Are you sure you can use a controller on this game without any other setup? Steam does not have controller support listed on the store page. It’s been a very long time since I touched undertale but it didn’t have controller support before IIRC.
As a new Linux user coming from Windows I’d recommend Mint. If you have very new hardware and want better support go for something like Endeavor, openSUSE tumbleweed, or Nobara/Fedora KDE. Almost any distro with exceptions like Alpine and Qubes will probably be more or less OK.
I love to use cachyos for gaming because it is based on arch linux which is light, it is not a bloated distro and because of the BORE enhanced kernel which boosts performance.
Probably anyone that keeps updating a little to get mesa and nvidia updates frequently, even if you use testing or unstable should be great if you install steam from flatpak.
You only have to jump into arch or steamOS if you want to use literally the latest features of mesa driver (but you don’t have to for 99.9999% of the games) so just pick the one that you like and if it is more stable distro, install steam via flatpak.
I use endevourOS cause I’m maniac with updates, I like to use latest stuff everywhere, but uou should not have any issue with Mint, PopOS. Debian stable could stay on older graphics driver for longer andcan be a problem, but you can just switch to testing or unstable branches.
Most regular distros are good enough for gaming. The only issue you’re likely to run into is with graphics drivers (I recommend going for AMD graphics on that build), and the availability of certain software in certain formats (gaming software is more likely to be available for Debian or Ubuntu based distros).
If you like the Steam Deck’s desktop mode, you might enjoy another distro with the same desktop environment (KDE Plasma). I’m partial to KDE Neon, a snappy Ubuntu LTS spin with all of the latest KDE software.
I use Arch through EndeavourOS. It takes a bit of setup but it’ll do what you need. It can get complicated and it easily breaks, but that’s what you get when you go cutting edge with Arch.
Alternatively you can look at pre-configured gaming distros like Nobara which I believe is based on Fedora, which is a very well supported distro in general. Nobara’s stated goal is to be a streamlined distro for point-and-click users that includes 3rd party drivers off the rip.
That’s cool! Do you know about any similar solution for KDE Plasma/Kwin by any chance? Also, would it be theoretically possible to save the process to some kind of swapfile on disk so it doesn’t take up space in RAM?
Afaik saving to swap isn’t possible as it’s something managed by the kernel, although you can try tweaking cgroups. Nyrna also mentions that this isn’t currently possible.
No, it uses hyprctl to get the pid of the current active window. Which compositor are you using? It might be possible to get the pid in a different way.
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