I had a look on this and unfortunately, only comparable AMDs (RX 7600) exist in that size. I wish I could do an upgrade with my next card, but since I want to switch to a tiny “portable” PC case, I am limited to small GPUs. That’s why I’d like to try it first with the GPU I am currently runnning on (actually the only part I want to reuse from my current build, lol)
Yes. AMDs usually work out of the box in Linux and provide the full performance a card is capable of. Even though I run Linux, I haven’t gamed for a while now. This community might be able to present their personal experience with particular models.
I liked Manjaro, but when stuff broke it broke in weird fuckin’ ways. My last attempt with it ended when I tried to do some gamedev in Godot and Manjaro started registering my laptop’s mousepad input as a joystick 😭
Can you run the game from the terminal so you can see any error messages that are popping up? To do that, exit steam and run steam steam://rungamebyid/1817230
I'm assuming you're talking about this game which has an App ID of 1817230. If it's a different version of that game, find it on steamdb and use the App ID from the correct game.
Can confirm, been using it for a few months now and it had been the best experience so far. Steam and discord installable on rhe welcome app and even some common steam game fixes.
endeavourOS kde is gorgeous and by far the most stable and ready-out-of-the-box arch version i’ve tried.
also the eos-packagelist --install [desktop environment] command lets you install the other endeavourOS themed DEs or WMs just like the distro installer does so you don’t have to reinstall or work on themes yourself if you want to change after install.
pipewire is also ready to go and i think it uses some kind of realtime thing, but i’m using the default kernel so i don’t know that it’s a low latency kernel level thing by default.
games have also been top notch for me, the only tweaking i’ve done is adding -vulkan launch options to steam games.
overall i highly recommend it. i’m using kde but tried cinnamon, i3, and sway (though community editions like sway are going unsupported soon) and they are all similarly well-themed.
I use endeavour os. Is arch made easy, while still being arch. It fills your needs, you can install any DE you like (kde myself) and a zen kernel with basically one command line. Also for nvidia if you go that way you just do “nvidia-inst” and are good to go. Another nice one that checks those boxes is nobara, a fedora spin focused on gaming.
Honestly the best way to find if a distro will work for you is to just give it a go.
Theres this cool project called ventoy where you can load mutiple isos onto one usb drive to use and install diffrent distributions. Its really neat.https://ventoy.net/en/index.html
Using this, take your top 3 choices or so, load em up and take em for a spin. See what you like best.
Someone already mentioned Pop_OS which is a good option. I really like the look of KDE personally and think its nice and modern looking so a distribution like kubuntu like another comment mentioned is also good. Ubuntu is fairly user friendly having used it myself as a new linux user but i just dont like the look of gnome.
Im planning on using Fedora KDE as my main distro moving forward as it seems stable and up to date for the most part.
All that said, it really is just a matter of personal preference. Try out a bunch of stuff and see what you like. Thats what i did until i landed on fedora.
Ah well…Just posted it and figured out. Launching lutris from console you can see all the errors its throwing easily. It was failing to find libgstreamer modules (libgstreamer itself was installed). Basically, using a Lutris-GE instead of a non-GE helped fix the issue.
I’m a big Pop!_OS fan. Based on Ubuntu so great for following guides and comparability. But no Snap, Flatpak is installed, the OS looks fantastic and runs smooth and gaming on it has been great.
+1 for Pop_OS. They also have a version with Nvidia driver support out of the box. Their UI is also a fantastic edited version of GNOME, so it’s sleek and easy to use
I thought Ubuntu was the best distro to get started as a gamer but it required so much tinkering. Pop like mentioned had Nvidia installed and with flatpak integration it just made everything honestly fun again
Another happy pop user here! The business model for system76 is basically to make a distro that works seamlessly on the hardware they sell. Side benefit: their distro also works seamlessly on a bunch of other modern hardware, and they pay a lot of attention to quality of life features that make hardware customers happy.
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