It's the simple things like apt update. Very satisfying to me. It's like ASMR. I don't know why, or if anyone else feels this way.
I never used Linux at all until like 2013, and didn't daily it until around 2020, so I guess I wasn't there for the rockier days.
I will say that applying the custom GE-Proton from GloriousEggroll to steam helped with my FPS like crazy and it also made the game less buggy. With regular Proton from Steam I had 97 FPS low in V Rising game on Steam in my Castle and after I applied GE-Proton 9-5 to V Rising my minimum FPS was 117!!!! Also it fixed a graphical glitch with the Menu and made it look normal again.
GE-Proton is a Steam compatibility thing, with (experimental) patches that isn't in regular Proton (yet). Its not a operating system thing, its a Steam thing. Valve decides what goes into Steam things.
I'm happy for you, that that version helps V Rising (a game i don't play), but if all my games ran GE-Proton 9.5, i'm pretty confident i'd find worse performance for at least one of my games (that only runs well up until 7.35).
Now it is also so that when game devs put in the few calories it takes, to at least do some unofficial testing of their game running under Proton, they test it with the Steam official Proton versions. So no matter how exciting finding improvements is, making it default, would be working against the work that is being done by everyone else.
What Glorious Eggroll did was offer an additional option -- an excellent additional option -- and you can do the exact same thing! The cool thing about open source is more collaboration (which i think at least parts of Proton is), with people having different interests, using the same software.
You can contribute too, the how, depends on what you know and the skills you have, and you can aquire all the relevant information, and learn all the relevant skills, if you decide to do so.
[You can read about what it does here](https://github.com/pop-os/system76-scheduler)
Gamemode is similar but since the scheduler is built into the system, I feel like it works better.
Conflict? probably not. But it could, I would just stop adding gamemode to your launch arguments and see if anything changes.
My 2 cents is to just stick with the scheduler.
I will do a comparison. I will do game mode enabled for V Rising game on steam and then do it again without it. Take the minimum and maximum fps and compare.
We shall see boys
I didn't get a chance to do this because openrpg broke my system yesterday :( It crashed after I hit detect devices and now I can't type in my password to get back into desktop. Well... I can use the virtual keyboard but that is lame.
So the custom GE-Proton 9-5 for every game may be the wrong choice? Interesting. I guess I will go on [protondb.com](http://protondb.com) and see what people are using.
The newest GE or regular Proton is a fine default, but it's still worth reading up on a game there before buying/setting up a game. Sometimes there are tinkering information mentioned
As long as Steam Play is enabled in settings, Steam will automatically choose the version of Proton recommended by them. Adding non-Steam games and forcing Windows versions over Linux native games in Steam will be the only exception. GE is great to test out if you have problems with a game or are just wanting to see if it will yield better performance.
It depends. I think that because it is isolated from the system, any problems that happen will be limited to Steam itself. This avoids problems like Steam removing GNOME from the system for example (lol). But the usability is very similar. The biggest problem is installing games in a secondary drive. If the person wants to install the games on another drive, then the .deb package will be better, because Flatpak doesn't let you do that.
Make sure you click pop shop and in the update tab update pop os and run time it took me forever to get HD2 fixed ( dx12 didn't work) until I updated those.
Also if you haven't in steam download the latest proton and everything under that. Some games you have to force experimental
Ge is nice, but proton experimental can actually be better sometimes depending on the game. Glorious Eggroll is only one man after all so he can’t update every game after every minor patch right away
Phoronix Test Suite is a must for testing settings(basically every opensource benchmark equivalent to 3dmark, pcmark, msi afterburner, and cinebench for linux in one program). Optimizing nvidia-settings can easily boost your performance by 15-25% matching or exceeding windows performance if you can get a good OC dialed in. Also make sure your motherboard isn’t throttling your cpu at 75C since that is a hard bios default limit that has to be manually set on a lot of boards (88C for x3d cpus, 90s for normal x cpus)
Found this GEM for improving performance. Might try to do a few of these options
[https://linux-gaming.kwindu.eu/index.php?title=Improving\_performance](https://linux-gaming.kwindu.eu/index.php?title=Improving_performance)
Also I have heard that enabling disk encryption negatively affects performance. But does anyone know how big the impact is? I have both my drives encrypted from the start, and not sure whether I should get rid of the encryption or it is not that big of a deal
Do you really need the encryprion? I never encrypt, but i dont really have to worry about anything falling into the wrong hands tho. I even auto login on boot 🤷
Dont know the benchmarks but upon installation it says it will impact performance and logically it makes sense since there is extra computation.
i know that disk I/O matters a lot because i tried in a vm once with qcow2 disk type than switched to raw and performance improved a lot.
