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Just reaffirming that my experience getting Activision/Blizzard stuff working on Linux has been mixed. I played older games that weren't that GPU demanding, Hearthstone & Starcraft II, but the launcher would break pretty much every other update.
Mint is a great & everything works pretty much out of the box.
My understanding is that Fedora works pretty well for people gaming, GloriousEggroll, the guy that puts out the GE proton patches, contributes to Fedora, I think. Though you might want to check out NobaraLinux it is based on Feodra, but ships with additional goodies for gamers: Nvidia driver support, kernel patches, Discord, etc. https://nobaraproject.org/
Anything that you launch through Steam should also work, irrespective of your OS.
My understanding is Nobara is made by GloriousEggroll, which is why it's so good for gaming. It worked really well for me except for the fact that some games didn't like the hybrid Nvidia graphics on my laptop. I ended up swapping to Pop because of that, and everything works like a charm. I'd rather be on Nobara tho. I really don't like Pop's desktop environment.
I have an older gaming laptop with integrated graphics and a 1050 GPU, haven't had any issues.
I love Nobara, it just worked right from the jump. Website has the hash right on the page, .iso already set to go, just create a bootable, plug it in and install.
You can probably install a different desktop environment for pop, usually it's just a command and then there's a menu in the corner of your login page where you can change the desktop environment.
Yeah, I know it's possible, but I'm not a linux expert and I'd rather leave well enough alone. It works and it's not Windows and that's good enough for me!
Of course, whatever works best for you. I guess when you get annoyed enough just know switching desktops not as complicated as it might initially seem lol.
Thanks, I'll definitely keep that in mind! :)
Glorious Eggroll I'm pretty sure actually works for Red Hat.