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Good distro for mostly gaming system? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by Simulation6@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@sopuli.xyz

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I want to replace Win10 on the desktop system I mostly use for gaming. It is an older system with an Nvidia GeForce 1050ti gpu in it, which from what I found, should not be a problem. I was thinking about going with Ubuntu since it is well supported. I was interested if anyone has any opinions about this. I am also going to try and dual boot it with the Win10 for now. I purchased a new SSD drive just for Linux.

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[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Ubuntu snap store is full of trouble, mint has a good reputation for beginners.

I used debian a long time as my main gaming machine but it wasn't handling the transition to nvidia with wayland very well from what I could tell. I ended up switching to nobara (fedora based) because of its gaming set-up and that was awesome until fedora dropped X11. Wayland is still a big drama with nvidia so I have now switched to arch.

My arch installation is great, I'm loving it and since I last installed it on my other machine about 6 years ago the archinstall script has gone a long way and it's pretty easy to install now.

Anyway, whichever one you choose be sure to install X11 instead of wayland for now until nvidia comes to the wayland party.