I really enjoy archlinux so I was thinking on downloading garuda gaming but I’m unsure if that’s the way to go. What distro do you guys use? Have you encontered many problems with it?
Nobara is a great gaming focused distro, it’s a fork of Fedora by a well-known Red Hat employee.
It’s by the GloriousEggroll guys, and I really liked it a lot. I would still be using it if it worked better with my laptop’s hybrid Nvidia graphics setup. When I get around to swapping my desktop to linux, I’ll almost certainly go with Nobara first.
FWIW, Pop!_OS is where I landed for great hybrid graphics support.
Regular Fedora Workstation is a good compromise between stability and new kernels etc.
Personally I like the KDE spin best: https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde/
+1 from me. Fedora is a nice middle ground - stable, polished, yet adopting new things fast.
I’m sure u only wanted to tell us, u are using arch linux. You wouldn’t switch OS only for gaming. Jokes aside, I would rather switch from nvidia to AMD instead of using another Distro. I use arch btw, for gaming and music production.
I found the distro really doesn’t matter much anymore for gaming specifically. You’ll install the same or similar tools for gaming no matter if using Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian etc.
For gaming it sometimes can be useful to have more current Software especially if playing new games since issues might only be fixed on the latest version.
But aside from that one part I think you should go with the distro you generally prefer and game on that.
It will matter if your packages are so out of date that you can’t run any games on it. Had this issue when I used KDE neon what uses an Ubuntu LTS release
Using garuda right now. Works very well for me. I installed the KDE light version as I don’t like their styling.
I’ve had really good luck with Pop!_OS. AMD CPU and NVIDIA GPU, so having the NVIDIA drivers bundled is nice.
Most games in my Steam library work out of the box with no tinkering of Proton. I’ve lucked out in that the games that do require tinkering work with Proton Experimental or Glorious Eggroll’s releases. Lutris is the same, though I just default to the latest Glorious Eggroll release.