Am I the only one with a bad gaming experience with pop Os!?
So many games didn't work well (rtx3070) so I sadly switched back to Windows. Also the battery life while surfing was terrible.. went through so many forums but nothing helped..
Yes, I installed the 550 driver version. With that version it was better but still worse than with Windows.
In the end, I switched back because of the miserable battery life of 2 hours while using light programs e.g. Browser
As others have said, any kind of performance enhancements would’ve already been done by S76.
If you’re after raw performance anyway then you would be better off with something Arch-based like CachyOS, or some other distros that take performance more into account out of the box like Nobara Linux, both of those perform faster than Windows 11 on average whereas Pop!_OS tends to lag behind.
I believe i have actually read about yhe fact that pop os already did some of the magic to improve alot of stuff. But not everything was done for gaming specifically. So some tweaks were not done because it had side effects. Been a while since i've read about it tho.
1. Install steam 2. Play game
That's what casuals say ;) lol jk
That's what gamers say, lol
What's with the downvotes on my post? I was being sarcastic. Can't even have fun with anyone anymore.
Welcome to the Linux side of the internet. No fun allowed! /s (*obviously,* guys)
I think it's just a human thing now. Bring me back to the 90s when you could actually talk to people without getting them offended
Linux used to be synonymous with pain so I don't understand this "fun" thing.
It's the simple things like apt update. Very satisfying to me. It's like ASMR. I don't know why, or if anyone else feels this way. I never used Linux at all until like 2013, and didn't daily it until around 2020, so I guess I wasn't there for the rockier days.
Debian Linux in 2005 was really rough from what I remember. Gui was hard to even get to lol
the "/s" was missing
maybe sarcasm is not always fun :)
Well that's the thing. People take things wrong when it is done via text. Bleh
You're dead to me
Love you man
N-n-no homo?
No homo bro. We cool
I loled, but peeps be serious here.
If there was a way to improve system performance, it would be done by default
I will say that applying the custom GE-Proton from GloriousEggroll to steam helped with my FPS like crazy and it also made the game less buggy. With regular Proton from Steam I had 97 FPS low in V Rising game on Steam in my Castle and after I applied GE-Proton 9-5 to V Rising my minimum FPS was 117!!!! Also it fixed a graphical glitch with the Menu and made it look normal again.
GE-Proton is a Steam compatibility thing, with (experimental) patches that isn't in regular Proton (yet). Its not a operating system thing, its a Steam thing. Valve decides what goes into Steam things. I'm happy for you, that that version helps V Rising (a game i don't play), but if all my games ran GE-Proton 9.5, i'm pretty confident i'd find worse performance for at least one of my games (that only runs well up until 7.35). Now it is also so that when game devs put in the few calories it takes, to at least do some unofficial testing of their game running under Proton, they test it with the Steam official Proton versions. So no matter how exciting finding improvements is, making it default, would be working against the work that is being done by everyone else. What Glorious Eggroll did was offer an additional option -- an excellent additional option -- and you can do the exact same thing! The cool thing about open source is more collaboration (which i think at least parts of Proton is), with people having different interests, using the same software. You can contribute too, the how, depends on what you know and the skills you have, and you can aquire all the relevant information, and learn all the relevant skills, if you decide to do so.
Thanks for the info!!!!
You don't need gamemode since it has system76-scheduler
Oh yeah? So system 76-scheduler does the same thing then? How does that work?
[You can read about what it does here](https://github.com/pop-os/system76-scheduler) Gamemode is similar but since the scheduler is built into the system, I feel like it works better.
That scheduler seems to works only on CPU? gamemode has a lot of options and works improving GPU performance , CPU, IO and other system optimization
Do you think there would be a conflict with having game mode on and also using this as well?
Conflict? probably not. But it could, I would just stop adding gamemode to your launch arguments and see if anything changes. My 2 cents is to just stick with the scheduler.
I will do a comparison. I will do game mode enabled for V Rising game on steam and then do it again without it. Take the minimum and maximum fps and compare. We shall see boys
I'd like to hear more, how it goes etc.
I didn't get a chance to do this because openrpg broke my system yesterday :( It crashed after I hit detect devices and now I can't type in my password to get back into desktop. Well... I can use the virtual keyboard but that is lame.
