Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to linux. Should I?
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if you do then don't
the community is more toxic than chernobyl
I meant because their Anti-Cheat doesn't support Linux. But yeah that's a pretty good point too
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So I was thinking of switching my desktop to linux. I have been running fedora on my laptop for 3 years and I really like it. My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs) and can I use VMs in any of the gaming oriented ones (mostly because I don't wanna keep dual booting).
Edit: I have gone with Bazzite for now and it seems to be working fine. Some games don't rrally work acceptably (I expected that) so I will keep dual booting for a while.
I use Nobara on my laptop which has rtx 3060 6gb with ryzen 7 5800h. Sure Nvidia sucks on every linux distro, but you will get many quality of life improvements when using linux instead of windows.
Btw, Nobara is just Fedora with some good gaming related chages.
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Yeah back then I was in elementary school. I chased single percent performance gains from bleeding edge because I couldn't just buy better hardware. If you wanted the latest versions of anything ubuntu couldn't do it without iffy unofficial repos and dependency hell. I did it anyway and it sucked.
Wait wait... if you had an old ass computer, why did you need the bleeding edge stuff? That doesn't make sense.
Also, I'm still skeptical about immutable distros. I like being in control of my PC. And I'm too old school I guess.
mostly cases like "experimental/preliminary support for xyz but only if you compile from source or use unofficial repos", video codecs in that janky era, assorted functionality now taken for granted, etc. Nothing really needs bleeding edge any more hence why I don't use arch on my desktop any more and my server computers are mostly debian.
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I can't believe that no one has asked you this question yet (fucking fanboys...):
Do you mind losing access to most features on your GPU, including (but not limited to): RTX HDR, Shadowplay, the Nvidia App, the Nvidia Control Panel and everything it offers, including the 3D Settings page?
If any of this matters to you, you may want to consider switching to an AMD GPU first before you consider Linux. Nvidia does not support it nearly as well as they support Windows. You get a driver that lets you run games, and that's about it.
Afaik AMD isn't fully supported either
And you lose the ability to run tensorflow if you like to do AI
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I seem to recall a bug (but maybe it's only Fedora Silverblue) but anyways try not selecting the option to install 3rd party software, and see if the set up lets you continue. You can then make the selection to enable 3rd party software the first time you open the Software app.
I don't recall that option being available in the setup
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I can't believe that no one has asked you this question yet (fucking fanboys...):
Do you mind losing access to most features on your GPU, including (but not limited to): RTX HDR, Shadowplay, the Nvidia App, the Nvidia Control Panel and everything it offers, including the 3D Settings page?
If any of this matters to you, you may want to consider switching to an AMD GPU first before you consider Linux. Nvidia does not support it nearly as well as they support Windows. You get a driver that lets you run games, and that's about it.
Yeah I only kinda really use shadowplay anyway. I don't have a hdr monitor at all. Firstly I just want to see if my games run well enough. If not I will wait a couple years and then upgrade to an AMD card and then switch for good.
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I loved bazzite, it was my first out of the box success with Linux gaming, but if you plan to do anything outside of gaming installing stuff can get a little difficult. It was invaluable for teaching moments, but I've moved on to cachyOS and it has been just as seamless and less difficulty installing things after installing yay
My 2c
I switched to bazzite a couple of months ago and read so much about catchyOS so I tried that too about 2 weeks ago. I couldn't install shit. Never had any problem installing anything I needed except one thing on bazzite but catchyOS just had me give up. I am not sure what I did wrong but after 2 hours of reading and trying to figure out AUR or whatever I just gave up and booted bazzite again. I just want to play my games with the little time I have but maybe I boot it up again sometime in the future.
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heroic overall seems to work better for installing games from gog, but the odd issue I have is that I seem to be always online on gog's service when I'm playing games. Do you happen to know if there's any way to set myself invisible? I don't want everyone to know how often or late I play games
I guess technically signing out of the storefront would do that, but then I'd have to re-login to install/update games, eh
edit: oh derr, it dawned on me that it might be the Cyberpunk launcher which I had to login as well, which shows me online
I still struggle to get Heroic to install pretty much anything, while Lutris usually works. I would want to use Heroic, but a prerequisite is that installed games actually launch and I have yet to understand why they don't...
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I still struggle to get Heroic to install pretty much anything, while Lutris usually works. I would want to use Heroic, but a prerequisite is that installed games actually launch and I have yet to understand why they don't...
If you installed it from flatpak theres probably some permissions you need to set. Otherwise I dunno.
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So I was thinking of switching my desktop to linux. I have been running fedora on my laptop for 3 years and I really like it. My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs) and can I use VMs in any of the gaming oriented ones (mostly because I don't wanna keep dual booting).
Edit: I have gone with Bazzite for now and it seems to be working fine. Some games don't rrally work acceptably (I expected that) so I will keep dual booting for a while.
Nobara is good, it's fedora but with better nvidia driver stuff out of the box.
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The main text kinda does. Maybe I worded it a bid badly.
The main text kinda does
I disagree.
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I switched to bazzite a couple of months ago and read so much about catchyOS so I tried that too about 2 weeks ago. I couldn't install shit. Never had any problem installing anything I needed except one thing on bazzite but catchyOS just had me give up. I am not sure what I did wrong but after 2 hours of reading and trying to figure out AUR or whatever I just gave up and booted bazzite again. I just want to play my games with the little time I have but maybe I boot it up again sometime in the future.
