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Bleeding edge gaming distros with driver managers? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lately I've been suggesting Mint or PopOS for laymans looking to swap to linux, but do any of you know of any good gaming distros with a driver manager GUI built in ala Mint?

I've tested most gaming distros with latest (nvidia) hardware and they do not run most major titles out of the box due to driver issues. If there were a gui for driver rollbacks while having great general performance, I could see it beating out Mint/PopOS for my recommendation. Being able to install .deb files is quite nice for laymans too, though I don't know of any other deb based OSes that run well out of the box.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What does a driver manager do that isn’t solved with a normal (graphical) package manager? Automatically picking the correct one for your GPU?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, thats useful for laymen / people that dont want to tinker a whole lot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A driver manager will not make the problems inherent to Nvidia's crappy proprietary drivers that need workarounds go away.

If you don't want to tinker a whole lot, buy a GPU from a vendor that hasn't been actively hostile to its users for decades and is well supported by Linux and the freedesktop such as AMD.

No AMD GPU user has a need for anything resembling a "driver manager".