Danny which DE (Desktop Environment) are you using?
I went with the KDE-Plasma DE, because I'm not a big fan of Gnome.
Also, from Terminal, you could give us the output from
to give us broad specs for your custom rig.
Code:
System: Kernel: 5.8.6-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI-CF v: x.x serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F11
date: 10/15/2019
Battery: Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU: Topology: 8-Core model: Intel Core i7-9700K bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake rev: D L2 cache: 12.0 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 57616
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia v: 450.66 bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 450.66 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3
Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.6-1-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.3
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6
IF: eno2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 212.36 GiB (11.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 size: 1.82 TiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.79 TiB used: 212.36 GiB (11.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 37 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info: Processes: 269 Uptime: 7d 19h 28m Memory: 31.30 GiB used: 3.17 GiB (10.1%) Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
Packages: 1317 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 inxi: 3.1.05
Manjaro is to Arch as Ubuntu is to Debian, in the case if it being a derivative of those projects as opposed to being based.
For virtualbox, you didn't explain to hus how you went about installing it onto your system. Did you do it through the graphical package manager. If so did you install the linux kernel modules that are indicative (matching in this case) to the kernel you are currently running (Source:
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/VirtualBox). If so then run this command in the terminal:
then reboot. It should work by this point. Also what do you mean by .NET? Virtualbox is available natively on Linux.
I think I might have been misremembering the issue for VirtualBox. It was a little while ago, and the .NET issue with Wine has been so prevalent in just about everything that doesn't work, I guess I misremembered. I installed it through the graphical package manager, and every time I tried to run a Windows VM it would error out. I'll probably make its own thread, because I remember trying a handful of fixes that didn't work. Can't remember off the top of my head what the error said though.
For games, it depends on a wide variety of factors such as if you are using a Nvidia card, in which case you should install the proprietary drivers? If you are using Steam, do you have Steam Play enabled across all titles in your settings. GOG titles should work across Lutris if there is a script available. There are multiplayer games on Linux and/or playable on Wine or Proton. It's those anti-cheats that are based in the kernel level that are difficult to get running. There are some talks with Valve to get Easy Anticheat working on Linux across Proton/Wine. Also what games are you playing? You can check protondb or Wine HQ's appdb, to give a general idea on its compatibility and what tweaks (if any) can be done.
I do happen to be using an Nvidia card as seen above, but I'm pretty sure I installed Nvidia's drivers. I installed them through the GUI as recommended when I realized that the drivers were why my games weren't running at all. So I hope I did it right - it seemed to find Nvidia drivers and installed them so it seems like I got the right ones. Steam Proton has been a little bit inconsistent. I tested it out with Skyrim - not exactly the most hardware-intensive game out there, but can require a bit of a beefy PC to run on ultra settings. Actually, Skyrim is one of the few games that I got to run, even if it wasn't correctly. I had initially used the fix available for the missing voice and music once, reinstalled it because after that gamepad inputs crashed the game, then trying the fix again just had no effect whatsoever; not sure what's going on there, but if I decide to play it, then I just play it with half the sound missing. :/
With regards to GOG, I grabbed a few of the installers from my library first, and somehow Roller Coaster Tycoon ran like a charm - maybe because it was written in assembly. But Oblivion was an issue. The installer itself was completely broken when I tried to run it without Lutris. After managing to get it installed on Lutris, it had to go into the "starts but crashes" category because it would consistently crash about 2-5 minutes after starting a new game. Even if I speedran character creation and only picked a name and race, the "w" key was always being held down even though I wasn't touching the keyboard. Very strange.
For graphical tablets, it is not my specialty but I believe installing the wacom drivers should fix that issue.
I have a Gaomon Pen Display, and their installer for Windows causes Wine to bring back the dreaded .NET issue, this time for .NET 2.0. Usually it's a later version of .NET when I get this issue, but like I've said above, I have installed multiple versions of .NET with the command line, where it shows no issues, but it didn't fix any of Wine's missing .NET issues. There was a way to get it running on Ubuntu that the users came up with but I have no idea if the fix is applicable to Manjaro. They also don't seem to offer their drivers in any other form than the .exe installer.
Not every distribution would work flawlessly for everyone for every case. If I may ask but what CPU and GPU are you using for your system. And why did you use Ubuntu Gamepack as opposed to vanilla Ubuntu or PopOS which are both more popular. (The latter of which have all you need for gaming either preinstalled onto the system or available in their graphical package manager; PopShop). Or SalientOS which have everything you would need for gaming preinstalled and is based within Arch.
You can see my machine's general stats above in my reply to WizardFromOz.
I honestly didn't have any experience with how many Distros Linux had before starting this little foray into custom PC building. I just googled around, and got recommended Ubuntu Gamepack after posting in the Getting Started forum. When that didn't work, I just picked a distro that had KDE-Plasma DE available on installation because my installation of KDE-Plasma on Ubuntu did not go well, and Manjaro seemed to be thought of pretty highly. A lot of people seemed to like it because it was like Arch, but easier to use and get everything started. But, even though I've been trying new things and looking into Linux stuff for at least a month, I didn't hear about PopOS until about a week ago, and I'm just now hearing of SalientOS.
I also think I picked Manjaro because I looked up some articles that said something to the effect of, "Manjaro is just as good at gaming as any other distro - potentially better if you know what you're doing." I could be butchering that paraphrasing of the article, but I forget exactly where I found it. I took it at face value and was like, "Good enough for me" and tried Manjaro.
While this is my first time actually picking a distro and using it on my own machine, I've done some work with Linux on servers, so I was like, "Yeah, sure, I bet I'm ready for this." Famous last words, right?