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.

  • Nemoder@lemmy.ml
    7·
    1 month ago

    Debian. It wont win any awards for fastest release cycles but it’s rock stable with great support for my Ryzen 2700 and 6700xt.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • Nemoder@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 month ago

        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.

  • verdigris@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 month ago

    You can game on just about any distro – I’m using NixOS and it’s great for many reasons, but also can be a real pain to learn and to solve new problems.

    But if you’re looking for the easiest to set up that will be most likely to just work and gaming is a priority, go for Bazzite.

    I will second Fedora and Debian as extremely solid, well-supported distros, though both will require some initial setup (mostly enabling nonfree repos, especially for Nvidia gpus)

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    4·
    1 month ago

    OpenSUSE Tumbleweed here, both on my desktop and Steam Deck. i like the stable rolling release model. Allows me to get shiny new things that have at least gone through automated tests.

    And in case anything goes wrong it comes with snapper configured by default for easy rollbacks.

  • downhomechunk@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • _spiffy@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    Endeavour OS! So far it’s been smooth for the past 4 years. I’ve enjoyed it.

  • root@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    Nobara (Fedora)

    Tried Bazzite for a year. Was fun but now back to a normal distro.

  • echo@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 month ago

    Pretty much any distro will work for gaming these days. Really up to personal preference. I use Arch but have heard good things about Pop!_OS.

    • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      1 month ago

      I was on pop for a while! It was cool.

      Why does the pop shop suck though? Why?? Why is it so slow, why does it crash so much? Why is this such a problem with so many users? It wasn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back, it was more like an unnecessary brick the camel had to carry.

      • xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        1 month ago

        The pop shop is ass, but you can install the cosmic store and it works wonderfully (cosmic is the DE in development by system76).

        • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          1 month ago

          Unfortunately I already left Pop! for Fedora when I updated my GPU. I needed something with an updated kernel anyways and Fedora played nice with it out of the box.

          But man, I still am surprised when I open up software and it just… loads with no issue.

  • itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 month ago

    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.