I'm using Pop OS and it worls flawlessly!
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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Me too!
I've been using PopOS and Steam installed in Flatpak, as well as native and both have worked really well. Lutris i have installed through flatpak, as otherwise it sometimes gave me issues. This is running really well on my AMD 5950x and 6800XT
same here and lutris was giving me shit with ea app, I could not get controller to work. I ended buying BF on steam and it works flawlessly.
not even going to bother anymore. steam 100% for gaming, idiot proof implementation is about ready for the normie stream.
Looking like PopOS might be a decent way to go - I’m using Nvidia and there is a specific image for that
Fedora, apart from the latest nvidia driver rendering Plasma a slide show I've had no real issues.
I was using Debian, but I now daily drive openSUSE Tumbleweed.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, YaST is the deity I pray to
Arch linux, minimal install. Feels really nice to have control over my whole distro and to not be clogged by third-party annoyances.
I’ve used it in VMs before. Never been brave enough to take the plunge for real
Mint for my desktop, SteamOS on Deck. Both do what I need, and the only issues I've run into since switching have been random things like GOG not having an updated Planescape Torment build that works out of the box. I don't play many online competitive games with like invasive anti-cheat stuff, so I haven't run into a ton of compatibility issues.
I forgot about the anti cheat stuff. That may well be an issue - some VM toe-dipping appears to be in order for me
i'm just using manjaro right now, works pretty well
Same. Never had a problem with Manjaro. But also never play AAA online games
Using Manjaro KDE here, as well. Granted, I mostly play Counter-Strike, Risk of Rain 2, Stellaris, and various indie games, but pretty much everything has been very smooth. Very glad to be free of Windows on my main machine, and it hasn't really affected how I use my PC day-to-day.
update: i have now had an issue with manjaro (audio issue, low quality, fixed pretty easy, but still)
I run Arch BTW. Even with a Nvidia GPU and never have issues.
Using Linux Mint Cinnamon for most things currently, gaming included. I've been dabbling with the gnome DE so I can use Wayland, and it's been nice. However, I'm not as big of the DE and don't have time to tweak things to my preferences so I use it sparingly.
I mean...Steam OS on Steam Deck...and probably on PC when they release that. If you mean on PC now, Kubuntu. Because I like KDE and Ubuntu is well-supported.
Got annoyed with Red Hat so moved to OpenSUSE. Easy transition, no issues so far woth Steam, Heroic, or Lutris
I'm using Nobara. It's a gaming tweaked Fedora with a bunch of gaming and steaming related software preinstalled and configured. Works well in my experience.
Same, started using it on a pc connected to my tv (for a console like experience, boots straight into gamescope/steam).
Now I also use it on my desktop (replacing Ubuntu).
I've also been using Nobara and it's been near flawless for me since I started using it months ago
Currently using Debian 12.
I haven’t gotten Lutron’s to install anything on debian 12. Was run into some wine error while installing games.
Do you have any guides you used?
Been using arch, don't have issues. Sometimes it doesn't play nice with dwm, but if I switch to xfce then games run without issue. My current computer has an nvidia gpu, next one will be entirely amd based.
Do you have issues? I run a 12th gen I7 and a 2070 Super and everything just works
Not really. If I do it's usually because of my weak components. Dwm causes issues sometimes but it's just cause whatever I'm playing doesn't know what to do with a tiling window.
Debian Stable + Backports, with a few customized flatpaks. I don't care that my desktop apps are not bleeding edge. My system always works, and games run great.
I installed Garuda on my main desktop PC and have been absolutely loving it. I'm not a linux expert, this is the first time I've dived in with my main pc on linux only (but I have been "trying" linux every so often for as long as I can remember basically). It is amazing how far Linux has come in just the last few years. It is very close to what I would consider a full replacement mainstream OS. I am on a fully AMD system though, so I can't speak for nvidia issues (but honestly I've been sick of them even under windows for a few years now...).
Fedora without any question. There is no other distro this polished.
Worried about the Red Hat nonsense at all? I’m not super plugged into the news on it all.
No.
The way it was explained to me was Fedora = RHEL Alpha, CentOS Stream = RHEL Beta, RHEL is Stable, then there are downstreams who build against RHEL. Only those who are downstream of REHL are effected by the changes. Both Fedora and Cent are necessary development platforms to support everything that eventually makes it down to RHEL in stable condition. They both depend on RHEL for funding, but RHEL depends on them for testing.
Makes sense, so only downstream should be affected (if it even ever is). There will be other people who will find these projects I’d bet if it ever comes to it
It's a healthy setup with Fedora, Red Hat are incentivised to support Fedora by their business model, they could be the most evil company in the world (which they're not) but it's incentives that matter. That would only change if Red Hat completely change their business model, pissing off some downstream distributors isn't a blip on the radar.
Debian Bookworm
I run AMD kit (not the latest) and install the KDE desktop, Steam and Crossover.
I choose Debian because its packaged extremely well and I want an OS/Applications to be things that just work.
The only bugs I suffer are Proton issues playing Windows games and the recent steam ui update doesn't seem to work with steam link from a wayland desktop (has to be x11).
Been doing some testing today and am hitting the same steam issue on Pop!_OS. Something to do with the new gui and it seems to be pretty widespread.
flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam -vgui from prompt gets the launcher running but missing the friends network. Obviously this will change based on what package system you used to install. I think it’ll be the -vgui launch option that makes the difference
Ubuntu LTS. It works fine for me.
Arch desktop with a windows virtual machine only for gaming.
One VM for single player games, one for multiplayer, one for VR games, one for racing, one for untrustworthy games and programs, one for intentionally downloading viruses when I'm drunk
Ah yes, the master plan at work
Honestly, I wouldn't make any specific recommendation. Because when you do, you instantly become most peoples personal support technician, when they can't sort something out.
I'd probably make the general suggestions of Fedora/Silverblue/Kinoite, openSUSE Tumbleweed/Aeon/Kalpa, and maybe Pop!_OS if somebody put a gun to my head. But no recommendations.
@jakwithoutac CachyOS, cos it supported RDNA3 on launch. It's since been easily the best I've ever used
Ubuntu 20.04lts
Probably going to update to 22.04lts soon
I do use kisak-mesa ppa to use an up to date mesa driver. Pretty much the only thing I've had to do for gaming.
Most of the following is either via steam proton or linux games on gog:
I used to game on Ubuntu. It worked flawlessly until they switched off of Unity. Ever since I had upgraded, I experienced a lot of lag, like dragging windows was a slideshow. I think it turned out my nvidia drivers were messed up after the upgrade, as at some point I had no choice but to purge all of them, and then things started working much smoother after a reinstall. However, once news came out about the force snap stuff, I decided to switch to Mint. (snap was also causing a lot of problems for me, it filled my drive space (which was super weird, I game and browse the web, not like a power user or something) and they were incredibly slow).
I haven't gamed too much on Mint Cinnamon since switching, but I feel like I sort of regret not trying the Mint XCFE or LMDE editions instead. If anyone has any experience using either with nvidia drivers, would love to hear whether it works or if there are issues.
I'm using Debian 12 with KNOME (basically Plasma that has a gnome-like feel to it.)
I very recently (like last week!) stuck a new drive in my PC to run Pop!_OS, with the aim of switching over from Windows entirely if it pans out. So far I've only tested Steam for games, but it's worked flawlessly for the games I've tried using Proton.
I've had a Steam Deck for some time which convinced me to make the jump. My desktop was my only Windows machine and I'd love to properly switch it to Linux.
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