Hey all,
A friend has expressed disgust with windows 11 and a desire to put linux on their new gaming tower, and asked for some help. I recommended cachy, bazzite, and nobara as distros to look into, but as i barely game and dont game on linux, i wanted to ask for some advice. Ive already told them about the kernel-level anticheat issue, but tbh i dont have a good understanding of linux gaming beyond a high level overview. What are the things i should be looking up and information i should be looking for to understand how to help them get everything set up right? I understand gpu drivers can be an issue, but i havent done gpu driver troubleshooting in years. My main experience of learning things about linux is manpages and info files and reading mailing lists and archforums/wiki (i dont use arch btw).
What would be the best way for me to educate myself in order to help them?
Without getting into the nitty gritty since im a novice in Linux. If you have a game on steam in 9 out of 10 cases gaming on Linux is as simple as using proton to make the game run on Linux. Its really that simple… it will usally download some shaders and then you are ready to go. Now if the game is not on steam there are other services like lutris, heroic games launcher etc that I havent looked into yet or just not needed since all my games have been on steam so far. Steam games for the most part are pretty much plug and play in that regard.
Out of the distros you recommended I would probably recommend bazzite for someone very new who wants to mostly game on Linux (I use Fedora btw)
Ok! I got bazzite set up for another friend who just wants to play stardew, so im familiar with the process (although the partitioner in the install program was hell lol).