I just picked up a cheap older gaming PC with a GTX 1050 and and Intel I7 CPU. Trying to decide what distro to load on it for gaming. Curious that others experience is gaming on various distros.
Fedora and steamOS
Debian. It wont win any awards for fastest release cycles but it’s rock stable with great support for my Ryzen 2700 and 6700xt.
Debain gamer here as well!
There seem to be dozens of us
As a FreeBSD user just trying to game on Unix, I’ve blown up my Debian machine so many times. A couple of years ago, trying to get CUDA in Blender working AND have a recent enough driver for the Windows games I was playing on Proton was killing me. I don’t remember what exactly but it seemed like every time I tried to change something, the whole fragile mess would bork itself.
yeah, back when I used nvidia I had to run their driver installer or nothing would work right, and of course any little system update would bork everything until I ran the installer again. Thankfully everything with AMD just works now.
Thank you for validating my pain.
NixOS. Works great. I’m a bit of a masochist.
Fedora atm, I heard it’s pretty good I haven’t really tried anything else.
Manjaro (Arch) with hyprland for my window manager.
I’ve been using Nobara for about 2 years and it’s been very good.
Be aware support for 1050 on 580 version of driver is ending so rolling release distos can make u a problem when they will upgrade version higher than 580
Generally they should offer a package for older drivers, though.
Just rolling with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Arch. Just dropping the dxvk/vkd3d libs in the game main dir with exe and double click. No need for bottles, crates, kegs and other warehouse ware. 😂 Just plain old simple and highly customized Wine 10.5.
Pretty much any distro will work for gaming these days. Really up to personal preference. I use Arch but have heard good things about Pop!_OS.
I was on pop for a while! It was cool.
Why does the pop shop suck though? Why?? Why is it so slow, why does it crash so much? Why is this such a problem with so many users? It wasn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back, it was more like an unnecessary brick the camel had to carry.
The pop shop is ass, but you can install the cosmic store and it works wonderfully (cosmic is the DE in development by system76).
Currently Pop!_OS
I started with Bazzite but wanted a system that wasn’t immutable, so I switched to Garuda. Both have been easy and reliable.
Bazzite on the living room PC.
Nobara (Fedora)
Tried Bazzite for a year. Was fun but now back to a normal distro.
Fedora
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