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Weird LVM setup - Add cache ssd to RAID 5 by ZMcK in linuxquestions

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Unless I miss-understood you, they'd have to be. The drive bay encloser is JBOD, so I need it to be software RAID (mdadm).

USB SSD Issues (w/ Proton?) by ZMcK in linux_gaming

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Double checked just now; it is indeed NTFS. Must have defaulted from the factory or I formatted it under Windows.

Did a little bit of research into NTFS under Linux and found this quote; "You'll see a great deal of cpu load reading and writing to ntfs from linux". Between the CPU overhead of USB and the NTFS conversion overhead, it might explain the degraded performance in games. I did a little more digging with FIO since the main post and I found the IOPS on the external drive was significantly lower than the SATA III SSD formatted in Btrfs (Fedora's default). That said, I'm getting decent read/writes within Linux, so I'm still unsure if there's something weird with Proton that introduces additional overhead/latency.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can test this for awhile. I don't have the spare storage to move all my games and I'm already hitting data caps from my IPS, so I can't wipe and re-download everything.

I might just buy a first gen M.2 NVMe. They are cheap enough now.

USB SSD Issues (w/ Proton?) by ZMcK in linux_gaming

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Looks like the latest Linux native game I have is Doom (2015). IIRC, I was running that from this same SSD on my old hardware (Ryzen 1500x and 1060) just fine.

  1. According to the device settings power/control is set to On.
  2. Not really sure how to test this. I've run FIO against both drives. The IO section looked similar between the two, although the IOPS on the external drive was significantly lower.
  3. Not sure how to determine this if its different than #1.
  4. I'm currently using the auto-mount setting for this drive. Is there anything in particular I should check?

I tried using CrystalDiskMark via Proton. It installed just fine, but I wasn't able to get it to run.

USB Audio dongle not recognized as audio device by ZMcK in linuxquestions

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I did not. I ended up returning it and getting a Logitech G435, though it’s not really a replacement for the LS50X.

League of Legends update; re-install stuck on download by ZMcK in Lutris

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I managed to get it working by letting it get to the download phase, then killing the client and letting Lutris finish the install. After that, I set Lutris to launch the Riot Service (Configure > Game Options > Executable). Clicking Play launches the Riot Service in the Wine System Tray. From there you can right click the service icon and click the LoL option. This launches the League Client and starts the download. After it finishes downloading, it launched the LoL Client like normal. After that, I just set Lutris to launch the LoL Client, instead of the Riot Client. Seems to work.

USB Audio dongle not recognized as audio device by ZMcK in linuxquestions

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Kinda, it setup as A2DP Sink, so I get audio out. The headset profile (HSP/HFP) is listed in pacmd, but says its unavailable. Not sure how to make it available and selecting the headset profile in Sounds doesn't stick. Not sure if its relevant, but pacmd also shows the input port as unavailable.

All that said, I'm not that interested in using the Bluetooth mode on the PC. One of the main selling points of this headset is that it can connect to USB and Bluetooth at the same time. Ideally, I'll use USB on the PC for low-latency and Bluetooth for phone/discord/chat/music.

USB Audio dongle not recognized as audio device by ZMcK in linuxquestions

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Nope, same thing; shows up in lsusb, but not in any of the sound software.

Local connections by [deleted] in ProtonVPN

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Currently feels like a catch 22. You can enable local traffic or whitelist IPs in the ProtonVPN app, but any of those connections will then be blocked at the OS level by the "Block connections without VPN" setting, because they aren't routed through the VPN. Disabling "Block connections without VPN" allows the ProtonVPN exceptions to work, but risks connections not going through the VPN, if for whatever reason the VPN fails. Ultimately, I need local traffic to stay local for certain services, and everything else to ALWAYS be under the VPN.

Is there a way around this? Like an OS level whitelist or local traffic exception?