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Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to linux. Should I? (infosec.pub)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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So I was thinking of switching my desktop to linux. I have been running fedora on my laptop for 3 years and I really like it. My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs) and can I use VMs in any of the gaming oriented ones (mostly because I don't wanna keep dual booting).

Edit: I have gone with Bazzite for now and it seems to be working fine. Some games don't rrally work acceptably (I expected that) so I will keep dual booting for a while.

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (10 children)

I already installed fedora but games just don't get stable framerates. might have to do a clean install and try again.

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago (7 children)

make sure first that it isn't issue with specific games, some may require some proton flags to be set for them to behave properly. Or just newer/older proton/wine.

in general worth a try to switch the compatibility thingy (technical term),

steam, in game's properties:

but similar option is in lutris/heroic too.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (5 children)

God damn I literally just did a clean install of fedora 42 and I cannot even get past the stupid setup stage. They changed it so now you choose everything after installing and I cannot get past the timezone select screen. It just freezes

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Try Manjaro KDE. XFCE if you adventurous.

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