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I'm planning to build a Linux gaming PC. Any suggestions? (lemmy.world)
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How much is the speed drop from translation using Proton? Is it so big or just small? Hows the performance of cartoonish Windows only games? And whats your hardware and how much is the price? I'm sorry but I cannot test it myself because I'm still on my mobile. Can you also tell about how many games are compatible with Proton? What about non-popular games?

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[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As far as distros are concerned, Bazzite is a fantastic starting point because you almost certainly can’t go wrong. If you run into programs that need a kernel module or superuser permissions, just distro hop. It’s very likely that in your first time using Linux that you’ll not need those power user things, so Bazzite will be rock solid for you.

Also, in Linux, best practice is to set your home folder to be a separate partition on your HD. You can point your distro to the existing home folder so if you distro hop and you won’t lose your desktop environment prefs/setup or your files.

Here’s my notes on this for Fedora if you need a guide:

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Drive partitioning is highly variable between distros and even within distros that have received updates. The following shows the modern setup for all distros at this time. swap will depend on how much RAM the system has, and whether hibernation will be used. The proper /system partition size varies from distro to distro. Add a /home folder using the remainder of your drive space. In my case, I have an entire drive for my /home folder (the WD drive) that just doesn’t get reformatted ever if I distrohop.

Apps

  1. LocalSend
    1. Remember to use Flatseal to grant filesystem access to the Flatpak so dragging and dropping work outside of ~Downloads folder (Flatpaks by default are sandboxed)
  2. Steam
    1. install from package manager, NOT Flatpak or Snap version to include controller dependencies all together
  3. Zen Browser
  4. Geekbench
    1. run in terminal after installing Flatpak; otherwise will close terminal window without showing link to view score
/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=geekbench6 com.geekbench.Geekben
ch6

  1. Discord

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    💡

    1. install from RPM Fusion else rich presence won’t work
    2. set autostart args so app opens minimized in system tray
      </aside>
    sudo dnf install <https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$>(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install discord

    system settings > autostart > add new,,, > application > select discord

    see properties > application tab > Arguments > enter --start-minimized

  2. CEMU (from Discover/Flatpak store)

  3. Retroarch

[–] foenix@lemmy.radio 4 points 1 day ago

If you run into programs that need a kernel module or superuser permissions, just distro hop.

The rest of your post is fantastic, and I appreciate a good distro hop... However I gotta say that with bazzite, using dev-env to build quick boxes to get work done and user space for layering configuration and other tweaks has been a much better user experience for me. I have been using Linux distro since 2004 and every time I sudo installed something it inevitably would lead to some weird lib or system level configuration change that wasn't easy or obvious to fix. With bazzite I've been able to write drivers for my flight sim setup without having to use root once.

Tldr: bazzite/immutable for the win