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Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to linux. Should I? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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So I was thinking of switching my desktop to linux. I have been running fedora on my laptop for 3 years and I really like it. My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs) and can I use VMs in any of the gaming oriented ones (mostly because I don't wanna keep dual booting).

Edit: I have gone with Bazzite for now and it seems to be working fine. Some games don't rrally work acceptably (I expected that) so I will keep dual booting for a while.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I loved bazzite, it was my first out of the box success with Linux gaming, but if you plan to do anything outside of gaming installing stuff can get a little difficult. It was invaluable for teaching moments, but I've moved on to cachyOS and it has been just as seamless and less difficulty installing things after installing yay

My 2c

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is why I personally think Bazzite should only be installed on devices you intend to only game on, especially if you have any intention of learning any more about Linux than the absolute basics. It'll be fine for a while for beginners, but you're bound to bump into some things that are a hassle to install and/or keep updated. Perfect examples being for consolafying a PC for playing on a living room TV, or installing it on a handheld PC (Steam Deck etc.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I switched to bazzite a couple of months ago and read so much about catchyOS so I tried that too about 2 weeks ago. I couldn't install shit. Never had any problem installing anything I needed except one thing on bazzite but catchyOS just had me give up. I am not sure what I did wrong but after 2 hours of reading and trying to figure out AUR or whatever I just gave up and booted bazzite again. I just want to play my games with the little time I have but maybe I boot it up again sometime in the future.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Were you installing stuff with pacman or yay?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    No clue to be honest. First I used the cachyOS guide installer then I found something else when I didn't find what I wanted and not sure what that was.

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