I’ve been using fedora but I would like to try something new and I think about arch linux but I don’t know if it’s good for gaming. What do you think?

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Arch is perfectly fine for gaming. I use EndeavourOS with KDE and Steam + Lutris (as Flatpaks) on top. Quite similar to the setup you would have on Steam OS, but I would highly recommend using btrfs as your file system and setting up snapshots.*

    While I have had little to no problems so far, compatibility issues can still occur on rolling release distros, and it’s extremely convenient to just be able to undo an update.

    *This is quite simple btw., you just need to install snapper, snap-pac and btrfs-assistant. The latter serves as a GUI for btrfs setup in general. Create a config for your filesystem root (‘/’) under ‘Snapper’, and under ‘Snapper Settings’ enable ‘Snapper cleanup’. You can also set the number of snapshots to retain there, but note that two will be created per system upgrade by snap-pac. I would suggest to also enable balances and scrubs for ‘/’ and ‘/home’ in the maintenance-tab.

  • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    Every distro is going to be good for gaming. Arch is going to be about equal to Fedora when it comes to gaming (both are good).

    SteamOS is based on Arch, for instance.

    You’re not really going to see a difference when it comes to compatibility or performance, and even if you did, that’s usually just a configuration issue (like setting a large enough VM heap size, which distros are starting to do by default anyway).