Linux gaming thread

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Just switched to Linux, so here’s me hoping to receive valuable info by touching off this thread.

I used to tinker on my old laptop a lot with Ubuntu, but after building my PC it’s been only Windows 10 for about 3 years now. Recently, I had this issue:

@BullettuPaandi

There seems to be some sort of bug in the steam version of FH4, which I use, where the G27’s clutch input is not detected. From what I could find on other forums, the MS store’s version works fine with the G27, apparently due to it being a UWP application.
So, I was using Direct Input with the combined axis mapped to clutch. My guess is that I’d forgotten to re-calibrate after removing window’s G27 drivers. I tried the game sometime later, after proper calibration & deadzone assignment the game works fine.

with my Logitech G27 on Windows. Direct input + deadzone assignment worked fine, but since not all games have deadzone settings, I had to remove the wheel and re-install drivers to play such games (and again otherwise to play FH4).

Now that Linux Gaming is more feasible than ever, and since I enjoyed tinkering with Ubuntu a lot, I decided to give it a shot hoping to get the best of both worlds. I’m currently using Nobara Linux 39 (KDE Plasma) - just picked the one from ProtonDB that required least tinkering & worked well for most games that I looked up, as I needed to see if the FH4 clutch issue would still persist on Linux. Fortunately, it didn’t and the game runs just fine with about 5-10fps lower than on Windows. So far, I’ve tried Dirt Rally 2.0, which worked flawless & BeamNG.drive, which has some graphics issues & force feedback doesn’t seem to work. Yet to try Assetto Corsa as it seems to require some tinkering.

I’ve done no tinkering with drivers, optimisation, tools, etc. yet; just installed these games and run them. So kindly let me know if something could be of use.
Thanks!