You will get there(although I haven’t heard great things about Fedora gaming). I made the switch November 2021 and I haven’t booted back into windows in about 9 months. I ended up picked EndeavourOS cause I wanted something Arch based to be as close to Steam Deck packages as possible(and I already prefer KDE Plasma, so picked that as well).
I still have my hiccups. I still can’t get SteamVR to work at all. I spent about 45 minutes yesterday troubleshooting why Outward stopped working, when all the protondb reviews say “it just works”. I did eventually get it working from a random suggestion from the arch forums to add PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 %command% to the steam launch commands and that fixed it. If I had to guess I think it’s something to do with my 1070Ti not playing nicely with the latest nvidia drivers. Also Epic made some sort of stupid update to FallGuys and I can no longer get it working for more one initial run per install. So that’s frustrating.
But I also love how much I know my system now. I love being able to update everything from one or two commands. I love pipewire for doing music recording stuff.(I fought for years on windows to try and cobble together something similar). I love having bash macros to easily download embedded videos and do quick ffmpeg conversions. Really, it definitely comes down to how I feel much more connected to this system than I ever did to a windows install.
Maybe I have been lucky but I have not had much issue installing linux and having it just work. the "After delving into a few resources, I managed to get the system up and running." in the article makes me wary of the distro. I expect them to just work at this point.
I’ve had a significantly better experience with EndeavourOS than I ever had with Nobara, or literally any other distro, and the list of them I’ve run through is pretty long. Nobara was good, and I’d be curious to see how its improved, but at this point I’m so happy with Endeavour that I don’t know when I’d ever get around to putting Nobara on bare metal again.
I’ve been working on my CLI skills and knowledge over the past year, and moving to an arch based system was a little confusing for me. Using yay, pacman, and git cloning were a little over my head after being used to apt and flatpak. After the first week, it all started to click, and now I’m fine, and I definitely feel more competent in the terminal, and no longer use any gui front ends for package management.
Mint and Pop had issues, steam would lag like crazy for the first five minutes after launch. Then after updating to the latest version of mint, steam stopped launching period. I’m sure it’s fixed by now, but that’s what drove me to jump ship, and it’s been the snappiest, cleanest experience I’ve had yet. I also love space, and the color purple, so it’s the first distro where I used their native theming and wallpapers, and shit it looks good.
The forum has also been a pleasant experience, the community is very friendly.
I second this, switched back to EndeavourOS after a brief stint with Nobara and I couldn’t be happier. I haven’t really found that solid OS I had been looking for until Endeavour, and I think everyone should give it a shot. They literally lay out everything you need to do after the install to get things up and running with their welcome tool.
Much of the post is the author reminiscing about how the community has changed over time, the author’s Steam library, whether we need to dual boot and how great KDE is. After scrubbing through it I have no idea what makes the distribution special and why I’d want to pick it over other options.
It’s basically Ubuntu for Fedora. Some QoL changes, but really it takes all the mess out of Fedora that you’d have to manually change up to get the best gaming experience. F38 is hot garbage out the box for gaming.
Agree with this, I have just built a new gaming box (first time in 10 years - wow stuff has changed!). Anyway, I daily drive Fedora on my laptop and just automatically put in on the new rig - it took a LOT of tweaking to get it right for gaming (working like a dream now). In hindsight Nobara sounds like it would have saved me a lot of time
This is a fair comment, perhaps I got lost in thought and didn’t really answer the question well enough. It’s special because despite the small issues, all the major needs were met more than the other distros I tried.
Switching to Linux mainly motivated by privacy, security, flexibility, and performance.
The writer also supports Linux as a community-driven alternative to large corporations.
The author views dual booting as beneficial for resale value, software gaps, and gaming compatibility.
The Linux installation used was Nobara, though it had its own challenges.
The writer’s extensive experience with Linux dates back to the late '90s.
The Linux community’s condescending and elitist attitudes are viewed as a drawback.
The writer chose Nobara Linux due to its functionality and fewer roadblocks compared to other distributions.
The performance and user experience of Nobara Linux is generally superior to Windows 11, though there are issues like Bluetooth lag and system freeze. Gaming on Steam is generally favorable, though there are minor issues with certain games.
KDE is praised for its functionality and features, especially KDE Connect for multimedia transfers. Minor issues with accessing certain file types and RGB lighting preferences are noted.
While I like secure boot and leave it enabled when possible, to be honest it only protects against a type of attack so elaborate its pretty much useless. Whenever its minorly inconvenient I just disable it without worry.
nobara is great! I am on arch now, but for a plug-and-play gaming system it works great. It really feels like a fedora gaming “spin” and honestly I think fedora should try to upstream changes into that kind of distro.
I agree. I enjoyed the Arch landscape and kind of thought that’s where I’d end up after the Steamdeck being so awesome. But It was just turning into too much time/work.
I used Ubuntu before Arch, and I would say the opposite is true. Ubuntu disabled all the repos you had to add just to get up to date software, and would often just fall over with every version update.
Anyone that wants to game on Linux should stay away from Ubuntu IMHO, unless you like playing old games and a system you cannot update without fear of having to reinstall the whole OS like Windows back in the day.
Debian is now amazing with gaming, with amd at least. I made the switch from arch, and have no issues with any game. Would recommend Debian with xfce all day long.
Recent Windows user who moved to Arch here. I was debating between Debian and Arch when I first migrated. What makes gaming easier on Debian? Less packages to install to get going?
I don’t know why so many are talking about Debian with distrobox I’m currently testing with bedrock Linux with a hijacked nobara for gaming and GNOME things. I also fetched a arch strata for anything else like window compositor waybar librewolf etc
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