Best Linux distro for a first timer who games with an Nvidia, is a new YouTuber who wants to someday stream, and Records and edits their own videos with Davinci Resolve and other editors like after effects?
Stick with windows or Dual boot. Linux sucks for games. Linuxers can clap back at this all they want, but I am a 100%, 20+ yr linux every day driver veteran and I am 10000% pro linux.
But I'm also honest. It's not good for gaming. SteamOS is an option for gaming but I couldn't get it to properly install on my equipment. Steamdeck obviously is going to work, but their system is not really supercompatible and it doesn't play well with others.
Steam the app on the linux desktop is pretty flawless EXCEPT for proton, which is well oversold. Steam proton works about as well as WINE (linux people will snerk at this).
NVIDIA support on linux is already there with proprietary linux video drivers you install after you install the OS. THAT SAID, nVidia just announced their drivers are going Open Source like AMD video drivers already are, and it's a matter of time that NVIDIA will dominate linux when that finally comes. So that's something to look forward to.
So there's no problem with the drivers. The problem is with the individual games. They have a lot of windows DLLs that the developers don't want to port over to Linux...that is why there is steam proton, to act as a kind of virtual machine to emulate those windows components that the games need. The problem is it's clunky and bad, and worst of all it just flat out doesn't often work.
So there's no problem with the drivers. The problem is with the individual games. They have a lot of windows DLLs that the developers don't want to port over to Linux...that is why there is steam proton, to act as a kind of virtual machine to emulate those windows components that the games need. The problem is it's clunky and bad, and worst of all it just flat out doesn't often work.
Proton. which is a fork of wine, is a compatibility layer, it mimics a windows system and translates callbacks to linux, it's nowhere near a virtual machine or emulator...
Also I disagree with your assertion that it "flat out doesn't work", how long ago did you try it? every single thing I tried ran, and I've been running Linux exclusively for at least 3 years now, not only on steam with proton, but also using Lutris with wineGE, it just works...
I ran games great when I had an nvindia card, and I run them well now with a crappy integrated intel GPU (my nvidia one crapped out), well, at least the games I can run heh
Now, obviously, games made for windows will still run better on windows, there's no question about that, the translating of callbacks, like from directx to vulkan for instance, will have a bit of an overhead, and you will lose some performance
But, as far as I'm concerned, that's absolutely worth it, if it means ditching that piece of filth from Gates....
If more people start using linux, taking advantage of the compatibility layer to run games, more developers will have an incentive to make native builds for linux, and less and less we will need such compatibility layers, and less of a monopoly MS will have...
The longer people keep saying "jUSt dUal BOOt", the longer this will take....
Almost Anything that's not debian or straight debian based basically
Because of their Draconian "NO PROPRIETARY ANYTHING EVER!!!" thing
If you want all of the latest stuff look for distributions that are "rolling release"
But stable distros are fine as well
You can game just fine on linux mint for instance, I did for a long time, using a nvidia card no less, then you install OBS and you're good to go for streaming
Try or at least look into Nobara. It's setup with the packages for gaming and has OBS pre-installed. One of the best distros as far as gaming goes (with Linux any distro can be tweaked to work how you want it but certain distros have "out-of-the-box" functionality with the packaged applications.). You shouldn't have to mess with driver packages and all that too much.
Best Linux distro for a first timer who games with an Nvidia, is a new YouTuber who wants to someday stream, and Records and edits their own videos with Davinci Resolve and other editors like after effects?
Stick with windows or Dual boot. Linux sucks for games. Linuxers can clap back at this all they want, but I am a 100%, 20+ yr linux every day driver veteran and I am 10000% pro linux.
But I'm also honest. It's not good for gaming. SteamOS is an option for gaming but I couldn't get it to properly install on my equipment. Steamdeck obviously is going to work, but their system is not really supercompatible and it doesn't play well with others.
Steam the app on the linux desktop is pretty flawless EXCEPT for proton, which is well oversold. Steam proton works about as well as WINE (linux people will snerk at this).
NVIDIA support on linux is already there with proprietary linux video drivers you install after you install the OS. THAT SAID, nVidia just announced their drivers are going Open Source like AMD video drivers already are, and it's a matter of time that NVIDIA will dominate linux when that finally comes. So that's something to look forward to.
So there's no problem with the drivers. The problem is with the individual games. They have a lot of windows DLLs that the developers don't want to port over to Linux...that is why there is steam proton, to act as a kind of virtual machine to emulate those windows components that the games need. The problem is it's clunky and bad, and worst of all it just flat out doesn't often work.
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Thank you for the great write up!
Whatever he said about gaming is shitty advice imo...
Proton. which is a fork of wine, is a compatibility layer, it mimics a windows system and translates callbacks to linux, it's nowhere near a virtual machine or emulator...
Also I disagree with your assertion that it "flat out doesn't work", how long ago did you try it? every single thing I tried ran, and I've been running Linux exclusively for at least 3 years now, not only on steam with proton, but also using Lutris with wineGE, it just works...
I ran games great when I had an nvindia card, and I run them well now with a crappy integrated intel GPU (my nvidia one crapped out), well, at least the games I can run heh
Now, obviously, games made for windows will still run better on windows, there's no question about that, the translating of callbacks, like from directx to vulkan for instance, will have a bit of an overhead, and you will lose some performance
But, as far as I'm concerned, that's absolutely worth it, if it means ditching that piece of filth from Gates....
If more people start using linux, taking advantage of the compatibility layer to run games, more developers will have an incentive to make native builds for linux, and less and less we will need such compatibility layers, and less of a monopoly MS will have...
The longer people keep saying "jUSt dUal BOOt", the longer this will take....
Almost Anything that's not debian or straight debian based basically
Because of their Draconian "NO PROPRIETARY ANYTHING EVER!!!" thing
If you want all of the latest stuff look for distributions that are "rolling release"
But stable distros are fine as well
You can game just fine on linux mint for instance, I did for a long time, using a nvidia card no less, then you install OBS and you're good to go for streaming
Well, that is somewhat of an issue, although Nvidia is now moving towards supporting Linux fully.
Where the installation of Nvidia drivers used to be very cumbersome, these days it is a breeze.
But since you are indicating yourself to be a first timer, try these for a change: 1.https://nobaraproject.org/ 2. https://iso.pop-os.org/22.04/amd64/nvidia/42/popos_22.04_amd64_nvidia_42.iso
Especially the first one is geared towards your current needs.
Later on you could install with the package manager: Kdenlive for video-editing and OBS studio for recording.
Try or at least look into Nobara. It's setup with the packages for gaming and has OBS pre-installed. One of the best distros as far as gaming goes (with Linux any distro can be tweaked to work how you want it but certain distros have "out-of-the-box" functionality with the packaged applications.). You shouldn't have to mess with driver packages and all that too much.
Thank you for the advice!