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Loving PopOS but apparently I can't get the latest Nvidia driver? (Your regularly scheduled "What Distro should I use" thread) (ttrpg.network)
submitted 11 months ago by Gutless2615@ttrpg.network to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Basically the title. Loving PopOS as my daily, but I understand that PopOS uses their own process and makes sure that only a checked driver gets wide release. Great for stability, less great for playing games that just came out. Is there a distro that this community generally recommends for gaming?

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[–] H2207@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nobara is pretty good for a "just works" gaming-centric distro. The issue that you're coming across is plain and simple, PopOS is severly outdated. Most of System76's dev team are likely working on COSMIC.

If you want the absolute most, contiuously up-to-date packages, then I can't recommend anything other than Arch. I've used it as my daily driver for a little over 2 years now and I've always come crawling back if I try something else. Gaming on it isn't a hassle, most of the time it just works, not to be a stereotypical Arch user but do read the Wiki. Arch was also my first ever distro, a friend got me into it.

If Arch is a bit dawnting for you then something Arch-based is just as good, from experience I recommend EndeavourOS. Do not use Manjaro.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I second the "Do not use manjaro". It has incredibly many issues that arch doesn't have and the only advantage is that it comes with an installer.

Arch with nvidia is a bit of a pain though. The nvidia driver updates break my system or some games every 1-2 months.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also the new Arch install script is very easy and reduces the need for Manjaro, even for new users.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I disagree, it just does the steps in the manual for you. You still need to know what's happening.

I tried using it, got a bunch of python stack traces and eventually decided to do it manually. The reason why it failed was that windows put my EFI partition onto a different drive than itself.

An installer needs to catch stuff like that, so archinstall is beta at best.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On the one hand, you're right. But on the other, the fuck is Windows even doing here:

The reason why it failed was that windows put my EFI partition onto a different drive than itself.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

It's windows. It always does absolutely asinine shit like this. It's only getting worse as time goes on, so the earlier you switch to a proper OS, the better.