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anyone have experience with bazzite and mint, with a focus toward gaming? The box i want to try on, i have been procrastinating hooking up and dealing with the contents (it was my dad's work computer and i'm the only family member with professional ethical requirements relating to confidentiality so it went to me)
Bazzite didn't work for me out of the box (I wanted to see if it being 'gaming focused' had any positives), and what tinkering I could do didn't fix the steam gaming. I went back to an arch-based distro and haven't had any problems.
Suggesting anything that isn't arch based for a gaming focused solution seems stupid as hell to me. No matter how you cut it, there's a god damn good reason valve picked arch as a base for steam os.
Other solutions are just not going to be as good. Will they work? Sure you could game in Debian for heaven sake and be perfectly fine.
But it's just more possible problems. Gaming is basically the exact inverse of non cutting edge. It's the exact worse case where even bleeding edge may not be new enough to properly support things even months after release.
If your playing 10 year old games anything does fine, but other wise your updating packages to what might be newer then your distro supports regardless as which point why arnt you just on arch where that's less prone to explode.