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Linux gamers, what distro are you currently on? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nlm@beehaw.org to c/operating_systems@beehaw.org

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I'm currently on Win11 but I'm getting that familiar Linux itch and want to dual boot a while again. I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it's so big and well supported by most things.

I've run Arch in the past but I've gotten too old and lazy for that if I'd be completely honest. I have played with manjaro and endeavour though.. and opensuse tumbleweed, rolling is kind of nice.

Not sure what I'd try out first this time so I figured I'd get some inspiration from you guys!

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[–] s900mhz@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A little background for context. I’m gamer and professional software developer. I’ve been dual booting windows 11 and pop os for awhile. Windows for games and pop os for everything else… Over the weekend I switched to NixOS. This came with a learning curve which I spent a day or so learning. I’ve been getting the hang of it now and I love it so much. I definitely recommend it. I managed to get steam working without much fiddling and my emulators. It’s been great! The benefits for programming are obvious. Allowing me to basically stop using docker dev containers.

I completely removed windows from my computer and I’m very happy.

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We used to run Ubuntu at my last job, it was so nice! I'm back in Windows land now though..

[–] s900mhz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah my job recently started letting developers choose between windows and Mac now which is a step in the right direction… their excuse is that all their security software doesn’t run in Linux… Ill accept using a Mac over WSL though, that was a huge pain

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still happy WSL exists, it's definitely better than nothing if you're stuck in Windows land!

[–] s900mhz@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah absolutely! I know I dissed it, but I was happy to have it when I was stuck on windows for work.

[–] Chobbes@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

NixOS is the path to enlightenment. Very good stuff. Also look into steam-run if you’re not already aware!