Is PopOS the best for easy gaming? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by hellerphant@beehaw.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hey folks!

Thinking of switching back to Linux. I was running PopOS about 1.5 years ago and was pretty happy with the gaming aspect of things, but I was playing a lot of VALORANT back then, and I got sick of dual booting. That is less the case now, so I would like to try going back to Linux for the majority of my gaming / streaming setup, and just use Windows for the handful of games like Destiny 2 that won't run on Linux.

I am fairly new to Linux. Don't mind learning some terminal stuff, but I am basically a noob so it does need to be pretty easy to start with. Got a NVIDIA 3080 and AMD CPU if that matters at all.

Recommend me a distro please fellow penguin gamers.

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[-] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While we are at the topic of Pop!OS...I'm about to install it on my laptop with AMD iGPU and dedicated Nvidia GPU. Can someone tell me if I should use the Nvidia iso in that case?

Sorry for hijacking your post ':D

[-] hschen@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Use the nvidia one im pretty sure. I think it will come with the proprietary nvidia drivers preinstalled

[-] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the quick and easy answer! I'll try that one

[-] hellerphant@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

No problem! Glad you got the answer!

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