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What distro do you game on? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by qwestjest78@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I just picked up a cheap older gaming PC with a GTX 1050 and and Intel I7 CPU. Trying to decide what distro to load on it for gaming. Curious that others experience is gaming on various distros.

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[–] echo@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pretty much any distro will work for gaming these days. Really up to personal preference. I use Arch but have heard good things about Pop!_OS.

[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was on pop for a while! It was cool.

Why does the pop shop suck though? Why?? Why is it so slow, why does it crash so much? Why is this such a problem with so many users? It wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back, it was more like an unnecessary brick the camel had to carry.

[–] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The pop shop is ass, but you can install the cosmic store and it works wonderfully (cosmic is the DE in development by system76).

[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately I already left Pop! for Fedora when I updated my GPU. I needed something with an updated kernel anyways and Fedora played nice with it out of the box.

But man, I still am surprised when I open up software and it just... loads with no issue.