Basically the title. Loving PopOS as my daily, but I understand that PopOS uses their own process and makes sure that only a checked driver gets wide release. Great for stability, less great for playing games that just came out. Is there a distro that this community generally recommends for gaming?

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Here’s my takes:

    • Ubuntu and derivatives are just FINE
    • Fedora derivatives have been problematic since F38 for various reasons
    • Arch is very good, has an immense of knowledge in their docs and forums, but requires you be already adept to keep it rolling smoothly
    • Endeavor is supposed to be an easier to manage Arch experience, but I’m not sure you’ll be escaping any Nvidia issues.
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      1 year ago

      Fedora is fine, but you want to use flatpak firefox to get easy hardware accelerated video decoding if you’re on an AMD GPU.

      I have a lot of love lost with canonical and their shenanigans over the years.