I use KDE Neon on my laptop and I’d prefer to have KDE as a DE on this one too (if possible) but I don’t mind a non Ubuntu base. Basically I’d just like to be able to play games on it without much hassle but I know how to paste commands into the terminal if the need arises.

  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is faster than my computer :(

    I use Ubuntu studio with KDE but I’m not necessarily recommending it.

    I heard popos is good with games.

  • Grangle1@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use Nobara, moved to it from Neon myself after the debacle that was the rebase to 24.04. It’s Fedora based and you can get it with regular KDE or their own customized version. It’s Fedora with special mods made by GloriousEggroll (the dev behind Proton-GE) to improve performance mostly for gaming though the improvements can be of benefit to other applications as well. It was probably the most popular “gaming” distro until Bazzite became the hot new thing. Give it a try and see how it runs on your hardware.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think my GPU is recent enough for Nobara. That’s what I wanted to use initially. Haven’t actually tried it yet though.

  • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Latest drivers and packages?

    • yes: Arch, Fedora
    • no: Debian

    Want to do maintenance work, set it up and learn?

    • yes: Arch
    • some: Fedora, Debian
    • none: Bazzite

    Note: Bazzite is so established that Marvel Rivals’ developer Netease has released game patches targeting that distro specifically. It’s the current most recommended gaming diestro.

    I use Aurora on my laptop & Bazzite on my desktop.

  • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago
    1. This PC is not old.
    2. Literally every Distro works on such new hardware
        • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          They explicitly mention the GTX 10xx series not being supported due to being too old. I’m sure there’s a workaround but bazzite works out the box so I’m set.

      • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        In that case you can just use fedora itself and install the drivers that way

  • Bruhh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    With a 10 series cards, dx12 performance will be terrible. Nvidia already has issues with dx12 on newer cards but Pascal is beyond worse. You’ll have to enable dx11 on games that support it.

    I decided on installing debloated windows for my 1070ti media machine. Plugs into a 4k tv and runs modern games well enough at 1440p on medium.

    This is my experience and your mileage may vary. I still use linux (cachyOS) on my main machine with a 3070ti but Nobara or Bazzite are also good as others have mentioned.

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Bazzite has been the winner for all of my old windows pcs but all of my pcs are AMD cpu/gpus. There is and nVidia specific version of Bazzite but I have no experience with it so I can’t verify if it works well or not.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’ll second Bazzite. It’s secure, it stays up to date, and it “just works”.

      If the immutable system becomes a problem for any reason, try Endeavor. openSuse Tumbleweed is also a good alternative.

      • Profligate_parasite@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I would just toss in my experience w Bazzite as a warning - I don’t recommend, unless you’re already a fedora devotee or really cool with how an atomic distro works. The ‘it just works’ was exactly NOT what I experienced - had to constantly manually set Xwindow compatibility with Flatseal (apps just … wouldn’t open… no explanation! Yay! The wayland is buggy? Took a few threads on Bazzites official discord to figure that out). It wouldn’t mount secondary drives… would take a fuckton of work to get them recognized, mounted, and then it would ‘forget’ them again! Discord NEVER functioned properly (no streaming, even on Canary fork, etc. etc. etc.) It come’s with things ‘preinstalled’ and if those are exactly what you need its probably fine, but its a handheld/steamOS facing project… I don’t see any reason to recommend it here. For me (prefer GNOME environment, despite limitations), I’ve settled on a slightly tweaked version of Pop!_OS and s76’s cosmic environment… but y’know, as others mention, this will run most popular stuff. I always love to go w a Debian fork for stability and familiarity. YMMV. Good luck!

      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I have found it won’t mount internal drives on boot except for the main OS drive and its a real pain in my ass to fix otherwise it’s been fairly good. definatley much better than any other distro I have tried.

        • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I faintly remember having to deal with that. There’s a built-in “Device Auto-Mount” app that may be able to help with that without messing with fstab, assuming the drives are recognized.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m currently installing bazzite but if that gives me any trouble I think I’ll try pop. I’ve just never really used gnome or its derivatives before. But it hardly matters for gaming anyway.

      • Talaraine@fedia.io
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        1 year ago

        I ran into problems with bazzite recognizing that second hard drive where I wanted to store my game files. Had to jump through some hoops to make sure Steam had the correct path. Just FYI

        • Drathro@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 year ago

          The bazzite project website has an explicit “how-to” for extra drives. Worked for me with no issues, though I am definitely more experienced with tinkering with that kind of thing.

  • vapeloki@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To Realy harness every single BOGOMIP, there is only one: gentoo with cpu specific compiler flags. Distcc helps.

    For everything less it does not really matter. Use the one you feel good with.

    And to be honest, gentoo is my daily driver. But on a threadripper… i would just put a fedora on it and call it a day