Nice list, though I would remove Manjaro from that. Manjaro is far from stable, they just delay Arch packages without even testing and it will bork itself in no time or will cause some problems at least.

Anyway, I see you have included Fedora based, so I would like to suggest OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I installed it on my sister’s PC and she’s been happily using it for some time now. Previously she borked Manjaro and brake updates on Pop OS just by using the system via GUI. That didn’t happen on Tumbleweed yet and I don’t think it will. Even if something would happen, she can revert everything by selecting a recovery image from GRUB and continue using it.

No problem! Voice Attack was a good addition to ED but you’ll get used to it I guess. :)

Not sure about EDMC but Voice Attack won’t (and can’t) run on Linux since it runs on Windows’ own voice recognition system.

I guess it’s time to try Hyprland again.

Not at all! Developers should stay away from that abomination, especially open-source devs.

Let’s hope it will be on Steam with version 2.0.

I know but I read somewhere that it could be related to Nvidia’s Vulkan 1.3 implementation in their driver. It was fine when the version was 1.2. Generally cards without ray-tracing but somehow some of the older cards are fine apparently.

Thank you for the reply!

I just wrote the details here: https://programming.dev/comment/9284416

What is your driver version, you might be the first person I met who doesn’t have problems. If your driver is older than 535, that’s normal though.

I have 1660Ti and same things happens with 1060 on a different PC. Doesn’t happen with 470 series driver for example.

Thank you for the reply!

The problem is, when I try to run anything with Proton 8+, it immediately bottlenecks the GPU and everything kinda freezes because of it. Trying to change workspace and closing the game takes time, but at least it’s not impossible.

By the way, Proton 8 was fine until driver version 535 (or 530, memories getting fuzzy).

It’s independent from distro, DE or WM, and happens with every game. However, I’m on EndeavourOS, using bspwm, the game I currently try is 100% Orange Juice (it works fine, it just cannot connect to Steam after some update and apparently it works fine with Proton 8), and my driver revision is 550.67 but it’s been like this for some time.

Also tried LMDE with Cinnamon so it’s definitely Nvidia. Someone said NVK doesn’t have problems like that but I don’t want go that route yet because I can play almost everything with Proton 7.

Don’t know about Java part but their previous engine was GameMaker 2 I think.

No idea where is that in Linux Mint (Cinnamon) but you probably have a “focus follows cursor” setting somewhere. If you manage to disable it, you will only switch focus by clicking.

Personally I use bspwm and instead of switching between windows, I switch between workspaces. I also have focus follows cursor setting enabled and it’s essential for my workflow, however it can be disabled.

Hmm, in that case you might need 32-bit libraries some other user mentioned here.

You have a 16xx series card, Proton 8+ have a problem with these cards (thanks to Nvidia), so switch to an older Proton version like Proton 7, should work.

This looks like you can solve this by switching to an older Proton version.

I use btop + nvtop in tmux as well. Though btop recently added a GPU section, not detailed as nvtop but does the job if you only want to run btop.

Stop trying to make me feel old. :(

Ah I see, thanks for the reply! Guess I can proudly say 100% Penguin then. :)

Is this from Steam Review? Because mine doesn’t have that part.

Since that 545 drivers, I cannot play with Proton 8 at all. Open source drivers don’t have this problem (their problem is performance), so it seems Nvidia f*cked up as usual. However first time hearing this. Can you play native games at least?

Also checked Wikipedia and it says “Newell spent 13 years at Microsoft as the producer of the first three releases of the Windows operating systems.” and he stayed at MS until found Valve which is indeed 1996. I guess that was some kind of a joke?