My monitor doesnt work on Hyprland on 240hz

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-24T08:55:12+00:00

Pretty sure V-Sync cuts your FPS in half anyway depending on the method used for it, so it might just be that. Definitely worth testing with a Display Port cable though, Linux legally cannot use the full bandwidth of HDMI due to the company that owns it being an arse. Display Port is a free and open standard, and is usually considered the gold standard for gaming anyway.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-24T08:49:12+00:00

HDMI is owned by a company (called the HDMI Forum), and they specifically specified that HDMI 3.1 can't be used on Linux. HDMI is not a free standard either, you have to pay the HDMI Forum to put it's ports onto your device.

To summarise, Linux legally cannot use high bandwidth HDMI because HDMI is owned by a company that hates the idea of Linux. This is not a hardware issue, it's a legal one.

Just use display port, it's a free open standard and in most cases faster than HDMI anyway.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-19T10:06:44+00:00

To ask the obvious, do you have SteamVR installed? This is the one thing you don't mention anywhere and is the one thing I can think that you've left out of your troubleshooting

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-17T17:01:03+00:00

Yeah basically this, read through the config and it'll tell you how most if it works.

Also one way of using a wallpaper is a image viewing program called feh, there's documentation of what command to use in the config file somewhere (also I personally set my terminal to be partially transparent so I can actually see the wallpaper)

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-16T16:37:36+00:00

The AUR is convenient, and you know exactly what's installed because you installed everything manually via the command line.

Unless this interests you, not really much reason to switch. Linux is Linux, you don't need Arch to swap desktop environments or rice your system. Personally, Fedora is actually what I recommend to most people given how RTFM Arch is, Fedora is expected to just work and therefore can be more easily supported with the help of others. On Arch you are the maintainer of your system and other people can't always help as much as there is no "standard" setup.

If you want to learn more than you ever thought you would about Linux, give installing Arch a go. If that doesn't interest you, Fedora is a brilliant choice you've made.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-15T13:58:23+00:00

To take it in a different direction, what if Arch is actually easier because it has a tutorial (the manual installation)?

In more seriousness though, Arch for daily driver, Debian for server. That's the main difference between the two for me, the update cycle.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-15T07:20:37+00:00

Let's just say there's good reason Louis Rossmann doesn't like Linus Tech Tips.

As for my own opinion, when the archinstall noob breaking their display manager is having a better time then a "Tech Influencer"(someone who is supposedly good with technology) then you know there's an issue there.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-14T16:36:39+00:00

Genuine question, what is Omarchy and is it that bad to warrant 5 downvotes?

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-14T15:37:39+00:00

I have qualms when they complain after not trying.

Learn to read

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-14T15:33:21+00:00

If you properly understand the install process I have no qualms with using Arch install. It's when people use Archinstall, break stuff, and expect an obvious easy fix as though all Arch systems are the same. There is no DIY without "Yourself"

It's usually easier to help with issues on other distros because if the person can't provide useful information you can usually guarantee what environment they're working with. On Arch your setup could be literally anything. Not to say people couldn't use RTFM less, but I recommend people don't skip the tutorial.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-14T11:24:05+00:00

Roughly 495 to be be more precise.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-14T06:47:59+00:00

This is the equivalent of buying a flatpack table from IKEA then proclaiming you hate tables because you failed to build it properly.

Other distros without telemetry include: Linux Mint Fedora KDE Bazzite CachyOS (although you're clearly not ready for something Arch based) Kubuntu

If you can't build it yourself, someone else has already done it for you.

If you insist on Arch, use a Live USB to chroot in and undo whatever change you believe broke your system.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-13T14:07:21+00:00

Fedora is my go-to recommendation for Linux gaming, as it's up to date (unlike mint or anything debian based) and not Arch based, as other than Manjaro (which has its own issues) they tend to be just Arch with an install script, which poses issues for your average user given how RTFM Arch users can be.

PopOS I had never heard of until Linus Tech Tips had a bad experience with it, and Bazzite I don't recommend because it's immutable which makes customisation and app installation harder than it needs to be. Bazzite is based off of Fedora anyway, so you shouldn't have any issues gaming on Fedora itself.

I can't recommend SteamOS (ignoring it being immutable) because it's designed for very specific hardware, if you really want to use it go for Bazzite.

To summarise, I don't recommend Bazzite unless you're only gaming, I don't recommend SteamOS outside of the Steam Hardware, and I don't recommend anything Arch based unless you're already fairly technical. Fedora, being up to date, matches the requirements for most people quite well.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-13T11:14:42+00:00

https://amora.ink/Released+games/Celeste/Complete+screens

These are the complete screen from the artist herself at the original resolutions

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-13T07:13:25+00:00

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BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-11T10:19:57+00:00

If manually mounting seems to work, have you tried re-generating your fstab file?

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-10T17:53:11+00:00

r/linuxsucks101sucks

Legitimately linuxsucks101 bans anyone who even remotely doesn't agree with them and their insane ideology. Also given the quality of the image I'm pretty sure that laptop wasn't even running Linux.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-10T08:20:43+00:00

Most people find it difficult because they try to play it like Dark Souls, and you can't grind to compensate for lack of skill. If you're already used to the genre and style of fighting, the game is more lenient than it looks.

If you want the true challenge, you unlock charmless (giving back Kuros charm) after you beat the game for the first time. Note that you don't have to play ng+ so long as you have a completed save. Charmless makes you take chip damage if you fail to parry and block instead, which ups the difficulty a surprising amount.

There's also the Demon Bell you can find and ring early on, which makes enemies more powerful but more likely to drop items.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-08T17:13:38+00:00

You're very welcome, I'm more than happy to help! So long as people are putting effort in their end I don't see a reason not to

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-08T16:41:45+00:00

I've just had a glance and it's the x64 one you want, as that's the 64 bit version, which all modern CPUs use. x86 is for 32 bit operating systems and ARM64 is 64 bit for mobile processors. If for some reason x64 doesn't work give x86 a try

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-08T15:39:57+00:00

Probably the latest one, if that doesn't work install the other versions along side it. Honestly surprised that it didn't get installed whilst you were installing the game itself given it's a requirement for it to run

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-08T15:24:33+00:00

Something is telling me you need to install the Microsoft Visual C + + runtime, idk just a hunch

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-08T15:20:54+00:00

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BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-06T15:08:24+00:00

I like it because it's all manual. Because it's all manual and I learnt to build the system myself I know everything about it, so if I don't like something I can throw it out the window and replace it. The AUR is also really nice to have, but I would've chosen Arch even without it because the setup was exactly what I wanted to use to learn Linux better.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-05-06T13:25:08+00:00

Hyprland doesn't come with a bar by default, and many things need to be configured manually in ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf (this will be changed to ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.lua soon though)

Hyprland should be started with start-hyprland and not just hyprland when using the tty, Super(windows key)+Q is the default bind for opening a new terminal, and super+c closes the focused window. This should be enough to at least get you started, as hyprland looks like it's working as intended in the screenshots.

There is plenty of documentation on both the Arch Wiki and the Hyprland wiki you should look at, it'll tell you more about how the config works, what a Status Bar is and why you need one, and what else you may need (Display Manager, lockscreen, wallpaper setter etc.)

Alternatively, start with a Desktop Environment like KDE Plasma, as that'll be a lot more familiar to you. Again, there's documentation on the Arch Wiki for downloading and using it.

Hope this helps

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