I’m on the verge of switching my gaming PC to Linux, the bloat of windows is becoming too much. I’m fairly PC literate but don’t know anything about Linux or distros. It is intimidating to commit to a platform where I know so little. Does anyone have any tips regarding distros or learning the basics?
Look at ProtonDB to see what games you own will run on Linux.
Pop OS: is a good Ubuntu based distro.
The Nobara Project: is a Fedora based gaming distro.
Drauger OS: is another good gaming specific distro.
Each of these has their own pros and cons depending on your needs and hardware. Google is your best friends here. You will have issues with a game not working like you want. Again Google will be your best friend here.
My biggest suggestion is to embrace the challenges. Understand that in the last two years alone gaming on Linux has improved dramatically. Stay with it Linux is always maybe a better experience overall even if some of our games don’t work right now.
With Redhat going kinda closed-source, will its derivatives like Fedora remain viable?
Don’t remember how Canonical shit the bed, but I’m wary of using Ubuntu derivatives.
What would you recommend for a distro that keeps on top of security updates and is at least acceptable in terms of running games like AoE2 DE or The Outer Worlds?
installing something goes slightly awry
system still runs fine but there are a couple empty read-only folders on the drive
“Oh no! My perfect system is BORKED!”
reinstall the os
If it doesn’t feel clean I need to redo everything!
Rolling release means I never have to reinstall linux. Unless it breaks and I don’t know how to fix it. So far It’s been 1 year on Arch.
What does the release cadence have to do with that?
A rolling release Linux distribution continuously provides updates as they become available, without the need for an OS re-installation to get the latest released version.
You can update a standard release distribution just fine, no need to reinstall anything. It does basically the same thing as a rolling release, just not as often and more packages at once.
Very subtle “arch btw”
