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.
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...