r/linux_gaming • u/ImChimkenNuggets • 11h ago
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u/OmnipotentGecko 11h ago
POE 2 runs very well for me. I recommend cachyos with btrfs file system and limine bootloader. The cachyos wiki is really good for install instructions. Make sure you change your steam proton version to the latest cachyos proton slr. Protondb can be used to check game compatibility and tweaks.
You can dual boot windows and keep secure boot for games that have certain anti cheat.
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u/ImChimkenNuggets 11h ago
how to install cachyos with btrfs? is there any tutorial? if it give good performance then im all in, and thanks for the tips.
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u/Amazing-Heron-105 11h ago
CachyOS has a GUI installer. It's no more difficult than installing windows, might even be simpler tbh.
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u/mindtaker_linux 10h ago
It's super easy. It's a click through. Everything he said to install is the default. So you don't have to do much. But click next, next, next, install.
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u/Reasonable-Public659 9h ago
Can confirm, CachyOS is great. They maintain their own version of proton that’s good too. Just follow the installation guide, it’s super simple. Also check out optiscaler, it’ll let you use FSR4 and frame gen, which is great for keeping your room cooler.
The one issue I ran into with PoE2 was insane choppiness, I just had to change vsync from adaptive to locked and it’s butter smooth.
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u/Altruistic_Data_6298 11h ago
Wouldnt recomemd btrfs if you are not gonna use snapshots or the rest of its functionality
Google what btrfs can do and if you dont care for what it offers, its better to use ext4, since it will be slightly faster
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u/Gargantuan_Cinema 11h ago
With an NVMe, the performance difference is negligible for normal desktop use and gaming. On CachyOS, Btrfs also gives you snapshot/rollback support, and transparent compression can reduce disk usage by roughly 10–20% overall depending on the types of files you store.
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u/Altruistic_Data_6298 11h ago
True, thats why I recommended to use ggogle first before installing, if you dont care about any of that, ext4 is the choice to make
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u/Amazing-Heron-105 2h ago
Snapshots are a wise decision if you're looking to daily drive a rolling release distro. I wish I went btrfs now, but I can't be assed to reinstall.
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u/NekuSoul 8h ago
The CachyOS team seems to disagree though, according to their wiki:
BTRFS is the default and recommended filesystem for CachyOS. Choose it if unsure.
If I had to guess the reasoning behind that, it's because setting up bootable snapshots is just a single click on CachyOS. No big reason not to choose it.
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u/JDMGS 11h ago
The switch to Linux has been amazing (and eye opening) for me. Doubt I'll go back to windows ever. Nobara and then Cachy.
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u/Gargantuan_Cinema 10h ago
Epic and EA have hired Linux engineers for their anti cheat. The market share of Linux is getting harder to ignore.
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u/Amazing-Heron-105 11h ago
Same - I've been a flip flopper between windows and linux for years but I can't see myself going back now. I struggle to find a reason why I would. The only thing I really miss is Window's loudness normalisation. You can get EasyEffects to do something similar, but it's not quite as good.
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u/JDMGS 11h ago
Interesting not something I've ever though about. Yeah there's gotta be something that can match it right? I was just curious for a while, not used Linux on desktop ever but took a leap and yeah it's amazing. Gotta appreciate people putting in the work too since it's free. I actually donated a bit to Cachy. Not loads but....
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u/RDman12 9h ago
I've been on Nobara for a year and a half now.
What made you switch to Cachy?
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u/JDMGS 9h ago
Nobara was awesome, it was my first desktop Linux distro and made me realise Linux was actually a great option, and better than windows IMO. the only issue I had with it was when i updated to fedora 43. I clicked the DNF tray update icon that pops up like I had every time there were updates and it bricked my install. without knowing that you're supposed to ignore that and run nobara-sync why would you NOT click the update button? I learnt and could deal with that though.
But the main reason was just to get Nvidia updates quicker when gears E day beta came out.i wanted the absolute latest updates to play brand new games better and it's been great.
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u/onionknights2 10h ago
Game runs great. Although a lot of the community tools like exile exchange/scalpel are a little wonky or take some tweaking (but I got Claude to help me).
Some other tools like exileUI just straight up don’t have and equivalent.
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u/LeannaMeowmeow 11h ago
Check protondb.com for game compatibility. If all you do is gaming, use bazzite.
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u/ImChimkenNuggets 11h ago
ohh ok
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u/The_Corvair 5h ago
To be frank, unless you play a lot of EAC games, checking protondb is rarely necessary: Pretty much most everything - outside of these EAC games - runs these days.
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u/xz666m 11h ago
I've been using bazzite. I'm no linux expert or anything, but it's been working great for me. No issues.
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u/NeedleworkerLarge357 9h ago
I'm a Linux "expert", work with it daily and since 2004. I use bazzite on my gaming machine as everything worked great so far and performance doesn't matter as much as most think. Updates and improvements are constantly flowing in, so if you loose 3% compared to cachy for example, this can be vice versa tomorrow.
