I just have to add, almost any linux distro is good for gaming. I‘m gaming on Mint, with an nVidia GPU, and thanks to the in-built driver manager of Linux Mint, setting up the GPU was a breeze.
For windows games, just install Steam from the Repository, or Heroic for Epic and GoG games, and lutris for the rest.
And you can also run most (not all unfortunately) windows programs with WINE, a compatibilty layer that „translates“ between Linux and the programs. There‘s an application called „Bottles“ which makes setting up WINE pretty easy.
Yeah, you can make it work but if your express purpose is gaming, the distros I listed are more focused and also come bundled with necessary drivers and other software like Gamescope (Valve's micro compositor) and also makes it a breeze to update everything required.
Gaming on Linux is also better in 99% of instances if you have it working properly.
Linux is nowhere near as bloated as Windows, so that frame pacing yum.
Yes, I was tempted to go for a custom gaming distro, but with Mint, everything just worked. Network printer? There it is. (formerly) NTFS formatted drives? Non problem (had some trouble with that on the gaming-centric CachyOS distro). Gaming correctly chosing on which display to show? Works. And a few little things more.
Seriousl, installing the latest nVidia driver from the driver manager app, installing steam and setting „compatibilty mode“ to „all games“ isn‘t really difficult or bothersome, and Mint is rock-solid, stable and just works.
And it‘s true that games sometimes run better. Red Dead Redemption 2 runs better in Linux than in my windows install.
All I‘m saying is, don‘t sleep on Mint for gaming. If you don‘t have the latest and newest hardware, Mint just works for many people, and is really easy to understand and use. Heck, you don‘t even have to use the terminal, and the options are all there in the GUI, sensibly arranged in the menus etc. .
Mint is a beginner friendly distro, which isn‘t to be confused with beginner-distro.
I just have to add, almost any linux distro is good for gaming. I‘m gaming on Mint, with an nVidia GPU, and thanks to the in-built driver manager of Linux Mint, setting up the GPU was a breeze.
For windows games, just install Steam from the Repository, or Heroic for Epic and GoG games, and lutris for the rest.
And you can also run most (not all unfortunately) windows programs with WINE, a compatibilty layer that „translates“ between Linux and the programs. There‘s an application called „Bottles“ which makes setting up WINE pretty easy.
Yeah, you can make it work but if your express purpose is gaming, the distros I listed are more focused and also come bundled with necessary drivers and other software like Gamescope (Valve's micro compositor) and also makes it a breeze to update everything required.
Gaming on Linux is also better in 99% of instances if you have it working properly.
Linux is nowhere near as bloated as Windows, so that frame pacing yum.
Yes, I was tempted to go for a custom gaming distro, but with Mint, everything just worked. Network printer? There it is. (formerly) NTFS formatted drives? Non problem (had some trouble with that on the gaming-centric CachyOS distro). Gaming correctly chosing on which display to show? Works. And a few little things more.
Seriousl, installing the latest nVidia driver from the driver manager app, installing steam and setting „compatibilty mode“ to „all games“ isn‘t really difficult or bothersome, and Mint is rock-solid, stable and just works.
And it‘s true that games sometimes run better. Red Dead Redemption 2 runs better in Linux than in my windows install.
All I‘m saying is, don‘t sleep on Mint for gaming. If you don‘t have the latest and newest hardware, Mint just works for many people, and is really easy to understand and use. Heck, you don‘t even have to use the terminal, and the options are all there in the GUI, sensibly arranged in the menus etc. .
Mint is a beginner friendly distro, which isn‘t to be confused with beginner-distro.