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Helping a friend get started with gaming on linux - how to educate myself? (hexbear.net)

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Hey all,

A friend has expressed disgust with windows 11 and a desire to put linux on their new gaming tower, and asked for some help. I recommended cachy, bazzite, and nobara as distros to look into, but as i barely game and dont game on linux, i wanted to ask for some advice. Ive already told them about the kernel-level anticheat issue, but tbh i dont have a good understanding of linux gaming beyond a high level overview. What are the things i should be looking up and information i should be looking for to understand how to help them get everything set up right? I understand gpu drivers can be an issue, but i havent done gpu driver troubleshooting in years. My main experience of learning things about linux is manpages and info files and reading mailing lists and archforums/wiki (i dont use arch btw).

What would be the best way for me to educate myself in order to help them?

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 1 points 15 hours ago

Steam works pretty well. Most games can run on the included proton. Problems I've seen are with 3rd party launchers on older games. Some Mods that require windows. Seperate partition / drive for the games on linux. You can't just point them to the windows files.

Linux likes AMD better than Nvidia. Though AMD doesn't support Adrenaline on Linux, but their drivers are native to many Linux distros and updated frequently.

Core Cntl is a must to prevent the card running at 100% when a game launches. MangoHUD for FPS and GPU/CPU stats.

Mint is user friendly. I've heard Pop_OS! is good but not experienced it. Down the line SteamOS is going to be deployed as main consumer but it's not ready and basically Alpha/ Beta stage.

I have little memory of linux text line commands, but if you need something many sites include the line command instructions you can copy/paste.

You might need to adjust screen scaling if they have a high resolution 4K+ monitor.

I have been gaming on Linux for almost a year now and happy. The system is quite stable. Because of the Open Source nature it gets frequent updates that just need approval. I think I had to roll back the Kernel one time because the update flubbed something, but it was pretty painless to do.