Depending on the games you wanna play it’s probably safer to be somewhat closer to the bleeding edge than Debian would allow you to be. Nobara gets recommended so often because you get a good tradeoff between the newest updates and stability. Also KDE is their standard DE. PopOS is good if you wanna stay with apt, but comes with Gnome out of the box.
As others have said use the Pop_OS! Nvidia ISO. Nvidia drivers are just problematic on Linux. There’s a good chance your games will just work with that OS. It’s also based off Ubuntu, so it has access to the same software repositories.
There are still a lot of games that don’t work for me, even with Proton on Steam. Lutris has just straight up never worked for anything. Managed to get some going with the Heroic Games launcher, but not all. I think it’s either a DirectX problem or something with the drivers. I’m not nearly techie enough to know how to even approach solving the problem, just maybe identifying it. I hope you figure it out so we can all get to playing our favorite games.
The display I bought a few years ago doesn’t support HDR because I didn’t think it’d be supported so soon. The Steam Deck and the money put into developing the Linux desktop was really unexpected to me.
Nah, it’s fine for just gaming, provided the games you want work fine. If you mostly play SP games, you’ll probably be fine, but if you play MP, check first.
That said, I would probably just get a console if I only used my PC for gaming. But I use it for a lot of other stuff, and I find Windows gets in the way. YMMV though, depending on what you need your computer to do.
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