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Is PopOS the best for easy gaming?

Hey folks!

Thinking of switching back to Linux. I was running PopOS about 1.5 years ago and was pretty happy with the gaming aspect of things, but I was playing a lot of VALORANT back then, and I got sick of dual booting. That is less the case now, so I would like to try going back to Linux for the majority of my gaming / streaming setup, and just use Windows for the handful of games like Destiny 2 that won’t run on Linux.

I am fairly new to Linux. Don’t mind learning some terminal stuff, but I am basically a noob so it does need to be pretty easy to start with. Got a NVIDIA 3080 and AMD CPU if that matters at all.

Recommend me a distro please fellow penguin gamers.

Cathasach ,

I use Endeavour. It’s not necessarily easy and not necessarily hard but there’s a Calamares installer and the website has really good instructional articles and forums. Comes with Dracut now which is super fast compared to mkinitcpio. Everything runs great for me and I have similar hardware (same GPU, AMD 7800X3D proc). Tbh I would just recommend rolling release for gaming.

teruma ,

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not install SteamOS?

asexualchangeling ,

Put simply, currently Steam OS doesn’t have the hardware support of your average distro

teruma ,

The posted install instructions say its just Debian. I would assume it would have Debian’s hardware support?

asexualchangeling ,

Ahhhhh, so not SteamOS 3, an older version

Modern SteamOS is based on Arch

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