Linux Gaming

I would personally go for Nobara. It's also a gaming-oriented distro but it's made by the guy that does ProtonGE and WineGE, some of the best tools for gaming.

Probably I will start to have problems but I would like to hear yours opinions.

The only problem you probably will have is the unfamiliarity.

Steam runs flawlessly with proton (check protondb to see compability and guides to your games).

Lutris allows to install non steam games with installation scripts you get from lutris.net

Wine can be a bit tricky at times but the community is very helpful.

Try to be open regarding the applications you will now have to deal with as most propiertary applications you know from Windows won't easily work (but can be ported via wine if you really really need to)

The Software Center is your friend and gives you a huge variety of applications to download and try out.

Happy journey!

If you haven't used Linux before, just know that Garuda might not be the most stable. It wasn't for me at least, I had to rescue it often. But that might have been because I didn't use/update it regularly enough.

Live image, try it first before installing.

Lot of people hating on Garuda here, but I have loved it. Hopefully it goes as smoothly for you as it has for me - it's been an absolute breath of fresh air. :)

I used garuda for about a year and a half and loved it...mostly. I use a bluetooth headset and controller for gaming and it seems like after every single update, bluetooth broke and i either had to stuggle for hours to try and fix it, or just not use it till another update. Also, a lot of multiplayer games that use anticheat won't work on linux. I just recently switch back to windows because of those hassles.

If those things aren't comcerns for you then you should love your experience! Best of luck!

Garuda is definitely the right choice for your use case.

I've tried to install garuda last night, it didn't go so well. It's ironic that a debian ISO (bookworm) booted alright but the fancy arch-based garuda didn't... Downloaded the MATE edition, put it on a USB stick, booted the machine aaaaand... no GUI with the nouveau driver, black screen/reboot with the proprietary driver. Nouveau couldn't get my GPU to work, it's an RTX 4600. After an hour or so of fiddling with elinks and duckduckgo I gave up, guess that I should wait for a ISO with the new nvidia 535 driver.

Well, You hopping directly to arch based distro but why? I know Garuda is stable than arch and made for gaming stuff but still. If you already made your mind to install Garuda then never mind whenever got a problem just post here.

I had to install a Virtual machine for playnite but now I'm gaming complete on Linux! Also remember you can have xbox gamepass on the browser

Garuda is the OS I've been using as my main since 2021 when I switched from Ubuntu. While I love it, and Garuda is aimed at making Arch easier to use, it is still Arch. I would say if this is your first time installing Linux, Garuda probably isn't the best choice, rather it's something to move up to when you're more familiar with the OS. For a first time user I'd suggest Ubuntu, It's not the flashiest, and some people will doubtless deride it for this or that, but when it comes to being user friendly it's pretty hard to beat. Then once you feel confident with that, aim for something more advanced like Garuda if you still want to do so. Good luck in moving over to Linux!

I tried to use Garuda on Ventoy with a Nvidia 1080 and AMD CPU and it wouldn't even boot. Mint, Debian, Manjaro, Open Suse, and many others, all booted via Ventoy on my Nvidia 1080 but Garuda failed to do so. It waited 30 seconds for the GUI to start and said "well you are on your own, cya." and ditched me to a root console. Not the experience I want from my computer.