I really enjoy archlinux so I was thinking on downloading garuda gaming but I’m unsure if that’s the way to go. What distro do you guys use? Have you encontered many problems with it?
Nobara is a great gaming focused distro, it’s a fork of Fedora by a well-known Red Hat employee.
@shreddy_scientist @alehc Well, not just for gaming, but for beginners, or people who like the simplicity of the desktop environment, Linux Mint. I used it for quite a long time, and altough is has some quirks (as any linux distros do), it is a decent all-rounder, for everyday use and for gaming too.
It’s by the GloriousEggroll guys, and I really liked it a lot. I would still be using it if it worked better with my laptop’s hybrid Nvidia graphics setup. When I get around to swapping my desktop to linux, I’ll almost certainly go with Nobara first.
FWIW, Pop!_OS is where I landed for great hybrid graphics support.
You enjoy Arch but you’re thinking of getting another distro based on Arch for gaming?
I enjoy Arch on my laptop but I am getting a new gaming PC pretty soon and I am wondering what distro to install there. Hope that makes sense.
@alehc
of course #Arch! What else? 🤔
@avidamoeba
Plain arch is great for gaming, no need for a gaming specific distro
I use Mint for gaming with a 6.1 oem kernel and kisak-mesa drivers. Works great, super stable with no issues. Most stuff has an Ubuntu LTS release, for everything else I use Flatpak.
I’ve used arch for 7-8 years. I’m currently using Garuda for gaming, on year 2 or 3.
My recommendation is that if arch is working for you just fine, then don’t bother switching. I only switched because I had a breakage and it seemed time to switch (only 2 significant breakages in those 7or 8 years)
If you hadn’t started with arch I would in fact recommend Garuda first because the initial setup is much more hands free, start it and install stuff and it just works. Also Garuda comes preconfigured with an AUR setup and installers for that and for the glorious egg roll proton.
That is all crap you can simply set up yourself on arch, so there’s no need for you to switch, if you’re fine with the arch and slightly more manual configuration then you’re all set with arch and have no real reason to change that.
