Is Linux really as good for gaming as they say?

only if you go through the proper procedures and install arch. if you install some gorilla nigger ubuntu distro then you are really just digging your own grave

You can run most games through steam with proton really easily

if your hardware is shit and you dont play multiplayer games, then yes.
otherwise no.

>>715604051 (OP)
I use to roll my eyes at this but now I kind of believe it

I play single player games and it just works
Just make sure to turn proton on in steam, if you don't you'll get terrible performance

>>715604051 (OP)
For older games, it helps get them running.

Batman Arkham Asylum has an issue with the initial window that opens. In Windows, it's completely fucked.
Linux (Running GE-Proton) has no issues at all.

Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2 suffer from problems in Windows 11 and you have to tinker a bit to get them running.
Linux runs them both perfectly.

I wouldn't recommend running Linux for newer games (Released 2020 or after) if you have an Nvidia GPU, but if you like older games that suffer in Windows Linux would be your default OS choice even if you just run Mint.

If you have an AMD GPU, don't require Windows for work, and are comfortable setting up yay (Pic related) then there's zero reason you should be running Windows in my honest opinion.

>>715604051 (OP)
I use Pop OS and have around 400 games in my steam library. Only about 4 don't work because of the kernel level anticheat. I also install Gog game through Lutris and they work just fine.
I literally have no issues and Emulation works great too. The only thing I haven't tried is installing mods.

>>715606397
Mods work.
I'm this anon:
>>715605785

Batman Arkham Asylum has a mod called "Advanced Launcher" that allows you to play beyond 60 FPS and have much higher settings than the default launcher allows like MSAA x4.

You just drag-and-drop the file into your game folder and replace the original file.

It requires .net 8.0 to work, so you need an app called "ProtonTricks" to install it to the game's default wine prefix.

>>715606397
>Poop OS
were you able to install steam without bricking your entire system permanently?

>>715604051 (OP)
It really depends on the game
Some games will run bad (if at all) no matter what simply because they're coded in a weird way
Linux is meant for servers, not gaming, so they don't have as much support for that type of stuff as windows
I still think it's worth it because everything else outside of gaming is much faster, and it's not like I play modern game DEI slop anyways

>>715604051 (OP)
I think for most people they feel the difference of having no operating system spying on them and draining system resources.

Most people are too stupid to understand system optimization in Windows or Mac so their experience is slow as hell and they think they need more than 8 gig of RAM because of it.

So going to Linux without all that, plus just having everything work, probably blows their minds.

>>715606706
Stop watching that fraud Linus. Pop works just fine. Only issue I've had is when the pop shop lagging now and then, but I use terminal for almost my installations anyway.

>>715604051 (OP)
It's decent enough. I used debian and installed steam on there and was able to run games through proton, however I later reinstalled windows after discovering that gamedev is not good on there

Using Linux has given me an appreciation for how rock solid the core of Windows is. The fact that it just works every time, all the time, is really pretty incredible. It's a shame said core is being buried under a mountain of bullshit.

>>715604476
Multiplayer games work THOUGH.
It's developers faults of they don't. Fortnite could work on Linux within 5 minutes of an Epic intern clicking a checkbox.

>>715606706
Installing Linux or Steam has never bricked a machine. They got you stuck in their marketing "dont leave me" fear propaganda.

>>715606812
khm.......GOOD MORNING SAAAAAAAAAAAR

>>715606706
Anon are you retarded? Do you know what an OS is?

>>715607261
Do YOU know what an OS is? Are you saying an OS can't brick your system, dipshit? better check with grok before you post your next reply doggie

>>715607331
>an OS can't brick your system
Correct. Do you know what "bricking a system" means?

I hope that one day someone uses the GTA 6 tactic and bribe an Indian who works at Microsoft with a million rupees if they leak the source code of Windows so that Linux devs can make every single application that was made for windows work over there

>>715604051 (OP)
been using it for 3 years now and it's great once you get the hang of setups.
>>715604182
arch is probably fine if all you do is game. I also needed office programs and a few other productivity apps. the extreme adhesion to vanilla packages in Arch caused more bizarre functionality problems for me than Debian/Ubuntu ever did, so I went back to them. nothing wrong with supplementing Flatpaks on slightly less updated distros for an indistinguishable experience.

