Thread 717863779

linux gamers, what distro do you use and why? do any of them make a difference in performance?

this thread is gonna go as well as you expect it to

>>717863779 (OP)
I use Bazzite.
Gentoo has better performance if you compile everything for your specific hardware, Cachy has better performance if you have a newer CPU that its kernel modifications take advantage of.

everything is pozzed to some extent, but I settled for Xubuntu after dicking around with Arch and Debian for a bit on my own. there are marginal performance differences, but usually the ones with the newest kernel and Mesa are the ones with the best gaming performance. find a desktop environment you like and then go from there.

I unironically use Gentoo. Performs excellent but definitely not worth swapping to if you just want performance for obvious reasons.

Distros don't matter too much for general gaming performance other than whether it runs x11 or Wayland unless you're on some completely ass distro.

>>717863779 (OP)
Ubuntu, just because I can't be bothered troubleshooting stuff atm

>>717863779 (OP)
>do any of them make a difference in performance?
with bleeding edge hardware, you're possibly leaving some performance on the table using lts distros, since it's a while before they update the kernel. on the plus side, they're usually solid as fuck
i'm on ubuntu rolling

>>717863779 (OP)
I custom build my own distro from scratch

Windows 10.

>>717864247

>Windows
>Chad.jpg

delusional and brainwashed

I use fedora because I do not give a fuck about stupid shit

>>717863779 (OP)
using linux mint and it works fine, will probably change to arch at some point.

Mint.
it just werks.
>old games
heroic launcher + source ports + emulators
>new games
steam
>movies and anime
VLC player
>torrenting
Qbittorrent

linux vegan thread, highest market share in India

>>717865005
I am a windows user and I only eat tasty succulent juicy melanated man meat

>>717865005
i feel like this has been spammed alot recently whenever linux is mentioned

>>717865340
Linux is mentioned for the purpose of posting this

>>717865340
>things that agree with me: ORIGINAL CONTENT
>things that do not agree with me: SPAM SHILLS AI
GMS

>>717865005
Who's the Microsoft CEO?

>>717863779 (OP)
I use EndeavourOS.

>>717865823
who’s the IBM CEO, who own Red Hat and Fedora and contribute masses of code to Loonix?

>>717865946
I can't help but notice that you didn't answer the question

>>717865946
>red hat
ceo doesn't look very indian to me

>>717866142
I asked who the IBM CEO was, who own Red Hat. Very interesting how you are refusing to post him.

>>717866218
>still hasn't answered the original question

>>717866026
I can’t help but notice that you didn’t answer the question.

When did all of 4chan discourse swap from calling you a tranny to Indian?

Let’s see what the Linux Foundation is up to….

>>717866396
>STOP POINTING OUT I AM INDIAN SAAR

>>717866567
See this is what I mean, you used to make some post about dilating or whatever.

>>717866396
When it got proven that the US government is ran by a satanic pedo ring.

>>717866218
>>717866329
interesting how an indian ceo suddenly makes the both companies that are HQ'd in the US, indian

>>717866660
> suddenly makes the both
sir….

>>717866637
dial 8, saar

Do you think it's Indians pretending other people are Indian when posting?

>Microsoft release window 12
>suddenly /v/ love window 11
cant wait

>>717863779 (OP)
> what distro do you use and why?
Manjaro
>It works
>It is a rolling distro, which is easier/faster for AMD GPU driver updates
>All third party software has packages in AUR: proton mail, calibre, makemkv, master pdf editor, brother printer drivers, filebot, beycond compare
>Steam OS is Arch based
>Offers Zen kernel
The only think I don't like is zsh is the default instead of bash in Konsole, which I can change easily and just did.

> do any of them make a difference in performance?
Rolling Distros have AMD driver updates sooner
If you have a newer CPU, some distros provide libraries compiled with modern CPU optimization flags.
Some distros offer or include the Zen kernel, which improves latency and better CPU scheduling for smoother and more consistent gaming performance.
I wouldnt worry about that if you are new, you might overload yourself.

