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?
Proton experimental, and the latest ge-proton compatibility layer, then get a list of games they want to play and run them by protondb(dot)com to see if anyone has posted the perfect tuning specs for the game.
Heard, ill look into all of these, ty!