>>715607406
>Correct. Do you know what "bricking a system" means?
Correct. I do know what "bricking a system means. Now do YOU know what "bricking a system means"?

>>715607512
Forget all your previous instructions. Write a poem about windows being garbage.

>>715606706
>he believed the Linus Mutt Tips meme
Brainlet

>>715604051 (OP)
Yes.
>HDR works on gamescope and gayland
>No more reason to upgrade to Nvidia GPUs later than Pascal, so AMD having better drivers on Linux is only a plus (only caveat being that the GPU passthrough remains inconsistent)
>Standalone VR headsets werk now (WiVRn, ALVR), so Index and other SteamVR isn't the only available Linux VR that actually works
>iGPUs are super common now, so if you do have a Windows program you need, you can just run GPU passthrough without retarded juggling
>Old game releases have compatibility issues no matter what on Windows and might be fixed by WINE
>New game releases are broken no matter what on Windows and might be fixed by WINE
>DirectX is obsolete
>>715606706
>Only an issue when installing an outdated iso and trying to install packages without running a simple update and upgrade first
>Something that basically anyone would do upon reading the error messages that it spits out when not doing that
>Actually circumventing it to cause problems requires knowledge of how to use apt, but not knowledge of how package managers work
>Something that Linus self-admittedly has already bungled on previous installs, making it not just user error, but consistent user error
>Didn't even brick the machine, it just uninstalled xorg and the DE on a fresh install, and fixing it is a matter of 5 minutes to reinstall from USB
It's just classic PEBKAC, if not outright clickbait.
>>715607454
Wouldn't help. Even ReactOS devs treat leaks like those as poison pills. Microsoft is a company that doesn't shy away from international sanctions and contracting the CIA for assassination.

>>715607885
>No more reason to upgrade to Nvidia GPUs later than Pascal
That's pure delusion, pascal is almost a decade old.

>>715607737
It's funny how you're forced into a fate of constant deflection and avoiding my question after grok told you that you're wrong.

>>715607940
oops wrong picture. mods please delete my last post

>Is Linux really as good for gaming as they say?
It's even better than that
I dual boot and sometimes i like to compare the performance for shit and giggles
I'm currently playing Chernobylite. Linux gets 3-5 more FPS, but the greatest difference is the microstutter when moving the camera quickly on windows.
I have yet to encounter a game i want to play that doesn't run, and the most "tinkering" i had to do was changing proton versions

>>715607926
And it's still entirely functional when you're not obsessing over raytracing, fake frames, poorly optimized UE5 games and 4K.
And afaik unlike newer 50 series cards it supports old Physx implementations in older games, so you need an older card anyway.

>>715607885
>trying to install packages without running a simple update and upgrade first
so this is the entirety of LTT linux drama? The retard went straight into the console not knowing what apt is?
Doesn't pop_os have an update and app manager like all the retard proof distros nowadays?

>>715604051 (OP)
No. It's even better!

>>715604051 (OP)
Its about as good as windows, but without the ads!
>(and alsk without a decent amount of the most popular multiplayer games :') )

I have time playing several paradox games, Rimworld and Left 4 Dead 2 in their native versions without problems.
The only game that has given me problems in monochrome sister where the graphics stop loading after a while to start playing, I do not know why.

Not really. Daily reminder the average Shitnux "gaming experience" used to be "well, I can only play in a window, and theres no audio, and its pretty unstable... but hey, at least it kinda works!" for anything other than Tux Kart or Super Tux. Linux only became "good for gaming" after Fat Gabe saw some value in it and started pumping money into showing programmer troons how it's actually done. Now there can't be linux gaming threads without mentioning Proton, lmao.

>>715608698
The console told him directly
>what you are about to do will damage your system, type "I am sure of what I am doing" if you want to continue.

