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Recommended linux variant for gaming. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm currently struggling with Nobara and the growing amount of bugs with each new kernel update.

Otherwise I would have recommended that one, since it offers some great convenient features, like a graphical management tool for all sorts of Wine versions, which can be installed in parallel. The kernel supports fsync and is tuned for low latency. Game performance is decent and I also got all my games and launchers (native Linux and also Wine) working.

For the audio part, there is pipewire, which works like a charm. There is also a compatible flatpack for DSP/equalizer which I couldn't find it on Ubuntu's snap store: JamesDSP. Now, after some tuning, my rather flat-sounding headphones sound do super boomy.

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

What are the bugs thta you have been experiencing on nobara

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

It started with conflicts between the preinstalled gnome extensions - namely the desktop icons broke other extensions, like Pop!_shell for window tiling. So I had to disable desktop icons.

My latest installed kernel (6.5.11) breaks screen detection - The resolution is stuck at 1024x768.

My PC gets stuck (probably on self test) after reboot or switching it on, after Nobara has shut down. Solution: Pull the power plug, wait 10 seconds, reconnect and turn it on.

I expect more to break with the next updates.

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

On nobara I have never had any of these issues on nvidia and on KDE.If you wanna give it a try you can even get it to look like GNOME.

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

Alrighty then: Now I have a reason to switch graphics cards and install Nobara on my other SSD. I bought a Radeon RX 7600 for this setup, because of AMD's praised open-source drivers. My spare GPU is an RTX 3060, so I can actually test both worlds.

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

Nah AMD works much better than nvidia, my statement was meant to be like "works even on nvidia" you should definetly stay AMD

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

That's what folks over here tell me, and you are most probably right. There is still one more issue scratching my head though: RayTracing performance on Cyberpunk 2077: It works great on high settings with stable 50 FPS minimum on my Windows 10 + Nvidia build, but it's quite the opposite on this Nobara + AMD system. 5FPS and slowdowns are just unplayable. I expected the bad AMD performance being fixed by today. I think I should swap GPUs between both systems and test again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am also getting like 20 fps less on linux than windows, I think its just how it is with cyberpunk. Testing can't hurt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For that last one, try disabling Fast Boot in your BIOS/UEFI. That may be the culprit.