You can use pretty much any keyboard but I would recommended a keyboard that is not by a major company that has its own property software
I have a corsair k55 and the extra keys on the left they are useless because if your plug this keyboard into a PC that hasn’t corsairs icue installed it goes into " compatibility mode " aka the keyboard forgets your custom settings and keybinds
I haven’t tried Nobara, but I did use Fedora for a year or so and decided it wasn’t for me. My main complaint was how long release upgrades seemed to take. This was back when fedup was a thing (I think Fedora 17? Maybe DNF fixed that), and it took almost an hour just to do a release upgrade, which was 2-3x longer than a fresh install. I used Ubuntu before that and left for the same reason, but also because Ubuntu seemed to break something each major release.
So I switched to Arch, which worked much better imo and I used it for about 5 years. I got tired of periodic breakage (i.e. manual intervention every few months) but still wanted to keep the rolling release cycle, so I switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed. Breakage mostly went away, except for the odd NVIDIA driver screwup, but ever since moving to an AMD GPU things have been smooth. I’ve been on openSUSE Tumbleweed for a few years now and it’s still working well. You could very well have the opposite experience as me.
So I guess what I’m saying is, find something that works for you. Maybe that’s Nobara, maybe it’s Ubuntu, or maybe it’s something like Nix or Gentoo. Regardless, keep trying stuff until you find the right fit.
I don’t know about this specific Fedora situation, but you should really be using something like Lutris or Bottles to create individual prefixes for each game and use downloadable Wine versions to launch the games instead of your system Wine. That will avoid situations like this in the future.
Agreed. I use Lutris on 37, and play a bunch of stuff with no issues. Took me too long to figure out how to use the Lutris posts, but it’s been smooth sailing ever since.
You don’t need to install it with Lutris per se - as long as the files are already “installed” somewhere on your drive you can set it up in Lutris as a locally-installed game and just use Lutris as a Wine prefix manager. This is largely how I use Lutris - I don’t tend to use their installer scripts because I tend to already know how I want the install to go.
I understand that the 8.12 version of Wine is buggy, but by using a manager like Lutris or Bottles you’re able to use any Wine version you want in order to run the game, and you could just pick a different Wine version from the list without messing with your system Wine installation. If you don’t have time to mess with learning Lutris or Bottles right now that’s fair, but they’re generally a much better solution for this sort of problem, for now and for the future.
Much of the post is the author reminiscing about how the community has changed over time, the author’s Steam library, whether we need to dual boot and how great KDE is. After scrubbing through it I have no idea what makes the distribution special and why I’d want to pick it over other options.
It’s basically Ubuntu for Fedora. Some QoL changes, but really it takes all the mess out of Fedora that you’d have to manually change up to get the best gaming experience. F38 is hot garbage out the box for gaming.
Agree with this, I have just built a new gaming box (first time in 10 years - wow stuff has changed!). Anyway, I daily drive Fedora on my laptop and just automatically put in on the new rig - it took a LOT of tweaking to get it right for gaming (working like a dream now). In hindsight Nobara sounds like it would have saved me a lot of time
This is a fair comment, perhaps I got lost in thought and didn’t really answer the question well enough. It’s special because despite the small issues, all the major needs were met more than the other distros I tried.
Switching to Linux mainly motivated by privacy, security, flexibility, and performance.
The writer also supports Linux as a community-driven alternative to large corporations.
The author views dual booting as beneficial for resale value, software gaps, and gaming compatibility.
The Linux installation used was Nobara, though it had its own challenges.
The writer’s extensive experience with Linux dates back to the late '90s.
The Linux community’s condescending and elitist attitudes are viewed as a drawback.
The writer chose Nobara Linux due to its functionality and fewer roadblocks compared to other distributions.
The performance and user experience of Nobara Linux is generally superior to Windows 11, though there are issues like Bluetooth lag and system freeze. Gaming on Steam is generally favorable, though there are minor issues with certain games.
KDE is praised for its functionality and features, especially KDE Connect for multimedia transfers. Minor issues with accessing certain file types and RGB lighting preferences are noted.
While I like secure boot and leave it enabled when possible, to be honest it only protects against a type of attack so elaborate its pretty much useless. Whenever its minorly inconvenient I just disable it without worry.
I used Ubuntu before Arch, and I would say the opposite is true. Ubuntu disabled all the repos you had to add just to get up to date software, and would often just fall over with every version update.
Anyone that wants to game on Linux should stay away from Ubuntu IMHO, unless you like playing old games and a system you cannot update without fear of having to reinstall the whole OS like Windows back in the day.
Debian is now amazing with gaming, with amd at least. I made the switch from arch, and have no issues with any game. Would recommend Debian with xfce all day long.
Recent Windows user who moved to Arch here. I was debating between Debian and Arch when I first migrated. What makes gaming easier on Debian? Less packages to install to get going?
Haven't been around Linux overall for long, with my first proper introduction around early 2021. But from what I hear and read, plus my own observations in those past 2.5 years, even if, most of the time, it's not "ideal" (as in, "plug and play"), Linux as a whole seems to be getting better and better for gaming. And ever since behemoth Valve came with the Linux-powered Steam Deck, I expect it to help increase Linux's naturally-slow-but-constant momentum even more.