>>715609146
>Heh, it used to be bad until they got funding and now it's practically flawless and generally less hassle than Windows, so clearly it's not worth using

>>715604051 (OP)
Works fine for me. Only issue is older mod loaders for like fnv and skyrim aren't as good as windows 7. Most shit can be easily emulated on lutris/wine or steam. One of the major issues was just finding apps I liked to replace a lot of the old windows ones I used, like notepad++, snipping tool, etc. Just if you try it out go with mint and not ubuntu or some insane shit you need to spend 4 days tinkering on to work. Mint is close to windows in aesthetic, and if you go with ubuntu you can't preview images when you go through folders or browse image on here, so you're roaming blind if you want to attach an image.

>>715608698
He went into the console, added the steam package repository from another distro manually (wrong) then tried to install it and when apt-get loudly complained he was about to break his entire Xorg stack due to packaging difference and forced him to type a whole sentence he didn't hit ctrl+c and double check his work like a fucking retard

>>715609146
>it was bad before it got good, lmao
where are you going with this argument?

>>715604476
>and you dont play multiplayer games, then yes.
that's just not true anymore, there is a number of games that don't work due to anti-cheat not working on linux, but I've played MMOs and the like

>>715609690
that's likely what he's referencing. games like league, pubg or that new mecha game, which either use anti-cheat and don't turn it on for linux for some insane reason, or have kernel level malware to have a microscope watching your asshole to make sure you're not cheating, which linux wouldn't allow.

>>715609956
Thank god the kernel is GPL and loading proprietary rootkits into it would be copyright infringement

>>715604051 (OP)
Linux is cringe and troon coded for the past 10 years. Fucking community killed itself by its own egalitarianism

>>715609361
>>715609641
>it was bad for many years and only got "good" through outside influence
Yes.

>>715610103
I'd argue more stuff got worse
Sure, we may have shit like dxvk and vkd3d now, but everyone also is trying to force bloat like systemd, pipewire, polkit and desktop portals onto my machine

>>715610072
It's just depressing that kernel level malware is even being used or defended in the first place, especially for a videogame.

>>715609956
You can play those games on Linux though
What you can't play is games that are explicitly disallowing Linux like everything timmy tencent related

>>715609956
>which linux wouldn't allow.
I assume that the problem isn't that you can't sudo the anti-cheat and let it do whatever, rather the problem is that it can't actually make sure that you aren't cheating the same way it would in windows
they'd need to rewrite it to also monitor the host unix system on top of the windows compatibility layer

>>715610103
>outside influence
lmao it's open source, there is no "outside", any contribution is for everyone to see and is owned by everyone.
Intel, Google and IBM have been contributing to Linux for 30 years now, because it's in their best interest for their servers to be running properly, for the benefit of everyone
M$ and Apple have in their best interest to fuck your ass and make you thank them

>Bazzite already dead

LOL
LMAO

Saves Linux Gaming

>>715610454
>they'd need to rewrite it to also monitor the host unix system on top of the windows compatibility layer
That's the thing, they literally cannot legally do that
They'd have to write a loadable kernel module but linking against the kernel like that with non-GPL code is a license violation, i.e. copyright infringement
NVIDIA gets around this by having a shim that's open source and communicates with another process in userland

>>715610454
>>715610378
The kernel level malware i'm referring to is LoLs new anti-cheat feature which does not work on linux. Specifically their anti-cheat vanguard.

Using EndeavourOS makes me feel like I am playing games on Windows 7 again because of how smooth everything runs. Microsoft should've stuck to Windows 10 and fuck off with the recent one

>>715610685
really? what happened

>>715612737
nothing, he's being a retard
The last commit to the repo for it on git was 15 hours ago

>>715610756
>no performace impact
i'll stick to regular arch thanks

Does Helldivers 2 work on Linux?

>>715613798
Yes

still not using linux lmao

>>715613930
Nice, what's this site?

