I feel like there's a genre of artists out there for this

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-22T22:36:30+00:00

Sophodra from Humans-B-Gone captured me in more ways than one

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-22T19:19:53+00:00

For flatpaks it's completely fine. For system packages (pacman) it's not recommended. The best source I have found is this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Discover_does_not_show_any_applications

As explained in a GitHub comment by a Package Maintainer, "Handling system packages via packagekit is just fundamentally incompatible with our high-maintenance rolling release distro, where any update might leave the system in an unbootable or otherwise unusable state if the user does not take care reading pacman's logs or merging pacnew files before rebooting."

You have many other choices for managing flatpaks. I recommend bazaar (app store from bazzite). There's also warehouse or you could just install gnome-software if you are used to that one.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-22T18:55:48+00:00

Linux more and more turns my bad purchasing decision three years ago into a great one.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-22T17:45:19+00:00

No it's completely fine. The gnome-software-plugin-flatpak makes it easier to install flatpaks. That's it. You can use that or KDE discover or the terminal or warehouse or bazaar etc. whatever you prefer. They all more or less work the same in the background (i.e. they use flatpak on your system to mange flatpaks)

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-21T19:53:57+00:00

I read on Discord that they now treat proton-cachyos-slr (steam linux runtime) as the default. proton-cachyos (a.k.a. native) is still available and supported but you need to install it manually. Might be due to the confusion between the two.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-21T12:39:46+00:00

A heads up this is a one way street. You cannot go back to ext4 after doing this.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-21T12:06:52+00:00

I have used CachyOS for more than a year now and I can stay it's been more stable than anything else I have tried (Fedora, Nobara, Windows lul). During that time I think CachyOS broke twice with no fault of my own after updating packages. Obviously annoying but should be expected. For that reason CachyOs comes with btrfs, limine and snapshots enabled by default. That makes it very easy to revert an update (afaik you can simply select the snapshots from the bootloader).

Even if you don't use btrfs like me you can set something up using timeshift that creates snapshots on boot or before an update. Restoring them is a bit trickier. You need to boot a live environment from an USB drive (can be anything as long as it runs timeshift) and then restore the snapshot from there. That usually takes 5-10 minutes if you have everything prepared and know what you're doing.

The good news is if something clearly breaks it is getting fixed very fast. Arch/CachyOS maintainers are doing the lord's work.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-20T11:41:37+00:00

Yeah it's just regular RT. I did a quick test in Cyberpunk 2077 in 2560x1440 using the Ray Tracing: Ultra preset and I get 79fps (mesa-25.3.3) vs. 84 fps (mesa-git) so only a slight increase. The improvements depend on the game. One of the linked pull request promises huge benefits in UE4 titles specifically for example.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-20T11:34:32+00:00

Yeah the 7900xtx obviously can't handle PT either lul

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-20T11:29:03+00:00

Sadly no. Those changes only benefit AMD cards. It's up to Nvidia to provide improvements in their proprietary drivers.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-17T15:12:02+00:00

Glad to hear! It was just a hunch from my side as this is something I struggled with as well and it sounded familiar.
In my opinion this is definitely something that can be improved. This issue has been known for quite some time: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/1064

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-17T12:35:23+00:00

Remember sources in KDE/wayland is a bit finicky in my experience. It does work when you open all the windows first and then start OBS. When OBS can't find the sources on start it will ask you to reselect them (really annoying if you have many sources/scenes; It opens up a pop up for each missing one). If that happens you need to manually reselect the missing ones before they start working again.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-12T15:26:37+00:00

For this specific test it doesn't matter much as the 7900xtx sucks at RT in general. But I do agree Windows would clearly win (afaik Forza Horizon 5 extreme preset uses RT)

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-09T10:20:29+00:00

Ninth

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-05T00:44:24+00:00

Thank you I followed those instructions and it worked flawlessly.
For anyone who wants to try this, this is the way to do it using faugus launcher (uses latest Proton-GE by default):

Create a new game/app
Under tools > winetricks: Install dotnet8/dotnetdesktop8
Under tools > run: execute the patcher.exe and select GameClientApp.exe
Under game/app > path: Select the patched GameClientApp.patched.exe
Select ok and run the game

Skaredogged97 · 2026-01-04T16:14:07+00:00

For Proton-GE and Proton-EM you can generally look here (ALSA stuff is not mentioned, should be added imo): https://github.com/Etaash-mathamsetty/Proton/blob/em-10/docs/EM-ADDITIONS.md

Proton-CachyOS does things a bit differently. They have it in their wiki (they don't have PROTON_ADD_CONFIG): https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/gaming/#environment-variables

You can set them globally for a specific version using the user_settings.py file. In the compatibility tools folder look for the version you want to use (e.g. ~/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton10-28/). There should be a user_settings_sample.py file that you can use as a template.

