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Custom Linux Distribution just for Gaming
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this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
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As someone who has done a lot of distro hopping in the past, I've found that going for a stable release that is widely used as a daily driver is superior for gaming than "gaming specific" linux distros, largely on the basis that the gaming distros have routinely had buggy UIs, driver issues, and a variety of unexpected and undesired behavioral problems tied to the array of "gaming adjacent" software installed, most of which you can install yourself with little to no effort and most of which you probably don't want or need in the first place.
Thankfully, bazzite is both, the community has gotten rather large lately so support has been good.
Too bad they use discord :(
I mean yes, but at least their Discord is externally archived/indexed and they have a Discorse Forum. None of those are my preferences but it's better than nothing.
Thank you. I'm out. I have no idea why open source software projects use discord and slack.
Well I use bazzite and it is great. Ublue is awesome even with their poor choice of comms
It is a gaming related community after all. There is less ethical and privacy concerns in that crowd from my experience. Not to say that it is bad as there is a community for everything.
You dont need to care about privacy to realize a platform like discord is not a good idea for any type of software project. Or any project.
I just know it is popular with gamers