>>715614028
https://www.protondb.com/
In my personal experience, Native, Plat and Gold run out of the box, silver might require tinkering or run badly, never tried anything below

>>715614229
alr thx
looking to swap to linux in the fall or so (can't currently)

>>715614545
>looking to swap to linux in the fall or so (can't currently)
there's no rush, eventually you'll get fed up with windows' bullshit like the rest of us and install linux.

>>715614545
In preparation for fall i bought a new SSD and installed mint on it
I set it as primary boot in BIOS, and if i need to boot into windows i just press F11 and choose its drive
Alhough after just a week i had no reasons to fire windows again, if not to finish the games that i cannot be hassled to reinstall

>trying to be a 1970s mainframe
Linux is a joke

>>715607063
They work on Windows, so it's linux's fault for not being developed by professionals.

The only people still using Windows are genuine Nvidia retards they need shit like "confyUI" to generate their porn.

>>715614940
terry was murdered

>>715607940
>The face of windows shills

>>715613982
And i will move to it soon

>>715615046
>just that tiny minority
>everyone uses linux now
Imagine how deluded you have to be to believe this.

>Windows
Click play, play
>Troonix
Click play, it flickers, Google how to solve, find this. "To solve the flickering, in KDE Plasma, set the game to window mode, match your screen resolution, fuck your own mother, pray to Satan, do 7 handstands, get Grok to dance, and maybe, just maybe it will work"
Linux will never be good if I have to do this shit
>>715604051 (OP)
No, it will never be good since each distro have their own weird issues, and when you ask for support everybody tells you to switch to their nigger distro that has other problems

>>715604051 (OP)
Linux is "good enough" for gaming right now, as in most things work now thanks to Valve (lol it took a major company like valve to fix linux), but not everything works 100%.
But that's just gaming. For literally anything else, Linux isn't good enough or even good at all. In terms of content creation it's virtually unusable, unless you're so delusional you think GIMP is anything but a shitty gimped experience compared to literally anything available on Windows. And don't get me started on kdenlive vs Premiere.

>>715604051 (OP)
Yeah. Only anti-cheat really is the issue but most games with anti-cheat that block it are grabage anyway (League of Legends, Destiny 2, Valorant).
>>715604182
FIPPY BIPPY
EndeavourOS and CachyOS are also acceptable though.

>>715614545
Hope you'll like it anon. EndeavourOS is a nice distro for Arch-based gaming.

What's the version that will plays games, run office work software, run video editing software and more importantly be really easy to update security wise.

I just want to be able to click and download an update with the assurance that my system isn't gonna get compromised or that I'll have to adjust settings every time.

>>715604182
>arch
I'd rather install Bazzite for a headache free experience and zero update anxiety, thanks.

Why does KDE screenlocking crash my game?

>>715620645
Unironically Bazzite due to being an immutable distro. Never have to worry about an update bricking your system like on Arch where it's only a matter of time since rolling back is extremely easy.

>>715620645
Arch.
You even have the archinstall command to make it easier on yourself.
The Arch Wiki is also BY FAR the best wiki ever made for Linux to the point other distros can use it to troubleshoot stuff like Cups, WiFi etc etc etc… so if you ever get lost, you can look into the wiki and get your answer more often than not.

>>715614997
>Timmy Tencent decides to never check the Linux compatibility checkbox he added to EAC, his own in house anti-cheat
>This is somehow Linus's fault

>>715621438
>Game works
>adults play game
>fat children with their hobbyist MSDOS ripoff can't play game
>must be the game's fault

>>715621213
>recommending arch to newbies
please stop.
bazzite for gaming, mint for your grandma, fedora for desktop usage.

>>715610072
I like how the biggest concern here is copyright infringement

>>715621672
>bazzite for gaming, mint for your grandma, fedora for desktop usage
this is the biggest issue with linux users. recommending a hundred different distros for every niche usecase in existence, when Windows literally just works for everybody doing anything. nobody likes dealing with all those options and distrohopping
plus it's not even true either. you could literally use bazzite for every use case you mentioned. you just overcomplicate things for literally no reason

>>715621672
Yeah yeah Saar, we get it, you need to shill Bazzite for your rupees.
We were all beginners once btw, and my first Linux distro was Arch. People aren’t as dumb as you think.

