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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've been gaming on windows and had my laptop running linux for 3 years now but I've recently moved my PC to the TV for a more console-like experience. I realized that I almost exclusively play games with a controller anyway.

To that end I switched to Bazzite. Has been working pretty much flawlessly! Even with an Nvidia GPU.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is the way!

    I professionally maintain Linux kernel and custom drivers for embedded applications. I fell in love with Aurora on my first run and chosen Bazzite for my brand new Nvidia gaming PC. This will also be my office/web browsing/dev machine when not gaming.

    Why? I am tired of managing / sysadmining Linux OS and don’t want to bring the job to my free time (although it looks like my MoBo could use a kernel patch for supporting fan speeds controller hee hee). Bazzite and siblings are the first distros I stumbled upon that flawlessly supported GSync and nvidia graphics out of the box without changing a single option. The defaults are sane, customization is easy. The whole general idea around how these distros are redesigned solve many many pain points that many uses are yet to experience with standard / "legacy" ones. I am more hyped about them than I was when I first discovered NixOS.

    Atomic distros like this IMHO should be the default choice now for new Linux gamers. Period.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tbh as an end user Bazzite was so nice and easy to install, especially since the website makes you configure the iso for what you're gonna use it on. It was a very no-bullshit way of getting linux on a PC.

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  • Exactly! They even took care to provide you with convenience scripts for further setup with very detailed description right after you open the terminal.

    Enabling TPM based disk decryption, secureboot, upgrading everything etc etc is waiting for you just one command away starting with ujust

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