Basically the title. Loving PopOS as my daily, but I understand that PopOS uses their own process and makes sure that only a checked driver gets wide release. Great for stability, less great for playing games that just came out. Is there a distro that this community generally recommends for gaming?

  • @[email protected]
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    221 year ago

    I second the “Do not use manjaro”. It has incredibly many issues that arch doesn’t have and the only advantage is that it comes with an installer.

    Arch with nvidia is a bit of a pain though. The nvidia driver updates break my system or some games every 1-2 months.

    • circuitfarmer
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      61 year ago

      Also the new Arch install script is very easy and reduces the need for Manjaro, even for new users.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I disagree, it just does the steps in the manual for you. You still need to know what’s happening.

        I tried using it, got a bunch of python stack traces and eventually decided to do it manually. The reason why it failed was that windows put my EFI partition onto a different drive than itself.

        An installer needs to catch stuff like that, so archinstall is beta at best.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          On the one hand, you’re right. But on the other, the fuck is Windows even doing here:

          The reason why it failed was that windows put my EFI partition onto a different drive than itself.

          • @[email protected]
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            51 year ago

            It’s windows. It always does absolutely asinine shit like this. It’s only getting worse as time goes on, so the earlier you switch to a proper OS, the better.

        • circuitfarmer
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          -11 year ago

          I don’t think a Linux installer should need to worry about Windows, frankly.

      • KSP Atlas
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        11 year ago

        I would still not recommend arch to new users or people who want a stable system

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      Tell me if I’m wrong or that’s not what you meant. But your Nvidia problem should go away as soon as you use nvidia-dkms (or nvidia-open-dkms) instead of the regular nvidia package (or nvidia-open). I haven’t had any problems (of that kind) in a long time.