sgtgig , 1 month ago

A couple people recommended Fedora spins but I’d recommend just sticking with the big distros (that have up-to-date graphics drivers readily available - so not Debian.) A lot of the gaming-focused distros are only saving you a few terminal commands and increase your risk of running into issues; they’re good, but they may not be as 100% stable as you’ll find in major long-running distros like Fedora or Mint.

I have settled on Fedora with KDE Plasma. Here’s basically everything I copy pasted for gaming:

<span style="color:#323232;"># install steam, discord, nvidia drivers
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm -y
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo dnf config-manager --enable fedora-cisco-openh264 -y
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo dnf update -y
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo dnf install steam discord akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># install bluetooth Xbox driver
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo dnf install git dkms
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cd /tmp
</span><span style="color:#323232;">git clone https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo.git && cd xpadneo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo ./install.sh
</span>

I also had to enable Legacy X11 App Support through the settings gui so that Discord could receive push to talk presses without having focus.