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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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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Arch tends to be close, because it is a bleeding edge type of rolling update model, so any fixes would come to Arch faster than more LTS options.

Some distros like Nobara liek you mention have it built in, Pop OS is another. Different distros will prioritize different aspects and that how itll fundamentally be.

Linux is a game of knowing which distro fits your usecase, the less offending hardware you use, the easier the choices are. take for example those who use bleeding edge hardware might not like the out of the box experience on LTS based distros that take awhile to push something to kernel.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tried Pop, it was pretty good, but for some reason I just could not get helldiver's to work well. Other OSs didn't even let me get in the menus dx12 error, this is by far the least work and best result I've found.

[–] Mako_Bunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

I got Helldivers to work by making it open in windowed mode rather than full screen, then making it full screen once it opened. Seems to be a common issue with it. someone on protonDB mentioned it iirc.

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