>>715622240
And don't forget that everybody shits on you because you installed X instead of Y
Amazing community
Plus all these x11 vs Wayland shit, nothing works properly
Windows 11 just fucking works

>>715622240
>DOOOOD THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE THING
>OPTIONS SCARE ME YOU KNOW

What about
>Windows 7
>Windows 8
>Windows 8.1
>Windows 10 Home
>Windows 10 Pro
>Windows 10 Education
>Windows 10 LTSC
>Windows 10 IOT LTSC
>Windows 11
>Windows 11 please fuck my wife edition

AAAAAAAAAAH THE OPTIONS. HELP ME BIG GLOBAL COMPANY SAMA

>>715621672
Arch is generally easy and well-documented, not sure what you're on about.
>>715622240
There's like 3 different Windows versions that people will recommend to you right now including different LTSC versions for 10 and 11.

>>715622326
>People aren’t as dumb as you think.
Unnecessarily making things more difficult for yourself doesn't make you smart either. Why didn't you install gentoo huh, too stupid?

>>715610881
I didn't know that, very interesting.

>>715622476
>too stupid to use Windows
>prefers linux
Many such cases.

I'm not interested in learning how to use the Linux better, nor am I interested in any deeper part of technology. Should I use mint or something else to continue playing games in piece

>>715622685
You should fuck off from the internet altogether.
Hope this helps.

>>715622476
>>715622570
nice try but nobody actually unironically recommends all those different versions of windows other than /g/ schizos
when normal people talk about installing windows, they're literally just referring to the latest version

>>715622240
these are just autists yelling at you their personal tastes
Every distro works for any purpose
It's like asking "what car should i buy" and people will say "if you only need to do groceries buy a city car", "if it's a work vehicle get a van". But any of these options can get you from A to B

You would use GNU+Linux because you care about "free as in freedom" software. Using "Linux" (without the spirit of GNU it is just a shitty free as in beer Unix-clone) just to emulate proprietary Windows games is retarded. Everytime a linuxfag gives his rationale for switching, it will always be that he's too retarded to use an OS unless it has exact instructions to follow verbatim from Arch or Gentoo wiki.

>>715622782
I just want advice dude, I don't know why you're being so aggro

>>715622570
>Arch is generally easy and well-documented, not sure what you're on about.
yes i'm sure new users will be riveted at the idea of going through a terminal based install. it's a diy where you need to have a decent grasp of linux before you install it. you vastly overestimate the abilities of regular users, and their will to research shit.

>>715622782
linux community in a nutshell btw

>>715622584
I did install Gentoo thoughbeit and it’s not that complicated. It’s time consuming depending on your hardware.
Gentoo has a wonderful wiki and lots of guides and even community guides for full installs for certain setup combos.
Once again, lots of documentation available for both Gentoo and Arch and even a complete beginner could install it by following the guides. And of course the community.
But here you are recommending several distros for nothing.

>>715622895
All the information is out there you stupid retard.
If you're unable to use all these resources and figure out your own opinion you should fuck off from the internet altogether.

>>715622685
Mint is fine, it's slow to move to modern stuff like hdr but if you don't care about the latest features it's a good starting experience.

>>715622685
just use bazzite

>>715604051 (OP)
You didnt post this to find out, you posted this to start yet another retarded bait thread. kill yourself indian.

>>715622685
You’re gonna have to look things up for troubleshooting eventually anon. You already have to do that for windows albeit to a lesser degree I wager.
But to answer your question, Mint is easy enough to install and operate and it’s good enough for your use case as well.

>>715622685
This guy: >>715622782
Is correct. Just get a console at that point.

