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No wonder it works fine in Ubuntu. Why won't these "switch to Linux" challenges ever just fucking use Ubuntu?! It's literally the distro that the big companies target!
Because Ubuntu is really slow to update, which means you might have to wait months for driver updates to play the newest games.
Also, a lot of people have Nvidia cards, and updating their drivers is a pain on Ubuntu.
Most gamers are best served by an Arch or Fedora based distro that can include Nvidia drivers automatically.
I've found that Ubuntu still has by far the easiest one-click Nvidia driver installer of any distro, and switching between driver versions (such as rolling back if a new driver is buggy) is also far easier on Ubuntu.
I say that as someone who does not like Ubuntu in most other aspects.
funny that on Windows you have to update your drivers like this too, I see no issue with using a "slow" distro like Ubuntu for this, I have other reasons to avoid Ubuntu like snap packages
Have you heard the good news of our Lord and Savior, atomic Fedora versions? It's even easier there because the driver is part of the image itself, and rollbacks are as easy as selecting a different entry in the boot manager.
They did use Mint in a previous video, and in the comment field on Youtube there's rumors he'll be trying Kubuntu since Pop was so buggy.
It doesn't work better or worse on Ubuntu. The fact it (partially) uses Ubuntu libraries matters very little given that the libraries are 14 years old.... But I think the client now mostly relies on Debian 12 libraries to run since a year or two ago.
In this case, the DE is the main cause of issue, not the distro base.