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Recommended linux variant for gaming. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by cynar@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I've been using Ubuntu as my daily driver for a good few years now. Unfortunately I don't like the direction they seem to be heading.

I've also just ordered a new computer, so it seems like the best time to change over. While I'm sure it will start a heated debate, what variant would people recommend?

I'm not after a bleeding edge, do it all yourself OS it will be my daily driver, so don't want to have to get elbow deep in configs every 5 minutes. My default would be to go back to Debian. However, I know the steam deck is arch based. With steam developing proton so hard, is it worth the additional learning curve to change to arch, or something else?

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I game on Arch, works great. Flatpak Steam, X11. 👍

[–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why Flatpak over the multilib one? Would it be easy to switch to Flatpak Steam?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I dunno, just felt better not enabling a whole repo just for one app, so I went with the flatpak version.

Super easy, just install it and go. Just remember to also install the Proton flatpak package in order to enable running Windows games on Linux. And to enable it in the Steam settings. I don't think there's much else to it other than standard flatpak stuff, like things don't work too great if the system GPU driver version is out of sync with the flatpak one. So if you upgrade one make sure to upgrade the other, etc.

Give it a whirl if you like, and if you bump into issues I might be able to help. We'll see. 😅