I’m currently on Win11 but I’m getting that familiar Linux itch and want to dual boot a while again. I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it’s so big and well supported by most things.
I’ve run Arch in the past but I’ve gotten too old and lazy for that if I’d be completely honest. I have played with manjaro and endeavour though… and opensuse tumbleweed, rolling is kind of nice.
Not sure what I’d try out first this time so I figured I’d get some inspiration from you guys!
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I use Arch with XFCE. Yes, it took a while to get running properly, and just the other day I went to print something and realized cups hadn’t even been installed yet, so I spent 15 minutes getting my printer up and running, so I totally get that it’s not for everyone. I like it because of the detailed wiki with great tutorials and instructions on getting things working, like the one I used to get a nextcloud installation working on my computer. And I like it because of the extensive Arch User Repository, so I know I can install whatever I like. I mostly just play Stardew Valley and trackmania on it. I’ve used Manjaro before and enjoyed that too, and it comes with all the benefits of arch.
I installed Mint on my friends computer, which works totally fine, but I don’t know how it is for gaming; she definitely doesn’t game.
Arch really is a documentation project rather than a distro, their wiki tops most everything out there :)
Seriously, ArchWiki has taught me most of what I know about Linux.
Yeah, that’s basically where you go if you ever have some obscure problem, it’s incredibly useful really.
NixOS, not going to lie to you and say it’s always easy to get games running on it though. Sometimes it’s a complete pain in the ass.
Have you tried using a windows VM? If I can figure that out I’m so ready to leave windows completely
Does StreamOS count?
Sure does!
On my gaming desktop, I am using Fedora currently with the Awesome WM. That might change though with all the RH stuff going on. On my gaming laptop I switch between Arch and Void with Qtile on both.
Pop!_OS. It just works, it’s easy, and it makes me enjoy using my computer.
I’m starting to want to try Pop… they seem to have quite a few fans around here!
It is one of the simplest ones to play games on
Yup, Pop!_OS is virtually flawless for me on my Nvidia laptop. It can run every game that I play for hours with no crashing including Tears of the Kingdom on the yuzu emulator.
I’ve been on Manjaro for 3 years, honestly love it, it’s treated me great for gaming and given me so little to have to fix that my wife has also been running it for 2 years.
Got to love the wife rating :D
But yeah, I had manjaro on an old chromebook at University, it was pretty nice!
It’s funny, she’s become more of a Linux evangelist than me, she really went all in.
Sounds like a keeper! :)
She certainly is <3 celebrating 10 years this year
Good for you guys!
Thank you!
I’m really comfortable with mint cinemon
Im running good old Ubuntu with gnome. I mostly play terraria, minecraft I and Bethesda rpgs these days so it does everything I need.
I’m starting to realize that *buntu LTS with snaps and flatpaks should work pretty well… the OS itself is kept updated until what… 2032 with Ubuntu Pro I think? And the flatpaks keeps their stuff up to date on their own. Pretty nice combo, shouldn’t have to reinstall any time soon (unless I want to try something new…)
Nah don’t get Ubuntu pro. Regular Ubuntu is fine unless you have some niche use case for pro
I suppose. It’s free for up five machines though so it couldn’t hurt to activate?
Then again, I can’t see me not doing a dist upgrade within ten years :P
Arch on my laptop but Pop on my gaming rig. At the time I installed it, I wanted the extra relative ease of Pop’s handling on video drivers. I have since switched to AMD, so no driver woes at all since they’re in the kernel, but I have stuck with Pop for that system. If it ain’t broke… who am I kidding, I’ll probably switch to Arch soon.
If it aint broke, poke it until it breaks then try something new!
As my main I’m currently running EndeavorOS. I’d say it’s pretty good. It does all of the legwork of installing Arch, but comes with minimal bloat and really lets you make it your own.
I have tried it but it was a while ago.
When it’s installed, what’s different than pure Arch?
I am currently using Pop!_OS, which is based on Ubuntu and comes with GNOME but because I don’t really like GNOME’s interfaces, so I swapped it with Sway and i3bar.
I never played modern games on this thing, so I don’t really know how well it does, but I heard it’s pretty good for gaming.
A very simple, almost stock setup of Arch + KDE.
X11 or Wayland? I find games like csgo stutter on Wayland.
Make sure you’re running the sdl environment variable that makes them native on Wayland, in my experience when that’s on it makes my games that are native significantly more performant.
Fedora, KDE spin. Been working great, and I’m kinda liking DNF
I’ve been running Linux Mint for a few years now and it’s been really good for me. Runs games through Steam and Lutris about as good as I’ve had it.
I’ve also run other distros like Pop! and Fedora here and there but they seem to give me more issues.
A little background for context. I’m gamer and professional software developer. I’ve been dual booting windows 11 and pop os for awhile. Windows for games and pop os for everything else… Over the weekend I switched to NixOS. This came with a learning curve which I spent a day or so learning. I’ve been getting the hang of it now and I love it so much. I definitely recommend it. I managed to get steam working without much fiddling and my emulators. It’s been great! The benefits for programming are obvious. Allowing me to basically stop using docker dev containers.
I completely removed windows from my computer and I’m very happy.
We used to run Ubuntu at my last job, it was so nice! I’m back in Windows land now though…
Yeah my job recently started letting developers choose between windows and Mac now which is a step in the right direction… their excuse is that all their security software doesn’t run in Linux… Ill accept using a Mac over WSL though, that was a huge pain
I’m still happy WSL exists, it’s definitely better than nothing if you’re stuck in Windows land!
Yeah absolutely! I know I dissed it, but I was happy to have it when I was stuck on windows for work.
