Hey folks!

Thinking of switching back to Linux. I was running PopOS about 1.5 years ago and was pretty happy with the gaming aspect of things, but I was playing a lot of VALORANT back then, and I got sick of dual booting. That is less the case now, so I would like to try going back to Linux for the majority of my gaming / streaming setup, and just use Windows for the handful of games like Destiny 2 that won’t run on Linux.

I am fairly new to Linux. Don’t mind learning some terminal stuff, but I am basically a noob so it does need to be pretty easy to start with. Got a NVIDIA 3080 and AMD CPU if that matters at all.

Recommend me a distro please fellow penguin gamers.

  • hschen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    PopOS, Mint, Ubuntu are the main ones recommended for new users, just try them out and see what you think. I personally used Ubuntu for about half a year and then moved over to Archlinux and have been using arch for like 4 years now, but arch is too hard for new users so dont try it.

    • setInner234@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’ve found Manjaro to be pretty good in terms of automated handling for Nvidia drivers and stuff. Fast and stable with rolling updates. Yes, the transition from Windows is rough for 3 months or so, but after that you’ll wonder how anyone ever put up with Microsoft’s BS

  • honk@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I generally like Mint and I don’t really wanna switch distro unless it would give me any significant benefits. Like what’s the deal with PopOS? What does it have over other distros that makes it a good gaming distro?

    I can easily install proprietary drivers on most distros these days. Steam is available in the repos of any debian/ubuntu distro that i can think of. There’s gotta be something that I’m missing?

  • bootyberrypancakes@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    endeavourOS! It’s pretty much Archlinux with a gui installer and some helpful things for new users. I recently installed it on a spare drive on my gaming PC with AMD/nvidia and everything just worked after installing steam.

      • evadzs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        If you’re newer to Linux I recommend Garuda as a beginner distro. It’s very similar to Endeavor as an Arch base, but has some friendly GUI options like Snapper bootable backups for easily undoing bad updates and an update script that takes care of mirror list and orphan notifications. People complain about bloat in Garuda and while there is some it’s also helpful bloat, still less than Windows, and has negligible impact on modern hardware