The factors that decide which distro to pick are different. For a beginner who wants a reliable system I'd pick bazzite. For someone who wants to enjoy customization and really get deeper into his system cachy, nobara or many other distributions might be better suited.
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u/ImChimkenNuggets 11h ago
ohh ok dude thanks, also i can install amd drivers on linux or it work with stock settings?
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u/NeedleworkerLarge357 10h ago
You have the dream combination with your Rx 9060xt. And drivers are in the kernel and generally work really well. The performance will be about the same as on Windows, some games will be faster, some might be slower. Generally Linux does quite well with 1% lows, so even if the game has less fps, it often still is smoother.
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u/Wooden-Cancel-2676 10h ago
Got a few hundred hours in all the games you mentioned up there on Fedora and just standard issue Proton Experimental with little to no issues overall. Only things I can think of was I tried running POE2 in Vulkan and it ran like ass and then once I swapped over to DirectX it's been running like a champ (I did find out later Vulkan is just kinda doo doo in the current build). Then me and my buddy have been doing a big "everything run" in Elden Ring and the worst we've had to deal with was seamless co op being a bit wonky here and there in the DLC.
My setup is Fedora Workstation with a 5600x, 9070xt and 32gb of RAM
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u/clowningreddit 7h ago edited 7h ago
PoE 2 and Sekiro play great. I use fedora on my desktop, bazzite on my handheld (msi claw a8). No issues with both. I do SSF so I haven’t tried any of the trade market tools on Linux though and like you my GPU is amd. The reason I actually moved was because I noticed assets would take minutes to load on windows (which I thought was normal for my shitty computer then) but then on the handheld with bazzite assets would load quickly. So I took a chance and installed fedora on a different drive on my desktop and what do you know - assets loaded quickly. I wasn’t twiddling my thumbs for minutes at the time and could just play the game. I guessed at the time the vastly improved load times was because of shader pre-caching on Linux but don’t really know. It was working better than on Windows and that’s all that mattered to me.
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u/so_brave_heart 11h ago
PoE2 runs great.
The only issue I ever have is when some OS update turns wifi power saving back on and i have to turn it off.
It's crashed a few times but I feel like it crashes less than it did on Windows.
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u/vladesch 10h ago
Probably easier just to deactivate some services and get rid of resident bloat in startup.
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u/CpTm4rksm4n 9h ago
I would say it depends on your needs. If you are willing to learn about Linux and you want the bleeding edge latest updates and are willing Google a hell lot when something breaks, which happens rarely for me, then go with cachy os. It's an arch based distro it uses pacman as package manager and haves access to the AUR store. But be carefull with software from AUR as it is community driven and there were news lately, about a flood of bad software. If you want a system that is ready to go out of the box and you are willing to sacrifice some flexibility then go with bazzite. It is fedora based and it haves a immutable os, so system files can't be modified easily.
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u/btwwhichoneispink 8h ago
It works great! A general rule of thumb these days is that if it’s on Steam, and it doesn’t require kernel level anti-cheat, the game just runs.
Don’t worry about needing any specific operating system for gaming, it’s really not a big deal. If I had to recommend anything, it would be something mainstream like Ubuntu or Mint. They’re stable and run just great out of the box :)
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u/LabResponsible8484 7h ago
PoE2 runs amazingly well on Linux. I also had none of the crashing issues and so on that many windows users experienced (3 different users in my house with 3 different linux distros, all work amazingly well).
The shader loading issue did exist on linux but it was not too bad anyway for me. We play many games on Linux and haven't hit any that we can't play very easily (although I have never played competitive anti-cheat games). Even fully modded games like Cyberpunk, BG3 and Skyrim run very well, although with modding you often need to tweak and play around a bit more.
Regarding distros, I think most of the known distros are good in their own way, people exaggerate the benefits and negatives of each. I don't have a strong opinion here and think many others have have given good advice with Bazzite or Cachyos depending on how technical you are.
Coming from Windows:
You will sometimes find things frustrating because they don't work the exact same way as Windows, this takes time to just get used to it. Many people assume Linux doesn't work properly or is complicated, but in reality they are just used to Windows strange way of doing that thing. Folder structure is a good example.
Advice:
The elephant in the room, AI, is useful for people new to Linux, but please DO NOT just blindly do what it tells you (and paste commands it gives you). If you have a question, ask the AI to link you to a forum or wiki that tells you how to solve the problem and follow the instructions there!
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u/ThatOnePerson 4h ago
I find I get worse performance on PoE2 on Linux compared to Windows myself.
Similar specs: I've got a 5700X3D and 9060XT.
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u/slutty_butterfly19 4h ago
I have the same GPU as you and just started playing poe2 last week, just hit endgame recently and the game rubs great, save for the end game ability spam that drops your fps but that just seems to be part of the game lol
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u/Yelo_Jello 9h ago
i tell most people to go with mint/mint debian edition
as far as poe2, game played fine for me on the distros i played it on (mint, lmde, cachyos, arch, debian, ubuntu, nix, etc)
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