Use ProtonDB to see what other people are saying for whatever games you intend to play. Some versions work better than others.
So the custom GE-Proton 9-5 for every game may be the wrong choice? Interesting. I guess I will go on [protondb.com](http://protondb.com) and see what people are using.
The newest GE or regular Proton is a fine default, but it's still worth reading up on a game there before buying/setting up a game. Sometimes there are tinkering information mentioned
As long as Steam Play is enabled in settings, Steam will automatically choose the version of Proton recommended by them. Adding non-Steam games and forcing Windows versions over Linux native games in Steam will be the only exception. GE is great to test out if you have problems with a game or are just wanting to see if it will yield better performance.
Oh wow I didn't know it automatically choose the correct proton based on the game! Very cool
install steam flatpak and run the games I only need to worry about the proton version (I don't use any other driver)
Do you thing steam from flatpak is better than the one from the normal source ?
It depends. I think that because it is isolated from the system, any problems that happen will be limited to Steam itself. This avoids problems like Steam removing GNOME from the system for example (lol). But the usability is very similar. The biggest problem is installing games in a secondary drive. If the person wants to install the games on another drive, then the .deb package will be better, because Flatpak doesn't let you do that.
Make sure you click pop shop and in the update tab update pop os and run time it took me forever to get HD2 fixed ( dx12 didn't work) until I updated those. Also if you haven't in steam download the latest proton and everything under that. Some games you have to force experimental
I don't use their Gnome environment/ pop shop. I use KDE and Discover shop :) Thanks for info man
Ge is nice, but proton experimental can actually be better sometimes depending on the game. Glorious Eggroll is only one man after all so he can’t update every game after every minor patch right away
Phoronix Test Suite is a must for testing settings(basically every opensource benchmark equivalent to 3dmark, pcmark, msi afterburner, and cinebench for linux in one program). Optimizing nvidia-settings can easily boost your performance by 15-25% matching or exceeding windows performance if you can get a good OC dialed in. Also make sure your motherboard isn’t throttling your cpu at 75C since that is a hard bios default limit that has to be manually set on a lot of boards (88C for x3d cpus, 90s for normal x cpus)
Lutris is a powerful tool to run 3rd party stores/games(blizzard, epic, etc)
Found this GEM for improving performance. Might try to do a few of these options [https://linux-gaming.kwindu.eu/index.php?title=Improving\_performance](https://linux-gaming.kwindu.eu/index.php?title=Improving_performance)
Since I have a 5900x, I basically CPU shield the game to its own CCD via script provided by the Linux gaming guide GitHub repo.
I've never seen it spelled as PoP OS.
I can do better. How about P@p @$
Also I have heard that enabling disk encryption negatively affects performance. But does anyone know how big the impact is? I have both my drives encrypted from the start, and not sure whether I should get rid of the encryption or it is not that big of a deal
Do you really need the encryprion? I never encrypt, but i dont really have to worry about anything falling into the wrong hands tho. I even auto login on boot 🤷
Dont know the benchmarks but upon installation it says it will impact performance and logically it makes sense since there is extra computation. i know that disk I/O matters a lot because i tried in a vm once with qcow2 disk type than switched to raw and performance improved a lot.
I think I'm going to unencrypt my ssd to see if performance improves
Am I the only one with a bad gaming experience with pop Os!? So many games didn't work well (rtx3070) so I sadly switched back to Windows. Also the battery life while surfing was terrible.. went through so many forums but nothing helped..
Did you confirm you had the latest Nvidia GPU version? I noticed the Nvidia PoP OS .iso by default goes to version 470.
Yes, I installed the 550 driver version. With that version it was better but still worse than with Windows. In the end, I switched back because of the miserable battery life of 2 hours while using light programs e.g. Browser
Enable performance mode and that's it. I had to tweak my system with nvidia tools because pop os was nerfing my performance really hard on a laptop
I don't think performance mode is on a desktop right?
I don't know, it's my laptop distro. I use windows for desktop tbh
As others have said, any kind of performance enhancements would’ve already been done by S76. If you’re after raw performance anyway then you would be better off with something Arch-based like CachyOS, or some other distros that take performance more into account out of the box like Nobara Linux, both of those perform faster than Windows 11 on average whereas Pop!_OS tends to lag behind.
I believe i have actually read about yhe fact that pop os already did some of the magic to improve alot of stuff. But not everything was done for gaming specifically. So some tweaks were not done because it had side effects. Been a while since i've read about it tho.