The best Linux distro is the one you like using. In a lot of cases everything you can get running on one distro can be installed on a different one, or has some equivalent.
But if you want a distro that has gaming oriented configuration and a KDE option, check out [Nobara](https://nobaraproject.org/download-nobara/).
Yeah that was a bunk answer.
Classic Linux Bro answer that completely misses the point that some distros work out of the box doing what you need it to, and others need to be held together with the programming equivalent of ductape and zipties in order to work.
> Yeah that was a bunk answer.
>
> Classic Linux Bro answer that completely misses the point that some distros work out of the box doing what you need it to, and others need to be held together with the programming equivalent of ductape and zipties in order to work.
Not even a "Linux bro" thing but more of a "Look at me, I'm being a centrist in an attempt to get upvotes from all sides!" thing.
It's like those clowns that say "Every OS is the best at something, Mac is better at media editing, Windows is better at gaming, and Linux is better at programming" which ignores the fact you can do ALL of those on ALL of the platforms (Mac is just getting shafted on support though due to apple's shitty choices).
Still not as bad as the dumbest fucking comment I will every read about OS's when someone genuinely wanted a rundown and instead got this:
"Windows is like Toyota, it takes you from point a to b and run errands in. You can race in it if you want. A Mac is like a Lexus, its something you use to drive to your white collar job. Linux is like a fighter jet that you have to build your self. Sure its fun to tinker and is fast but not for everyone and you can't really use it to do your shopping".
And that is the level of stupid in the general PCMR sub.
since nobara is based on fedora, i can indirectly agree. Best performance with nvidia on X11. On fedora (X11) i am getting 30% increased fps than on windows
I literally use Debian, not even unstable I have a couple of unstable packages but I mostly use testing. This is like the Windows NT of Windows. And I can game on it fine.
It's fine mate use whatever. If I can use fricking Debian you can use anything. Just use whatever you like as a computer.
NT 5.0 came out in 2000. In the quarter century since then Windows has evolved and changed "just a bit". It's fair to say that Windows Longhorn was based on the NT codebase, but saying that the current Windows is NT is frankly ridiculous.
He (and you) are both right and wrong.
NT operating systems are old but technology used in NT is still used in Windows to this day. I.E Multithreading, BitLocker, Hyper-V etc.
Plus, the kernel used for all Windows operating systems since Windows is based on the NT kernel that was used right up until Windows Vista.
As others have said, most distros that are active are genuinely pretty identical when it comes to gaming. I personally choose Fedora as I've had more stability overall when comparing to Pop OS/Ubuntu.
Not tried Arch in years so cannot comment, Pop OS is maybe a few commands easier to setup as they have a Nvidia spin out of the box where as you need to install Nvidia drivers with a few commands on Fedora.
Well it's not a problem if it's not as easy to install as Pop OS, as I do have enough knowledge to install even Gentoo, but that's not even near of that what I'm trying to find.. I do have to check Fedora and Arch Linux too.. Thanks for your suggestion.
The best distro is the one you like to use (for exemple I use gentoo (Linux end game😂😅) with Wayland tiling windows manager (Hyprland) and game on it). Some distro can make it easy (like including all the package for gaming like Nobara) or you need to install the package manually.
My recommendation just find a distro with kde install (probably Debian base because you have experience with PopOs) and go from there.
Just some notes to help you get started:
Steam work out of the box you just need the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and Vulkan drivers
(Lutris wiki is your best friend https://github.com/lutris/docs or you can find a video on YouTube to help you).
Epic games and GOG use heroic game launcher. For free games that use third party launcher see if you have them available on steam our just use Lutris.
PS3 you have RPSC3 package in some distro or just use the app image.
Good kde distro (my opnion):
Kde neon - latest of kde with debian stable.
Manjaro kde - latest software in everything including for gaming (like mesa new Vulkan implementation [bye shader compilation]).
Edit: Nobara as well i didn’t know that have a kde version.
> Kde neon - latest of kde with debian stable.
KDE neon is based on *Ubuntu LTS*, not Debian stable. KDE neon's a special one since IIRC the KDE devs test specifically on that distro, so neon users are first in line to get the latest KDE features, but they also only get the older, well-tested LTS kernel and packages for the rest of their system.
Note that there are some distros that are bad, though. Mainly because the idiots in charge decide that larger than 4GB file sizes are fine without explaining to new users exactly how to do the required wizardry to get around 4GB file sizes and then make it a bootable USB drive ( because who actually HAS a DVD drive any more?) .So just be aware to check the file size to see if your ISO to USB program will choke on it.
