main complaint is that openSUSE seems adamant about eliminating Leap, so I’ll have to figure out MicroOS sometime in the next year or so to migrate my servers. But that has nothing to do with TW or gaming, so it should be irrelevant for OP.
It has for ages, even on X11 IIRC. I happen to have two monitors, one with VRR and the other without, and I needed Wayland to get that to work properly.
Idk, I don’t play competitive games, and I don’t particularly value high FPS gaming (my monitor only goes to 95hz, which is plenty for the games I play).
I have seen that KDE supposedly allows turning it off now, so it’s possible GNOME also does since GNOME seems to generally have better Wayland support. But I’m really not sure, I just generally leave vsync on in games.
I tried the network installer but it keeps failing (i think because of maintenance --> status.opensuse.org/#scheduled-36 ) First of all, i do like the first few hours on TW (installed it on my notebook because cant boot my main machine right now and so i can try to tinker a bit with it).
And yes i do have a few question :)
But first of all i need to know if there is an app which can create WebApps like the WebApp application from mint. I know that i can create such things with chrome but is there an extra app for that available for TW? I searched the web but didn’t find a good solution.
The other things i want to try out first before asking, but i’m realy shure, that there will be a few other things i need to ask :)
Is bullet heaven the name for a bullet hell with character progression? Cuz that feels about right to me, lol. I loved bullet hell games as a kid, but I just can’t anymore on the ones that require me to build my own skillset to do well at them. I’d rather just put in the time now to make my character good at them. I find myself playing all the “used to be hard game type but now has rpg mechanics” nowadays.
Basically the “roguelite” to their original “roguelike”. Like yeah your own skill still helps, but all it does is saves time now, you will eventually get there no matter how bad you are at the game. I used to eventually beat those older games, but as time wore on it got to a point where there was just stuff I couldn’t do anymore, no matter how much practice or even state save scumming I put in. Even going back to older games I had already mastered.
So yeah, I definitely am glad it’s become pretty prevalent now that those games have evolved to be more accessible. I miss being able to play the hard versions, but at least I can still play something like them.
I would say, when playing games, if you get audio crackling, try a different kernel such as Liquorix (software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home…). I’ve had that issue on my hardware across multiple distros, and this kernel solves it.
I believe it’s something with a kernel parameter regarding scheduling, specifically as noted in this features list (liquorix.net/#features)
High Resolution Scheduling: 1000hz tick rate for precise low jitter task scheduling.
You may or may not get this issue with your hardware, but if you do, then this is something you could try.
I used to have problems with audio crackling. I’d restart pulseaudio, and it would resolve. I haven’t had that problem for a long time now though. I think it’s been resolved.
Secure Boot is definitely possible with oS TW. You can select to enable it on install.
With AMD you will be using the open-source drivers for gaming which means openSUSE will give you the benefit of the latest and greatest drivers for best performance.
Honestly just install it with your DE of choice and install Steam. Even for non-Steam games I find that loading them through Steam to use Proton is typically better than setting up Wine independently.
Install proton-up flatpak, install steam,lutris/heroic, whatever you want to use for the other stores. That has worked for me on any distro.
Try open-RGB for RGB control.
Your hardware isn’t bleeding edge, so older packages aren’t really that much of an issue unless you suffer from FOMO or just have to have that 1.1.2 feature, which case I found Flatpak delivers a fair amount of up-to-date apps.
The LCD display might need a Windows VM just to jump into when you want to manage that or look into opencorsairlink: github.com/audiohacked/OpenCorsairLink
I like OpenSuse TW. It’s up to date, and I’ve not had many issues with gaming. I did have an issue with a dodgy texture in No Man’s Sky, but it runs stuff like Valheim (Steam), Project Zomboid (Steam), Minecraft, Rimworld (Lutris) good for me. I don’t really do any AAA, so cannot really comment on those.
Halls of Torment gets my vote. As usual with the genre it’s pretty grindy so I lost interest, but it’s probably the best vampire survivors-like I’ve tried yet. Works flawlessly on Proton btw.
I hope you already solved your problem. I have a 7800xt like you and bought it a week after it launched, I had a distro based on Ubuntu with xanmod kernel and Mesa from oibaf PPA So after I plugged in the GPU, I had to download the latest firmware.git and extract it on the right path, after this I just rebooted and everything was working good.
Just for future reference: if you’re on any major Linux distribution, use the drivers they provide in their repositories. For a consumer AMD card, you don’t have to install anything. Nvidia have their proprietary drivers, but still avoid the ones from the website
I’m not saying this doesn’t happen. I’m saying that if the driver is the actual problem, the solution is different from what you’d expect on a different OS
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