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Loving PopOS but apparently I can't get the latest Nvidia driver? (Your regularly scheduled "What Distro should I use" thread) (ttrpg.network)
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Basically the title. Loving PopOS as my daily, but I understand that PopOS uses their own process and makes sure that only a checked driver gets wide release. Great for stability, less great for playing games that just came out. Is there a distro that this community generally recommends for gaming?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gentoo. It will be the last distro you hop to. Because it's whatever you want it to be. Don't be afraid. It even has a special command and portage repo to install all the support files and ancient libraries from 2002 your old games need in one shot.

You can snag a binary kernel, browser and some compilers now too if you don't want to deal with that. It's not much more difficult than Arch nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Gentoo takes a serious commitment if for no other reason than build time. I would not go around recommending it to anyone who isn't an enthusiast. PopOS to Gentoo is kind of a crazy jump.