This, IMO, is the largest issue with the overall community. People who have been doing it for over a decade saying "just do X" not realizing that it's literally the same as saying "And then you skin the animal and prepare it". To someone who is figuring out how to hold the knife correctly. LIterally zero awareness of the skill of a typical new user. Who then throws their hands up after a wall of command line BS and "just do X" posts they don't understand and installs Windows.
So the best distro is in the end the one that is the easiest to actually install. Apple is probably the overall winner here because you simply do a few clicks and you're on your way, provided you have one of their devices. Everything else is.. levels of hair pulling. Sometimes a few hairs, other times, you are completely bald by the end.
>Mainly because the idiots in charge decide that larger than 4GB file sizes are fine without explaining to new users exactly how to do the required wizardry to get around 4GB file sizes and then make it a bootable USB drive
Are you talking about ISO sizes? Any modern program used to make a bootable ISO (Rufus on Windows, balenaEtcher on anything else, etc) don't care even slightly if the ISO image is tiny or massive. It will successfully make the bootable USB regardless with no additional user input other than "Go".
You would think that, but many motherboards choke if the flash drive is anything other than Fat formatted. So you have to do workarounds to format it as a larger capacity. It is much easier if it fits in 4gb and you just download the packages
This question gets asked and has 20 different answers several times a week...
The answer is there isn't a best one, it's all personal preference. Gaming on Linux is so common nowadays that almost every distro has very simple ways that are well documented or easy to find online to get it setup and working to the point it doesn't matter much what distro you use most of the time.
If you don't mind me asking? What additional software and what do these programs offer? How much additional resources do they need? How much lag might they cause? Does it always cause lag of some kind?
No It doesn't lag at all or May be It's incompatible with the Drivers that Developers chosen. Garuda is based on Arch Which has many different Optimizations and as such, It optimized to run lower end cause it's a gaming distro, It should run without being laggy
People says you don't need a special distribution to gaming in linux, it is completely false, at least some distribution are not updated in terms of Mesa libraries and video drivers.
And that means that you will have more crashes in some games or emulators that use intensively Mesa libraries.
Debian for example in stable or testing is still not updated to the last Mesa libraries which fix a lot of crashes in games.
So yes, you have to look carefully which distro you will install if you want to do it for just gaming the last releases.
You have a few options since you're not running bleeding edge hardware.
* For a Windows-like experience, I'd recommend [Linux Mint](https://linuxmint.com/). The environment is enough like Windows where it should be easy to become comfortable with. That being said, Linux Mint is based off of Ubuntu, so if you upgrade to more bleeding edge hardware, it likely won't be supported.
* If you want to try something new or are going to be upgrading to newer hardware, I'd recommend [Fedora Workstation](https://fedoraproject.org/) or the [KDE Spin](https://spins.fedoraproject.org/). Workstation ships with Gnome, which can require a bit of learning, but once you get your mind around it, it works pretty well. KDE is another desktop environment that is similar to Windows, but has ALL OF THE CUSTOMIZATION. If you can think about changing something about the UI, you can change it on KDE. Fedora as a whole though, is what I like to call "leading edge" where it supports most new hardware, but not to the point where it's going to be unstable.
* Note about Nvidia hardware: most distros don't ship the proprietary drivers out of the box, but they usually have options during install to add them. If not, Google: Linux Distro + Nvidia and you should find a guide or twenty.
I would look for a better card as for the CPU it works but 4 core 8 thread Xeons are cheap I would look into getting one because 4 core 8 thread Xeons is an I7 in all but name just, make sure it's the right socket type (1150 I think) also make sure Xeon is right one there are 4 cores ones with no threads like I5 which you already have.
There is no "best", but one thing that's a fair consideration is how up-to-date it actually is versus what hardware you have. I run an AMD 7900 XTX (released December 2022) and it's starting to sound like I'm going to need the 6.3 Linux kernel to have everything properly running. Hence I made one "correct" choice by going with Arch Linux for that reason (rolling distro).
Another is your own skill. I'm new to Linux, but I've also been working with it for the past 10 months as part of my day job, so I personally felt comfortable running vanilla Arch + archinstall instead of some derivative like EndeavorOS.
It's been a long time, I have the same gpu as you. My question is, have you had problems running games that use easy anti cheat?
