I meant the:

-force-d3d12

one. Might need to put “%command%” after it, but I’m still not 100% sure what that even means and why its there so I dunno.

Edit: I would also check out the entry for the game on ProtonDB if you haven’t already (sorry if someone else has already told you all this elsewhere in the thread) to see if anyone else has had similar issues: https://www.protondb.com/app/949230

I haven’t played C:S2 yet, so I can’t say personally, but it could just be a poorly optimized game.

Yeah, it’s probably my own fault. I tend to …over-tinker(?) when I have something as deeply customizable as Arch/KDE. Bazzite has saved me from that for the most part, though I do like getting my KDE just right.

But yeah, with large updates I will sometimes get an error about “libalpm” or something, and then when I try to run yay again, the db.lck is present so I have to delete it, blah blah blah… Rollback with timeshift and try again, this time exclude everything but /core and /extra, get those installed, reboot, then install the rest.

This time I got it working pretty quickly due to previous experiences. The worst was the time I did it while not having enough space on my hdd to cover the entire update (but didn’t realize until after it already started). That was a fun day lol.

Timeshift was/is a lifesaver on that laptop. Though I think having it as a fallback did make me a little more reckless with my tinkering… But I’m relatively new to Linux, and that’s how I learn.

I turned an older laptop with EndeavourOS on it (Arch, btw) on yesterday for the first time in like 4 months, and tried updating it… 666 updates. I knew I was in for a good time… Let me tell you, the dependency hell… I believe it was what Picasso was picturing while painting La Guernica.

Ultimately, I had to upgrade it in batches or else it would just break every time. So yes, Arch is the hot young girls dancing around breaking shit if you don’t check in on them.

Running immutable/atomic on my current main pc, and updating is basically an afterthought and impossible to fuck up. Hard to go back.

Did you try their fix? Often it really is as easy as adding a launch option

I’m running Bazzite, and haven’t had a single issue running a game…

How to know someone hasn’t gamed on Linux in years.

Not like that at all now.

Isn’t it meant to be like “better FS”? So you’re not too far off.

Huh, pacman always seemed to automatically work out those dependency loops, or whatever you want to call them, when I was on EndeavourOS. The only time I had an issue with updating was when I went like two weeks without updating, and then ran out of harddrive space halfway through installing the 600 updates.

I’ve been running Bazzite for several months now, and updating is absurdly easy and unintrusive. It’s basically impossible to fuckup (and if you do, it’s extremely simple to rollback). I can really see immutable/atomic being the future of Linux.

Perhaps its just gotten better, but I’ve been on it for a year or two now, and I haven’t come across an error message that didn’t bring up solutions when copy/pasted into google. Definitely varies by distro though, I was on EndeavourOS for most of that time, and being Arch, it has like infinite documentation.

Most normal people are nervous interacting with a GUI pop-up that gives them two options, never mind putting them into a terminal window where they could seriously fuck up their machine

Maybe this is a problem that we should be addressing, rather than just making technology more of a black box, and raising generations of people who have no fucking concept of how any of it works.

no restart required

Not true for immutable

I also play games on this system, so having newer kernel and Mesa versions help.

I guess I’m that guy in this thread constantly bringing up his current distro of choice lol… But have you tried Bazzite? From what I understand it’s basically Kinoite but built with gaming in mind.

If you have, I’d be curious as to what differences there were between it and Kinoite…

I recommend giving Bazzite a try for gaming. I switched to it from Arch (well EOS), and it’s been wonderful.

I loved EndeavourOS, but I’m just not sure bleeding edge is for me. Mostly because I will forget to update for a week, and suddenly there are 500 updates, all with interconnected dependencies and pacman is just like “wtf dude?”

I’m not sure I really gained any benefit from that over using a more stable release. I switched to Bazzite a few months back, and it’s been amazing. Immutable is very interesting, and it’s made for the most stable PC I’ve ever owned.

Highly recommend Bazzite for gamers (or I guess it’s good for multimedia too), or if not, one of the other Fedora-based immutable distros.

I’ve been using Bazzite for a few months now (switched from EndeavourOS, which was great) and it’s been amazing. I’m sold on atomic/immutable. I have never had a PC this stable, including every Windows PC I’ve had.

And it’s perfect for gaming. There are weird little tweaks and settings that I had to do on EOS to get my GPU working correctly, etc., and they all just work out of the box in Bazzite (I did get the iso image made specifically for my laptop, which definitely helps). It’s super impressive actually.

And distrobox (BoxBuddy comes installed) can be used to access the AUR or whatever if I feel the need to. Just fire up an Arch box, and have at it.

OMG I can feel the heat emanating from that photo

You can easily set it up to do this automatically with something like timeshift…

I recently switched to an Atomic distro (Bazzite), and they have made it so easy to rollback to previous commits without any additional software.

I installed Bottles, but was disappointed when it didn’t actually have anything to do with bottles.

If you think every name of every product, etc., is going to be literal… you’re gonna have a tough time in life.

No fun allowed!

I’m in the US, and all of my cards have the numbers on the back now, and they’re not raised. I’m pretty sure we transitioned to chip and pin like a decade ago.