What are some recommend changes for gaming for linux distros? Know I or to get steam and portion, but not sure what else
Have a AMD Gpu and cpu if that is important
Go Fedora for Gaming with new hardware. If you’re a couple generations behind in hardware, Mint will do just fine.
Fedora gets new hardware support faster along with newer drivers, same with Arch and Arch-based distros (like EndeavourOS, BazziteOS)
isn’t bazzite fedora based
It is. Maybe they meant CachyOS, which is a popular Arch based distro.
I use open suse it’s nice
https://news.opensuse.org/2025/01/16/gaming-on-linux-how-os-stacks-up/
In addition to steam with proton, you can add :
- ProtonGE : it’s a modified version of Proton, if games don’t work with the default Proton versions you can try this one and sometimes it fixes the issue.
- Don’t bother installing it manually, though, just install ProtonUpQt with your package manager, run it, and have it install the latest ProtonGE for you. Then you go in steam, in your game’s compatibility options, and you choose ProtonGE in the list. It’s not needed for most games, but it’s nice for those few cases where the game doesn’t work.
- Protontricks
AMD GPU is good, it means you won’t want to die installing Nvidia drivers if you choose Fedora.
- ProtonGE : it’s a modified version of Proton, if games don’t work with the default Proton versions you can try this one and sometimes it fixes the issue.
Bazzite is probably a safe bet.
When you launch steam go to steam settings and enable compatibility to use proton, that’ll get a larger portion of games to work
I use cachyos, it has an install gaming packages button that does all that for you, also have amd gpu and cpu, I use blender and steam fine
I did have to use gparted to manually partiition and set the boot flag since automatically it didnt work, just did exactly what it tried to do automatically, manually, takes 5 seconds. Otherwise it’s really easy, nicer and faster to install than windows.
You plugin the usb, boot in, and its in kde running off the usb, so you can kinda test out kde plasma desktop environment, and the install is hella fast, coming from reinstalling windows the week before, insane, like a 100000th of the time. Then you just go through a fully graphical install process, after that clicking buttons to install most of the drivers and apps you need fairly easily, without searching on your own.
Every thing ppl mention here comes with cachyos or through the gaming packages button after installing
You also choose your desktop environment out of many options, plasmas just the default, you may have a much higher chance of breaking your install doing something later compared to bazzite
But bazzites install process felt hobbled together in comparison
Can you be more specific. Can’t understand your question.
