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Is PopOS the best for easy gaming? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by hellerphant@beehaw.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hey folks!

Thinking of switching back to Linux. I was running PopOS about 1.5 years ago and was pretty happy with the gaming aspect of things, but I was playing a lot of VALORANT back then, and I got sick of dual booting. That is less the case now, so I would like to try going back to Linux for the majority of my gaming / streaming setup, and just use Windows for the handful of games like Destiny 2 that won't run on Linux.

I am fairly new to Linux. Don't mind learning some terminal stuff, but I am basically a noob so it does need to be pretty easy to start with. Got a NVIDIA 3080 and AMD CPU if that matters at all.

Recommend me a distro please fellow penguin gamers.

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[–] teruma@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not install SteamOS?

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no official installer for steamos, only a recovery image for the steam deck. Then, some people in their free time hacked that image to allow installing on other hardware (except Nvidia GPUs) but imho not very easy

[–] teruma@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh? the first thing that comes up when I google SteamOS is DIY install instructions.

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that perhaps HoloISO? A community made version of SteamOS

[–] teruma@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, first party SteamOS

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is an old version which was for SteamOS devices, the Steamdeck has a completely revamped OS which has not that much in common with the old one.

That SteamOS used Debian as base, the new SteamOS 3 Arch with countless of adjustments to make the usage of the Steamdeck a joy.

I really wouldn't install the old SteamOS as of now, there are countless of better alternatives out there and maybe they will release SteamOS 3 for custom devices in the future.

[–] teruma@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Got it, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the information!

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Put simply, currently Steam OS doesn't have the hardware support of your average distro

[–] teruma@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The posted install instructions say its just Debian. I would assume it would have Debian's hardware support?

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahhhhh, so not SteamOS 3, an older version

Modern SteamOS is based on Arch

[–] teruma@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, interesting. The new version didn't come up when I googled it. I'll dig a bit deeper.