I just picked up a cheap older gaming PC with a GTX 1050 and and Intel I7 CPU. Trying to decide what distro to load on it for gaming. Curious that others experience is gaming on various distros.
Endeavour OS! So far it’s been smooth for the past 4 years. I’ve enjoyed it.
Bazzite. Literally built for gaming.
SteamOS on a Steam Deck.
When I want to game, I want to game, not be stuck playing a round of “tech support simulator”
Mint for two years. Then Arch for a decade. This year I have been trying out CachyOS.
Arch Linux. I wanted to try Hyprland with something and I felt like it was the easiest with Arch.
Hyprland isn’t officially supported on that nvidia card
Well, I just gave my reason for using Arch. Pre-Turing cards are already problematic on Linux, not just with Hyprland.
I’ve been enjoying EndeavorOS on Plasma.
Rocking Garuda here!
Me too!
Debian. It wont win any awards for fastest release cycles but it’s rock stable with great support for my Ryzen 2700 and 6700xt.
Debain gamer here as well!
There seem to be dozens of us
As a FreeBSD user just trying to game on Unix, I’ve blown up my Debian machine so many times. A couple of years ago, trying to get CUDA in Blender working AND have a recent enough driver for the Windows games I was playing on Proton was killing me. I don’t remember what exactly but it seemed like every time I tried to change something, the whole fragile mess would bork itself.
yeah, back when I used nvidia I had to run their driver installer or nothing would work right, and of course any little system update would bork everything until I ran the installer again. Thankfully everything with AMD just works now.
Thank you for validating my pain.
Bazzite runs great on my main gaming PC in desktop mode and on my HTPC in gaming mode. Maintenance is minimal and it just works (on AMD hardware), while packages are pretty recent and it’s absolutely stable.
Bazzite and Mint
Fedora on my desktop, bazzite (rebadged fedora) on my steam deck.
I’m always a lil surprised how few fedoras I see on these posts. Fedora is chill. Considering the difference between distros is basically a package manager, seems weird the second most bleeding edge distro doesn’t get much love.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Meets all my requirements 😀
Currently Pop!_OS
Nobara but considering other option such as Bazzite and GLFOS.
Slackware current.
This isn’t a troll. I use it to game on my dual core pentium lovingly dubbed ‘the craptop’. And I use it to game on my mid-tier gaming PC.