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Distro for a local "cloud gaming" no monitor desktop (self.linux)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by olafurp to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a specific distro to handle some tasks.

I got a second hand rig with Nvidia GTX 1050 that I want to use as a home server. I wanted to use HoloISO but it doesn't support nvidia. If someone says "do it anyway, it's fine" I'll install it though.

The idea is to support a Jellyfin server and Steam Link gaming but steam is not big on Nvidia so it's hard to narrow down "black screen" issues etc. I'm also planning to manage it via VNC and SSH.

I'm familiar with Ubuntu based systems since I develop software on Ubuntu based KDE distro but never had a graphics card.

So it boils down to:

Ease of setup including nvidia drivers
Ease of update via command line (I'm not going to download nvidia drivers from their website to update proprietary drivers)
Graphics performance
Prefer Ubuntu based

I'm up for Gnome, Xface, Cinnamon, KDE or whatever DE.

Edit: Changed title to better reflect requirements and not have misleading "headless" and "server" in it

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[–] olafurp 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

After doing some research I'm surprised that nobody here mentioned Nobara. I think it fits neatly here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Nobara is a half baked not well maintained and very hacky fork of Fedora.

It is substantially less secure, even though you might squeeze out some performance percents using their hardware optimizations.

This may not be worse as it fits the purpose, would still kinda advise against.

[–] olafurp 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on the "substantially less secure" part?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

very slow and seemingly manual updates, unlike the CI/CD of ublue
replaced SELinux with Apparmor, not sure about the used profiles but just assume that this "at most few person" project is less secure
bundling in a ton of fixes that may break

It is a cool project as a proof of concept, but extremely hacky with drawbacks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I've had decent experience with nobara with a 2080. I had a couple hiccups early, and had to reinstall basically right away, but after that it's been solid.