Distro suggestions

[lemmebe@sh.itjust.works]

Fedora ain't any better if trust issues are relevant.

In general, I don't think you'll find any distro running Nvidia the same as Windows. I had Fedora 41 a couple of months ago and flickering issues with my Gtx1050. No matter what drivers I tried, and I was debugging for a month, spent 50 hours on it with no solution.

After that tried Tumbleweed Slowroll, and it was a bit better. In the end, bought a new PC because it was time. Now running with AMD because I was told they have less issues than Nvidia. Turned out to be true in my case.

I wanted to run Tumbleweed with KDE so I adapted hardware specs to make it work.

[neatobuilds@lemmy.today]

I like popos, mostly after coming from crunchbangplusplus popos just works and I like the easy way of hitting the super key and typing what application I want to launch or switch too, not sure it would do anything for your issue tho

[telorand@reddthat.com]

I’d like to stay with something Debian based and running Gnome. Ubuntu is not ideal because I have trust issues with Canonical since the Amazon ad debacle back in the late 00s.

My time has come. This is precisely the use case for PikaOS.

Their Gnome implementation is top notch, imo, and they are a gaming distro based on Debian (not Ubuntu), using a lot of the same package optimizations as CachyOS and many of the fixes and tweaks from Nobara while still having that Debian base.

If you want a great gaming experience using Debian, you should do yourself a favor and at least try it out in a VM. Be sure to get the Nvidia version.

[jamesbunagna@discuss.online]

If you don't want to stray away from Debian, then I don't think there's anything better than PikaOS. It's like Nobara but based on Debian instead.

It's a relatively small distro, community-wise. But it has been around for some time, so I trust its longevity.

Other than that, as some other have mentioned, could be Pop!_OS.

If you're willing to stray away from Debian, then a lot of other options become available. But I digress.

[geodad@lemm.ee]

I measured it by playing the game. I’m getting caught in AoE attacks that I was easily able to avoid on windows.

[geodad@lemm.ee]

This is what I was looking for! I’ll check it out tonight. Thanks!

[geodad@lemm.ee]

I’ll check this out tonight when I get home. Thanks!

[Guest]

In my opinion, go with Ubuntu. First, any issues you have with Ubuntu can be fixed easily; snaps can be easily removed, as well as amazon links, gnome tweaks and the rest. Second, unlike Debian, Ubuntu has the hardware enablement stack, which means that any supported Ubuntu release will run on hardware newer than that release, and your graphics card should run with a much newer driver. Any gaming distros built on Ubuntu are probably fine, but will only give marginal improvement to FPS.

[geodad@lemm.ee]

My issue is that I don’t trust Canonical. I was an Ubuntu user when they sold our searches to Amazon, and I am generally distrusting of corporations.

[Guest]

I understand it completely. However, my point of view is that, even in the case of the Amazon searches, it was easily disableable. I prefer Ubuntu flavors over base Ubuntu, which are run by the community and only do the bare minimum for Canonical to approve them as flavors (like add firefox as a snap). All of that bare minimum work can be easily undone in my opinion. Though, I understand avoiding Canonical when possible.