Hmm… There’s a connector from the card to 3-pin connector on the motherboard, but the description in the manual suggests that it only allows me to control RGB through it. As in: if I don’t connect it, they’ll just be on in whatever default state they’re in and that’s that.

I’ll look into this, thanks!

Oh, nice! Thanks for the info!

In general, I’d suggest being a bit more curious and playing around with stuff

Man, I’m 40, my 9-5 job is being curious, testing and retesting stuff. When I’m home, I just want to play some games…

Like you said you didn’t understand the options for OpenRGB and it sounds like you didn’t try installing it at all to eliminate it as an option before posting

Yeah. I’ve learned (through curiosity and testing, btw) that it’s super easy to break stuff in Linux, so I was a bit weary of installing third party software that does “something” to control the LEDs on a graphics card.

I did test it out yesterday, though. Sadly, does not recognise the GPU. It did recognise my mouse, though, which is neat.

It’s not like an app like OpenRGB is going to break your GPU or anything.

That’s the thing - I’m in a state where stuff works and is fine. That came after five reinstalls and three distros. Linux is not Windows - it’s fairly easy to do some unrecoverable* damage if you don’t know what you’re doing.

* yes, I know, technically everything is recoverable, but that requires knowledge and time, neither of which I have for this kind of stuff.

Is it possible to learn this power??

I would rather disable it on the OS level because I’m slightly paranoid that the dGPU dies at some point and then I can’t even access UEFI, because the iGPU is disabled.

Ooh, nice one! I’ll need to have a look for some detailed manuals/design diagrams of the Sapphire Pure, see if it’s mentioned.

Huh, a Windows VM might be a brilliant solution to this.

And now I’m wondering - could I maybe use something like Bottles or Wine to install the Windows software that handles Sapphire LEDs? Or would these apps not see the dGPU when virtualised like that?

someone suggested disconnecting the LEDs themselves, which is not something I’m willing to do with my 2-day old card

Sapphire Pure RX 9070 XT.

Sapphire Pure RX 9070 XT.

Ah, good to hear there’s hope! Thanks for that!

You can’t really disable rgb but you can set brightness with openrgb to 0.

I guess that’s good enough.

Do you speak from experience with 9070, or just in general as a “thing that OpenRGB does”?

All your arguments are logically sound and completely miss the main point.

The issue with Linux is not that “it’s getting there” in terms of user friendliness. It’s that it’s not there YET.

On top of that you have the community - just the other day I was searching to solve an issue, found a very similar thread, and the only reply the guy got was “here’s a link to the ArchWiki, welcome to the Linux world, you need to figure this out yourself”.

My 80 year old mother is not figuring out shit, she’s terrified when she has to copy a photo from a USB stick to here Photos folder.

Saying “Linux is fine for the masses today” is just showing how detached many Linux users are from reality.

Obviously Linux is the correct choice

Spoken like a true fundamentalist, completely disconnected from reality! The top of the Linux breed!

Linux is not “obviously” the “correct” choice, mate. It CAN be. In CERTAIN scenarios. It’s awesome if people do it, but you need to be real here.

Sooo, I’m in the same boat. Only, I sold my GPU expecting to get an upgrade and then didn’t for a long while - which is when I decided to make the switch to Linux, just to see how things go.

Now I added the GPU and - with issues - managed to get gaming going. It’s fine, I think. Played Hogwarts Legacy yesterday for a couple of hours. Got a 7800x3d and RX 9070 XT, with everything on Ultra (including Ray Tracing) and upscaling disabled, my GPU would be sitting between 80 and 100% utilisation, but FPS was very comfortable (don’t have a counter so don’t know exactly how many, but it was smooth).

HOWEVER, after a couple of hours my main monitor turned off and the other one turned… green. I think the graphics driver crashed? Not sure, honestly. Anyway, after a reboot everything was fine. Overall, I had a nice four hour-long session yesterday.

I guess what I’m saying is - give it a go! KDE is beautiful (do recommend Garuda Linux just for the design choices, but they also have A TONNE of “I’m a noob, help” features pre-configured), gaming is fine, you might enjoy it. And if you don’t, just switch back to Windows.

Well, to be fair, there was A LOT of weird stuff happening. Steam wouldn’t open at all (unless called from the terminal), or would open with just a black screen (GPU acceleration issue). At some point, I’m pretty sure, I had three instances of Steam installed. It was chaos.

Killing nuclear energy in Germany was the greatest success of FSB up to the point of planting an asset right in the middle of the Oval Office.

I have been using Steam and Heroic as flatpaks for a long time, and never had any issues.

I have two NVMe drives - 1TB and 2TB. I keep the OS and “regular apps” on the first one, games go on the second one. Moving the libraries was DIFFICULT on Flatpak. Had to use external software (Flatsomething, can’t remember right now) to give permissions and even then, for some reason, sometimes installation would just fail with a “drive error”. Oh, and I had to search online to provide the appropriate Steam path for Heroic because, by default, it doesn’t see Flatpak Steam.

I’m pretty happy with the state of the OS and GUI as it is right now. Just moved a couple of things around, basically.

I do have a problem with Flathub, though - in theory, it’s great. But I’m going to be playing games on this PC and Flathub causes MASSIVE problems for Steam and Heroic Launcher, their libraries and Proton compatibility. Love the idea, don’t like the execution.

Garuda (or maybe it’s an Arch thing?) does a phenomenal thing with AppImage files - when I launched the first one it asked me if I want to add shortcuts to Application Laucher and tuck the AppImage away in a safe spot, so that it doesn’t sit in Downloads. LOVE that feature.

Since I REALLY wanted to just not be bothered with the issue of drivers (especially AMD drivers) I went for one of the “gaming” distros - Garuda Linux.

And I have to say, I’m very positively surprised. Judging by the images on their website, I was afraid it’ll be one of those, you know, “pro gamer, full RBG rainbow” bullshit designs, but no - it’s actually very pretty live, looks much better than on their website.

Runs on Arch (Zen?) and has a bunch of things that I like - for example an app called “Garuda Rani” which is basically: “you’re a noob, here, press these buttons to make things work”. It even includes installation shortcuts to some popular applications (Heroic Launcher, Steam, for gamers, but also Wine and Proton, AnyDesk, Discord, VLC, some emulators, a bunch of Linux games (they have SuperTux here!), etc.)

Overall, other than a slight issue with my favourite browser* and repositories**, everything so far seems to be smooth sailing.

* Created a profile, had it running, changed the hostname and it, apparently, screwed the browser over as it was looking for the profile on the old hostname. Weird stuff. Nuked the profile, recreated it, all is well.

** One of those “press these buttons to make things work” includes merging the mirrorlist. Since I knew nothing about it, I just merged one file to the other, didn’t think a second about it, and then when I tried installing Steam, I got an error about a “missing repository for extras”. Managed to fix it after finally reading what the # signs mean in the mirrorlist file (everything was commented out - every single server…).