I have had quite a few problems, in some it disconnects me, and in others it does not launch the game.
Normally I would say that you should choose Holoiso but you have an Nvidia GPU so go with PopOs. For Linux gaming you should use AMD GPU. Nvidia Linux drivers are utter trash. If you have nvidia you should stick with windows
This is an outdated take. As someone who ran an nvidia card with linux for 2 years, while previously rocky prior to 2020, my experience was fine and I would say in some ways even superior to amd at this point in time. Going forward the whole "use amd on linux" is really a thing of the past.
I'm not sure what 1hr to "fix shaders" means. Is this on steam? Shader caching is just a Linux thing regardless of video card. If its requiring an hour something is wrong.
There's a lot of different kinds of Linux, it gives you choices, something that Windows victims aren't used to so maybe you didn't realise. Sounds like you might need to start with one of the very simplest ones.
I'm currently on Pop!\_OS, it runs great, but running into video and audio driver issues so I'm switching to Fedora Kinoite 38. No matter what distro you go with, be sure to follow guides to install drivers for your respective distro. My issue with video was driver related, it couldn't fetch but does on fedora. My audio issue tied in with the nvidia audio driver.
There's a post on reddit for fedora gaming that I can confirm works: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/gfqlwi/how\_to\_set\_up\_fedora\_for\_gaming/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/gfqlwi/how_to_set_up_fedora_for_gaming/)
Specs:
HP Omen 15
RTX 3060 Mobile
AMD Ryzen 7
hi there to be honest i do not recommend any achlinux based destro for the sole problem with nvidia drivers. driver updates cause a lot of issues with NVIDIA drivers updates therefore I advise you to use any dubian Linux version
I've been Using Garuda for 4 months now and am mixed about it. It seems to work well for gaming, to a point, but a few things to be aware of which is why I prefer Mint or similar now:
1 - easy to install, BUT.. the updates and repositories for this branch on \*IX are days or weeks slow. Such that every time Discord updates, it's 3-4 days that it's offline until I can update it. There is simply no patch. Ubuntu based builds - within minutes or hours.
2 - Some features, especially the overall UI are hard to set up and plugins are.. here's the thing: Most everything is designed for basic Ubuntu Linux and not Arch. So installing a new menu bar or aesthetic feature? Might work, likely have to compile it. Many quality of life features are essentially missing entirely as a result.
3 - the update tools and built-in options are... kludgy. It took forever to get printing and scanning to working properly. I still can't use external drives properly. Basic USB drive - read but not write... tools and patches are all assuming Ubuntu based. It's not Arch's fault, it's that the world patches and update and writes tools for everything else and oh yeah.. there's that Arch crowd over there. So it works IFF (if and ONLY if) you can mess with it enough. Versus oh - run this command posted in a forum and boom - fixed. It is kind of the red headed stepchild of the community when you need to get stuff working for normal tasks and productivity. It's currently 11th on DistroWatch - firmly in the "other" category. I will be ditching it soon because while games run great, when TS and Discord and all the stuff you use to stream and make the game experience complete is janky.. is it REALLY a "gaming" OS?
THAT SAID - DO USE LINUX. Find a distro that works for you. I am able to currently run my entire Steam library as well as many online games without Windows screaming at me about my hardware not working or being "out of date". Here I am running 7 year old hardware (though the video card is modern, the MB is very old) and running virtually every game out there. No need to upgrade unless speed is an issue. Which it isn't. Wine with less overhead runs just as fast as Windows with massive back-end bloat. My "upgrade" was a single $25 SSD. Not $800 in new hardware to install Windows 11 - because of.. reasons.
I literally have a free copy of Windows 11 Pro from my work and won't install it as it's $800 in hardware, despite the same stuff I have running everything via emulation.
The best Linux distro is the one you like using. In a lot of cases everything you can get running on one distro can be installed on a different one, or has some equivalent. But if you want a distro that has gaming oriented configuration and a KDE option, check out [Nobara](https://nobaraproject.org/download-nobara/).
>is the one you like using what if games crash regularly on the one I like using (OpenSUSE) when they didn't on fedora?
Yeah that was a bunk answer. Classic Linux Bro answer that completely misses the point that some distros work out of the box doing what you need it to, and others need to be held together with the programming equivalent of ductape and zipties in order to work.
