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I've been using fedora but I would like to try something new and I think about arch linux but I don’t know if it’s good for gaming. What do you think?

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[–] Nisaea@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

Im on EndeavourOS like a lot of other folks here, which is basically Arch with an awesome installer, a handful of convenient extra tools, a sensible default confuguration and a fancy theme. It's been awesome so far, hell I've just been able to install and run an EA game from steam with minimal fuss yesterday, just the help of lutris to install EA Origin to authenticate. Shit just works.

That being said, Arch can occasionally blow up at your face for no fault of your own and it's a very different environment from fedora (love fedora btw), so there's a bit of a learning curve that you're gonna have to accept to climb if you want to maintain your system.

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

As a few others have said, most distributions are good for gaming. Arch, being a distribution that requires lots of manual configuration, requires some setup for the best performance.

Read these two articles throughly and use the tweaks that apply to your system/needs.

Straight from the Arch Wiki:

Improving Performance

Gaming (section 7 and section 9 are especially useful).

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They can all be good for gaming. The distro doesn't matter. Use what you find efficient, pretty, customized to your liking. They can all game. Don't install Popos because it's gaming oriented you can game on vanilla arch if you wanted to or debian. Arch won't matter much unless you have the newest hardware.

[–] Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

LTS distros and extremely delayed packages can give you problems for sure, the components used for gaming are very fast moving pieces fixing latest issues constantly.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Nix is just as configurable and you will have far less problems

[–] chepycou@rcsocial.net 0 points 6 months ago

@Wooki @VLDK the new **I use NixOS BTW** 😂😂😂

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