The Pros, Cons, and Surprises of a Bold Move

I wrote an article on my switch to the gaming focused Linux distro, coming from Windows 11 and thought you all might enjoy the journey.

  • dog@suppo.fiEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    Nobara seems fine for fedora, but if you want to try Arch, then Garuda is for gaming use, I personally use EndeavourOS.

    Linux is a trip of making one change and bricking your system, easily rolled back.

      • dog@suppo.fiEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        His aim was gaming use, which is why I recommended Garuda for it.

        With EndeavourOS you have to tinker a bit more with the OS to get everything compatible with gaming.

        • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Is there a reason why Endeavour would not prefer those changes? Or is it just a matter of focus, resources, security?

          • dog@suppo.fiEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            I believe EndeavourOS aims to be as close to pure arch as they can be, while still making it a more user friendly experience.

            Garuda is what you’d call “bloat”, but for gaming it’s useful bloat.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Not switching to nobara unless it gets a cool distro icon in neofetch.

    • meteokr@community.adiquaints.moeEnglish
      14·
      11 months ago

      struggling with Nvidia drivers

      Depends on your hardware age, and whether or not you use proprietary drivers. Some distros handle it auto-magically for you so you don’t really need to do anything and it just works.

      ultra fast GPU access to storage

      For the time being, nothing on PC actually requires this, or uses it optionally for any perceived I provment in fidelity. Its super cool tech though, looking forward to this in the future.

      HDR

      Fair point, it is actively being worked on by a lot of big organizations and developers, so it will get better. Last I checked Window’s support of it isn’t incredible, but its better than the nothing Linux has at the moment.

      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        The wall most people have is that they dont have a capable monitor to use it well (miniled with fald or oled) both fairly expensive.

        There are tips and tricks to get some applications working with auto hdr that was never designed to work with HDR (e.g you can get switch emulation with HDR with a name hack)

    • Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Nvidia drivers are alright these days but otherwise yeah. Most games are playable on Linux at this point with the huge exception of most online games with any anti cheat.

      • metaStatic@kbin.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        or let’s multibox this game that works perfectly fine and … oh no, a compatibility layer actually adds overhead and my CPU is struggling.

        at least I can dual boot with the bios menu instead of infecting my Linux install.

    • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      HDR is the big one for me. Been waiting so long for that to come. Even for just video play back.

  • Presi300@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    It’s switch to nobara, if fedora didn’t work so well… Install xanmod kernel on fedora and you’ve got a “budget nobara”

  • Sagrotan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Why I switched to Garuda Linux on my gaming PC and Why You Should Too: it’s awesome, and if you wanna be MegaChad like me, do it.