Is PopOS the best for easy gaming? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by hellerphant@beehaw.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hey folks!

Thinking of switching back to Linux. I was running PopOS about 1.5 years ago and was pretty happy with the gaming aspect of things, but I was playing a lot of VALORANT back then, and I got sick of dual booting. That is less the case now, so I would like to try going back to Linux for the majority of my gaming / streaming setup, and just use Windows for the handful of games like Destiny 2 that won't run on Linux.

I am fairly new to Linux. Don't mind learning some terminal stuff, but I am basically a noob so it does need to be pretty easy to start with. Got a NVIDIA 3080 and AMD CPU if that matters at all.

Recommend me a distro please fellow penguin gamers.

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[-] teruma@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not install SteamOS?

[-] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Put simply, currently Steam OS doesn't have the hardware support of your average distro

[-] teruma@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

The posted install instructions say its just Debian. I would assume it would have Debian's hardware support?

[-] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Ahhhhh, so not SteamOS 3, an older version

Modern SteamOS is based on Arch

[-] fallendusk@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

endeavourOS! It’s pretty much Archlinux with a gui installer and some helpful things for new users. I recently installed it on a spare drive on my gaming PC with AMD/nvidia and everything just worked after installing steam.

[-] hellerphant@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

I will have to check this on out too! Thank you.

[-] evadzs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you're newer to Linux I recommend Garuda as a beginner distro. It's very similar to Endeavor as an Arch base, but has some friendly GUI options like Snapper bootable backups for easily undoing bad updates and an update script that takes care of mirror list and orphan notifications. People complain about bloat in Garuda and while there is some it's also helpful bloat, still less than Windows, and has negligible impact on modern hardware

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