Questions about CachyOS/Arch Linux

[Clarky]

Hi I recently just installed CachyOS for the sake of getting the best performance and to avoid the consistent issues I have had with Windows, like UE5 games stuttering a LOT whereas on CachyOS it works flawlessly and getting a lot more FPS. I was just curious to those who have more of an expertise in the Linux space on what you personally recommend on what I should do with my operating system for simply anything you may find of extreme use, again I'm new to this so I gotta start somewhere. I've been using Bazaar to download most of my applications, Dolphin as my file manager so let me know what else you may suggest

Idk if I plan on playing gmod with this also, last time it seemed problematic for me, any perp linux players with issues nowadays?

Also I'm looking to have my two of my steam games folder on two different drives auto mount on startup but I'm unsure on how to do this, I have to open the drive in Dolphin for it to mount so if anyone knows a guide or something I can follow send it my way

thank u!!

 

[Carrot]

Most stuff should kind of just work with Proton if you want to play games nowadays. If you run into issues, especially with newer games, try looking the game up on protondb and you can usually find solutions. For non-steam games things like Lutris or Bottles are good. You can add non-steam games in steam and then have them use Proton as well. though if they have a separate installer you have to mess around with things a little. If you want to install mods for games it can be really simple or a bit of a headache depending on the game. I have a heavily modded Skyrim install with lod generation etc. setup and it was a little annoying with having to use different Proton versions to get tools to work.

For playing GMod I would recommend using Proton instead of the native Linux build. You can force Steam to use Proton for a game by going into Properties>Compatibility.

If the drives the games are on are formatted as NTFS and shared with Windows I know people have reported issues with sharing them. There is probably a friendlier way of auto mounting them, but I have my second drive I put games on mounted via /etc/fstab which handles mounting partitions at boot (be careful editing this not to mess up any existing entries).

Since you are on an Arch-based distro you might be guided to install packages from the Arch User Repository (AUR). Exercise some caution when using the AUR since packages aren't audited and there was an issue recently with a bunch of unmaintained packages being claimed by someone who then added malicious code to them.

 

[SomeUser]

I know i tried perp on my steam deck, while it was cursed it was *working* got to bazaar and it was like 20 FPS

 

[Clarky]

Most stuff should kind of just work with Proton if you want to play games nowadays. If you run into issues, especially with newer games, try looking the game up on protondb and you can usually find solutions. For non-steam games things like Lutris or Bottles are good. You can add non-steam games in steam and then have them use Proton as well. though if they have a separate installer you have to mess around with things a little. If you want to install mods for games it can be really simple or a bit of a headache depending on the game. I have a heavily modded Skyrim install with lod generation etc. setup and it was a little annoying with having to use different Proton versions to get tools to work.

For playing GMod I would recommend using Proton instead of the native Linux build. You can force Steam to use Proton for a game by going into Properties>Compatibility.

If the drives the games are on are formatted as NTFS and shared with Windows I know people have reported issues with sharing them. There is probably a friendlier way of auto mounting them, but I have my second drive I put games on mounted via /etc/fstab which handles mounting partitions at boot (be careful editing this not to mess up any existing entries).

Since you are on an Arch-based distro you might be guided to install packages from the Arch User Repository (AUR). Exercise some caution when using the AUR since packages aren't audited and there was an issue recently with a bunch of unmaintained packages being claimed by someone who then added malicious code to them.

I have noticed that with Proton and it's really fucking cool that in most cases it just works out of the box however I am struggling with getting Overwatch to work properly after doing some digging around but besides that it's not that deep and I can simply just boot into Windows worst case scenario. I've used Bottles before on Linux Mint for a very brief period.

So in the instance that I run Gmod via Proton, I don't need to install any of that silly stuff from github to get it to work properly? because I did kinda figure that if the community has to provide fixes then it's not going to be the most pleasant of experience especially when the game just seems to be mainly intended for Windows. PERP would crash after some time previously for me but I believe that was when I tried to play through Bottles/Wine on a much older machine I was using temporarily which probably wasn't the smartest of ideas at the time instead of using Proton, unless I did try that already but that was over 2 and a half years ago so I can hardly remember what I did.

They are indeed formatted as NTFS and I seem to be getting this error every reboot:
An error occurred while accessing '737.4 GiB Internal Drive (nvme1n1p2)', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/nvme1n1p2 at /run/media/clarky/58FD430558D9DA7A: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/nvme1n1p2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
To fix it, I have to run these two commands in terminal:
sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/nvme1n1p2
sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sda2
then it allows me to actually mount and access the drive. Any ideas why this may be happening? I know it's a pretty broad error message but it's worth asking whilst I will try to look at it myself later on as well.

Appreciate your response Carrot

 

[iedutz]

@Clarky

Check out this cool little site! You can see all games that run or don't run on Linux, with actual people giving instructions on how to make them work

https://www.protondb.com/

 

[Clarky]

@Clarky

Check out this cool little site! You can see all games that run or don't run on Linux, with actual people giving instructions on how to make them work

https://www.protondb.com/

I've known of this for a while and did try using the guidance of the community to fix my aforementioned issues to no avail yet but thank you

 

[Carrot]

I have noticed that with Proton and it's really fucking cool that in most cases it just works out of the box however I am struggling with getting Overwatch to work properly after doing some digging around but besides that it's not that deep and I can simply just boot into Windows worst case scenario. I've used Bottles before on Linux Mint for a very brief period.

So in the instance that I run Gmod via Proton, I don't need to install any of that silly stuff from github to get it to work properly? because I did kinda figure that if the community has to provide fixes then it's not going to be the most pleasant of experience especially when the game just seems to be mainly intended for Windows. PERP would crash after some time previously for me but I believe that was when I tried to play through Bottles/Wine on a much older machine I was using temporarily which probably wasn't the smartest of ideas at the time instead of using Proton, unless I did try that already but that was over 2 and a half years ago so I can hardly remember what I did.

They are indeed formatted as NTFS and I seem to be getting this error every reboot:
An error occurred while accessing '737.4 GiB Internal Drive (nvme1n1p2)', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/nvme1n1p2 at /run/media/clarky/58FD430558D9DA7A: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/nvme1n1p2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
To fix it, I have to run these two commands in terminal:
sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/nvme1n1p2
sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sda2
then it allows me to actually mount and access the drive. Any ideas why this may be happening? I know it's a pretty broad error message but it's worth asking whilst I will try to look at it myself later on as well.

Appreciate your response Carrot

I don't use that GmodPatchTool and PERP works fine for me (except recently TVs are crashing my game).

For Overwatch I don't know, it is rated platinum on ProtonDB which is the highest they give so not sure. I see some people have posted about bad performance on it though.

For the NTFS drive I don't have any setup to auto mount, I just have 1 shared drive I occasionally mount from Dolphin when I need it.

 

[iedutz]

I don't use that GmodPatchTool and PERP works fine for me (except recently TVs are crashing my game).

@Ethem had the same problem, installing the patch fixed the TV problem

 

[Ethem]

I don't use that GmodPatchTool and PERP works fine for me (except recently TVs are crashing my game).

For Overwatch I don't know, it is rated platinum on ProtonDB which is the highest they give so not sure. I see some people have posted about bad performance on it though.

For the NTFS drive I don't have any setup to auto mount, I just have 1 shared drive I occasionally mount from Dolphin when I need it.

@Ethem had the same problem, installing the patch fixed the TV problem

Yep, the fix fixes the problem. People were using it against me as a weapon lol.
Though I noticed when I try to import a big playlist into a TV it crashes my game, but oh well. İt works now at least.