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Good distro for mostly gaming system? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 days ago by Simulation6@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@sopuli.xyz

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I want to replace Win10 on the desktop system I mostly use for gaming. It is an older system with an Nvidia GeForce 1050ti gpu in it, which from what I found, should not be a problem. I was thinking about going with Ubuntu since it is well supported. I was interested if anyone has any opinions about this. I am also going to try and dual boot it with the Win10 for now. I purchased a new SSD drive just for Linux.

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[–] jonathan@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are distros with highly customised kernels that are objectively better for gaming (higher and more consistent framerates).

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

...which these "customized kernels" can (also) be applied to any other distro.

[–] jonathan@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mate, that technical detail is hardly useful to someone asking which distro might be good for gaming. The whole thing of distros is they are a collection of opinions around a Linux kernel. Are you really suggesting those differences are meaningless, especially to a beginner?

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"Oh, but it's a technical detail!" does not make what I said a false argument -- you are extrapolating for the sake of "being right".

[–] jonathan@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Technically correct, famously the best kind of correct. Context be damned.