Switched off windows last month to POP OS, though they just recently came out with a new OS featuring cosmic instead of gnome. Has anyone here used it for gaming? How is it? I’ve read people having issues with it when it was in beta.

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    4 hours ago

    Yes, I’ve used it all through beta. It works exceedingly well. The only issue I experienced was the steam window pulling focus back from a game. So I would launch the game then minimize the steam window before the game popped up.

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    11 hours ago

    I have not done a ton of gaming on it yet, but had no issues (Framework Desktop). I tried Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster, loaded up super quick.

    I have some minor non-gaming issues with Cosmic, like Cosmic Files not being able to pin a nfs network location. But I haven’t run into anything yet that would make me move back to another distro.

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    10 hours ago

    Tried it awhile back. I primarily use either Gnome or MATE but I found Cosmic to be a solid setup as well. Worked well for all my games though I primarily play strategy titles (CK3, Vic3, EU5) so my experience is limited to those. The only thing that stuck out to me is that as far as I can tell Cosmic doesn’t have hdr support (been a minute since I last tried it so this may no longer be true).

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    10 hours ago

    Can’t speak for this month but last I tried was like October and I couldn’t alt-tab another window over a full screen game. I’m thinking of giving another go when 26.04 popos comes out

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    10 hours ago

    I did have some trouble with getting my Xbox wireless adapter to work when I tried the alpha, but it seemed pretty good otherwise

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    9 hours ago

    Tried it in beta, had to use PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command% when I released that the mouse didn’t stick into the game. Was just one game with that issue. Only proton-em and cachy-proton ship the wayland patches for that to work.

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        2 hours ago

        People seem to think that the default de is the only one you can use. Do you know that you can install gnome alongside cosmic? I run popos with kde. And cosmic to test.