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Gaming Experience on Immutable Distros (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone here have experience with gaming on immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinote, OpenSUSE MicroOS or any other general desktop variants? I know SteamOS 3 and ChimeraOS are both immutable, but they come with all kernel mods and libraries baked in.

Are there any issues with drivers or performance that otherwise do not happen on a more mainline distribution?

Do you have to deal with getting Nvidia drivers installed or is that handled by the system?

I'm asking because I'm considering making the jump to either Silverblue or Kinote, but I am curious to hear your thoughts.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I've used Fedora Silverblue. I wouldn't recommend gaming without the proprietary Nvidia drivers. If you're okay turning off Secure Boot, installing Nvidia drivers isn't too bad depending on what card you're using. Fedora doesn't support Nvidia drivers so it can be a headache in some circumstances. If you want to use Secure Boot, tweaks are required to install the Nvidia proprietary drivers. RPM Fusion offers some help : https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

Vanilla OS installs the Nvidia drivers out of the box even with secure boot enabled. They're currently switching between an Ubuntu base to a Debian base so I don't know how that will change things. The current version is pretty good though. https://vanillaos.org/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I personally do not use an Nvidia card, but I thought I would add it for the discussion.

With an AMD card, do you feel that the experience was good?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm using silverblue with amd graphics card and it works flawlessly for me.

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