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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
The distribution doesn’t matter, as long as you can install Steam on it.
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
Oh that’s cool to know! Yeah, I can’t think of something myself.