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I just picked up a cheap older gaming PC with a GTX 1050 and and Intel I7 CPU. Trying to decide what distro to load on it for gaming. Curious that others experience is gaming on various distros.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 22 hours ago

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed here, both on my desktop and Steam Deck. i like the stable rolling release model. Allows me to get shiny new things that have at least gone through automated tests.

And in case anything goes wrong it comes with snapper configured by default for easy rollbacks.

[-] thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago

Comes with a bunch of warnings for Steam, is there some postinstall setup needed before gaming is convenient on opensuse? Or am I out of loop, I was under the impression that it's not that good for that https://en.opensuse.org/Steam

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 6 hours ago

Luckily I did not read those warnings so they did not apply to me.

So far no problems.

[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Yes! Tumbleweed squad.....rise up.

This got me started with Linux. Such a great first distro.

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