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Is PopOS the best for easy gaming? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by hellerphant@beehaw.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hey folks!

Thinking of switching back to Linux. I was running PopOS about 1.5 years ago and was pretty happy with the gaming aspect of things, but I was playing a lot of VALORANT back then, and I got sick of dual booting. That is less the case now, so I would like to try going back to Linux for the majority of my gaming / streaming setup, and just use Windows for the handful of games like Destiny 2 that won't run on Linux.

I am fairly new to Linux. Don't mind learning some terminal stuff, but I am basically a noob so it does need to be pretty easy to start with. Got a NVIDIA 3080 and AMD CPU if that matters at all.

Recommend me a distro please fellow penguin gamers.

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[–] teruma@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not install SteamOS?

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no official installer for steamos, only a recovery image for the steam deck. Then, some people in their free time hacked that image to allow installing on other hardware (except Nvidia GPUs) but imho not very easy

[–] teruma@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh? the first thing that comes up when I google SteamOS is DIY install instructions.

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that perhaps HoloISO? A community made version of SteamOS

[–] teruma@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, first party SteamOS

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is an old version which was for SteamOS devices, the Steamdeck has a completely revamped OS which has not that much in common with the old one.

That SteamOS used Debian as base, the new SteamOS 3 Arch with countless of adjustments to make the usage of the Steamdeck a joy.

I really wouldn't install the old SteamOS as of now, there won't be an upgradepath because they use different bases, there are countless of better alternatives out there and maybe they will release SteamOS 3 for custom devices in the future.

[–] teruma@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Got it, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the information!

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Put simply, currently Steam OS doesn't have the hardware support of your average distro

[–] teruma@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The posted install instructions say its just Debian. I would assume it would have Debian's hardware support?

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahhhhh, so not SteamOS 3, an older version

Modern SteamOS is based on Arch

[–] teruma@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, interesting. The new version didn't come up when I googled it. I'll dig a bit deeper.