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Trying to go for a “Linux gaming distro” is the wrong thing to do in the first place, IMO. Even if they’re gamers, they’re switching the computers they use for everything. What they needed was a general-purpose distro and then to install Steam or whatever on top of that. The notion of a “gaming distro” should be considered harmful for everything other than maybe running it on one of those Steam Deck knock-offs.

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@BladeFederation@piefed.social · Mar 08

I can’t agree with this. Mint, for example, is a great general use distro. It doesn’t support HDR or VRR because it’s not in Wayland. These are very basic gaming features that Windows has had for 7+ years. Also, gaming focused doesn’t mean it has to boot into Steam Big Picture Mode and be used only for gaming. Bazzite is Fedora based, so it has RPM and flatpaks, and uses KDE, the most customizable DE. What could it possibly be missing that average users would want? You very much need to pick a distro that has the features you want need, and the rest will follow unless it’s just a bad distro.

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