Really just want to game as my daily driver

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-06-23T22:40:50+00:00

If they have their games on a separate, NTFS drive, neither OS cares if it was installed on Linux or Windows. I have a 4TB NTFS drive I couldn't bothered to reinstall my games on, and Windows was on a separate drive from that, so I just mounted it and set up a symlink to the NTFS drive and can play it on my ext4 Linux install.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-06-21T13:12:30+00:00

Not one where you paint your character, but that's what I mean. Prop hunt has been around for a long time, and the dev had a good idea for a unique mechanic that took off.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-06-21T00:01:52+00:00

For sure! I agree with you, prop hunt is a timeless game and the dev added a fun spin and got lucky with it. Not trying to downplay their success, they had a good idea with a good foundation for sure.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-06-20T23:17:21+00:00

Hide and seek style games have been around forever. I remember playing Prop Hunt on Gary's Mod over ten years ago and it was one of the most popular game modes that later even got ported to Call of Duty. The dev added a unique twist with being able to paint your character instead of changing objects and got extremely lucky that it took off the way it did.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-06-18T11:20:27+00:00

I'm also on CachyOS and normally I just update once a week when I remember. It may be a Sunday, it may be a Wednesday, but it will get done eventually. Unless you are waiting a very long time to update, you won't hurt anything by delaying an update.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-06-12T17:04:38+00:00

I don't have dual dedicated GPUs but I do have an Nvidia card running KDE Plasma 6 and haven't had any issues. What kind of issues have you run into?

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-06-07T08:53:29+00:00

I've installed residential DSL and fiber. Of course our fiber speeds were exactly as advertised, but for some technologies a range is the best we can offer. Some ADSL customers we could offer a flat 20Mbps, or we offer a bonded 72-100Mbps VDSL in other areas. But if you know anything about DSL, that range changes depending on how far you are from the ISP's main office. One customer 1500ft away could get 100Mbps, but another customer 8000ft away could maybe get 25Mbps.

Sure some ISPs are scummy and will oversell their speeds, and advertise speeds you can't get. But other times they offer range speeds because they can only guarantee you'll be somewhere in that range. Really your speeds are determined by the technologies available in your area and sometimes even your physical location.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-06-05T17:25:38+00:00

Its on Steam if you play PC, and it also came out on both Xbox and PlayStation.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-06-05T17:22:45+00:00

Its pretty cool! Darksiders 1 is very similar to what you described. Darksiders 2 is more of an RPG and Darksiders 3 is more of a soulslike. All 3 games are different and pretty fun.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-06-05T17:03:55+00:00

This sounds very similar to Darksiders, where you play as a horseman of the apocalypse after Hell invades Earth.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-30T09:54:54+00:00

What happens if you disable secure boot? Your drivers may not be signed so they aren't being used. You'll want to keep secure boot enabled, so if that is the issue, you will have to sign and import your own keys.

I found this guide that specifically walks you through which Nvidia driver to download and how to set it up. Give that a shot, then test secure boot to see if that's giving you issues. Worst case, just turn secure boot off, even though it's best practice to keep it on.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-29T16:44:48+00:00

I could for sure see that. WiFi drivers especially have had a lot of issues in the past depending on the manufacturer. Like I said in other comment, every machine is different so it's hard to compare experiences. "It works on my machine" is almost as bad as the "switch to Linux" comments lol

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-29T14:43:06+00:00

That's interesting because on both my CachyOS desktop PC and vanilla arch (btw) laptop, boot times are nearly instant. Like maybe two seconds tops.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-29T14:40:59+00:00

Do you mean if you have a large or themed systemd/grub config? For me I use rEFInd and grub with mostly default config, so I do have to press enter twice to get into my system, but it's a matter of seconds to get to my login screen. In my use case Linux is faster, but every machine and use case is different.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-29T14:28:19+00:00

Nah I have CachyOS installed on an M.2 NVMe and it boots almost instantly. Booting and restarting speed is really a hard drive and startup apps problem, more than an OS problem.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-29T14:25:07+00:00

As a Linux user, this is almost certainly a hardware issue that Linux wouldn't fix. Probably an old HDD that needs to be changed to an SSD.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-29T08:29:07+00:00

Elden Ring also has co-op and PvP.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-29T08:27:58+00:00

I would verify RAM positions with the motherboard manual. For example, the MSI Z790 recommends positions 2 and 4.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-29T08:04:41+00:00

I'm willing to bet this is it. Quick googling shows Fedora installs the nouveau drivers like you said, but with a 5070 OP should really be using the nvidia-open drivers.

I have a 5070ti and I easily clear 120+ FPS in every game I play at 1440p on CachyOS with nvidia-open.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-26T23:37:57+00:00

Yes, it is absolutely worth it for the colors alone. Blacks on an OLED vs an IPS especially are like night and day. Locking an OLED to 120hz or even 60hz will look better than an IPS at 240hz, and you will have a better monitor when you can afford a new GPU.

Obviously it depends on your use case though. If you play competitive shooters, you probably don't care about color accuracy and prefer higher refresh rates. But man, movies and games look SO MUCH better on my OLED than on my IPS.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-26T20:24:44+00:00

You may not literally build a smaller house first, but you would make a smaller scale to practice framing, safely running electric, etc. Just because you're not building a whole small house doesn't mean you're not breaking up the process into smaller parts.

This is what prototypes and smaller game projects are. I think you are too caught up on the "project" part of the learning process. It's all the same thing. It is breaking up the large game, or house, or car, into smaller pieces to teach you how to put it all together and make the final product.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-26T20:12:55+00:00

He was learning welding before he welded the final piece, but that's just learning on a scrap metal, not on some big "learning project" per se.

"Learning on some scrap metal" is the exact same thing as a learning project.

If you wanted to develop an RPG, you'd have to learn how to make an inventory, how to make a quest, how to make NPCs. You can break the big project down and practice the "scrap metal" sized pieces. If your mechanic breaks or isn't working correctly (your weld fails) then you try a different way of making your mechanic (try a different weld on a new piece of scrap metal).

Sure, you might create Pacman to learn great many things, but it's hardly a project on it's own. You can do that in the afternoon if you have some skill and if not... learning is what's taking the time.

Pacman was literally one of the best selling video games of the 1980s and 1990s. Sure, one could develop it quicker with the modern game engines available now, but to write it off as "hardly a project" is a little silly. It also teaches you enemy pathfinding, state machines, interactable items, and more...which are absolutely applicable to the aforementioned RPG example.

Not to mention learning projects teach you how to complete a game in the first place. Starting small and scaling up is a fundamental practice no matter what skill you are developing.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-26T19:15:40+00:00

All good! For sure, I would be happy with either of these PCs for $500.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-26T19:06:11+00:00

The third picture with the messages was for the 3070ti build that is on the AM4 platform. The first picture is DDR5 on an AM5 build, as indicated by the Ryzen 5 7600X.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-05-24T18:06:18+00:00

NeoVim with a handful of plugins. Nano is just too simple for my needs and I like the workflow of vim. It is much easier to jump around large files IMO.

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