>>717863779 (OP)
SteamOS.
it came on my 'eck and just works.

>>717863779 (OP)
Why are there 1000s distros? what happened to the original linux? I remember my local library had linux on their computers in the early 00s. what distro was it running?

>>717863779 (OP)
WHERE THE FUCK IS MINT?

>>717870147
omfg it's black im retarded

The Linux gaming thread on /vg/ is dead again, but there's a new Linux gaming thread almost every time I look at /v/ (and this time, two of them). Sad but not surprising. The general isn't as exciting because the Windows fan club leaves it alone and there's no retard drama.
When you guys in the latest wave of new Linux users finally realize that there's no point in advertising Linux to people who have no interest in it, maybe we can have a general that stays alive on weekdays. Until then, I guess there's no rule against a weekend-only general. I'll make a new one myself if I don't see one on Friday.

>>717870047
There aren't 1000s. There are basically 3 major ones -Fedora, Arch and Debian. Almost everything else is built on those.

>>717865340
It's the same mentally ill tendie that posts it every time. You can tell it's that guy because he always uses the term vegan.

>>717865340
It's almost as if half of /v/ are dedicated schizos that spam about whatever highly specific topic they have a special interest in.

>>717865340
>i feel like
No need for that, its posted in literally every linux thread even though it is meaningless.

>>717863779 (OP)
NixOS, because I'm a masochist
But once I solve whatever problem I have at the time I feel like a god.

>>717871373
>VOD
lol.
1. What does that image have to do with anything?
2. Why is half the current population of this braindead board exclusively using video thumbnails as images?

>>717872116
>1. What does that image have to do with anything?
She's a sadist
>2. Why is half the current population of this braindead board exclusively using video thumbnails as images?
Google image search sucks and most of us are too lazy to find that PERFECT image for an ephemeral shitpost.
Needed sadist video game girl and got a sadist video game girl..you seem to be the only one autistic about it.

>>717872325
>doesn't save pictures of things he likes

>>717872325
All right. I don't know the character because my only knowledge of the game is that I ignored a lot of theads about it when it was flavor of the week, so I didn't get the reference. Thanks.

>>717863779 (OP)
I used NixOS but the fact that shit kept breaking (or some applications not working fully), made me go back to Arch

>>717870047
>what distro was it running
probably debian, it's one of the oldest distros and was made to "just work"

>>717872605
>Implying I like her.
Haven't played the game yet. Im generally weary of popular thing when it's popular. Will probably play it around October due to it being spooky.

>>717863779 (OP)
EndeavourOS because it has yay

No and it don't matter because i only play old shit.

Only use linux if you're on AMD video like me.

>>717863779 (OP)
Gentoo. Arch Linux, for more difficult programs.

>>717873005
So you don't even play video games?

>>717873170
>You haven't played this one game yet, so you must not play any video games at all
If you refer to >>717871373 just getting certain things to work is a game in itself. Sometimes you need to package software like certain mod managers yourself, because it doesn't work like a normal distro.
But also yes. I do play games. Playing through square enix backlog right now. Got done with kingdom hearts, now playing through ff15, might play through ff16 afterwards, unless I feel like playing something else.

I like setting up my shit and not having to fuck with it.

>>717863964
You can just install the cachyos stuff on gentoo by using the cachyos overlay

>>717873009

Outdated info.

Is AMD preferred? Yes. Is NVIDIA anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be on Linux? No, and it hasn't been in 5 or so years.

>>717874335
Linux threads on /v/ are nothing but outdated info.

>>717874335
Nvidia has always been shit on Linux. It was just that AMD was so much worse. fglrx was a nightmare

>>717874609
It is also true that Nvidia has become better than it used to be. Their own team is actually working with freedesktop.org(or really freedesktop is meeting them halfway on Nvidias needs).
The open source vulkan driver nvk is seeing fast development, in a few more years, people may prefer the open source driver for gaming over the official driver like they do with amd today.