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Manjaro or Pop!_OS for (Nvidia) gaming on Steam? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16149785

Cross-posting here for more opinions.

Gentlemen, just for context, I usually use Linux. I have been a user of Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora for a few years.

Recently, I acquired a decent graphics card (GeForce RTX 4070) and decided to uninstall my Windows and install Linux.

I saw that Pop!_OS already has an image with everything pre-configured for Nvidia. Is this pre-configuration worth it, are the games more stable on this distribution, or is it the same as manually installing Nvidia's proprietary drivers on Manjaro?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How is Bazzite for other things than gaming? For me, mainly embedded dev and productivity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Bazzite is Fedora os-tree immutable distro. It allows installing RPMs but it’s not nearly as flexible as traditional distros. That being said, you can still do basically everything, but not always straightforward. If you need a C/C++ dev env with toolchain and what not, you better of using something like Distrobox or your custom Podman/Docker containers for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Aurora dev edition is the bazzite equivalent for devs. Containers built right into the terminal (ptyxis).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I don't have a lot of time these days, so my PC is mostly used for gaming at the moment. So I am not too worried about the OS being immutable if the gaming is good out of the box.

I still keep a kubuntu os and dual boot the other os I want to try on another ssd.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The answer found here should give my general thoughts.

But, with embedded dev, I'd argue that both Aurora and Bluefin (with their respective DX: (i.e. development friendly) variants) should make more sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I am mostly gaming these days but a few months a year, there is a 3d printed project with some embedded components so I'd like the distro to be relatively easy to use in those cases.

Thanks for the explanation.