This isn’t me asking for help or anything, I already replaced it with fedora kinoite. I just felt like talking about this ridiculous venture of mine.

So a couple weeks ago I started hyper focusing on cities skylines, but played on my Xbox. I learned that mods and all kinds of fun custom content was available on PC so I tried to play on my system. Problem, my laptop has an rtx 2070, but I was running fedora kinoite and couldn’t figure out how in the world to install nvidia drivers.

So after a bunch of searching around I give up and decide to try installing a “gaming” focused distro in the form of endeavour os. It was awful.

Maybe I am weird but the x11 rendering didn’t feel good at all, the lack of some default applications, as well as a bunch of apps I didn’t know the purpose of. (This one is my own fault since they have a kde spin, but I remembered why I didn’t like gnome) and finally today it froze in the middle of an update and hard rebooted, no longer able to launch.

Worst part, I didn’t do a lick of gaming on the thing cause I moved on to Borderlands 3

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
    5·
    6 months ago

    EndeavourOS isn’t a gaming distro it’s just an Arch installer with some defaults. It’s still Arch and comes with Arch’s woes. It’s not a beginner friendly just works kind of distro.

    Coming from kionite, you’d probably want Bazzite if you want a gaming distro: it’s also Fedora atomic with all the gaming stuff added.

    • TheMonkeyLord@sopuli.xyzOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      Yeah that’s why I put it in quotes, it just kept popping up when I searched for distros more inclined towards gaming lol.

      Yeah I didn’t know about bazzite before going about this whole thing, but I am not going to try gaming on my system until nvk becomes more capable. Even then only light work.

      I’m not necessarily a begginer as I have been using Linux for a few years now, but arch is definitely out of my wheelhouse

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Stick with the beaten path. Ignore the people who confidently tell you to use anything new or obscure.

    Fedora Workstation, Linux mint or Pop os is what you want

    • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
      1·
      6 months ago

      I’ve had good luck striking out on a new path with Nobara after years of only ever using Ubuntu. There was a bit of a learning curve (and I still haven’t gotten everything I wanted to work the way it did before), but I mostly got it figured out.

      But that may well be a Survivor case in the sense of Survivor Bias, no idea how many people tried and decided “wasn’t worth it”.

      I did have a bone to pick with pipewire because my old pulseaudio config no longer worked and I had difficulties figuring out just how to redo it in pw, but that’s probably not distro-specific.

  • BaldProphet@kbin.social
    01·
    6 months ago

    Anyone who tells you that gaming on Linux isn’t somewhat experimental is lying. I think it’s getting there, though.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
      0·
      6 months ago

      I mean, OPs distro choice didn’t help here:

      EndeavourOS is an Arch-based distro that provides an Arch experience without the hassle of installing it manually for x86_64 machines. After installation, you’re provided with a lightweight and almost bare-bones environment ready to be explored with your terminal, along with our home-built Welcome App as a powerful guide to help you along.

      If you want Arch with actual training wheels you probably want Manjaro or at least a SteamOS fork like Chimera/HoloISO.

      It probably would have been much smoother with an actual beginner friendly distro like Nobara and Bazzite, or possibly Mint/Pop for a more classic desktop experience.

      It’s not perfect and still has woes but OP fell for Arch with a fancy graphical installer, it still comes with the expectation of the user being able to maintain an Arch install.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        I just updated gdm-prime on Manjaro to 46.0, when gnome shell is 45.6, and now gdm keeps crashing on startup.

        • LeFantome@programming.dev
          2·
          6 months ago

          This is one of those problems that Manjaro fans on Lemmy keep telling me are impossible.

          I am on EndeavourOS and gnome-shell is on 46.1-2. gdm-prime is on 46.0-1. Everything would work fine using gdm-prime from the AUR.

          The issue is that Manjaro holds back the packages in core and extra for weeks but the packages in the AUR are up-to-date ( and expect the version numbers found in Arch ). So you have this incompatibility.

          You may find a newer version of gnome-shell in the AUR but, if you do, you may find that the Manjaro package never catches up and you are stuck with an AUR version forever, or worse, end up with packages that cannot be upgraded one the one in the AUR gets abandoned.

          In my opinion, using Manjaro is “hard mode” much more than EndeavourOS is for exactly these kinds of reasons.