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Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to linux. Should I? (infosec.pub)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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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[–] Quik 43 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Bazzite is a Fedora Atomic based immutable distro focused on gaming, this means...

  • out of the box support for Nvidia cards
  • ships with a lot of useful gaming utilities
  • very hard to break as you should primarily be installing Flatpaks and can do rollbacks

Basically all modern Linux distros have virtualization support, so does Bazzite, of course. Actual performance differences between distros is also negligible, so feel free to choose whatever you like.

https://bazzite.gg/ if you're interested.

[–] Quik 11 points 4 months ago

As other people noted, Bazzite/Fedora Silverblue can absolutely bite you in the foot if you leave the "normal use cases" — and if you're not just gaming on the device, you sooner or later will. All of this is solvable and IMO worth it, but probably not great for a beginner trying to become more knowledgeable.

Tldr good for absolute beginners, good for "experts" (in both cases because it very rarely gets in your way/breaks)

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