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So I was thinking of switching my desktop to linux. I have been running fedora on my laptop for 3 years and I really like it. My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs) and can I use VMs in any of the gaming oriented ones (mostly because I don't wanna keep dual booting).

Edit: I have gone with Bazzite for now and it seems to be working fine. Some games don't rrally work acceptably (I expected that) so I will keep dual booting for a while.

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[–] usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Coming from a Steam Deck, I was really happy when I learned about Bazzite. I tried installing it and stuck with it for a few months now and I'm excited to have gotten rid of Windows. It's fast and works well out of the box. Plus I have the SteamOS experience without fuss.

Bonus points for you, it's Fedora based and easy to install on top if Fedora.

Notably I had tried Ubuntu before this and had issues with VRR and a couple of other things. Bazzite is built for this, and it works well.

i love bazzite, just got a new app store too

[–] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Does the rockstar launcher run? I’d like to move over but always wonder about losing access to quite a few games in the process

[–] luckyeddy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

From my experience on SteamOS, I’m launching RDR2 through the steam app but I own RDR2 on Rockstar game launcher. I used these steps to get it running: https://expertbeacon.com/can-steam-deck-run-red-dead-redemption-2/

I can only assume it’s similar on Bazzite but I haven’t tried.

[–] usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I think I got to install & launch GTAV without modifications or additional software. I'll confirm and get back

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

I just went straight with a bazzite install since fedora literally did not want to work on my pc