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Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (14 children)

What’s the best distro for my desktop? I’ve been mucking around with some on an old laptop but haven’t attempted any gaming on it outside of some simple emulation.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Bazzite seems to be the go-to answer for linux gaming.

    Though, shouldn't it not matter? It's all linux. It should all perform just the same.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    To me Bazzite is for game-box console-like PC you leave in your living room. If you want to also have a desktop experience, pick a desktop OS. EndeavorOS for rolling release. Anything Ubuntu or Debian based for stability. LMDE comes to mind.

    In any event running games through steam/proton will be mostly plug and play anyways. Kernel mods are a thing but pretty much just extra and not really necessary.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    bazzite is a perfect desktop os and development os and is also a rolling release

    and you can rollback releases unlike most other distros, in the unlikely event you have a bad update

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    This is a great start, I’m using arch on my laptop which has been working for me but sometimes I spend more time troubleshooting settings than actually doing anything productive.

    And yea I hear a lot of good things about Bazzite but the form-factor feels maybe just a bit too steam-machine/game oriented.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago*

    it's a perfect desktop os

    i think they have installed too many extensions to the desktop environment to make it appear console-like, but i disabled almost all of them and use mine for development and everything desktop-oriented

    it just happens to do gaming flawlessly at the same time unlike many other distros i've tried over the years

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    Bazzite isn't really limited in any way, there are just different ways to do certain things because it's immutable.

    Assuming that's what your meant by "form factor." Aside from that, it just runs like any other distro with KDE

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    It doesn't all perform the same. The kernel itself is extremely configurable, and some distros tweak it for stability, others for performance. Others again largely just leave it alone. Some distros also apply their own or other third party patches to the kernel.

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