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From Windows to about 6 recommended distros for gaming. (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by whostosay@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am not bad with computers and have a beginner+, maybe intermediate level knowledge of Linux and I kept running into some problems here and there with different distros. Most claimed to work out of the box (which may be the case for some users, but I have a shit ass Nvidia 1060 and that was not at all the case, until I installed Nobara KDE/Nvidia.

Just came here to potentially save someone time, this shit is actually working out of the box, closest experience to this was with Arch, but that's definitely not out of the box.

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

MX Linux was nearly effortless

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Until you use it

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Just install gaming userland packages through flatpak/nix

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I remember my first time using Linux, it was hard for me too. You’ll get the hang of it, champ!

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

MX is just overly complex

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In what way?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For one it does everything custom compared to stock

It isn't bad for a rescue system or a custom USB but I would not daily drive it and I would not recommend it over Linux Mint or Fedora

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I daily drive it just fine and I don’t really think your opinion is well informed. It sounds like you had trouble with some part of it and now you’ve written it off completely. But the numbers don’t lie- it’s a very popular distro and very stable.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I also don't want a system with tons of junk installed. MX has to many tools to be useful and most of them aren't even the best for the job not to mention its lack of systemd by default kind of sucks.

I really don't get why it is better than Debian with xfce4

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Dude it’s a very minor change to grub to get it to run systemd by default. You’re just complaining for the sake of complaining