What's the best Linux distros for gaming?
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>>739824347Cachyos easily.Requires a lot of tweaking but once it's all set, it's a heaven. Just follow the Cachyos wiki and the official setup guide
>>739824347Theyre all the same with minor differences. If you are a buy fag that buys the newest gpu every gen use arch. If not and you value your time, and actually want to use your pc use anything else.
>>739824347Arch-likes.
>>739824347Cinnamon mint easily. Not even a question, unless you like doing code work over actually playing games.
>>739824347Nobara.It's like that bazzite shit, but with no troons and total control.
The One I'm Using™Actually I'm on Mint and it's not optimized for gaming in any particular way but it's easy and it works. Every distro gets the same Proton builds from Steam, and that alone gets you 98% of the way to whatever the most cutting-edge gaming distro offers.>inb4 "but Mint has old packages"You can't name a single game that requires the latest Linux package updates, and in fact most games made for Linux need even older packages than Mint has, which is why you run them in a Steam Linux Runtime container with stable packages instead of your native system packages. Proton runs inside of Steam Linux Runtime as well, so your native packages don't matter so much outside of GPU drivers.>inb4 "but Mint uses X11, which is bad if you have two monitors with different refresh rates"Okay, sure. Avoid Mint if you have that exact set-up that suddenly becomes the most important thing in personal computing whenever the Wayland shills meet someone who isn't using Wayland yet.
>linux thread>it's a bunch of faggots creaming themselves over using the most obscure shit>the less people use it, the more validated they feelit's like /a/ but for troons
>>739826067Does it? I just installed GE-Proton.>>739827482>butMS shills aren't given any recon on the places they're invading, huh.
>>739826067Lul wut?For gaming you should just install cachyos-gaming-meta and achyos-gaming-applications pacages and voilà!
>>739827890Ohhh yeah, I pressed that button on the startup wizard too, completely forgot.
ubuntu just works and everything is designed for it in mind
i just updated everything and will now restart my pc. wish me luck. ive used linux for the past 3 years and updating everything hasnt ended well a single time
>>739827753I'm sure it's an MS shill replying to you, because they definitely constantly monitor /v/ for any linux threadsyou poor fucking schizo
>>739828234I just make a snapshot backup before every update.Timeshift saved me before.
>>739828328yeah i shouldve done that
>>739827205Explain? What's so different about Nobara? Both it and Bazzite are fedora based
Assuming I want to play video games, own an Nvidia GPU and want things to work out of the box: Should you even use Linux and if yes, which distro should you use?
>>739827753>>739827890Read the wiki, you can apply a lot of tweaks, squeeze more performance, make it more stable etc.And you should use Cachyos Proton for the best performance unless it flat out doesn't work (on some older games, for example)
>>739828316Don't worry, we know you do. Fucking /a/ of all places, the sheer ignorance. lmao.>>739828552Cachyos-Proton is already the default.
>>739828535If you have to ask you aren't ready for Linux.There are always some issues, mostly caused by the user but still.
>>739828618Maybe I am entitled but if you just want to play video games Windows just works.
>>739828535Most of them have either easy Nvidia driver installation or special Nvidia images (iso)I'm on Nvidia and out of interest hopped between Bazzite, Nobara and Cachy. All worked perfectly fine. For Bazzite and Nobara grab the special Nvidia Isos, they come with drivers already and you can update the drivers after the installation no problem.Performance for me was about the same as on PC, slightly better on Cachyos with tweaks.I think Nobara is the perfect middle between customizability and ease of use. Bazzite is good if you want to make a Steam machine out of your PC that boots into Big Picture besause it's super easy and fast to set up. But you can also do that with other distros too.
>>739828535if your use case is only video games then i would say don't bother with linux
>>739828552>Read the wiki, you can apply a lot of tweaks, squeeze more performance, make it more stable etc.And almost all of them are placebo territory, if everything works for you you only risk some problems. I had no stability issues outside of freezing kwin, but that happens once a week and all I have to do is unplug the cable from my monitor for a second. I've tried using different kernels for specific CPU architectures, I could not find a difference unless I used specific synthetic benchmarks. Maybe if you have dual CCD Zen CPU there are worth trying but other than that?
