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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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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

PopOS is, in my opinion, the easiest distro to use to get Nvidia cards working without a sweat (as long as you install the Nvidia ISO). I don't use PopOS anymore, been on Fedora now for almost 2 years, and have had 0 issues with my 3050 after installing the drivers, but it does take a bit of configuring to get there.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah IIRC with Pop!OS it just asks you if you have an Nvidia card during install, and then it takes care of it all for you. I run it on my desktop machine and have had no issues so far.

Although word of caution, they're supposed to be transitioning to the brand new COSMIC desktop environment sometime this year, so I don't know if that will cause any instability.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Those are wise words of caution. Anyone planning on getting or staying on PopOS should heed those words.

[–] alexsup21@szmer.info 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

but it does take a bit of configuration to get there.

Unfortunately, for most people that's already too much..

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yup, that's why I suggested PopOS.