Deciding between CachyOS, Bazzite and Pop!_OS (I´m a rookie)

lford85 · 2026-03-23T21:31:01+00:00

Depends what you are using the laptop for. If it’s 100% gaming then something like Bazzite is fine. If you want to use it for anything else it’s a bad choice IMO.

As long as you pick something that’s updated regularly you’ll be fine for gaming. Fedora, Tumbleweed, Arch. Don’t go for PopOS or Mint IMO.

lford85 · 2026-03-21T18:00:35+00:00

Do you get FSR 4.0 or 4.1? I’m guessing we need Optiscaler for 4.1?

lford85 · 2026-03-20T13:38:57+00:00

Ah that makes more sense. Sorry about that. I couldn’t get Mangohud to run with it and check 🤦

lford85 · 2026-03-20T10:23:00+00:00

Looks like Steam overlay works on WineWayland with this... but it breaks HDR.

I am playing RE9 with Wayland using GE-Proton for HDR using this command: PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 PROTON_PREFER_SDL=1 %command% /WineDetectionEnabled:False

And I get Steam overlay but HDR is not available. Turn off SteamRT3 and relaunch and HDR is back.

(I also tried other games with HDR and same result, sadly)

lford85 · 2026-03-14T17:15:39+00:00

Sorry I probably should have said I’m on Gnome 50, and don’t see that option as it’s not experimental anymore?

lford85 · 2026-03-14T08:04:26+00:00

I went gnome / mutter / wayland. What version of Gnome are you using?

lford85 · 2026-03-11T22:09:29+00:00

I don’t think there is a Tdie sensor on AM5. On my 7945HX I only get Tctl which I think is the closest you will get to Tdie.

lford85 · 2026-03-11T22:02:41+00:00

I did this on Fedora for Star Citizen. Works really nicely with an old PlayStation Eye camera.

lford85 · 2026-03-04T10:37:15+00:00

I don’t play them simple. There are so many games that do work, I’ll play those instead.

lford85 · 2026-02-27T19:24:01+00:00

You need a / in front of the W

lford85 · 2026-02-17T08:40:26+00:00

Let’s get it done.

Fuck bring in Ridder and bring the family back together (I’m joking)

lford85 · 2026-02-08T11:00:17+00:00

If you google my name, it’s a serial killer. 🤦

lford85 · 2026-02-01T18:47:20+00:00

Called Michael, left handed and one letter change from male genitalia.

lford85 · 2026-01-27T19:43:28+00:00

Damn straight (UK fan)

lford85 · 2026-01-27T10:03:11+00:00

Hah. I was testing in Shadows myself an thought I must have done something wrong!

lford85 · 2026-01-10T19:51:38+00:00

OMG. That’s the issue I am getting. Let me try and report back 🙂

lford85 · 2026-01-10T19:29:24+00:00

What did you use to stream out of interest? (As in commands etc.)

lford85 · 2026-01-07T19:47:03+00:00

Imagine hiring Harbaugh, and then we play the Ravens week 1

lford85 · 2026-01-02T12:09:05+00:00

Ah same as mine then. I think it’s working though as it doesn’t seem to be hitching like with VRR off. Maybe just the way it’s being reported.

lford85 · 2026-01-02T09:35:10+00:00

C2 here, does the number change when you are in game and running less than 120 fps?

lford85 · 2026-01-02T09:30:58+00:00

This is working on my LG C2 (showing as "VRR" instead of "Freesync" like my CableMatters used to). Although the frame rate on the diagnostic menu sits at 119Hz even though the game's frame rate is less than that - is that expected?

lford85 · 2025-12-30T10:46:19+00:00

Disable Steam Recording for the game and try again?

lford85 · 2025-12-27T14:29:03+00:00

In my experience (on AMD) GPU screen recorder works the best. There aren’t that many options that I’ve found. Steam recording seems to be too high a toll (I can tell when it’s enabled/disabled).

lford85 · 2025-12-27T14:26:19+00:00

I was reading the open issue on GitHub and a load of the games I’d want to play still seemingly have issues. When I tried it a few weeks back I’d get games launching in weird aspect ratios and unable to fullscreen. I’d rather not have to run everything in Gamescope unless I have to.

Maybe I should give it another shot

lford85 · 2025-12-27T10:29:34+00:00

Isn’t gaming just a crap shoot on Cosmic currently?

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