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What Linux distro would you recommend to be able to run Proton to play windows games but also for day to day light (mostly browser) use, SteamOS?

rightbyte 1y ago
Debian works fine with Proton for me. I think it is not very picky.
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scuff3d 1y ago
If you want a more curated experience that takes a lot of the rough edges off Linux: https://bazzite.gg https://bazzite.gg Bazzite isn't going to be as flexible as some other distros, but it's goal is to make the Linux transition as easy as possible. It's aimed primarily at gamers but you'll get a full OS that you can do all the normal stuff on
- BoredPositron 1y ago
  You can't perform all the usual tasks with it; it's a limited, immutable Arch derivative. Edit: Not arch but fedora.
  - LaxisB 1y ago
    you might be thinking of the new KDE distro. bazzite is fedora silverblue based. iirc there's access to flatpak homebrew, as well as rpm-ostree (basically rpm) among others
    - BoredPositron 1y ago
      You are right :)
  - scuff3d 1y ago
    For regular people that just want gaming and a web browser it's fine. It would drive people like us nuts, but they aren't gonna care. It can load into a desktop environment by default and you can install Flatpacks, and it comes setup for gaming out of the box. That's enough for 90% of people.
jcalvinowens 1y ago
I just run Debian Trixie with almost no problems. I build the kernels I use off the upstream release cycle (so, 6.17-rc6 right now). I build with LLVM Full LTO, not because it's necessarily faster, but because I want to find bugs in it :) For some reason the video acceleration in Steam itself will break running games if you alt-tab back and forth. But it can be disabled in the menus, and I haven't missed it at all.
Havoc 1y ago
SteamOS is arch based so some variant of that makes a lot of sense if you're not going for steamos directly
lawlessone 1y ago
Kubuntu works fine for me. Got cyberpunk to run on it very well, i havent had a game not work so far, but i don't play online shooters. Kubuntu is Debian but i don't think that has caused any issues. Since i got the deck i don't really use the PC for gaming much though. This is all purely my anecdotal opinion.

rightbyte 1y ago

Debian works fine with Proton for me. I think it is not very picky.

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scuff3d 1y ago

If you want a more curated experience that takes a lot of the rough edges off Linux: https://bazzite.gg https://bazzite.gg Bazzite isn't going to be as flexible as some other distros, but it's goal is to make the Linux transition as easy as possible. It's aimed primarily at gamers but you'll get a full OS that you can do all the normal stuff on

BoredPositron 1y ago
You can't perform all the usual tasks with it; it's a limited, immutable Arch derivative. Edit: Not arch but fedora.
- LaxisB 1y ago
  you might be thinking of the new KDE distro. bazzite is fedora silverblue based. iirc there's access to flatpak homebrew, as well as rpm-ostree (basically rpm) among others
  - BoredPositron 1y ago
    You are right :)
- scuff3d 1y ago
  For regular people that just want gaming and a web browser it's fine. It would drive people like us nuts, but they aren't gonna care. It can load into a desktop environment by default and you can install Flatpacks, and it comes setup for gaming out of the box. That's enough for 90% of people.

jcalvinowens 1y ago

I just run Debian Trixie with almost no problems. I build the kernels I use off the upstream release cycle (so, 6.17-rc6 right now). I build with LLVM Full LTO, not because it's necessarily faster, but because I want to find bugs in it :) For some reason the video acceleration in Steam itself will break running games if you alt-tab back and forth. But it can be disabled in the menus, and I haven't missed it at all.

Havoc 1y ago

SteamOS is arch based so some variant of that makes a lot of sense if you're not going for steamos directly

lawlessone 1y ago

Kubuntu works fine for me. Got cyberpunk to run on it very well, i havent had a game not work so far, but i don't play online shooters. Kubuntu is Debian but i don't think that has caused any issues. Since i got the deck i don't really use the PC for gaming much though. This is all purely my anecdotal opinion.