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Recommended linux variant for gaming. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by cynar@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I've been using Ubuntu as my daily driver for a good few years now. Unfortunately I don't like the direction they seem to be heading.

I've also just ordered a new computer, so it seems like the best time to change over. While I'm sure it will start a heated debate, what variant would people recommend?

I'm not after a bleeding edge, do it all yourself OS it will be my daily driver, so don't want to have to get elbow deep in configs every 5 minutes. My default would be to go back to Debian. However, I know the steam deck is arch based. With steam developing proton so hard, is it worth the additional learning curve to change to arch, or something else?

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[–] Potajito@feddit.ch 9 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Endevour os for me. No issues on kde nvidia and wayland, pretty straightforward installation. If I were you I'd do some distro hopping in the new PC. I'd try one of those ublue images, then nobara then endevour and see what you prefer.

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Gaming on Wayland with Nvidia is straight up not enjoyable for games running through XWayland due to this bug. This affects all games running with Proton/Wine, Steam, Discord, Firefox without MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 environment variable and many more

[–] Potajito@feddit.ch 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Personally I haven't had that issue. I had lots of issues with latest 545 but downgraded to 535 and it's all good so far.

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It doesn't happen on Systems using Prime Render offlading. Are you playing on a laptop?

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