I currently run windows 10 on my main desktop PC, and also have a steam deck that I sometimes use in desktop mode instead of my desktop. With the way Windows is going, and the way Linux Gaming is dramatically improving, I might consider ditching Windows, at least for the most part, on my next PC build. What would be the best distro to use for gaming, with casual use as well? Any suggestions?

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Garuda ftw

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I’d go with nobara, it’s stable, yet not too old and has a lot of gaming oriented optimizations and should work well with Nvidia graphics cards.

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I’ve used a couple different distros in my time on Linux (Debian, fedora, arch, artix, gentoo) and I could never tell the difference between the performance.

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Little something from me: I’m using Arch Linux (linux-zen) with KDE and AMD GPU and for now it’s the best experience i had with linux distributions. Everything works so good, with obviously some configurations and etc. Already played Minecraft or Red Dead Redemption 2 with no problems and also i felt in love with pacman.

I was using Manjaro, Ubuntu, Mint but finally ended up on Arch. Maybe i will give a shot to Fedora or openSUSE in a future :D

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Pop OS has specific Nvidia settings as well. Works pretty good on my work laptop, though I don’t have gaming experience with that combination.

My own pc is and only and runs pretty good with Pop OS, in some cases better than Windows.

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If you have an Intel GPU: I am so sorry.

What do you mean? They have good support on every distro.

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