>>739828698Then stay with winblows, why would we care?If you want to use Linux you have to be prepared to read a lot.It's all held by duct tape, but at least there are ways to fix problems.
>>739828535only if your ideological hatred towards windows eclipses your desire to have better performancenvidia are a bunch of niggers that still refuse to join mesa and are fighting open source shit
>>739829628nV will never forgive the finger.
>>739824347Mint or Fedora for AMD/CachyOS for NVIDIA if you like shit to mostly works straight out the box without ever seeing a terminal. If you like tinkering with settings then any distro can be turned into a "gaming" one.
>>739828234Is cachyos so bad?I'm on arch and never had a problem updating everything
>>739830043no, i update it at least biweekly and i have no issuesretarded arch updates is entirely just a meme from manjaro
>>739824347FedoraSource: https://pointieststick.com/2026/05/16/start-with-fedora-kde-or-kubuntu/
all this useless drivel about hur dur which distro hur dur, just install gentoo like god intended
Gentoo, the hand-optimized and hand-customized distro.The hand that optimize and customize it is your own, via the terminal.
>>739830280Based, everyone should install gentoo at some point.
>>739824347I use fedora right now. haven't booted into windows for four months now. it just works.
>>739830175>FEDora>kubuntu>both corpo distrosimagine getting out of the windows ecosystem and going straight into shit that's essentially the windows of linuxfucking retards
Arch btw
>>739832373sorry that i don't like linux distros maintained by mentally ill trannies who have a melty every time pottering released a new feature for systemd or someone doesn't want to use x.org with two monitors with different refresh ratesi like my fagpacks to worki like my hardware to worki like my appimages to worki like my de to work and not get uninstalledi like my steam to launch and have the right libsi like somewhat recent softwarecope and seethe tranny faggots
>>739824347Any is fine as long it's not too out of date. Bazzite if you're brain dead, Cachy if you're willing to learn once something breaks, Fedora if you want a standard Linux experience or Nobara if installing codecs and steam is too much for you and Arch if you like being thrown into the deep end.>>739828392Nobara is standard Fedora but with GloriousEggroll's (guy behind proton-GE) opinions on how a Fedora should be installed, while Bazzite is based on atomic Fedora (basically you can't mess up with the system's inner workings). The former allows more thinkering but the latter is fine if you just want to run Steam and a browser (which is 90% of gamers).
>>739832571Based
>>739824347>What's the best Linux distros for gaming?Windows 11
I think cachy with kde is the best general purpose gaming distro right nowI'm personally trying out artix atm and I'm liking it so far
>>739832571if you like sucking cock that much then go back to windows where you belong you fucking jewnigger
>>739824347Arch if you can read, CachyOS if you just want to rice and post a screenshot on Reddit without bricking your system in a month whereupon you post a 30 minute vlog about how you're switching back to Windows.
>>739832373Once you have everything setup and configured I bet most people couldn't even tell the difference between a Fedora based or Arch based install without opening a terminal. They both keep things up to date fast enough that at many times the experience is almost identical. Fedora is just a bit more bloated under the hood with things like SElinux, which again is just under the hood shit you won't notice while doing things on your computer.This post was inspired by me leaving Fedora for Arch, spending a couple days getting everything running, only to realize many packages had the same version number and basically nothing felt different except minus 300mb of ram usage when I ran btop.
>>739833532what would i gain by using your faggot community distro maintained by four mentally ill trannies who used to be six but now are four?shittier documentation? why do you need that? you don't need that and we don't support that!well you'd have to compile it yourself!security vulnerabilities? this is unsupported!old packages?no tutorials and guides?explain subhuman. i am already running linux just fine for many months with 0 issues. what gives? what is wrong with that? you having a melty over it? good! hope it's only three trannies by next week and your distro gets discontinued.
>>739833796I've thought about switching from FEDora to Cachy but I don't know what I would get out of since since everything I do justwerks on Fedora as-is. I'm a little jelly about not having an AUR but most software I use has Appimages or RPMs available so I don't feel like I'm missing out on much.
