Valve's latest Steam survey highlights Arch's popularity among Linux gamers, with EndeavourOS joining the list.
  • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Still plenty of Debian/Ubuntu out there. And with bazzite even Fedora’s getting in on gaming.

    Arch distros have made some truly impressive gains in userbases recently, though. Especially for being based on a distro that explicitly eschews user-friendliness

    • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Once you’re a bit familiar with linux, arch becomes much more user friendly due to the Arch wiki and it’s wide coverage of topics. Knowing exactly what packages I need to use my Intel card to render with Blender is very handy. If you use a distro like EndeavorOS, you don’t even have to do any special setup: it installs like any other distro.

      • pyrflie@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I feel like people discount just how useful a good wiki is. Especially on “how to” topics. It makes it better for the specifics of gaming just due to people testing and documenting it.

  • Naz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Holy shit there’s so many sub-distros in this thread:

    Arch

    • EndeavorOS
    • Cachy
    • Void
    • Nix
    • Manjaro

    Which one do we install for gaming, or do we wait for SteamOS on Desktop?

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Void and Nix aren’t Arch-based.

      Which one do we install for gaming

      If you have to ask, I recommend Linux Mint. It’s not Arch based, which is a good thing because it’s going to be really stable and easy for people new to Linux.

      Steam is the same regardless of distro because it ships all of its own dependencies, even for Linux games. So if a game works on Arch or SteamOS, it should work on Mint, Fedora, etc.

      If you want something that feels like SteamOS, I’ve heard good things about Bazzite, but my recommendation is still to use Linux Mint and install Steam and Heroic, and then you’ll be good to go. I personally use openSUSE Tumbleweed, but again, I recommend Linux Mint for someone new to Linux, because gaming should be nearly identical between distros and Linux Mint has a large community of people to help when you run into issues.

  • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Previously was a Manjaro gamer, and had a perfectly seamless experience.

    Migrated to Fedora, got some weird new issues, but running games through Steam solves everything.

  • soul@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Literally spent the second half of my holiday vacation moving from dual boot Mint+Win11 to EndeavourOS. The last few days has been fun getting the latest Plasma to be themed out how I want it.

    To ease my move, I repartitioned my secondary NTFS days drive to free up space for an EXT4 partition and moved my /home to it. Once that was done, bye bye to the other 2 OS installs and hello to a nice clean install of eos.

    It’s worked very well so far. As a long ago Arch user who battled the AUR back in the day, I was hoping for the experience to be better now. And to my joy, it is. (It’s been probably at least a decade since I last used Arch.)

    Since almost all of my Windows needs are now covered natively and the few that aren’t are something I’ve gotten working via WinApps for a (mostly) seamless experience, in pretty comfortable with where I’m at now.

    I’ve even got my 2024 Kraken Elite working via NZXT CAM so I have full control over the cooler until that is eventually supported elsewhere. (Including control of the screen.)

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I must have joined the Arch community at the perfect time. I have been using it for probably over a decade and have had close to zero issues. AUR is amazing, and helpers make it even simpler. Only after using Arch for years did I understand that people have had serious issues with it in the past.

  • Statick@programming.devEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I tried a few distros this year. Landed on vanilla arch using KDE Plasma. Love it so far. Unfortunately I do some hobbyist stuff with Fusion 360 and my friends and I started playing PUBG again so i need to boot into my windows partition for those.

    • WillBalls@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      There’s dozens of us!

      I’ve had to do very little tweaking overall to get most games working, with the one notable exception being dragons dogma 2. The solution was proton GE and a new .nix file with GPU tweaks and now I’m getting slightly better performance than the average windows experience.

      • shadowbroker@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I have to admit, that I have some experience with nix on 2 servers and 1 desktop, but installing steam was just 1 line in the config and everything worked. My biggest concern were the nvidia drivers, but that worked as well. Currently playing RE4 Remake.

    • gingernate@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I did not know nix users had time to game due to the hours messing around with their dot files hahaah

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Part of the Arch games, Well I don’t exactly use Arch but it’s A Arch based distro for Performance (Cachyos) and I love how they leverage cpu instructions

    • BurnedDonutHole@ani.socialEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I’m seriously considering installing CachyOS on my laptop. And now I’m wondering why I didn’t come around to do it yet.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I’ve been on Nobara for a few years and have generally loved it. Lately I’ve been thinking about switching to Cachy.

      I’ve just been a little annoyed with Fedora in general recently, and I am nervous that Nobara is not only based on Fedora, but also is maintained by only one person.

      How has gaming been overall on CachyOS? Any issues with Steam, Proton, Lutris, or any other gaming-related software?

      • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 days ago

        In my experience, Nobara requires way less fiddling and works out of the box. CachyOS was way more fiddly. I have newer hardware so things are a bit weird for me in general.

        Do wish Nobara had more maintainers. Cachyos isn’t a whole lot better in this regard either, if you wanted something for gaming that has a lot of maintainers you should probably go for Bazzite. Personally, I had issues with Bazzite as well, Nobara seems to play nicest with new hardware out of the box.

      • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 days ago

        It doesn’t come with any gaming apps (but can be installed manually or use their package that installs all the essentials). they also have a proton/wine fork and has patches related to gaming no issues there, and later after some updates(idk how it gets it) you will get LFX (Latencyflex) you can enable it with LFX=1 In environment variables in games and there was no issues at all in gaming (Note you can view cachyos as more of a performance distro rather then a gaming one) .

    • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      lol, I’m sure you could just casually walk away from them in a serpentine pattern and avoid any harm. Likely they are too busy clearing Cheeto dust from their neck beard anyways.

      • Waffle@infosec.pubEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Hey! There’s not too much cheeto dust because I eat the cheetoes with chopsticks to keep my fingies clean and because the chopsticks are  ₊♡⊹˚₊ kawaii ₊˚⊹♡₊

  • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’ve been considering these: Crystal, Archcraft, Arco, Exodia. Are these any good?

    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I’ve looked at Archcraft (not any of the others), and the only thing that seems unique about it is that it’s riced (themed) out of the box and offers several DE options. Otherwise, there’s not really anything that sets it apart from, say, EndeavorOS (which has a handful of DEs and a great install process) or CachyOS (which has a nice install process, an optimized kernel and packages, and as many or more DE options as Archcraft).

      The other thing that gives me pause with Archcraft is the fact that it’s maintained by only one person. What happens if/when they get burned out?

      • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Theming is already an advantage, i tried theming in VM and broke the system with it. If the maintainer stops it, i’ll just switch to an another one. Also, what is Cachy based on?

        • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Cachy is Arch. They use automated build processes to optimize everything from the kernel to packages.