Is PopOS the best for easy gaming?

hellerphant@beehaw.org to Linux Gaming@lemmy.ml – 2 points –

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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Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not install SteamOS?

There's no official installer for steamos, only a recovery image for the steam deck. Then, some people in their free time hacked that image to allow installing on other hardware (except Nvidia GPUs) but imho not very easy

Huh? the first thing that comes up when I google SteamOS is DIY install instructions.

Is that perhaps HoloISO? A community made version of SteamOS

Nope, first party SteamOS

This is an old version which was for SteamOS devices, the Steamdeck has a completely revamped OS which has not that much in common with the old one.

That SteamOS used Debian as base, the new SteamOS 3 Arch with countless of adjustments to make the usage of the Steamdeck a joy.

I really wouldn't install the old SteamOS as of now, there won't be an upgradepath because they use different bases, there are countless of better alternatives out there and maybe they will release SteamOS 3 for custom devices in the future.

Got it, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the information!

Put simply, currently Steam OS doesn't have the hardware support of your average distro

The posted install instructions say its just Debian. I would assume it would have Debian's hardware support?