What are some recommend changes for gaming for linux distros? Know I or to get steam and portion, but not sure what else

Have a AMD Gpu and cpu if that is important

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Mint is still on X11, though there is Wayland support in experimental stage. But if I were gaming, I’d find a distro with up to date Wayland support out of the box, like Fedora.

  • ffhein@lemmy.world
    191·
    3 days ago

    I use Fedora (KDE) and game a lot. While I mostly like it, I’ve had some problems with it that were non-trivial to solve, so if you’re a Linux beginner I would not necessarily recommend it to you.

    Perhaps Bazzite would be a good option? It’s based on Fedora and created with gaming in mind. I got it recommended here and installed it on a friend’s kid’s computer and he’s very happy with it so far.

    There’s also Nobara which builds on Fedora to create a gaming-focused distro.

  • uxellodunum@lemmy.mlEnglish
    111·
    2 days ago

    Go Fedora for Gaming with new hardware. If you’re a couple generations behind in hardware, Mint will do just fine.

    Fedora gets new hardware support faster along with newer drivers, same with Arch and Arch-based distros (like EndeavourOS, BazziteOS)

  • phantomwise@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    In addition to steam with proton, you can add :

    • ProtonGE : it’s a modified version of Proton, if games don’t work with the default Proton versions you can try this one and sometimes it fixes the issue.
      • Don’t bother installing it manually, though, just install ProtonUpQt with your package manager, run it, and have it install the latest ProtonGE for you. Then you go in steam, in your game’s compatibility options, and you choose ProtonGE in the list. It’s not needed for most games, but it’s nice for those few cases where the game doesn’t work.
    • Protontricks

    AMD GPU is good, it means you won’t want to die installing Nvidia drivers if you choose Fedora.

  • stuner@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    If you have an AMD GPU (except for the very latest GPUs), you should be good out of the box. The AMD driver comes pre-installed with mesa.

    Other than that… don’t use NTFS to store your games.

    Edit: Maybe I misunderstood your question. I understood it as: What are some recommended changes to do after installing a Linux distro. Did you meant to ask about differences between distros?

  • xylol@leminal.space
    2·
    2 days ago

    When you launch steam go to steam settings and enable compatibility to use proton, that’ll get a larger portion of games to work

  • r.endtimes@piefed.socialPortuguês
    11·
    2 days ago

    I use cachyos, it has an install gaming packages button that does all that for you, also have amd gpu and cpu, I use blender and steam fine

    • r.endtimes@piefed.socialPortuguês
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      2 days ago

      I did have to use gparted to manually partiition and set the boot flag since automatically it didnt work, just did exactly what it tried to do automatically, manually, takes 5 seconds. Otherwise it’s really easy, nicer and faster to install than windows.

      You plugin the usb, boot in, and its in kde running off the usb, so you can kinda test out kde plasma desktop environment, and the install is hella fast, coming from reinstalling windows the week before, insane, like a 100000th of the time. Then you just go through a fully graphical install process, after that clicking buttons to install most of the drivers and apps you need fairly easily, without searching on your own.

      • r.endtimes@piefed.socialPortuguês
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        2 days ago

        Every thing ppl mention here comes with cachyos or through the gaming packages button after installing

      • r.endtimes@piefed.socialPortuguês
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        2 days ago

        You also choose your desktop environment out of many options, plasmas just the default, you may have a much higher chance of breaking your install doing something later compared to bazzite