What are some recommend changes for gaming for linux distros? Know I or to get steam and portion, but not sure what else

Have a AMD Gpu and cpu if that is important

  • uxellodunum@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Go Fedora for Gaming with new hardware. If you’re a couple generations behind in hardware, Mint will do just fine.

    Fedora gets new hardware support faster along with newer drivers, same with Arch and Arch-based distros (like EndeavourOS, BazziteOS)

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Mint is still on X11, though there is Wayland support in experimental stage. But if I were gaming, I’d find a distro with up to date Wayland support out of the box, like Fedora.

  • ffhein@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I use Fedora (KDE) and game a lot. While I mostly like it, I’ve had some problems with it that were non-trivial to solve, so if you’re a Linux beginner I would not necessarily recommend it to you.

    Perhaps Bazzite would be a good option? It’s based on Fedora and created with gaming in mind. I got it recommended here and installed it on a friend’s kid’s computer and he’s very happy with it so far.

    There’s also Nobara which builds on Fedora to create a gaming-focused distro.

  • stuner@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    If you have an AMD GPU (except for the very latest GPUs), you should be good out of the box. The AMD driver comes pre-installed with mesa.

    Other than that… don’t use NTFS to store your games.

    Edit: Maybe I misunderstood your question. I understood it as: What are some recommended changes to do after installing a Linux distro. Did you meant to ask about differences between distros?

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
        01·
        6 days ago

        It’s a Microsoft network filesystem. They’re probably telling you: don’t leave your games on an old Windows computer and try to remote mount the drive with NTFS; if you do, you’ll be sorry. Re-install the games on Linux.

        • vintageballs@feddit.orgDeutsch
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          5 days ago

          It’s not a network file system. It’s a regular file system for hard drives, SSDs and such, which is used by default on Windows since Windows NT (that’s where the NT comes from - it doesn’t stand for network but “new technology”).

          The implementation in Windows is closed source meaning the file system had to be reverse engineered to even work at all under Linux. Support nowadays is okay-ish, but as soon as you don’t properly shutdown your computer or use the file system under Windows, you will run into weird problems.

          Also it just straight up doesn’t work for most games running under wine.