I know this has probably been asked before but I am currently using Arch and wondering if my choice is the best for gaming. What are the thoughts from the community? I have an AMD Ryzen 7 processor with 64 gigs of RAM and a decent AMD GPU. Gaming seems to be okay on Arch but I am wondering if I’ve overlooked something better. Thank you in advance.
I’ve heard Nobara is pretty good, it’s basically fedora but with a bunch of gaming centered tweaks put in it. also to add some credibility to it, its made by the guy behind Proton and Wine GE.
I’m actually going to try Nobara one day when I’m bored and don’t have any place to be. This is mainly because it seems to promise that Xbox One wireless controllers work with it out of the box. On Fedora 38 I’m having a hard time and I actually prefer this controller. I have had to use a different one because I still haven’t figured out what I’m missing. *edit: just read the web site for Nobara and saw it includes driver support for Lenovo Legion computers! I’m totally doing this tomorrow on a lazy Sunday!
i’d like to know how it goes! i’ve never used it personally, but i’ve heard good things. best of luck!
Well, I actually got going on installing it last night and I’ve been using it for several hours now. Xpadneo comes with the distro, but for me it’s been a bust, even after troubleshooting, just like what happened to me on Fedora, so no xbox controller over bluetooth. However, the other driver that comes with the kernel (xow) allows me to use it with a USB cable, which I couldn’t do on Fedora. So, I’m sticking with Nobara and I will just figure out the bluetooth problem or buy a dongle and see if that works. As for the rest, it is the best and easiest linux installation I have ever used and I have been using linux since 1999. The installer connects to wifi and updates the system as it’s installing. On first startup you get a welcome screen telling you what to do next (this, for me, included installing the NVIDIA drivers). Installing NVIDIA drivers for me was basically just clicking “OK” and letting it do its thing, something I’ve never seen before. All the games I’ve tried work great and the installer installs Steam and Lutris automatically. All the features of my laptop work out of the box, including battery conservation mode (specific to Lenovo). Only caveat: read the website carefully and make sure your system can handle Nobara because, contrary to other Linux distros, this one does not support older NVIDIA cards. If your card can handle the newest NVIDIA driver, then that’s good. If not, you won’t get much out of installing it. Another thing: you can use flatpak on Nobara, but the web site specifically tells you that you should not use flatpak for key packages: steam, lutris, gamescope, mangohud, obs-studio, blender. The Nobara repositories are fully integrated in the software store so for the rest you can pick and choose where you want your other software to come from. I’m impressed and I’m sticking with this distro. I love it.