this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
12 points (87.5% liked)

Linux for Leftists

138 readers
1 users here now

A Community for all leftists wanting to join and being part of a community that talks about Linux, Unix and the Free Software Community

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
12
A good [noob-friendly] Linux distro for Nvidia support and gaming? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Heyo comrades, I just bought a laptop with an Nvidia RTX 3060 (don't call me a capitalist, Italy discounts VAT on tech stuff if you're disabled) and was looking for a noob-friendly distro with a good Nvidia support (fuck those proprietary pigs)

I looked at Mint since I use it on my desktop, but it has an out of date kernel (I heard that you need 5.8 or above to game with Nvidia, once again fuck them. Never had an issue with my trusty rx580) would just updating the kernel be an option or should I be looking for a different distro?

My only 2 requirements are that:

It's noob friendly (something Debian-based maybe, with a .deb and APT based package management)

And that doesn't use a gnome DE, maybe something more like cinnamon, KDE of XFCE would be nice.

Thanks.

(sorry for long post, had to insult Nvidia)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Nobara KDE
https://nobaraproject.org/

Made by RedHat dev Glorious Eggroll who has been improving Proton and other tools for Linux gaming. Has a SteamDeck version. Welcome screen installs anything gaming you could want/need.

Tried Debian/Ubuntu distros but needed newer packages/drivers and it was time-consuming.
Tried Arch and derivatives but being that cutting edge had quirks.

Fedora-based Nobara KDE hit that just-right spot of stability vs latest.

Games run better than they ever did on w11.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was about to pull the trigger on nobara for my desktop, I will certainly try it on live USB after reimbursing my windows license (God bless the best 9/11, 9/11 2014,the day from which we can ask for reimbursement for windows keys) I'm used to APT but I think the switch won't be hard, thanks a lot!

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

You’re welcome! Hope it feels comfy for you and fits your needs.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)