Were you installing stuff with pacman or yay?
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I don't recall that option being available in the setup
It is, I was playing around with it in a VM just the other day.
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It is, I was playing around with it in a VM just the other day.
Where in the setup was it?
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They're asking based on their specs whether Linux will run fine for them.
The post does not ask that.
Fine, I'll add to my sentence for clarification, but (no offense) it should be obvious I'm referring to gaming since the whole topic is about... gaming on Linux.
Theyâre asking based on their specs whether Linux will run fine for them, with Gaming.
The title was "Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to Linux. Should I?"
In the post, they said:My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs).
So therefore they're asking whether they should switch to Linux (for gaming) based on their specs. OP even told you that's what they were saying, but you said "I disagree"...
You can't with any sound reasoning disagree that OP asked something, when not only is there the OG post as proof, but they also told you (in implication) that you misunderstood. OP knows what they meant by what they said - you can't tell them they don't know what they meant, when they're literally the person who said it. I get it that you're having a hard time understanding how what they said, means what they said it does, but you're allowed to accept that you misunderstood. You're allowed to be wrong.
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Were you installing stuff with pacman or yay?
No clue to be honest. First I used the cachyOS guide installer then I found something else when I didn't find what I wanted and not sure what that was.
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No clue to be honest. First I used the cachyOS guide installer then I found something else when I didn't find what I wanted and not sure what that was.
Install cachy, install yay, learn how to use yay, profit. It'll handle regular pacman installs too
Someone more educated than I may step in and correct me but that's what I've done and its going pretty well.
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Fine, I'll add to my sentence for clarification, but (no offense) it should be obvious I'm referring to gaming since the whole topic is about... gaming on Linux.
Theyâre asking based on their specs whether Linux will run fine for them, with Gaming.
The title was "Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to Linux. Should I?"
In the post, they said:My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs).
So therefore they're asking whether they should switch to Linux (for gaming) based on their specs. OP even told you that's what they were saying, but you said "I disagree"...
You can't with any sound reasoning disagree that OP asked something, when not only is there the OG post as proof, but they also told you (in implication) that you misunderstood. OP knows what they meant by what they said - you can't tell them they don't know what they meant, when they're literally the person who said it. I get it that you're having a hard time understanding how what they said, means what they said it does, but you're allowed to accept that you misunderstood. You're allowed to be wrong.
not only is there the OG post as proof, but they also told you (in implication) that you misunderstood
I did not tell OP that I disagreed with them, you misunderstood.
/s to make a point
OP knows what they meant by what they said - you can't tell them they don't know what they meant
I haven't commented on what they meant, only on what they said.
I get it that you're having a hard time understanding how what they said, means what they said it does, but you're allowed to accept that you misunderstood.
LOL
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not only is there the OG post as proof, but they also told you (in implication) that you misunderstood
I did not tell OP that I disagreed with them, you misunderstood.
/s to make a point
OP knows what they meant by what they said - you can't tell them they don't know what they meant
I haven't commented on what they meant, only on what they said.
I get it that you're having a hard time understanding how what they said, means what they said it does, but you're allowed to accept that you misunderstood.
LOL
I did not tell OP that I disagreed with them, you misunderstood.
Didn't you?... Did I?... What's this then?:
You (rah):
If you have to ask someone else whether you should switch then you should not switch.
OP (WIZARD POPE):
I am asking if my hardware will enable me to have a good experience since I know nvidia has issues on linux.
(Note: Exactly what I thought OP was asking)You (rah):
Your post doesnât ask that.
OP (WIZARD POPE):
The main text kinda does. Maybe I worded it a bid badly.
You (rah):
I disagree.
Please explain to me what part of the two-word sentence "I disagree" is not you disagreeing.
I havenât commented on what they meant, only on what they said.
Yes, and you wouldn't have commented on what they said if you didn't first interpret what you thought they meant. OP clarified to you what they meant, and you disagreed with them, that they meant what they said they meant, which is what was so stupid about your "I disagree" response. I don't see what's so difficult to understand for you.
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I did not tell OP that I disagreed with them, you misunderstood.
Didn't you?... Did I?... What's this then?:
You (rah):
If you have to ask someone else whether you should switch then you should not switch.
OP (WIZARD POPE):
I am asking if my hardware will enable me to have a good experience since I know nvidia has issues on linux.
(Note: Exactly what I thought OP was asking)You (rah):
Your post doesnât ask that.
OP (WIZARD POPE):
The main text kinda does. Maybe I worded it a bid badly.
You (rah):
I disagree.
Please explain to me what part of the two-word sentence "I disagree" is not you disagreeing.
I havenât commented on what they meant, only on what they said.
Yes, and you wouldn't have commented on what they said if you didn't first interpret what you thought they meant. OP clarified to you what they meant, and you disagreed with them, that they meant what they said they meant, which is what was so stupid about your "I disagree" response. I don't see what's so difficult to understand for you.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Please explain to me what part of the two-word sentence "I disagree" is not you disagreeing.
No no, that's what I said, that's not what I meant. You misunderstood.
/s to make a point
OP clarified to you what they meant, and you disagreed with them
I disagreed with their assertion that the main text "kinda does", I didn't disagree with their clarification of what they meant. You can tell because I quoted precisely what I was disagreeing with.
