Post #587207

2026-03-08 13:14 UTC

Except none of that gaming performance value matters if you can’t get it working in the first place! People, especially ones new to Linux, shouldn’t have to know or care about the tools you mentioned. Hell, I had to DDG them to find out WTF you were talking about, and I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux for damn near a decade! They don’t matter, and they’re especially not worth risking fucking up your entire experience for!

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@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-08 13:34

Way to ignore the BIGGEST point in my comment to hyper focus on a seconsary point just to seem smart. Do I think someone should pick a distribution just because it has GameScope? No. But do you know which distros include these optimizations? It’s the distros that include Nvidia drivers in the package so users don’t have to update them in the command line. It’s the distros that use Fedora and Arch to get those driver updates out in a timely manner so you’re not stuck waiting 6 fucking months to not have a newly released game not be a buggy flickering mess. not worth risking fucking up your entire experience for! This is your key disconnect. You see the OS as an experience. Most people don’t. They see it as a tool to get want they want. You might be fine with only playing 5+ year old 16-bit indies on an AMD card. But guess what? MOST PEOPLE DON’T DO THAT. Most people have an Nvidia card and don’t want to buy an AMD card just to use a new OS. And a lot of people want to play newly released games from time to time. You know what distro sucks for both those use cases? Ubuntu. I don’t care if it’s your favorite, those are just the facts. Deal with it.

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@hikaru755@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 16:03

I mean I get your point, but it seems like at the current point in time, “Gaming” distros also happen to be the distros that produce the least amount of weird issues and headaches for someone new to Linux, especially if you’re on Nvidia. Bazzite in particular has been incredibly smooth sailing in a way I’ve seen no other distro achieve so far. And it does have a non-Gaming sibling distro if you don’t want that stuff.

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