Like the others have said, all major distros are fine. Ubuntu is or used to be Valve’s “favourite distro” and the package that you can get from Valve’s website is for Ubuntu. That being said, software on Linux should be installed using the package manager (the Software Centre) and not downloaded from the Web.

You may wish to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS later. This is fairly easy (you can use the Software Updater application) but the newer versions have better drivers and newer GNOME versions which may bring better performance.

Well, windows didn’t allow me to do that, so I might have to do a manual process maybe.

Anyway, I am not interested in upgrading, I am just saying that I can’t upgrade (click button, couple of steps), without buying a new copy. We can argue about the semantics of what “upgrading” means, but effectively there are going to be plenty of people in my situations, which is why I brought it up.

I do use windows for work as well, but if people want adoption, it starts at home. I do see a need for Linux distros in general will have to make even a bigger shift for the user needs instead of whatever agenda people like to imply (I think open source is a good goal, but if I introduce Linux to someone, I will not for certain preach endlessly about this).

We need more adoption, but I also see some camps will decide to further distance themselves from these groups of users.

All major distros are fine, but there are some niche that specialise in making it easy for people to play games. I use Garuda Linux for that reason. It has it’s own app that helps handling OS maintenance, you can install things like Heroic Launcher, Steam, and Proton with a couple of clicks, you have a nice app that checks for updates, etc., etc.

It’s still Linux, which means random shit breaks for no reason, but for gaming and not having to worry about keeping the OS alive it’s great.

Ig the fix came out?

I’ve been using Arch for a little over a year, and it’s been fun. I’ve learned so much more about computers and Linux itself. I highly recommend trying out Linux and you can do it here: https://distrosea.com/ - It’s a website where you can try out different Linux distros in your web browser.

The success of Steam Deck has helped a lot. Prior to that Linux ports tended to be very perfunctory and they weren’t tested or supported very well. I guess that now there are actual Linux gamers (via Steam Deck), that support has improved. That said, I think outside of Steam Deck and SteamOS, your experience of gaming is going to be extremely dependent on your GPU, driver support and a number of other factors. Things are far more likely to work well on Windows than they would for Linux.

Given how much Microsoft wants to enshitify its services. Windows 11 is proven to be no exception. They have no reason to stop at the Xbox brand. Even Microsoft games like their new flight sim has not escaped enshitification race to the bottom.

Fixed

It’s Linux because for devs it’s a Linux platform.

And yeah 11% growth month to month compounds quickly. It won’t hold forever but all things like that are sigmoidal Wich does start as an exponential growth.

Lemmy Linux copium is one of the strongest in the world.

idk why you’re downvoted hella ppl use proton ge and hes the one making nobara

I tried mint and endeavour (also arch tho so I guess its the same) Mint had the same freezing issue. Thought it was my hardware because I had reinstalled my os when problems began, eventually tried the lts kernel and it became stable like it was originally. They recentlly updated it tho, so I have to prevent updates (idk how so I just rollback from the cache after every pacman -Syu)

I’m on cachyos, thought arch was the most bleeding edge

For flat games this is true, there is still work to be done for the VR side of things, even that has advanced by leaps and bounds in just the last 2 or 3 years

It’s not so much about users switching, it’s more about the ones that will stick with it. And that we can’t know for a few years yet.

Linux in no way means that “random shit breaks for no reason”, if anything that’s Windows. Some distributions may be easier to break if you don’t know what you are doing but that is not an OS problem.

How else are we going to achieve nuclear fission?

I did the same with AMD+ NVidia gpu combo but it is not without problems. Do you play through Steam/proton db or are you using something else like Lutris?

Linux in no way means that “random shit breaks for no reason” (…) Some distributions may be easier to break if you don’t know what you are doing but that is not an OS problem.

Things that randomly broke for no reason:

• BT-connected mouse suddenly refused to connect.
• App Menu (“File”, “View”, etc.) randomly disappeared from all apps and wouldn’t re-appear.
• AppImage application suddenly started throwing a “binary found, misconfigured” error.
• Sleep would kill the OS. Only a hard reboot fixed the issue (this was on two brand new distros on my PC).
• Every couple of times Sleep would kill the WiFi on my laptop after the OS was woken up.

Things that broke after I installed a dGPU:

• Heroic Launcher “lost” Proton and couldn’t launch any games.
• Steam would open a black window with no content visible.
• Every three or four reboots after installing the dGPU, the FPS while on the desktop would be around 10, the OS effectively unusable.

Things that broke after a system update:

• Application Launcher turned fully transparent making it almost impossible to read the names.

This was all in a span of around 3 months.

If it was “if anything that’s Windows”, then I would be doing nothing but fixing user issues with my ~300 Windows devices. That’s not the case.

Don’t you mean fusion? Fission is separate and we’ve already achieved it a long time ago.