Millions of gamers are facing a critical decision; upgrade their operating system, invest in new hardware or explore alternatives like Linux with the end of ...
    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      11 days ago

      The experience of installing and updating GPU drivers can be very different across different distros. Especially if you use secure boot. This was such a pain point for me on Tumbleweed that I just pinned my kernel.

    • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      11 days ago

      I have to disagree. Mint had far worse performance (basically unusable) than Pop OS for me. Not sure why, I had proper drivers in both cases… Just saying, installing steam is not all.

      Nowadays I recommend Bazzite for gaming

      • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        7 days ago

        you using a laptop? maybe it used the iGPU, I’ve heard of that being a problem. on my rig, mint actually has a few fps more than on nobara for example. and some old games won’t launch in kubuntu. the distro definitely does matter, one just has to find the right one.

    • Toes♀@ani.socialOP
      2·
      11 days ago

      I largely agree with ya. I bet someone can cook up some edge cases where the newer kernel might matter. I like that this article lays out how to setup the GPU. But I know Ubuntu has a nice gui for installing proprietary drivers.

      • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
        3·
        11 days ago

        I bet someone can cook up some edge cases where the newer kernel might matter.

        What desktop distro doesn’t have a new enough kernel available? Even the current Debian Stable, which is nearing the end of its run, has a recent backport (currently at 6.12.9).

        • Toes♀@ani.socialOP
          2·
          11 days ago

          Even the current Debian Stable, which is nearing the end of its run, has a recent backport (currently at 6.12.9).

          Oh that’s cool to know! Yeah, I can’t think of something myself.

  • dicksteele@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    I used to use opensuse and it was always a solid distro. I switched to manjaro after because I wanted to try an arch based system, that was not arch btw, it was also solid. I have settled on fedora though for many years now and I doubt I’ll ever switch again. At least for me, it does give better performance in games like csgo/2, not as good as windows but I also didn’t have any issues with the last of us, after a few patches anyway. Red dead redemption 2 runs better than on windows with fedora (for me).

    I use fedora btw.