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A good [noob-friendly] Linux distro for Nvidia support and gaming? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Heyo comrades, I just bought a laptop with an Nvidia RTX 3060 (don't call me a capitalist, Italy discounts VAT on tech stuff if you're disabled) and was looking for a noob-friendly distro with a good Nvidia support (fuck those proprietary pigs)

I looked at Mint since I use it on my desktop, but it has an out of date kernel (I heard that you need 5.8 or above to game with Nvidia, once again fuck them. Never had an issue with my trusty rx580) would just updating the kernel be an option or should I be looking for a different distro?

My only 2 requirements are that:

It's noob friendly (something Debian-based maybe, with a .deb and APT based package management)

And that doesn't use a gnome DE, maybe something more like cinnamon, KDE of XFCE would be nice.

Thanks.

(sorry for long post, had to insult Nvidia)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Debian testing (install debian stable n change the repository to testing). Upgrade to testing...

Reboot;

After it, type, as root/su:

dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt update

*i386 for 32 bits apps like Steam

Install the Nvidia drivers packages (check debian + Nvidia official debian documentation, piece of cake)

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

Reboot, fine tune the GPU/monitor config with: nvidia-settings

Install steam:

apt install steam

GG, happy gaming