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If you're new to Linux you should go with either Bazzite or Cachy for gaming.
Nobara is more for people who like messing with their Linux build, since the dev mostly made it for themselves and their dad rather than for the general public.
Cachy is next in the list. Bazzite I believe doesn't support my hardware (i5-4460 & gtx 750). If Cachy ain't it, I'll try Mint and after that if nothing lies well I am going for Win 10 LTSC IoT :(
You may want to try Pop!_OS at some point too. I'm not sure if it'll support your card ootb, but it's supposed to have better initial Nvidia support than other distros. Like Mint, it's based on Ubuntu, but System76 has customized it a bit to be more gaming-focused.
That card only supports Vulkan 1.2 in hardware and Steam's Proton does not run well on that (it needs Vulkan 1.4), so most games crash (or have graphical issues) because the DirectX calls cannot be translated properly.
I have a 780Ti card and I used Proton-Sarek from here, it makes it work with a lot of games: https://github.com/pythonlover02/Proton-Sarek
In general, I would recommend an AMD card for Linux. Nvidia is just painful, especially older cards that aren't well supported on Nouveau.
Those old Nvidia GTX cards also don't support adaptive clocking, so they run on low clockspeeds by default. You might need to set the clocks manually if you want (kinda) the same performance you get on Windows.
You can list the available power states with
cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/pstateand then set one like this (if 0f is the one you want):echo 0f > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/pstate(only if you use the nouveau driver, not the one from Nvidia)First of all, thanks for all the tips. I tried Sarek back on Nobara, didn't seem to do much. Then I spent a bunch of hours installing Cachy instead, now on it, works faster than Nobara, nice. And Sarek is built into their proton version, so doubly nice.
Sadly, Hogwart is still no go for me. Probably will still reinstall Windows to finish Hogwarts legacy ( I really got into it :| ) and then we'll see. But sure as hell I feel more prepared for my jump to linux now.
I also tried checking the power state with commands you gave me and they failed. With ls'sing drm I found out card was instead
card1(...why?), but I lackpstate. Hadpower_state, that show only one record with cat which wasD0. Whatever it may be. :| Maybe some CachyOS thing? Not sure. Found also/sys/class/drm/card1/device/powerdirectory with "control" file, but cat'ing that shown only one lineauto. So I am out of ideas and too scared to try something weird with it xD