I have a flatmate who is making the switch from windows 10 to linux and I Fedora is a distro that I trust to provide a good stable experience. I however use Nobara which comes with all the gaming related tweaks already done. I dont want to recomend Nobara because its package management is intuitive.

The changes i think I need to make is, remove fedora flatpak store. Enable non free software repo. Install proprietary nvidia driver. Install steam, wine, lutris, heroic store.

Is there anything that is required for a smooth Fedora gaming experience?

  • PerogiBoi
    291·
    1 day ago

    I just use Bazzite because it’s Fedora with all the gaming tweaks preinstalled (including NVIDIA drivers and displaylink drivers for docks). Best part is it’s immutable so you can’t mess it up irreparably by deleting something or putting some random commands into terminal. This doesn’t quite answer your question but since you mentioned this is for a roommate who is switching from w10, I figured I’d chime in with my usual shilling.

    • WFH@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Seconded. I recently moved my gaming rig from Nobara to Bazzite because this machine is only occasionally booted, and I don’t want to spend the little time I have available for gaming doing maintenance instead. Except from a mounting error for my secondary drive that I made (bc after 20+ years on Linux I still can’t be arsed enough to learn how to fstab), I was in Cyberpunk 2077 in less than 5 minutes.

      Pros:

      • Easy setup, everything works out of the box
      • A lot of preinstalled gaming-related packages and tweaks, plus a lot of QOL improvements over Silverblue/Kinoite
      • Ready to game as soon as it’s installed
      • No updates, no maintenance! Full system images are downloaded and installed in the background and are applied at reboot.
      • Immutable so “impossible” to fuck up.
      • uBlue projects are not distros but a delivery system, all the work is actually done by Fedora. No risk associated with a single-maintainer project like Nobara.

      Cons:

      • Immutable so “impossible” to fuck up.

      Pro tip: don’t keep your Steam games on a Windows partition. They won’t launch.

    • Guenther_Amanita 🍄@slrpnk.net
      5·
      1 day ago

      +1 for uBlue (Aurora, Bazzite).

      Everything you want and need is already set up for you, and the OS is just in the background for your games and other software to run on. No need to install any codecs, or even updating it, because it’s already done for you. And if something breaks, then you can just roll back in seconds.

      Very user friendly.

      • PerogiBoi
        2·
        21 hours ago

        I’ve been toying with Linux since 2011 and this is the first easy no maintenance Linux. I’ve been running it for a year and a half without any needs to reset or urge to distro hop

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I mostly recommend Bazzite because it comes with fractional scaling, a tiling window manager, and seamless background updates out of the box.