Recommended linux variant for gaming. - eviltoast

I’ve been using Ubuntu as my daily driver for a good few years now. Unfortunately I don’t like the direction they seem to be heading.

I’ve also just ordered a new computer, so it seems like the best time to change over. While I’m sure it will start a heated debate, what variant would people recommend?

I’m not after a bleeding edge, do it all yourself OS it will be my daily driver, so don’t want to have to get elbow deep in configs every 5 minutes. My default would be to go back to Debian. However, I know the steam deck is arch based. With steam developing proton so hard, is it worth the additional learning curve to change to arch, or something else?

  • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Nah AMD works much better than nvidia, my statement was meant to be like “works even on nvidia” you should definetly stay AMD

    • N3Cr0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      That’s what folks over here tell me, and you are most probably right. There is still one more issue scratching my head though: RayTracing performance on Cyberpunk 2077: It works great on high settings with stable 50 FPS minimum on my Windows 10 + Nvidia build, but it’s quite the opposite on this Nobara + AMD system. 5FPS and slowdowns are just unplayable. I expected the bad AMD performance being fixed by today. I think I should swap GPUs between both systems and test again.

      • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I am also getting like 20 fps less on linux than windows, I think its just how it is with cyberpunk. Testing can’t hurt