Admittedly, the last time I tried it was maybe 5 years ago. I used ubuntu (can’t remember which distro) but I recall having to fiddle a lot with drivers and WINE. Is the scenario still the same today?

With the horrors of Win11 widely talked about, I’m thinking of flirting with linux once more. Is it a good idea at this time? Or is gaming on linux still niche as it once was?

What is your distro and what tips and tricks/perspectives you can share with a newbie like me :)

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    1 year ago

    You need to distro hop for a while, in the end, the other aspects of the systems are going to end up feeling more important to you and which aspects you will like the most if only for you to decide. Try something Ubuntu based, something arch based, debian based… you might end up picking one distro for a reason completely alien to most, I ended up on garuda because their little maintenance panel felt sexy for example. Also I didn’t get one bug I had runing very old vn’s with gamescope and still don’t know why it worked on garuda but not on the othe arch including arch itself.

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      1 year ago

      I use Garuda as well! Can I ask what you’re referring to by the maintenance panel? I’m not able to place it.

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        1 year ago

        I’m mainly refering to the “garuda assistant” app that is installed on there but I should have said garuda apps, since even the terminal launched “garuda-update” is nice to have