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Need Advice - Linux gaming - Mint (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 days ago by Levi@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hi. I've been using Linux for decades on my work machines, but most of my knowledge is pretty rusty. However for gaming I've always used a Windows machine. I'm thinking of getting rid of microsoft entirely, since I've been hearing such good things about steam & proton lately.

I was going to just install Mint on my gaming computer, but since there are a ton of experts here, I figured I should check in to see if there is any reason not to use Mint for this? And if there is any other considerations or setup I should be aware of to keep my games running well?

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[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Great, glad to hear that Mint will be okay. I don't mind the slower kernel/driver updates. :)

2 quick followup questions:

Should I set my filesystems to something other than ext4? I know some games in windows I feel like would benefit from a faster filesystem, but I don't know a whole lot about it.
If I upgrade my videocard (I'm using a NVidia GTX something something), would it be better to go for an AMD card? Do they have better linux driver support?

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

The AMD cards have better performance with the in-tree driver than Nvidia does, so it is just a little bit easier with an AMD card. But it's really not that hard with Nvidia, so you do you.

Ext4 is perfectly fine for most uses, although some distros will default to btrfs. Whatever the default are in the distro you use are going to work fine

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