I’ve trialed Pop_OS for a month when Valve released proton. I played Sekiro the first week of release and was blown away how well it runs back then. That said, there were a lot of quirks that made games still broken, and there are definitely still some, but the improvement since then is absolutely massive.
As someone who has dabbled in and used Linux since 1995. You are in at a good time. Linux has always been very stable and capable for most things. But it has definitely gotten much better in recent years in terms of gaming and windows compatibility. I still keep a Windows system or two around just in case. But I’m much happier with my daily driver being a system running linux.
It’s gotten really sad with Microsoft not supporting ~5 year old systems under Windows 11. Apple at least still supports roughly 10 year old systems. I had to laugh a bit about the controversy when the subject was broached of removing support for 486 and older 32-bit systems from the Linux kernel. Those being roughly 30 years old by this point.
And besides the discussion that brought the controversy, from what I can gather, Linux benefits the most from KVM, making using a virtual machine with some super old Linux system in it very viable. ^_^
Well yes and no. Some things you absolutely can do that with. But not a lot of people realize just how common it is for industrial devices and applications to still use older chipsets. 486s and pentiums still in use today. Simply because by modern standards they are relatively low power tried and tested basic designs. And when you need a discreet portable device. Virtualization often isn’t really useful. One could argue why don’t they make a wireless dumb terminal of some sort tie back to a central system with a bear minimal system on it just for displaying information. But in noisy industrial environments that really isn’t an option. I do see some vendors Etc starting to use Android based devices. But it’s a slow change over. And only just starting.
I liked the look of this project but I can not make it run on Wayland. I use Nvidia-Hyprland Arch Linux and it does not seem to want to start for me and its seems a couple of others as well. I hope this gets patched and when it does I’ll definitely play it.
Went to look up Cubeworld again. Oh wow it released on Steam? First comment says don’t play it and play Veloren instead. Thanks OP, maybe I can finally stop having the Cubeworld brain worms.
Looks super interesting! I read the inspiration but is it a survival game at its core? Possible to play creative like Minecraft? Thanks in advance! Hope to have the time to try it down the road!
I don’t use Sid, but testing, it’s working almost flawlessly. Each release (once every 2 years, I guess), I take few hours to check everything work; remove shader cache, etc.
My setup, right now (dirty, for authenticity) :
<span style="color:#323232;">$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb-src https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># bullseye-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># add by me
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">*
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics:/darktable/Debian_Testing/ /
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">[</span><span style="color:#323232;">signed</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">-</span><span style="color:#323232;">by=/etc/apt/keyrings/lutris.gpg</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">]</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_Testing/ ./
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># Uncomment these lines to try the beta version of the Steam launcher
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">#deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ beta steam
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">#deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ beta steam
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">[</span><span style="color:#323232;">arch=amd64,i386</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">]</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb-src </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">[</span><span style="color:#323232;">arch=amd64,i386</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">]</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># Uncomment these lines to try the beta version of the Steam launcher
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># deb [arch=amd64,i386] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ beta steam
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ beta steam
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">[</span><span style="color:#323232;">arch=amd64,i386 signed</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">-</span><span style="color:#323232;">by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">]</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb-src </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">[</span><span style="color:#323232;">arch=amd64,i386 signed</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">-</span><span style="color:#323232;">by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">]</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
</span><span style="color:#323232;">deb </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">[</span><span style="color:#323232;"> signed</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">-</span><span style="color:#323232;">by=/usr/share/keyrings/vscodium</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">-</span><span style="color:#323232;">archive</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">-</span><span style="color:#323232;">keyring.gpg </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">]</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://download.vscodium.com/debs/ vscodium main
</span>
I play a lot, we just played Grounded with friend yesterday.
Instead of relying on testing directly, consider using named releases (in this case, trixie for testing). Then stay on the official release for a couple months as testing stabilizes and then go to the next testing release.
I did that in the past and it worked really well. Testing gets a lot of churn right after a release as packages get rapidly upgraded, so I find it’s usually better to wait a bit.
Testing goes stabler and stabler with time. Then testing move to release and the previous untesting (sid) move to testing. It’s a that moment that you can have surprise. This is the moment where I often wait one month or two, apply the updates and check my os is working as before, meaning running my day to day applications and game and see if things work. The only problem I had once was shader cache. I removed few things in .cache and I was good.
I do my gaming on Bookworm with a handful of extras, and it works very well.
There is a certain group of people who insist that only the distros with the latest packages are good for gaming. Those people are wrong in most cases.
Unless you have a very new GPU (released less than a year ago), your games are not likely to get any benefit from the latest kernel.
Unless your games require the very latest Vulkan features and you run them without Steam, Flatpak, or any other platform that provides its own Mesa, you’re not likely to get any benefit from a distro providing the latest version of it.
Practically everything else that games need is comparable across all the major distros, so choose one that makes you happy, not one that some shill claims is best for gaming. Even Debian Stable, contrary to the undeserved bashing it often gets by a certain kind of gamer, is generally excellent for gaming.
This is encouraging. I do have somewhat older hardware but you are right. Even updating the kernel for update sake in other distros don’t seem to bring me visible value other than just updating to the lasers available.
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