I just picked up a cheap older gaming PC with a GTX 1050 and and Intel I7 CPU. Trying to decide what distro to load on it for gaming. Curious that others experience is gaming on various distros.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed here, both on my desktop and Steam Deck. i like the stable rolling release model. Allows me to get shiny new things that have at least gone through automated tests.
And in case anything goes wrong it comes with snapper configured by default for easy rollbacks.
Yes! Tumbleweed squad…rise up.
This got me started with Linux. Such a great first distro.
It ended up being my second distro because Kubuntu completely crapped out after an update. Tumbleweed is excellent!
Comes with a bunch of warnings for Steam, is there some postinstall setup needed before gaming is convenient on opensuse? Or am I out of loop, I was under the impression that it’s not that good for that https://en.opensuse.org/Steam
Luckily I did not read those warnings so they did not apply to me.
So far no problems.
Fedora
Bazzite and Mint
I game on Fedora because it was just the OS I installed on my gaming PC when I moved to Linux. Everything is fine between Steam, Heroic, and Lutris. The NVIDIA drivers were easy to install from the App Store and the only game that doesn’t run well is Death Loop but there’s been some updates and I haven’t tried it in six months so it may be better now. There was a memory leak apparently but I think there were more problems.
Nobara (Fedora)
Tried Bazzite for a year. Was fun but now back to a normal distro.
Debian. It wont win any awards for fastest release cycles but it’s rock stable with great support for my Ryzen 2700 and 6700xt.
Debain gamer here as well!
There seem to be dozens of us
I’m a Linux Mint user and I’ve not had many problems using Steam as a Flatpak.
Bazzite on the living room PC.
Fedora KDE works great for me, but I’m quite comfortable with Linux already
Pretty much any distro will work for gaming these days. Really up to personal preference. I use Arch but have heard good things about Pop!_OS.
I was on pop for a while! It was cool.
Why does the pop shop suck though? Why?? Why is it so slow, why does it crash so much? Why is this such a problem with so many users? It wasn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back, it was more like an unnecessary brick the camel had to carry.
The pop shop is ass, but you can install the cosmic store and it works wonderfully (cosmic is the DE in development by system76).
Unfortunately I already left Pop! for Fedora when I updated my GPU. I needed something with an updated kernel anyways and Fedora played nice with it out of the box.
But man, I still am surprised when I open up software and it just… loads with no issue.
Currently Pop!_OS
Cachy OS on personal PC and Bazzite on steam console (htpc) and a onexplayer handheld. Then just good old steamos on the steam deck.
Rocking Garuda here!
Me too!
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Just rolling with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Mint for two years. Then Arch for a decade. This year I have been trying out CachyOS.
