Rocket League has been running smoothly for me, even before they stopped supporting the linux client and before switching to epic.

I’m running Fedora 42 Workstation and have now tested Rocket League on Fedora Workstation 41 and 42 with GNOME 47 and 48 on Wayland. Both ran buttery smooth on 2560x1440@144Hz. I did not try X11, haven’t used it in years.

I start Rocket league via steam with the proton-experimental and the input parameters as follows. You can leave out Mangohud, of course. gamemode may also be unnecessary.

MANGOHUD=1 gamemoderun %command%

The only problem I had with Rocket League at one point (sometime last month) was Rocket League refusing to start. I did not reinstall, just tried switching from proton-9 to proton-experimental and my problems were solved. I probably should uninstall the game and delete leftover files like the wine prefix, then reinstall and test again.

If Rocket League is the only game affected, you might see something in the proton log. If you start your game with the following launch parameters, steam writes a proton log file into your home folder.

PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

Using something arch-based but not arch while also using the AUR feels like opening the door to problems. The AUR is specifically made with arch linux in mind and often package versions don’t align between arch and arch-based distros.

Also, I lost trust in Manjaro. They accidently let their SSL cert expire multiple times and told their users to revert system time to have a temporary fix. They also shipped an unstable asahi-kernel to their users without talking to the asahi devs beforehand, as well as accidentally DDoS-ing the AUR with a bug in a pamac version (as far as I know that happened twice). It just feels like their management board has / had some problems.

These may have all been issues of the past, but with the massive amount of distributions out there, I’d probably walk a lot of different roads before ever touching Manjaro again.

Started testing Linux OS around 2003. Never really commited, until late 2020, where I removed Windows and switch to Arch Linux full-time.

Now, after 4 years of Arch, I switched to Fedora Workstation. I kinda miss the Arch repos and the AUR, but Fedora is doing a lot of work that I would have had to do myself on Arch.

Well, you gotta sacrifice something to gain something. Equivalent exchange and stuff.

Seeing this CD reminded me of Knoppix. I tested that in school when I was 16 or 17.

Your picture really makes me feel old. Kernel 2.0? KDE 1.0? GIMP 1? Feels so far away, it must have been a different life.