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submitted 6 months ago by TheMonkeyLord@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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This isn't me asking for help or anything, I already replaced it with fedora kinoite. I just felt like talking about this ridiculous venture of mine.

So a couple weeks ago I started hyper focusing on cities skylines, but played on my Xbox. I learned that mods and all kinds of fun custom content was available on PC so I tried to play on my system. Problem, my laptop has an rtx 2070, but I was running fedora kinoite and couldn't figure out how in the world to install nvidia drivers.

So after a bunch of searching around I give up and decide to try installing a "gaming" focused distro in the form of endeavour os. It was awful.

Maybe I am weird but the x11 rendering didn't feel good at all, the lack of some default applications, as well as a bunch of apps I didn't know the purpose of. (This one is my own fault since they have a kde spin, but I remembered why I didn't like gnome) and finally today it froze in the middle of an update and hard rebooted, no longer able to launch.

Worst part, I didn't do a lick of gaming on the thing cause I moved on to Borderlands 3

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[–] lobster_teapot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

If you find yourself wanting to game on your distro again, layering nvidia drivers ontop of immutable fedora is do-able. If you want a more hands off approach you can use bazzite (https://bazzite.gg/), which has an nvidia compatible version and is just a kinoite-based OSI image with gaming oriented tweaks and extra apps.

You can even just rebase to it if you're already using kinoite (and rebase back to kinoite if you don't like it), no need to reinstall your system. The download page has a one-command exemple on how to do that.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If you want something like Fedora that supports nVidia, just run OpenSuSE. It's also enterprise grade and happily chugs along whatever you do to it.

[–] lobster_teapot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Fedora is not enterprise grade. That would be RHEL. And entreprise grade mostly just mean stable (some would say stale) packages anyway if you don't pay for support.

Installing nvidia drivers on fedora workstation is as easy as enabling rpm-fusion non-free and then installing a few packages. The issue here comes from OP running an OSI-based immutable system, which makes layering stuff on top a bit more difficult.

OP's already running something fedora based, might as well stay where they feel comfortable and just add a few drivers and gaming tweaks on top.

Nothing against opensuse though. I'm currently running aeon because their approach of immutability is more modulable than fedora's one.

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