Is PopOS the best for easy gaming?

Hey folks!

Thinking of switching back to Linux. I was running PopOS about 1.5 years ago and was pretty happy with the gaming aspect of things, but I was playing a lot of VALORANT back then, and I got sick of dual booting. That is less the case now, so I would like to try going back to Linux for the majority of my gaming / streaming setup, and just use Windows for the handful of games like Destiny 2 that won't run on Linux.

I am fairly new to Linux. Don't mind learning some terminal stuff, but I am basically a noob so it does need to be pretty easy to start with. Got a NVIDIA 3080 and AMD CPU if that matters at all.

Recommend me a distro please fellow penguin gamers.

hschen,
@hschen@sopuli.xyz avatar

PopOS, Mint, Ubuntu are the main ones recommended for new users, just try them out and see what you think. I personally used Ubuntu for about half a year and then moved over to Archlinux and have been using arch for like 4 years now, but arch is too hard for new users so dont try it.

packetloss,

To be fair. I've never used Arch and thought I'd give it a try, their new "archinstall" utility makes installation a breeze. This includes driver and DE selection.

Was able to complete a KDE Plasma install in about 15 minutes.

hschen,
@hschen@sopuli.xyz avatar

archinstall is good yeah, it would be nice if it had a proper graphical install rather than the console ui. I think less technical people would be put off by it.

ticktok,

I wanted to go with arch but didn't want the install hassle, so I ended up going with Endeavour OS and I've been full time on it for about 2 years now with no complaints. All the benefits of Arch rolling distro, with the addition of a support community and a unified experience and preloaded nvidia drivers.

setInner234,

I've found Manjaro to be pretty good in terms of automated handling for Nvidia drivers and stuff. Fast and stable with rolling updates. Yes, the transition from Windows is rough for 3 months or so, but after that you'll wonder how anyone ever put up with Microsoft's BS

Kory,
@Kory@lemmy.ml avatar

I don't think there's a "best" but PopOS sure is one of the recommended ones. You might also find some answers in this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/1130762

hellerphant,

Thanks! I will check this out.

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