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I've been using fedora but I would like to try something new and I think about arch linux but I don’t know if it’s good for gaming. What do you think?

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[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

As a few others have said, most distributions are good for gaming. Arch, being a distribution that requires lots of manual configuration, requires some setup for the best performance.

Read these two articles throughly and use the tweaks that apply to your system/needs.

Straight from the Arch Wiki:

Improving Performance

Gaming (section 7 and section 9 are especially useful).

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

They can all be good for gaming. The distro doesn't matter. Use what you find efficient, pretty, customized to your liking. They can all game. Don't install Popos because it's gaming oriented you can game on vanilla arch if you wanted to or debian. Arch won't matter much unless you have the newest hardware.

[-] Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

LTS distros and extremely delayed packages can give you problems for sure, the components used for gaming are very fast moving pieces fixing latest issues constantly.

[-] Wooki@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Nix is just as configurable and you will have far less problems

[-] chepycou@rcsocial.net 0 points 7 months ago

@Wooki @VLDK the new **I use NixOS BTW** 😂😂😂

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