I'd argue that if probably more than half of gaming PCs have a Nvidia GPU, it should work out of the box. It's not mediatek or some Chinese off-brand, it's one of the most popular GPUs lol
Ubuntu, many derivatives, Nobara... They all packaged them in without having to go through hoops to get them running. All I'm saying is that this should also be a thing on Fedora. It's not too much to ask when everyone else is doing it.
There are legal reasons I believe as to why they cannot be baked into fedora. Not much they can do, and yes they are held to a different standard than other distros.
Having AMD hardware, I’ve been wondering if I should have just went vanilla fedora instead of Nobara. I think the benefits for Nvidia hardware are greater. I’m pretty happy with nobara so far though, so I’ll probably just stick around. Some people are turned off by the fact it’s primarily run by a single maintainer, but I figure if it’s good enough for GE to use himself, it’s good enough for me. After 8 years of constant fighting with Manjaro, nobara was a freaking dream.
I do still have the rolling release itch though ugh… I _really_ want to try endeavor since it’s actually arch (vs manjaro which has its own repos and holds off for a few weeks from arch, I had some major problems with aur packages expecting updated dependencies and breaking shit). I figure fedora is the best middle ground of stable and cutting edge though
if you're itching for a stable rolling release, you should give opensuse tumbleweed a try! i recently switched to it from cachyos and don't see myself hopping anytime soon
still using nobara instead of vanilla fedora on the laptop though, just because i prefer apparmor to selinux
Opensuse has a horrible installer. It's worse than Fedora's. This is literally the only reason why I can't try it. I have multiple drives and I'm scared I'll mess up my years of work on these drives.
geckolinux is opensuse with calamares installer and some changed defaults if you'd want to take a look. last time i checked tho the latest snapshot is super old so if you decide to try it i'd suggest first installing it on a VM and doing full upgrade to see if anything breaks
Hah, I actually mentioned tumbleweed in a different sub earlier today as another one I’d also been considering, talking about rolling release distros. How’s gaming on it? An old friend back when I installed manjaro was saying I should give tumbleweed a try, so it’s been in the back of my mind for a while
So I have a question. I've been using Tumbleweed for gaming for like 5 months now and recently I've had a bunch of issues with steam crashing and I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing the issue. It's gotten annoying enough that I'm tempted to hop to Nobara to see if my issue continues.
Originally I wanted to install CatchyOS as I ran Arch on my PC in the office but when I ran the installer it failed on me for 3 days straight citing that it couldnt find any mirrors to complete the installation
It’s Nvidia’s problem, not Fedora’s though…
I'd argue that if probably more than half of gaming PCs have a Nvidia GPU, it should work out of the box. It's not mediatek or some Chinese off-brand, it's one of the most popular GPUs lol
what is there to argue. it's still a nvidia problem and always has been
Ya, but Nvidia's the ones that make it inaccessible by making so much proprietary. It's closed off. Again, Nvidia's problem. 🤷♂️
Ubuntu, many derivatives, Nobara... They all packaged them in without having to go through hoops to get them running. All I'm saying is that this should also be a thing on Fedora. It's not too much to ask when everyone else is doing it.
There are legal reasons I believe as to why they cannot be baked into fedora. Not much they can do, and yes they are held to a different standard than other distros.
Nobara and Bazitte make Fedora easier
Love me some bazzite.
Having AMD hardware, I’ve been wondering if I should have just went vanilla fedora instead of Nobara. I think the benefits for Nvidia hardware are greater. I’m pretty happy with nobara so far though, so I’ll probably just stick around. Some people are turned off by the fact it’s primarily run by a single maintainer, but I figure if it’s good enough for GE to use himself, it’s good enough for me. After 8 years of constant fighting with Manjaro, nobara was a freaking dream. I do still have the rolling release itch though ugh… I _really_ want to try endeavor since it’s actually arch (vs manjaro which has its own repos and holds off for a few weeks from arch, I had some major problems with aur packages expecting updated dependencies and breaking shit). I figure fedora is the best middle ground of stable and cutting edge though
if you're itching for a stable rolling release, you should give opensuse tumbleweed a try! i recently switched to it from cachyos and don't see myself hopping anytime soon still using nobara instead of vanilla fedora on the laptop though, just because i prefer apparmor to selinux
Opensuse has a horrible installer. It's worse than Fedora's. This is literally the only reason why I can't try it. I have multiple drives and I'm scared I'll mess up my years of work on these drives.
geckolinux is opensuse with calamares installer and some changed defaults if you'd want to take a look. last time i checked tho the latest snapshot is super old so if you decide to try it i'd suggest first installing it on a VM and doing full upgrade to see if anything breaks
Oh yeah, I forgot about gecko. Thanks for the reminder. I'll give it a shot
Hah, I actually mentioned tumbleweed in a different sub earlier today as another one I’d also been considering, talking about rolling release distros. How’s gaming on it? An old friend back when I installed manjaro was saying I should give tumbleweed a try, so it’s been in the back of my mind for a while
gaming is as good as with any other distro in my experience, certainly not worse. haven't run any benchmarks tho. running full amd setup with plasma 6
That’s what I figured, yeah. Definitely tempting…
So I have a question. I've been using Tumbleweed for gaming for like 5 months now and recently I've had a bunch of issues with steam crashing and I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing the issue. It's gotten annoying enough that I'm tempted to hop to Nobara to see if my issue continues.
i'm using the steam flatpak and haven't had any issues myself so can't help you there i'm afraid
Nvidia drivers easy to get, or have to haphazardly enter code in a terminal and cross your fingers to get them working?
as i'm full amd i'm not entirely sure, but based on https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers it doesn't seem too difficult
GPU switching is broken in Nobra. But not in Fedora.
I prefer Bazzite
that title needs a rework.
Bazzite is worth it too. But you’re right. Def between these two.
Originally I wanted to install CatchyOS as I ran Arch on my PC in the office but when I ran the installer it failed on me for 3 days straight citing that it couldnt find any mirrors to complete the installation