Just bought a cheap first gen 12 core Threadripper. I like Void Linux so I installed Void Musl. The only issue with Musl libc is you can not build the proprieta

Just bought a cheap first gen 12 core Threadripper. I like Void Linux so I installed Void Musl. The only issue with Musl libc is you can not build the proprietary Nvidia drivers (considered a feature to me) so I plugged in an OLD Radeon HD5850 for now. In the future I plan to kill off my long in the tooth Win 7 machine and move its GTX1060 to the Void machine but I don't think nouveau is stable enough. Might have to buy an AMD card or switch to Void glibc. I installed flatpack to install Steam and the experimental community build of Proton for flatpack Steam. I was instantly able to play a favorite Windows only game: Two Point Hospital. Flatpack also made installing Discord (used sparingly I might add) and GzDoom to run Brutal Doom, dead simple. The major hurdle is AAA titles with ghastly anti-piracy/cheat software as well as 3rd party gaming platforms do not work. Of course this is all getting fixed by Valve so I have nothing but praise for them. So as of now the following older AAA's I own do not work: GTA5, Skyrim, Crysis, Farcry 3. So if you think you need a specific Linux to get a good gaming experience, you don't. The kernel is the important part. The rest is just software dependency solved by flatpack.