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As a first time Linux user pretty much what should I use for gaming. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have heard good things about nobara. I don't mind doing a little thinkering to have things work but I also don't want to spend hours doing recharch on how to fix things.

Edit: thanks for giving input everyone. I will try Linux mint and if it does not go well will give nobara a go instead.

Edit part two I had to boot mint in compatibility mode because I got black screen for like 15+ minutes and then I couldn't get it to see more than one monitor and 3 hours later gave up....Just put on nobara will load mint to my laptop and try to learn more because I want to but also tryna game :) you will hear more from me

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If you mainly play Steam games, Mint will do the job just fine. Just install Steam and you're good to go. No tinkering required.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Won't I have to install Nvidia drivers? This is my big concern if I'm being frank (I have a Nvidia card)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mint makes this very easy, it had a driver installer in settings last I used it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I actually just found that on there page thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, nvidia can be a bit of pain. Normally you a install proprietary drivers and it works, not always. AMD just works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

AMD "just works" unless you dare expect hardware encoding that you explicitly picked your card based on to work properly

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, if you're planning on doing anything fancy (e.g. RTX, FSR/DLSS, streaming w/ a specific encoding, etc), do some digging to check compatibility on Linux, you may need a newer kernel or something. If you just want a general experience (e.g. mostly playing/using apps on default settings), it's less of a concern.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, that sounds better than be unable to login because kernel unattended update breaks nvidia drivers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Depends, unless you wanted to record/stream in higher-than-toaster quality until a month ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The lucky mostly of people don't. I personally have any issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

True, everything else runs great

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Mint has a program that simplifies the process of installing Nvidia drivers. I think it's just called "Driver Manager".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You'll have to do it for any modern game with medium to high requirements.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You need to change steam configuration to unable to enable compatibility for all games, or only Linux/proton approved will work. I agree mostly works out of the box, but eventually is good to check protondb website if for tinkering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Mint is good, but Cinnamon development is lagging behind and starting to show it.

Last I tried to use it there was bug that caused compositing to impact game performance, it's supposed to not do that and there's a setting to disable compositing for games, but it's been non-functional for years.

You can use Mint, but I'd ditch Cinnamon.