Bummer - sucks to lose a good server

If you are dehydrated from an illness typically something Gatorade or water with a bit of salt in it will help you hydrate better then just water.

What happened? Did the instance maintainer just get sick of running it?

I don’t believe those products have native Linux versions. You would need to run them from a compatibility layer. To be honest nothing on my desktop has needed that so not too familiar with the best way to do that.

I am trying to dance around Linux distro concepts that are probably not super beginner friendly, so my descriptions might have been obtuse, but yes you can generally do anything on any distro.

Bazzite is a immutable distro, which gives you certian advantages, but makes it harder to accommodate some use cases. In general, if the software you want is on https://flathub.org/ you are golden.

Desktop mode on the Steam Deck is using KDE Plasma. You can use that on the vast majority of Linux distros.

Here is a few the spring to mind:

• Bazzite - A good place to start, their project goal is to basically be SteamOS like experience you can put on any machine.
• Fedora Workstation with KDE - Bazzite is based off of this project, it’s a more general experiance, lots of people enjoy it.
• Kubuntu - Ubuntu is very popular distro, this is their KDE version.
• OpenSuse Tumbleweed - For folks who want the most up to date software possible.

For posterity’s sake here is what I ended doing.

• I reinstalled Bazzite and switched over to KDE variant
• Flicker seems a lot better then Gnome under KDE, especially at the desktop level
• In the games I have tested, flicker still feels more prominent then Windows 11 - mostly noticeable in HDR games with fluctuating framerates and in menus (even if that menu has stable frame rate)
• Flicker patterns are different under KDE then Gnome, some games has less flicker, some more, overall an improvement

HDR is working well under KDE, the Wayland mode in GE Proton introduces a big performance hit in some games unfortunately.

Yeah I was exploring KDE on a Fedora live disc and I guessed that is what automatic vrr was doing. Turning it to always introduced more flicker but still seemed less then gnome.

It’s way worse if I run games under the experimental Wayland mode that you enable with GE.

What distro are you using? I am on Bazzite

https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesX/comments/t3fn6l/can_someone_explain_vrr_like_im_5_what_it_does/

Ok, so let’s say your tv is a typical 60hz TV, that means it updates 60 times a second, regardless of the games frame rate. A 60fps game will be in perfect sync with your TV, as will 30fps because each frame will just be displayed twice. When your game is running at a frame rate in between it’s not in sync with the display any more and you end up with screen tearing, as the image being sent to the TV changes part way through the image being displayed.

VRR stands for Variable a refresh Rate. It basically means the displays refresh rate can vary to match the source of the image, so that it always stays in sync.

This a pretty good explanation of what VRR is doing. Basically makes it so you can drop frames and it still feels smooth.

Kind of a bummer to hear - I was hoping KDE’s VRR implementation might avoid the issue. It may be a Wayland problem so that would be unavoidable.

Edit: did some testing with a live image tonight - at least on my machine KDE seems much better when it comes to flicker

I had the name wrong initially - I just edited it to correct it, but under Windows “dynamic refresh rate” - is distinct then VRR. Settings reads “To help save power, Windows adjusts the refresh rate up the selected rate above”. See https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22555295/microsoft-windows-11-dynamic-refresh-rate-laptops.

I can turn it off and still have VRR enabled.

Trust me when I say the amount of OLED flicker is much much higher in Gnome then under Windows for the exact same games. Like give you eye strain and a headache super fast. I still see a little flicker under Windows but it’s not comparable.

What was up with Mafia 3?

Huh, that is really cool. Also that can’t be cheap to do.

The UI also felt like the best extraction shooter UI I’ve ever encountered.

As another big Hunt fan this made me laugh. The bar is pretty low over in Hunt land unfortunately.

Or miscarrying :(

TIL I had no idea you could untick compatibility and some games would auto-run with a Valve selected Proton version

I am a little disappointed to find out it was just the Mike Tyson fight and not the entire game. Or I was curious to see what ridiculous glitches they needed to use to get to the end in 2 minutes.

It’s weird because there is a thumbnail with pictures but no pictures in the actual article

Yeah I personally prefer IINA on the Mac because of how native the interface is. Neither VLC or IINA has had trouble paying any video files I have.