Linux

Games not capturing the mouse in bordeless window. Helldivers 2 is super frustrating to play On Fedora 42

I need Nvidia graphic drivers for a card Nvidia just up and decided they didn't want to support. I ran updates and after rebooting just had no compositor until I moved to another driver set. Real shitty move, Nvidia. 1080 strix founders overclock. Now Vulcan is hit or miss.

VR support is still pretty bad, at least for my HP Reverb G2 headset. On Windows, everything just works out of the box. Plug in the headset, start SteamVR and every single game works well.

On Linux, I have to install Envision to set-up Monado which provides the neccessary OpenXR runtime for games. But the controllers are not supported in the main Monado branch, so you'll have to set up a specific fork of it, which is not that well documented.

It does run fine with some games, but not all of them. Half-Life: Alyx refuses to launch, for example. There doesn't seem to be any motion smoothing, so moving your head is really rough, it almost looks like your eyes receive 24fps (even though the headset does run on 90Hz) and I get nausea after a few minutes. Tracking your surroundings also doesn't work well, when you move around it's all very "jumpy".

And I wasn't able to get the SteamVR application to run at all. I always get an error because it seems like the cameras used for motion tracking are detected as regular webcams. On some other WMR headsets a firmware update can solve that, but I already run the latest firmware on my G2.

Maybe other VR headsets work much better, but this one is in absolute alpha state and the only reason I still dual-boot into Windows. Given the fact WMR has been declared obsolete by Microsoft and removed from Windows 11 last year we might see improvements. I got my headset for 120$ which is really affordable for one that can do 2160p per eye.

To be fair, though, the very first line in the Envision Readme states:

This is still highly experimental software

So I absolutely knew what I was getting into and it's great that it even (somewhat) works at all.

Resolution settings is one thing I can think of right now.

In Windows, I can right-click the desktop, click Display Settings, and easily choose what resolution I want the monitor at.

Why? Because I stupidly bought an ultrawide monitor back in 2017, and when trying to remote in to do something from a different room in the house, the screen is too tiny for my weak eyes to read.

On Windows, I can remote in with RDP (KRDP for KDE users), do the above clicking, and then be greeted with a properly scaled environment to work with on a smaller device. Think 15in trying to use 2560x1080. It doesn't work for what I need.

I read that it might be because my monitor doesn't come with those presets (i.e. 1920x1080), but Windows doesn't care. I can do it there, painlessly. Linux wants me to (as far as I know) mess with a config file somewhere, and I just am not going to do that any more. I've ruined a lot of distros trying to fuck around with those damn config files! >:(

I haven't managed to get HDR monitors nor my VR headset to work, and I've already spent way more time debugging it in Linux than I ever had to in Windows.

Permissions management. I recently tried creating a new exfat partition on my external HD using the default KDE Partition Manager. When finished, I found that only the current (admin) user had write access to the drive. I tried changing this using the Dophin file explorer. It appeared to let me change these permissions through the Properties menu and the drop downs within the Permissions tab, but nothing changed after hitting OK. I was eventually able to fix it using the chown command in the terminal, but I feel like I should have been able to set this when creating the partition as well as in the file explorer.

My current no. 1 pain point is Remote Desktop on KDE Plasma Wayland.
The only functional one is Sunshine and Moonlight, and while they're great, they're gaming focused. Trying to do productivity work from my phone is just not feasible, not to say the bandwidth usage if I'm on mobile data.

Their RDP server is supposedly working already but I never managed to get anything more than a black screen on the clients.

remote desktop is pretty much useless. i can do most things through ssh, but some things i just want a gui for, like changing gnome settings or something. i can't figure out how to remote-login a gnome session or vnc. of course, i can pass a firefox session or similar, but that's not really enough.

Nvidia drivers (I assume) cause random freezes requiring system reboot, maybe once or twice a week.

Tempered by the modern miracle that it runs windows games at all! I barely game on windows now except for a couple troublesome titles and the lack of wireless xbox controller support.

1. I made a post the other day how Fedora KDE doesn't render CJK fonts properly. MPV also wasn't rendering fonts properly so I had to manually add a font in mpv.conf.

2. When I installed Fedora KDE, there was a button to enable third party repos. It actually worked but it only enables NVIDIA and Steam repos so I had to go over to rpmfusion to get the ones for non-free ffmpeg.

3. ~~I have a wireless pen tablet from XP Pen and I need to close and open the XP Pen app to get it to connect every time. It doesn't seem to "wake" automatically whenever I turn my tablet on.~~ (nvm, using OpenTabletDriver instead fixes it)

4. On Fedora, installing DaVinci Resolve seems tricky. Don't know if I should use davincibox or davinci-helper. (edit: ended up using davincibox and it's pretty ok so far)

This is my first time using Fedora and KDE on my desktop. It's also been 2 years since I last used Linux on bare metal.

Screen sharing is still touch and go in 2026 on arch

Just a few odd chinese windows programs to flash random devkits. They run in WINE but can't pass USB through to actually flash them. Keep an offline windows 10 laptop around for such scenarios. I don't want that shit on my system in any form.