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Probably a little bit of both. You can game on RHEL but it wouldn't be my first choice of distro for it - IMO, Ubuntu and Fedora are both better-suited for tha

Probably a little bit of both. You can game on RHEL but it wouldn't be my first choice of distro for it - IMO, Ubuntu and Fedora are both better-suited for that task.

_Understated_ 7y ago
Why is that? Is it driver-related? Or is it that RHEL is more for stability rather than speed?
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- eitland 7y ago
  RHEL comes with a price tag (although I think they now have free developer licenses.) Also RHEL development moves sloooowly. This is a feature and one of the main reasons to go with RHEL instead of not only unsupported distros but also supported-but-faster-moving distros, kind of like on Windows LTSB (I know to little about both to compare them, but enough to know that in certain organzations the promise that it will stay the way it is and by default only receive security updates is a huge feature.)
  - lmns 7y ago
    They do have their Software Collections with new major releases for nodejs, python etc., though. It is only the base system that moves slowly.
burk96 7y ago
For gaming purposes, I also have to recommend Manjaro purely from how great it handles installing graphics drivers. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for someone's first Linux install, but once you know the basics in case something breaks it provides a better gaming experience out of the box.
- int_19h 7y ago
  Mint has been doing that for a while. And I believe Ubuntu has finally started doing it as well in the most recent release?
  - burk96 7y ago
    I wouldn't be surprised if Mint and Ubuntu are both in a better state in that regard since I last used them. Last time I used Mint on my gaming rig, the bundled Mint drivers had something funky with them. I don't remember what it was but I do remember I had to reinstall them. This was around Ubuntu's 15.04 I believe?
snvzz 7y ago
For gaming, Arch. It's rolling release, including the whole stack that's supporting games. And they have a wrapper package that will install steam and its dependencies.

Probably a little bit of both. You can game on RHEL but it wouldn't be my first choice of distro for it - IMO, Ubuntu and Fedora are both better-suited for that task.

_Understated_ 7y ago

Why is that? Is it driver-related? Or is it that RHEL is more for stability rather than speed?

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eitland 7y ago
RHEL comes with a price tag (although I think they now have free developer licenses.) Also RHEL development moves sloooowly. This is a feature and one of the main reasons to go with RHEL instead of not only unsupported distros but also supported-but-faster-moving distros, kind of like on Windows LTSB (I know to little about both to compare them, but enough to know that in certain organzations the promise that it will stay the way it is and by default only receive security updates is a huge feature.)
- lmns 7y ago
  They do have their Software Collections with new major releases for nodejs, python etc., though. It is only the base system that moves slowly.

burk96 7y ago

For gaming purposes, I also have to recommend Manjaro purely from how great it handles installing graphics drivers. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for someone's first Linux install, but once you know the basics in case something breaks it provides a better gaming experience out of the box.

int_19h 7y ago
Mint has been doing that for a while. And I believe Ubuntu has finally started doing it as well in the most recent release?
- burk96 7y ago
  I wouldn't be surprised if Mint and Ubuntu are both in a better state in that regard since I last used them. Last time I used Mint on my gaming rig, the bundled Mint drivers had something funky with them. I don't remember what it was but I do remember I had to reinstall them. This was around Ubuntu's 15.04 I believe?

snvzz 7y ago

For gaming, Arch. It's rolling release, including the whole stack that's supporting games. And they have a wrapper package that will install steam and its dependencies.