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[Suggestions] Good distros for gaming (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by iamthatis@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Basically, I have a laptop (5800H/RTX3050) and Windows is irritating me to no end. I am thinking of completely formatting it and replacing it with whatever distro can give me the best gaming compatibility. For reference, I play - CS:GO, DoTA, Asphalt, and a little bit of Overwatch.

I was thinking of Arch since SteamOS is based on it but would like your opinion on it.

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[–] Nuuskis9@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Any popular distro will work equally good. The downside is that you have a NVIDIA gpu and it doesn't work with Wayland. Nvidia said they'll release Wayland support before end of the current year but let's see.

For the best Nvidia support out of the box you'd probably try Pop_OS! first. But you can just format your biggest usb stick with Ventoy2Disk and just drag and drop any file into it and test the distro in live mode before installing anything until you've found your favorite distro. At this point you choose the one which satisfies your eyes most.

There's also Nobara Linux, which is created and maintained by the Linux gaming legend GloriousEggroll, but it is unclear to me does it provide any benefit over other distros.

[–] iamthatis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nobara worked perfectly for me with Nvidia fairly OOTB. Really liking the experience!

[–] bzxt@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

When exactly did the Nvidia say thay they will have support for Wayland before the end of this year? Can you provide a link so I can read about it?

[–] AletheCrow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I know people have had issues with gaming on Wayland but the personal experience was 0 issues. Running an Amd Ryzen with RTX 2060

[–] chat_mots@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

Pop os support of nvidia is great, it’s the only distri where I never had the need to troubleshoot nvidia drivers.

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 1 points 1 year ago

I run Nix, Wayland, and Hyprland on Nvidia and it works totally fine for gaming.