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Hi all, I bought a gaming PC with the intention of installing Linux to play recent games. I chose AMD for the GPU because I know the drivers are more optimized on Linux.

After receiving and assembling my machine, I installed Fedora without any problem. I found a lot of software on Github to replace the proprietary software for my AIO and headphones. Everything worked the first time except.... Steam! Unable to launch it, black window which restarted in a loop.

After searching on the internet, I found that it was enough to modify PrefersNonDefaultGPU on steam to solve my problem (but I understand that ordinary people do not want to bother with this kind of hack and prefer the windows experience that works out of the box).

Then I installed Cyberpunk and.... well the game runs at 120fps in ultra, what more can I say... Oh yes, the keyboard preset is in Qwerty even though I have an azerty keyboard (sorry Baguette) and in the first hour of play, I was able to notice a bug in a rather disturbing shadow/light and in the drops of water on a windshield which appeared and disappeared in a strange way.

So with my €1500 machine I got a little upset... and I wanted to install Windows out of curiosity.

Installation is...complicated! No driver for my network card, a ton of software that I don't need, in short, Windows...

I installed steam, launched Cyberpunk and... my keyboard is recognized, 120 fps too (I am offered raytracing which does not interest me and makes me lose fps but it is available) and in the first hour of play NONE bug.

So here I am, I hate Windows, but it runs my games better than Linux and I'm really lost. I've just discovered Nobara, I would have loved to try it but I'm tired of starting the first 3 hours of cyberpunk again and I'm convinced that I'll have some graphical bugs with it.

(also another problem, there are too many Linux distributions, too much choice kills choice)

TDLD: I bought an expensive computer to play under Linux, but a few bugs made me reluctantly install Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Won't speak for anyone else but I've been running ChimeraOS for a couple of weeks now and it's WAAAAAY better than using Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (12 children)

I decided to install LM Cinnamon as the main OS on my new PC, and I can't get GOG Cyberpunk to work for the life of me - tried Lutris where it doesn't launch at all, and Heroic where it launches but has no sound. I'm ready to give up and go back to Windows at this point.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I chose a distro with Steam preinstalled, it was ualinux (not maintained any more so i'm not recommending it). If your primary use case is games I recommend a gaming specific distro, everything works out of the box.

Also, how do the French people walk in games? ZSAD?

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[–] kttnpunk -1 points 9 months ago

This is what you get for using fedora in 2023. I have no issues with garuda, lutris and proton: it's been at least a month since I've tried to play a game and failed. Which is alright imo- I don't wanna play any given game if it doesn't support Linux EAC in the first place

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Affinity Photo and Capture One are the only things keeping me from migrating. Yes, I tried your GIMP and RAWTherapy. They’re horrendous.

[–] doink 1 points 9 months ago

I have a windows VM for when I need affinity products. It works well. I barely use it but it is there if I need to.

[–] adam_y 1 points 9 months ago

If affinity launched Linux versions of their software I don't think I'd ever need to log into windows again.

Publisher is brilliant and there's an absolute lack of good typesetting software on Linux. I can't do my job on it.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Reading your post I'd say you should've installed Ubuntu. Don't know why you chose Fedora over anything else if you don't know what you were doing. The problems you faced were all likely already fixed in Ubuntu long ago.

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