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If that is actually what the difference in disros is then great, I looked at bazzite and did not get it I thought distros mainly differed in how desktop environment works.
Yeah docker was a stupid goal, I wanted to start automating downloads and such through rdarr. Seems less time consuming to trawl and click.
Yeah I do this to myself, pressure on to fully understand every facet.
Yeah. Distros are basically just preconfigured sets of Linux, with the communities focusing on what they are interested in.
Yeah it makes sense, I was just picturing the surface changes and everything else was default. Bazzite is probably the way to go so.
I strongly disagree with u/brucethemoose here. You wrote below that you're currently using Linux Mint, which is a great distro for beginners. In my opinion, Bazzite offers nothing essential that is not available on Mint. IMHO, the easiest ways to play games are:
You can - of course - still switch to a different distro if you like, but this is not necessary or helpful to run games.
Bazzite offers a lot that Mint doesn't for gaming, from dedicated images for nVidia/AMD drivers, to preinstalled steam, easy management of flatpaks (Bazaar blows Discover out of the water),
ujustscripts that perform many tasks for you with just a few prompts, a set of programs and utilities uselful for gaming and related tasks.Sure, you can install Heroic and Steam on Mint, but that's not all there is to it.
Sure, Bazzite has some nice features. But, I would argue that apart from the Nvidia images (there is no AMD image) those are all minor things. And for Nvidia cards, the Mint Driver Manager is pretty good. I don't think any of those differences play a role here.
In general, I think it's really unhelpful to present "switch to my favorite distro" as the first step in troubleshooting an issue.
The minor things together make a huge difference. Can you install all this stuff on other distros? Sure, but you need to know it exists, first.
Well, you should use tools that are suited for the purpose. I've been a Fedora user for years, I think a decade, but after trying out Bazzite I realised how ideal it is for gamers switching over from Windows. I've never been one to suggest Linux to friends, as I don't want the responsibilities that come with that, but nowadays when a gamer friend complains about Windows, I can dare suggesting an alternative.
I've been in OP's shoes, although in my case the issues were getting my CRT monitor to show anything or my dial-up modem to work with ndiswrapper, and any help reaching some of your goals goes a long way in helping you persevere on the task.