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Let’s gooooo!!!
P.S. is PopOS! still the popular choice for desktop gaming? Looking for a more permanent alternative to Windows. I’m currently leaning toward openSUSE + Plasma 6, since I’ve fallen out of love with Ubuntu/Canonical pretty hard. I know Pop is Ubuntu-based, but… I’d rather not have to build up from something like Arch.
Like others have said, use fedora. But use the nobara flavour of fedora, as its built from the ground up for gaming and fixes a lot of tricky edge cases before mainline does.
If you want arch but you have live (/jk) you can just use endeavorOS. It is Arch but with an easy installer that even sets up yay, so afterwards you can just write „yay [desired pakage]“ to install stuff
You have to enable firewall for each service (each port on which your pc is reachable) and I recommend systemd-manager to have a easy overview on which deamons are running.
Ah, yea, if you want NVIDIA driver, you can use nvidia-inst and to switch back to nouveau, use nvidia-inst -n
Pop!_OS was pretty good for two reasons:
But, the Linux landscape is always on the move. And while the engineers behind Pop!_OS have put their hearts and souls into COSMIC (a new Desktop Environment), the current available version of Pop!_OS has seen only relatively timid changes. Thus, it has become less competitive over time.
For example, over the past two years, distros have erupted that come with built-in Nvidia drivers (pre-installed).
So, Pop!_OS has gone slightly out of favor. But, if you liked what you had back then, then it's still perfectly reasonable to continue using it.
But..., if you're actually interested in the latest and greatest Linux for desktop gaming, then we'd have to mention the following:
Honorable mentions:
I got tired of the Ubuntu crap, and was delighted to find that plain Debian stable is fantastic now.
Unless you have nvidia and/or really new hardware, pretty much any distros works fine for gaming - I very comfortably use mint. But if that is the case, you'll probably want something more up to date like arch. Idk enough about opensuse to make any assertions about it though, so use your best judgement.
Use Fedora: easy to install drivers, easy distro, most things set up, not too much much bloat
If you want something more gaming oriented but still very desktop capable use Nobara
If you want the console experience on pc use Chimera OS
Pop is great for gaming, especially for Nvidia cards.
I'm running OpenSUSE and am very pleased. I even put it on my Steam Deck.
Only gripe I have with OpenSUSE is that it has very conservative defaults, opting for security first. So you will have to add your user to all sorts of groups manually to get everything going.
Check out Nobara
https://nobaraproject.org/
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Fedora you say?
Yup sorry had a bug with my lemmy client (voyager)
Funny because I use voyager and Fedora as well