So I was thinking of switching my desktop to linux. I have been running fedora on my laptop for 3 years and I really like it. My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs) and can I use VMs in any of the gaming oriented ones (mostly because I don't wanna keep dual booting).
Edit: I have gone with Bazzite for now and it seems to be working fine. Some games don't rrally work acceptably (I expected that) so I will keep dual booting for a while.
Dunno how nvidia drivers are for manually installing these days, know there was som jank before.
Im running Nobara and they got ez driver setup for both Nvidia and AMD GPUs. Either way I think you'll be fine no matter what distro you use.
Personally I like Nobara because it comes with a bunch of kernel patches, fixes and gaming utilities pre-installed.
I can’t think of any modern distro that doesn’t just have Nvidia drivers as a package in the repos.
Very true, they do ofc exist there. Nobara just gives you a first-time install-wizard which lets you one-click condigure it. I was more thinking of a use-case as OPs where you wont need to tinker too much after the initial installation.
But yes, basically all distros do have the drivers in their package repos, so any would work.
Also Nobara is built on fedora, so OP doesn't have to adjust to something new