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Is there really much of a difference in game performance between "game focused" distros and other ones like mint?
Performance? No. But some of the new distros include Gamescope, which is kind of a big deal.
Isn't gamescope more used with handhelds?
Uhhhh I mean only because Valve put it on Steam Deck and then sold millions of them. I use it on my desktop.
Gamescope is great to use even on desktops, it runs the games in its own little shell which is particularly good for compatibility with old games where you can change stuff like resolution, fullscreen, keyboard layout... without impacting your distro.
Oh I see. That is pretty cool. Can you launch that with steam in the desktop version?
You can use gamescope with anything, it's a micro compositor. You can add it to the launch parameters in steam, lutris has an option to start games with gamescope, or you can simply open the game with gamescope and wine from the terminal.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope
Thanks for the info.
Desktop version of what?