It’s time once again to bang my head against the wall of Linux gaming to see if I can make the switch from Windows. What’s the flavor of the month for gaming distros for a Windows native that’s not a moron but also wants something that just works once its set up?

Bonus points if you can point me at resources for how to put Linux on my Windows box as a dual boot without breaking my Windows installation.

EDIT - Tried Mint and Nobara and neither could figure out how to dual boot with Windows on a machine with two physical drives. I’m sure if I had a CS degree I could figure it out in short order but a little googling and messing around trying different things didn’t work so I think I’m done. Maybe next time, Linux.

  • alex77s@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    No one suggests openSUSE Tumbleweed?
    I use this distro as a workstation OS, laptop for newbie (my wife), for gaming (through steam client, but also with Heroic Game Launcher for GOG and Epic stores) and developing.
    It’s a rolling release, so I can get resonable updated kernel and graphics drivers, but it’s also an enough stable distro.
    Give it a chance ;-) And if you want a more stable release, instead of a rolling release, try openSUSE Leap.

    • ISOmorph@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I can second Tumbleweed. Super stable “just works” distro. If Nobara didn’t come packaged with almost everything I need, it would be my go to OS

  • zephyr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just use Manjaro KDE. It has “Install alongside” option during installation if you don’t wanna remove Windows. Also Newbie support and gaming performance is excellent.

    • Stillhart@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      Looking into Manjaro, it sounds like it’s kind of known for having issues with reliability. Seems like that might not be the best pick for something that “just works”. But I’ve heard good things about Arch so I don’t know.

      • TrontheTechie@infosec.pub
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        1 year ago

        If you want the “it just works” Linux gaming experience Garuda Gaming edition installs pretty well configured out of the box.

        I haven’t had to do any weird hacky stuff to get my goods working, but I also don’t play online, and mostly on older games at this point, but Jedi Survivor worked OOTB.

        • Waluigi@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          I too use Garuda on both my PC and my Laptop and I have no issues whatsoever. I had some issues with dualbooting on my Laptop but I am not 100% sure whether it was Garuda’s fault or Windows being Windows.