I have heard good things about nobara. I don’t mind doing a little thinkering to have things work but I also don’t want to spend hours doing recharch on how to fix things.

Edit: thanks for giving input everyone. I will try Linux mint and if it does not go well will give nobara a go instead.

Edit part two I had to boot mint in compatibility mode because I got black screen for like 15+ minutes and then I couldn’t get it to see more than one monitor and 3 hours later gave up…Just put on nobara will load mint to my laptop and try to learn more because I want to but also tryna game :) you will hear more from me

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
    211·
    9 months ago

    If you mainly play Steam games, Mint will do the job just fine. Just install Steam and you’re good to go. No tinkering required.

    • Blxter@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      Won’t I have to install Nvidia drivers? This is my big concern if I’m being frank (I have a Nvidia card)

      • unreliable
        8·
        9 months ago

        Yes, nvidia can be a bit of pain. Normally you a install proprietary drivers and it works, not always. AMD just works.

        • png
          6·
          9 months ago

          AMD “just works” unless you dare expect hardware encoding that you explicitly picked your card based on to work properly

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            9 months ago

            Yeah, if you’re planning on doing anything fancy (e.g. RTX, FSR/DLSS, streaming w/ a specific encoding, etc), do some digging to check compatibility on Linux, you may need a newer kernel or something. If you just want a general experience (e.g. mostly playing/using apps on default settings), it’s less of a concern.

          • unreliable
            1·
            9 months ago

            Well, that sounds better than be unable to login because kernel unattended update breaks nvidia drivers.

            • png
              2·
              9 months ago

              Depends, unless you wanted to record/stream in higher-than-toaster quality until a month ago

              • unreliable
                2·
                9 months ago

                The lucky mostly of people don’t. I personally have any issues.

                • png
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  True, everything else runs great

      • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Mint has a program that simplifies the process of installing Nvidia drivers. I think it’s just called “Driver Manager”.

    • unreliable
      5·
      9 months ago

      You need to change steam configuration to unable to enable compatibility for all games, or only Linux/proton approved will work. I agree mostly works out of the box, but eventually is good to check protondb website if for tinkering.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      9 months ago

      Mint is good, but Cinnamon development is lagging behind and starting to show it.

      Last I tried to use it there was bug that caused compositing to impact game performance, it’s supposed to not do that and there’s a setting to disable compositing for games, but it’s been non-functional for years.

      You can use Mint, but I’d ditch Cinnamon.