If that’s the case I’ll probably just use a keyboard, I was under the impression the analog sticks were helpful for some of the boss fights but if they’re just mapped to keys then I won’t have analog control anyway
I think if you're coming from Windows, the closest thing to a Windows experience imo is Ubuntu. You can opt in to pre-release updates which is good for gaming as others have said. Also, basically everything can be done via GUI in Ubuntu while you learn to get comfortable with the terminal.
Sparse for the (two decade old) i915 driver is fine if you only need x86-64 support which would probably be most of us. Other architectures that could use the new Xe driver for DG2 (Alchemist) still wont have HUC (“for AVC/HEVC/VP9/AV1 low power encoding bitrate control, including CBR, VBR, etc encoding”) right? gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/…/234
Intel kinda backed itself into a smelly corner with its consumer GPU card debut. A year in and it’s still quite a mess.
If you have an AMD GPU: Pretty much any distro that would come up in any “best linux distro of 2023” video.
If you have an nVidia GPU: Ubuntu or Linux Mint (or probably any debian based distro?). You are going to want to make sure you use the proprietary drivers from nVidia, not the nouveau drivers. I suggest Ubuntu and Mint because they have a nice GUI to handle this and you don’t have to run any extra steps. If you don’t mind a bit more work, Fedora and its derivatives is really seamless and, honestly, seems less likely to break whenever you do update those drivers.
If you have an Intel GPU: I am so sorry.
In all cases? You are probably playing most of your games through Steam and Proton. So Steam itself handles almost all issues outside of drivers. There are ideological (and, to a limited degree, technical) reasons to prefer one distro over another. But Steam/Proton really makes most of that irrelevant for gaming use. If you have other uses (beyond browsing the internet and whatever) then you may need to do more research. But, for gaming, your big issue is the proprietary drivers (if you need them).
If you have mouse acceleration on KDE when selecting the "flat" profile then
you're accidentally running Plasma as an X11 session and suffer from a libinput issue, or
your mouse has an internal acceleration profile that can be disabled using the manufacturer's Windows-only software (or some enthusiast project on Github), Logitech mice often have this feature
I was setting the acceleration method for the wrong device all the time. I didn’t realize to select the actual mouse from the dropdown in KDE mouse settings until I plugged in my old mouse in.
Anyway that’s the acceleration solved. Also as qwesx pointed out, there is some issue with my Logitech Pro X Superlight. The mouse feels more sluggish when using the wireless dongle compared to it being wired. Must be the wrong polling rate or something?
The mouse feels more sluggish when using the wireless dongle compared to it being wired.
You have to set the profile for both wired and wireless mode since they’re different USB IDs. Dealt with the same thing on the same mouse. Same thing with Solaar if you use it to set the polling rate.
Little something from me: I’m using Arch Linux (linux-zen) with KDE and AMD GPU and for now it’s the best experience i had with linux distributions. Everything works so good, with obviously some configurations and etc. Already played Minecraft or Red Dead Redemption 2 with no problems and also i felt in love with pacman.
I was using Manjaro, Ubuntu, Mint but finally ended up on Arch. Maybe i will give a shot to Fedora or openSUSE in a future :D
I’ve used a couple different distros in my time on Linux (Debian, fedora, arch, artix, gentoo) and I could never tell the difference between the performance.
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