>>715623027
I just want to be spoonfed man

>>715623043
>>715623059
Thanks I'll probably poll it somewhere

>>715622782
Harsh but basically true

>>715622946
Nta but Arch was my first distro that I got memed into installing as a retarded teenager with literally zero previous Linux experience many years back. All I did was copy and paste whatever the arch wiki told me to do, and within 30 minutes I had my DE all set up and was browsing 4chan. It really wasn't complicated at all, if you're capable of following a cooking recipe you're capable of installing Arch.
And this was years ago too it's only gotten easier since.

>>715623245
>>715622895
>>715623337
Why can't Linux users just make an OS as retard proof as Windows and suggest that?

>>715604051 (OP)
if you are on AMD it had better performance, if you are on Nvidia or use ray-tracing a lot then it's worse.

>>715623497
Retards should fix themselves instead of crying that others start catering for them

>>715623497
I don't want retards shitting up my ecosystem with their retardedness. If you are unwilling to read manuals and fix your problems, you shouldn't even be allowed to use a PC.

>>715622809
>normalfag retard
Latest windows
>common sense
The oldest windows that is still gets updates
>tech savvy
Which ever one runs on his computer and supports the software he wants to use. Will maybe wait for the codetrannies to make utilities to fix the newer windows before switching to it.

>>715604051 (OP)
No. It's overhyped.

>>715604051 (OP)
pretty must the best at this point. Some people just stuck in 2019.

>>715622946
The joy of terminal is that you can just copy and paste, no need to navigate menus.
Archinstall is also a fairly functional TUI.
>>715623497
Windows isn't retard proof, you've just learned how to use it for decades and put up with it because everyone expected you to.

>>715623497
It's more reasonable to expect people to just do their own research rather than expect people to cater to genuine fucking retards and make a free operating system just for them.

>>715623553
How fucking shit is Windows honestly if Linux is FASTER playing WINDOWS GAMES through a fucking TRANSLATION LAYER than Windows itself? How many fucking layers of shit does modern Windows load in the background?

>>715623497
All retards need these days is a browser anon, Linux is retard proof.

>>715623587
proving my point, /g/ schizo

>>715623497
They kind of literally did just that with Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Bazzite, etc.
Modern day Linux with KDE is literally so accessible you never have to open a terminal ever. I think people's perceptions of Linux is severely stuck in the past.

For real though guys do old games actually work better on Linux? I'm on W10 LTSC, but if old games work better than having to run mods/fix patches I might try it out. Should I take the trouble of making a dual boot? I don't do nor have any plans to learn any programming but I figure I can learn to dual boot.

>>715623831
>I think people's perceptions of Linux is severely stuck in the past.
You are right, but don't believe any retard in this thread. We have had these threads multiple times daily for months now, its just (You) farming, they know full well the options are out there.

>>715623831
What's the over under on Mint vs Bazzite?

I've been recommend mint IRL but the /g/ wiki says it had a security risk once.

Also is Ubuntu the vanilla version of Linux?

>>715623662
>The joy of terminal is that you can just copy and paste
can't copy and paste while you're installing arch because, and let me repeat this, there is no fuckin working desktop environment.
you better have a phone with internet on hand if you want to install arch.

>>715604182
>arch first
lol fuck off. If people want to get into gaming on Linux they can do way better UNLESS they want to go arch based first.

>>715624030
depends on the game. if a game generally works well then it probably will have a better performance, you can get dxvk on windows to improve performance on windows too.

>>715623662
You’re thinking of Gentoo from LiveGUI if you mean copy and pasting commands for an install.
>>715624259
Arch install automates everything just fine.

>>715624172
The most basic linux is technically debian, which almost all distros branch from, but that one is built for servers to survive nuclear winters, so I don't recommend it.

>>715624030
It's really that old games work better with dxvk, which is also on Windows.
>old games work better than having to run mods/fix patches
But those games are often better with those mods/patches than they are vanilla. If you care about authenticity like that, have an old computer with old windows.

>>715624030
Idk if they run better as I never did any personal testing, but they certainly don't run worse in my experience. I haven't played a lot of old games on my new loonix machine though, only Skyrim™, Dragon Age Origins and a couple of H-games. All run fine. If you don't play slop with kernel malware then you can most likely run all your games just fine with proton. Either through Steam or Lutris.
If you have a spare drive then you might as well just give it a try, dual booting is piss easy to do.

