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Is PopOS the best for easy gaming? (beehaw.org)

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

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Hey folks!

Thinking of switching back to Linux. I was running PopOS about 1.5 years ago and was pretty happy with the gaming aspect of things, but I was playing a lot of VALORANT back then, and I got sick of dual booting. That is less the case now, so I would like to try going back to Linux for the majority of my gaming / streaming setup, and just use Windows for the handful of games like Destiny 2 that won't run on Linux.

I am fairly new to Linux. Don't mind learning some terminal stuff, but I am basically a noob so it does need to be pretty easy to start with. Got a NVIDIA 3080 and AMD CPU if that matters at all.

Recommend me a distro please fellow penguin gamers.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Ubuntu for a while now, and was planning for my new build (Within the next week or two) to try out PopOS (Which is still based off of Ubuntu).

If I was more familiar with Fedora, I might have tried out Nobara, (but it doesn't have the support that PopOS does yet).

And considering you use Nvidia, I've read that PopOS makes it easier to get drivers for that. If you're still new, either PopOS or base Ubuntu would work, but PopOS might get you set up faster. I wish I could give a more detailed answer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Two differences between PopOS and Ubuntu is that the former has snap disabled by default and aim to offer quicker kernel updates.

I've been gaming on PopOS for quite some time, and it's been very stable.