That game once crashed my system to busybox. Are you running it on steam? if yes then verify local files and if that doesnt work then go to properties then go to compatibility and check the “force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool” button. this will re download the game but the windows version and run it through a proton version of your choice.
Personally, I feel like any distro works for gaming these days, especially since you have an Nvidia card and don’t need to stay super up to date with kernel and Mesa. My advice is to go with whatever distro suits your daily needs, not just gaming. As long as it isn’t some super stable enterprise-centric distro like RHEL or Debian stable, you’ll be fine.
No, I was just saying that with Nvidia, the need for the latest Mesa and kernel is lessened somewhat since you’ll most likely be using the proprietary drivers instead. With AMD, its pretty important to be on the latest Mesa and latest kernel, especially for newer AMD GPUs. On Ubuntu, this usually means adding a bunch of additional PPAs, whereas on other distros like Fedora and Arch, those driver updates just come through the regular system updates.
On the subject of AMD vs Nvidia in general, it really depends on your usecase. I feel like a lot of Linux users on Reddit and the Fediverse are really biased towards AMD while being blind to the cons of owning an AMD card. It basically boils down to:
AMD Pros
Better performance / dollar (for rasterized graphics only)
Wayland
FOSS drivers that work out of the box
Better support for hardware video acceleration in browsers.
Nvidia Pros
Much better raytracing performance
DLSS
CUDA / Optix
Better video decoder and encoders (when they’re supported by the software you use at least)
Better support for compute and AI workloads
Better day one support for new hardware and usually adopts Vulkan extensions faster
Corporate loyalty is stupid and should be left on Reddit. Make your own decision based on your personal needs. Anecdotally, I own both AMD (Vega 7 and Radeon 680M) and Nvidia (RTX 3090) hardware. AMD tends to be less stable in my experience, but I know others have experienced the opposite.
Gnome on my desktop and laptop. I use xfce when working in a vm, because it’s a bit lighter (I usually just need a terminal + text editor). I prefer gnome for regular use.
No DE. Currently on DWL, but I’ve used Hyprland, River, Sway, Qtile, SperctWM, BSPWM, XMonad and Awesome (from most recently configured, to the first one I ever used) . I have used both GNOME and KDE at times where I didn’t have anything else on the system yet, I’ve used Cinnamon full time in the beginning, and I use a lot of XFCE apps as a part of my setup, notable examples being Thunar and Ristretto (and I used to use xfce4-screenshooter).
My wife actually loves playing KPatience! I’ve tried to get her on to slightly more meaty games but sometimes it’s the simple ones that win people over :-)
My GF is addicted to some mobile crossword puzzle game, and Wordle, but tells me video games are lame and thinks I waste my time with TESO and Fallout.
I keep going back and forth between KDE and Gnome. KDE is great on my desktop where I always have a mouse plugged in, but on my laptop I really like the workflow and gestures that Gnome on Wayland has.
Most games run in Linux these days. It’s especially easy if you have your game in steam and enable proton in settings. As for a favourite. That’s hard to say. I have accumulated so many games over the years, I can’t name a favourite. I played a lot of overwatch before they messed it up with the f2p patch. Otherwise, I’ve been playing some rimworld lately and some don’t starve together. Edit: It just struck me. Underrail is a game I could count to my all time favorites.
I’ve been struggling trying to get ALVR working on POP_OS 22.04 with a quest 2 and a 3080 for about 12 hours now over the course of a few days. Still getting various errors and it essentially just disconnects and reconnects constantly. I did get it working momentarily (into the steamvr home) using the linux beta of steamvr but it was bugged out anyways and I have been unable to replicate it since.
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