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From Windows to about 6 recommended distros for gaming. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by whostosay@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am not bad with computers and have a beginner+, maybe intermediate level knowledge of Linux and I kept running into some problems here and there with different distros. Most claimed to work out of the box (which may be the case for some users, but I have a shit ass Nvidia 1060 and that was not at all the case, until I installed Nobara KDE/Nvidia.

Just came here to potentially save someone time, this shit is actually working out of the box, closest experience to this was with Arch, but that's definitely not out of the box.

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[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I tried Nobara and quickly ran into the lone developer problem when it didn't support secure boot. I don't really see the point of secure boot when the machine will still accept any USB I stick in there, but most other distros seem to handle it. I didn't want to spend a lot of time working on it and later find other unsupported things.

So I switched to Bazzite, which other people keep recommending, and that seems to work fine. AMD GPU over here tho, YMMV.

[–] ElusiveClarity@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nobara was my first attempt at leaving windows for good and it was great until it wasn’t. I went a few months without ever booting windows but started having issues when I bought a new gpu. I went from Nvidia to AMD and everything I read online said you just install the AMD gpu, nothing else needed to be done. Every game I tried to play and would crash within 20 minutes every single time. I eventually got so frustrated that I just booted windows, ran DDU, downloaded adrenaline and I was up and running. After I got settled in, I nuked nobara and installed bazzite and haven’t had a single issue since.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I've seen this recommendation a few times now, this is working flawlessly for now, so I'll keep running it, but if and when it doesn't, I'll try this out. I gotta say, as a whole, installing most of these has been a breeze, and none of them have had the annoyances that comes with a fresh windows install (do you wanna be tracked, do you want ads, wheres your acct, are you sure you wanna not use edge, etc.)

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Good to hear I might be on a painless track! I'm also really loving the idea of rpm-ostree. Kinda interested in setting up one of those automatic builds, just to learn.