Basically the title. Loving PopOS as my daily, but I understand that PopOS uses their own process and makes sure that only a checked driver gets wide release. Great for stability, less great for playing games that just came out. Is there a distro that this community generally recommends for gaming?
The kind of game-specific fixes that get added to GPU drivers on Windows are typically added to Proton, not the Linux GPU drivers. Waiting a week for the Nvidia driver so you can be sure it won’t break your system is only a plus in this instance.
Yeah I’m going to echo this. Patience is a good idea on Linux, especially when it comes to proprietary drivers.
If you need bleeding edge gaming support, is Arch (using Arch-install)or an Arch based distro like Garuda. I believe OpenSUSE Tumbleweed could also be alternative to Arch.
The next best thing is a Fedora based distro like Nobara.
In any case, use KDE Plasma + Wayland.
Anything else is just old software.
I’ve long been a fan of gnome any reason why you recommend kde + wayland?
Not the OP but Gnome does not support variable refresh rate.
Good to know!
I use Endevour OS, and have no problems with Nvidia drivers, but since its an arch based distro its not as easy or stable as debian based distros
So just to put this out there. https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/
Universal Blue has some really good ideas. I really think immutable and atomic updating linux distros are the future. Most applications have flatpaks available.
Bazzite has alot of gamer forward features, has Nvidia specific builds, and even supports a SteamDeck replacement version of their OCI images.
Even though people may not like Fedora, I think universal Blue solves a lot of the Fedora style problems people experience.
There are also BlendOS and VanillaOS but I haven’t tried them with NVIDIA GPUs.
I’ve had good luck with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but I usually recommend Linux Mint because it’s so much more common so it’s probably easier to get help. So that’s my recommendation, check out Linux Mint.
Garuda
Nobara Linux. It’s a fedora derivative that’s focused for gaming, with regular updates. It even comes with all the important things like Steam and Feral Gamemode installed. Make sure to download the Nvidia version if you have an Nvidia GPU.
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ive been using Rhino Linux and have been very happy with it!
Recommended system requirements for this one?
its a ubuntu based distro using a modified xfce de, so not much i wouldnt think for system requirements.
im using a modern laptop with 4gb of ram and itspretty smooth.
Gentoo. It will be the last distro you hop to. Because it’s whatever you want it to be. Don’t be afraid. It even has a special command and portage repo to install all the support files and ancient libraries from 2002 your old games need in one shot.
You can snag a binary kernel, browser and some compilers now too if you don’t want to deal with that. It’s not much more difficult than Arch nowadays.
Gentoo takes a serious commitment if for no other reason than build time. I would not go around recommending it to anyone who isn’t an enthusiast. PopOS to Gentoo is kind of a crazy jump.
