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Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to linux. Should I? (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 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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[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Bazzite is made for gaming and it's worked for me pretty flawlessly for about 6 months BUT I had a lot of issues getting it to run a VM. I'm certainly not a Linux expert but I eventually gave up trying.

[–] Kaldo@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think there's some hidden complexity with immutable distros that most people ignore, I also had issues getting podman/docker to run properly there IIRC but dunno if its the same thing

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I saw "gaming focused distro" and immediately jumped into it without any research but that's just the way I do things. Sometimes I work my way backwards and develop at least some understanding. I believe it's commonly referred to as a learning disorder. Don't regret it though.

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