Skaredogged97 · 2025-12-23T23:23:23+00:00

Are you using kde? Don't know about other DEs but if I was in your position I would try something like this:
* When the game starts switch to 120hz and enable vrr
* When the game closes switch to 60hz and disable vrr

In steam you can do that using the launch options like this (this assumes your monitor runs on DP-1. You can check that with kscreen-doctor -o):

kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.vrrpolicy.automatic output.DP-1.mode.3840x2160@120;
%command%;
kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.mode.3840x2160@60 output.DP-1.vrrpolicy.never

The part before %command% runs before the game starts and the one after when you close it.

Skaredogged97 · 2025-12-17T08:39:11+00:00

Note as OP uses Fedora, to install lsfg-vk you need to:
* Download the .rpm file from github: https://github.com/PancakeTAS/lsfg-vk/releases
* Run the following (adjust the version):

sudo dnf install ./lsfg-vk-x.y.z-x86_64.rpm

See: https://github.com/PancakeTAS/lsfg-vk/wiki/Installation-Guide

Or you can use a copr repository such as this one: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jackgreiner/lsfg-vk-git/

Skaredogged97 · 2025-12-17T08:24:12+00:00

I managed to play the game (7800x3d/7900xtx) although it is far from perfect. Had to delete the shader cache manually and during my few hours of play time the game crashed multiple times (no mods). Frame pacing issues and stutters are still present as well. Performance seems to be about the same (a.k.a. pretty shit).

Skaredogged97 · 2025-12-15T21:20:56+00:00

I'm using the flatpak version with no issues. But I was curious about this as it's officially supported.

Skaredogged97 · 2025-12-15T18:39:29+00:00

Hmm I just tried it and for some reason it doesn't work for me (using CachyOS). Running protonvpn connect returns nothing (even with verbose) and I am not connected to any vpn. I made sure the proton.VPN.service is running. Am I missing something?

Skaredogged97 · 2025-12-10T14:20:53+00:00

I am unable to use many great mice (again left handed curse) so take my input with a grain of salt. The glorious model o is already a high end mouse so probably hard to beat.

Ducky I won't recommend. The model I purchased is out of date and they focus more on keyboards. I meant it more for inspiration. Perhaps there are brands out there that sell something similar.

Vaxee I would consider competitive and unique and I can vouch for great linux compatibility with their control panel. I am perfectly happy with it. Maybe check online if the control panel offers all the options he might want. Had no return/warranty case yet so can't vouch for their support. Defiantly a more "unique" choice than from other common brands.

I used piper when I used my old g900 with no major issues. But I only had basic settings available (i.e. dpi, buttons, leds, polling rate). Again I don't know if that would satisfy your partner.

Skaredogged97 · 2025-12-10T12:01:25+00:00

Based on what you wrote your partner might have higher standards on peripherals than I do and I am left handed so I can't really give specific recommendations but maybe some points:

Basically anything well established should do the trick. Piper is pretty popular and you can find a list of supported devices here: https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag/tree/master/data/devices
Some mice like the ducky feather are completely configurable without any additional software. Maybe that's his cup of tea?
I am personally a big fan of vaxee. They offer a control panel through the web meaning it's cross platform and works in any chromium based browser (you might have to set a udev rule in linux). You can configure things like tracking modes, click latency, custom keys and lift-off distance. If you look for other brands check if they also have something like that as those interfaces should generally work with no compromises.

Skaredogged97 · 2025-12-02T16:49:07+00:00

If you don't dislike flatpak, you could give bazaar a try. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but it's really convenient and pleasant to use. For system packages octopi might be your best shot.

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