Hey can y’all help me out? I wanna start switching over, but I need a beginner friendly distro that can work well with my 2070 super for gaming. I need something simple to set up or I’ll get ADHD paralysis and never do it.
I’d also love if it worked well with my Valve Index, but if that still has a lot of issues across the board I may still have to dual boot :c
i started on mint, with a 2080, played through hl alyx (with one weird issue - when i had my old xbox 360 controller plugged in, alyx and vr home couldn’t start, but that was a few years ago, maybe it’s not an issue any more).
which is to say, the index is not the issue, most vr games don’t have a native linux version, so you have to rely on proton, and especially with nvidia cards they’re far from guaranteed to run
Given they have an Nvidia and want stuff like the Valve Index to work (so in the best case to have all those super new drivers, libraries installed and stuff) it should be a distro that comes with a lot preconfigured, like the Nvidia driver.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Bazzite in this regard.
Hey can y’all help me out? I wanna start switching over, but I need a beginner friendly distro that can work well with my 2070 super for gaming. I need something simple to set up or I’ll get ADHD paralysis and never do it.
I’d also love if it worked well with my Valve Index, but if that still has a lot of issues across the board I may still have to dual boot :c
If you like the color green pick linux mint. If you like blue pick zorinOS.
If you really want to use arch as noob pick Garuda.
80% of recommendations will be an Ubuntu/debian child so pick whatever looks good and works. See the first two.
If you really don’t like Ubuntu/deb check out Fedora. If you want a big screen steam mode pick bazzite.
Thank you!
i started on mint, with a 2080, played through hl alyx (with one weird issue - when i had my old xbox 360 controller plugged in, alyx and vr home couldn’t start, but that was a few years ago, maybe it’s not an issue any more).
which is to say, the index is not the issue, most vr games don’t have a native linux version, so you have to rely on proton, and especially with nvidia cards they’re far from guaranteed to run
Thanks so much!
Mint. It started as the beginner friendly distro and it’s becoming the “main” distro as of late.
Thanks!
Given they have an Nvidia and want stuff like the Valve Index to work (so in the best case to have all those super new drivers, libraries installed and stuff) it should be a distro that comes with a lot preconfigured, like the Nvidia driver.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Bazzite in this regard.
Thanks for adding onto this!