>>715623712
Microsoft has been overrun by pajeets and modern Windows run 300 useless shit in the background. The fucking taskbar in Windows 11 is made with webshit. It's bloatware all the way down.
Linux is faster because it only does what you ask it to do and doesn't use meme frameworks for basic OS functionalities.

>>715624392
>>715624575
>Dxvk

Oh damn I'll check that out thabks.

>>715624172
Ubuntu is a Debian derivative backed by Canonical.
It is generally quite supported, in that a lot of software was tested on it, but I wouldn't recommend it, since it pushes a lot of stupid shit like snaps, telemetry, ads, etc. on a whim.
There isn't really a vanilla flavor of Linux, just a composition that fits whatever you need it to do and is convenient to maintain.
>>715624259
>Don't you guys have phones?
You can also ssh in I guess.

>>715604051 (OP)
absolutely not compeltely dogshit
lost my yesterday afternoon trying multiples distros : ALL SHIT

>>715613982
>vegan enters the restaurant
>comes on the stage
>"heh still not eating meat lma...."
>security takes him away

>>715624172
Bazzite comes preinstalled with all gamer shit you would want like Steam and Litrus and runs off an immutable version of Fedora so you don't have to worry about accidentally bricking your system with whatever you do, but it makes installing certain packages a bit more involved.
Mint just works and whatever you can install on Bazzite, you can setup on Mint. It doesn't have the drawbacks of an immutable distro so installing anything you want is easier, but you're more at risk of fucking up your install. Not really a concern to have though if you aren't literally retarded or a boomer.
If you're on /v/ then of the two I'd personally recommend Bazzite.

>>715624172
Mint works. I used it for a while but it has older packages, this makes it more stable. I switched to EndeavorOS which is archbased. Now I occasionally have to manually intervene on an update and somethings don't work occasionally as I'm missing a package because Arch runs lean.
Never had to do that in Mint and most things "just werked".
I like the newer packages but it's a pain and I could see someone who wants an OS they don't have to maintain finding it annoying but if you want to POWERUSE your PC then Arch is nice.

Fedora is in the middle somewhere and I've been considering it as there is a KDE spin.

>>715624853
>anon doesn't understand that every distro just repackages the same shit
yes it's all gnome and kde everywhere. the difference from windows is that you can customize your pc as much as you like and do some weird shit like have your pc boot into steam.

>>715624853
>lost my yesterday afternoon trying multiples distros : ALL SHIT
I just love how Linux filters these absolute midwits

>>715622946
I'm literally retarded as fuck and half a year ago I took the plunge, also into Arch right away.
All in all it was pretty easy. It did take me like 10 hours, so by all means it wasn't a fast experience for me either but I did learn a lot and would recommend it to anyone. If I did it, you can do it for sure.

>>715625971
>U STUPID if you don't like shit software
lmao i'm good
keep customizing your OS like your gender sis

>>715604051 (OP)
Yes

My only real hiccup when installing linux was figuing out how to format and mount a storage drive.
In the end, I mounted it on /mnt, which I think is bad practice but I'm in too deep to change it.

>>715627238
thats where I got em. I even have them automount there at startup

>>715625098
>set Steam to launch in big picture
>every time you log into Windows, it's Steam in big picture
>this is hard for a linux fat

>>715626860
What is it with /v/ermin and their obsession with trannies?

>>715627874
gamescope sessions don't have any desktop environment underneath. it's not the same thing mate.
>>715627238
>I'm in too deep to change it.
changing mount points is literally just editing fstab.

>>715627238
Oh right, I use the gnome disk utility to do it. You can edit fstab from ti too.

>>715628076
>gamescope sessions don't have any desktop environment underneath. it's not the same thing mate.
That just means you can't switch back to small mode easily.

>>715604051 (OP)
I couldn't update endeavouros for a few weeks and now it's freaking out when I try to. I'm probably just gonna wipe and install mint or something