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Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmarks
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this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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When first switching to Linux I tried Pop!_os and it was awful was a headache to get anything to work .. switched to Ubuntu and all my problems went away , I don't recommend using pop .
This may be a YMMV situation. I'm not a huge gamer, but Pop has worked great for me for nearly all games I've tried. The one glaring exception has been the Civilization series (specifically 3 and 6)... Anyone know if that's a Linux problem, a Pop problem, or a just me problem?
(Also, sorry you're getting downvoted for sharing your honest opinion/personal experience)
I had a bunch of issues and the more I tried to fix it the worse it got to the point that steam wouldn't even work anymore and couldn't get any games to launch. I'm not worried about upvotes so it's all good lol .
I've played civIV on fedora and had no problems (I was using a jc141 release, though).
For me it was the reverse. Pop was the clear winner for several reasons. Plus I like System76 overall. I vigorously recommend Pop as a beginner/gaming choice.
But honestly, Ubuntu vs PopOS should not have been that different for you - they are extremely similar. Pop is cleaner with less bloat, and not beholden to Canonical.
To each their own of course, and having options is what makes switching great.
My wife's laptop crapped out so I threw pop os (previously had arch on it) and made profiles for both of us. Lets her play the few games that she likes, and Firefox is the same. It's made for an easy transition from windows to Linux for her. Ubuntu would probably be just as easy overall, but she likes the tiling too since it's very helpful on a small screen (arch + bspwm is my main driver so I wasn't going to give up tiling)
For me it was the other way around. I did notice performance issues then I tried fedora and they went away so I've been sticking with fedora
I haven't tried fedora myself and at this point I don't want to mess with what is working great for me . I did have some issues with it freezing when idle but that was fixed with a kernel update.