>>739824347>picrelI think this image would benefit from having Bazzite and CachyOS added, because in the recent years those have been the most trendy gaming distros. To answer your question, I haven't tried that many distros, so I can't give you an informed opinion on how they compare to one another. I've been using Pop!_OS for like nine years, so I can talk about it in a vacuum. I like it. It's because it's like Ubuntu, but it has less software bloat, uses flatpak instead of snap, comes with NVIDIA drivers preinstalled, supports some cool productivity features like window tiling, which I appreciate as a programmer, and the devs have put in work to make gaming a good experience, so almost all games I've tried playing over the years have run perfectly well, even including obscure mods and emulators. However, it's important to note, that some time ago they switched from GNOME to their own COSMIC desktop as the default desktop environment. They still allow you to install GNOME instead, but it's not the primary focus. The problem with COSMIC desktop is that it's still undercooked at the moment. I like where they're going with it, but it still lacks basic features like having a night light, and the extension ecosystem is just not there, and it certainly won't be at GNOME's level at any point in the near future, if ever. But I do enjoy its stock experience more than GNOME's, barring the bugs and the lack of some basic features (night light). It's extremely versatile out of the box, allowing you far more customization than GNOME does, and I also enjoy its visual style.
>>739833532Man the trannies really got their claws in you if you believe this shit lol
>>739824347debian just werks
>>739829231>freezing kwinUsed to happen to me until some update a few months ago that somehow fixed it lmao. Still have no idea what caused it though.
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>>739824347>Linux>GamingYou can only pick one
>>739824347i just threw bazzite on my sffpc and copped a steam controller and ive been eating good since. ymmv though, the craziest things i play are lightly modded skyrim and re 1-3 with mods, everything else i just run thru proton or use emulators
>>739827482/a/ is the most trans board outside of /lgbt/
>>739843710/v/ exists
>>739824347Ubuntu LTSFedoraArchin order of ascending ability and comfort with system management. don't take each recommendation literally, as spins/flavors are perfectly fine depending on your DE preference.
linux won
>>739824347For pure gaming and absolutely nothing else, objectively, Bazzite.
>>739824347Please kill yourself seriously.
arch because everyone tries to support steamos which is based on arch. use garuda if you want all your drivers and stuff setup
fedora KDElooks like windows instead of MAC90% of things are packs instead of command strings so you just install it with Discover the only annoying part is finding working NVIDIA software (not really that annoying but can be)
Bazzite has largely been easy enough to run my pirate games
>>739824347GNU Guix System
>>739824347I use Bazzite. A lot of people say it's for retards (and it basically is) but I also use it to do more interesting non-gaming shit like playing around with Podman/Quadlets to host media services on a (Cloudflare-proxied) website and messing around with kubernetes.I'm a big proponent of the cloud-native container shit that Jorge is pushing and might even move to a bootc "distro" like Fedora Hummingbird in the future if Steam/browser compatibility improves.>>739850113Is Hurd working well enough yet?
>>739849682cachyos genuinely obsoletes arch
>>739846451I was kinda hoping age verification laws would just require me to provide my age to the system administrator (me) because that would be pretty funny.
>>739829231>error logging instructing users to report a bug to someone else and linking directly to the issue trackerbased
>>739827421This. If you have to ask what distro to use, just use Mint.
>>739824347any bleeding edge distrogaming quality on linux is evolving constantly so getting the latest updates is the way to go
>>739824347... why is Bazzite not on here?
>>739830043Every other Mesa update breaks VAAPI for 9070XT which is annoying. I need VAAPI for 120 fps Steam Remote Play. It is an Arch problem too since CachyOS is downstream from Arch.
I use manjaro, so far it just works so I haven't had any reason to try other distros
>>739824347If you know how to use a computer, CachyOS.If you don't know how to use a computer, Bazzite.
/v/, you're not smart enough for Linux, please dont waste your time tryingStick to windows, which you sorta know. You don't want to break your PC. You don't have it in you for Linux
>>739855508sorry bro, linux vill vin and you vill like having the ultimate os with no compromises
>>739828234Kek as a former Xubuntu user, I know exactly what you mean.
