Stating your experience level and distros that you’re interested in would be helpful, but in lieu of that, here’s my recommendation.
Make a windows restore USB, so you can restore your system if either of these distros don’t seem to work out for you.
First, try Linux Mint. Install it, try to exist in it for a while and see if all of your hardware functions the way it should. Learn some stuff. Mint makes it easy for the most part. Drivers are simple and everything can be done in the GUI.
If Mint has hardware issues, try endeavourOS. It’s a rolling release, running on a fresher version of the kernel, with possibly better support for your hardware. It’s a bit more command line focused. Keep it simple. Update weekly using yay, and see how it goes.
If neither works for you, break out that windows USB and go back to the drawing board, or keep digging. Linux is a less intimidating experience than it used to be, but it still generally requires an active learner who wants to solve problems as they arise and learn more about Linux in the process.
Not sure I follow actually. DO mean have like a comments system underneath the video? Not sure how that’d work when folks go online and offline constantly.
Gabe, Owncast dev, is working on clips and highlights of streams, so maybe he could have comments there if that’s what you’re referring to?
You could try adding the __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATION=1 environment variable to the custom launch options, it improved performance and lessened bugyness for me.
You could also try to run the launcher with software rendering^1^ by editing ~/.paradoxlauncher/launcher-v2.2024.1/Paradox Launcher (you might have to change the version). Try adding –disable-gpu in the last line, between –no-sandbox and “$@”
You could also try disabling gamemoderun. It hasn’t really improved performance in my experience, but has caused some bugs for me. It also muddies the logs.
And proprietary Valve stuff sprinkled on top. So you’re not going to be able to just pull in Arch images and expect it to work, it’s a separate thing based on the same source tools, not just a couple packages on top of stock Arch.
I think WINE recommend an up to date distro due to rapidly changing stuff needing up to date software and kernel. I think Debian wouldn’t be great for that. I’d personally recommend OpenSuse. Rolling, up to date and great with KDE. Good luck.
Here’s the thing: some distros are aimed at gamers and have some useful gaming stuff in their default setup. But at the end of the day, if you’re comfortable installing stuff on your own, you can game on any Linux distro. It frankly doesn’t matter.
So, yes, if you want to game on Debian because you can avoid bloat, by all means do it.
Suddenly I want to see a super smash bros knockoff where all the playable characters are public domain, and every January 1st they release an update with new characters that lost copyright protection in the past year.
While some people have been falsely banned on Apex in the past, it’s become much more rare and a lot of people were able to get unbanned by going through the proper channels.
I’m no help here, but I have been thinking strongly of converting an old windows box to Linux gaming with steam, so I’m hoping someone can help OP and I can pretroubleshoot my own transition. Steam has their own debian-based OS, right? I was planning on falling back to that if proton didn’t work
I don’t know if they support the OG Steam OS anymore, and if they do, it’s not going to be a good experience for regular desktop use. Steam Deck is Arch based, and I think there’s where their efforts are going these days.
That said, if you want something with a nice out of the box experience for gaming, consider Nobara Linux. It’s based on Fedora and maintained by the person who does the Proton-GE releases (Glorious Eggroll), which have fixed that aren’t in the official Steam Proton releases (e.g. fixes for specific games that haven’t landed yet). It should be a pretty good experience.
However, just installing Mint Debian edition should work fine, you’ll just need to make sure you get the right drivers and that’s about it.
Unless you’re trying to play multiplayer games with incompatible anticheat you’ll most likely be just fine. There are obviously edge cases, like OP, where something is just not working right, but I gamed on Linux for hundreds of hours last year with basically no issues at all.
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