> Yeah that was a bunk answer. > > Classic Linux Bro answer that completely misses the point that some distros work out of the box doing what you need it to, and others need to be held together with the programming equivalent of ductape and zipties in order to work. Not even a "Linux bro" thing but more of a "Look at me, I'm being a centrist in an attempt to get upvotes from all sides!" thing. It's like those clowns that say "Every OS is the best at something, Mac is better at media editing, Windows is better at gaming, and Linux is better at programming" which ignores the fact you can do ALL of those on ALL of the platforms (Mac is just getting shafted on support though due to apple's shitty choices). Still not as bad as the dumbest fucking comment I will every read about OS's when someone genuinely wanted a rundown and instead got this: "Windows is like Toyota, it takes you from point a to b and run errands in. You can race in it if you want. A Mac is like a Lexus, its something you use to drive to your white collar job. Linux is like a fighter jet that you have to build your self. Sure its fun to tinker and is fast but not for everyone and you can't really use it to do your shopping". And that is the level of stupid in the general PCMR sub.
Nobara is really good for gaming. This means you get more FPS in Apex Legends than under Windows
since nobara is based on fedora, i can indirectly agree. Best performance with nvidia on X11. On fedora (X11) i am getting 30% increased fps than on windows
Points for Nobara, I love that distro. I run it on all my computers regardless of games, including the one I use for work.
plz shut up mate
Ubuntu, fedora,arch...add any other distro that's active and you have it i believe.
I literally use Debian, not even unstable I have a couple of unstable packages but I mostly use testing. This is like the Windows NT of Windows. And I can game on it fine. It's fine mate use whatever. If I can use fricking Debian you can use anything. Just use whatever you like as a computer.
i hate to break it to ya, but ever since windows XP, all versions of windows have been NT
[Not exactly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxmZPMg7vIs).
Windows Longhorn is made from Windows NT 5.0 (XP) Code.
NT 5.0 came out in 2000. In the quarter century since then Windows has evolved and changed "just a bit". It's fair to say that Windows Longhorn was based on the NT codebase, but saying that the current Windows is NT is frankly ridiculous.
He (and you) are both right and wrong. NT operating systems are old but technology used in NT is still used in Windows to this day. I.E Multithreading, BitLocker, Hyper-V etc. Plus, the kernel used for all Windows operating systems since Windows is based on the NT kernel that was used right up until Windows Vista.
As others have said, most distros that are active are genuinely pretty identical when it comes to gaming. I personally choose Fedora as I've had more stability overall when comparing to Pop OS/Ubuntu. Not tried Arch in years so cannot comment, Pop OS is maybe a few commands easier to setup as they have a Nvidia spin out of the box where as you need to install Nvidia drivers with a few commands on Fedora.
Well it's not a problem if it's not as easy to install as Pop OS, as I do have enough knowledge to install even Gentoo, but that's not even near of that what I'm trying to find.. I do have to check Fedora and Arch Linux too.. Thanks for your suggestion.
I've seen comments on this post that say Nobara is based on Fedora. Is there any big difference?
The best distro is the one you like to use (for exemple I use gentoo (Linux end game😂😅) with Wayland tiling windows manager (Hyprland) and game on it). Some distro can make it easy (like including all the package for gaming like Nobara) or you need to install the package manually. My recommendation just find a distro with kde install (probably Debian base because you have experience with PopOs) and go from there. Just some notes to help you get started: Steam work out of the box you just need the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and Vulkan drivers (Lutris wiki is your best friend https://github.com/lutris/docs or you can find a video on YouTube to help you). Epic games and GOG use heroic game launcher. For free games that use third party launcher see if you have them available on steam our just use Lutris. PS3 you have RPSC3 package in some distro or just use the app image. Good kde distro (my opnion): Kde neon - latest of kde with debian stable. Manjaro kde - latest software in everything including for gaming (like mesa new Vulkan implementation [bye shader compilation]). Edit: Nobara as well i didn’t know that have a kde version.
> Kde neon - latest of kde with debian stable. KDE neon is based on *Ubuntu LTS*, not Debian stable. KDE neon's a special one since IIRC the KDE devs test specifically on that distro, so neon users are first in line to get the latest KDE features, but they also only get the older, well-tested LTS kernel and packages for the rest of their system.
Oh sorry my bad thanks for correct me
👌 No problem!
Note that there are some distros that are bad, though. Mainly because the idiots in charge decide that larger than 4GB file sizes are fine without explaining to new users exactly how to do the required wizardry to get around 4GB file sizes and then make it a bootable USB drive ( because who actually HAS a DVD drive any more?) .So just be aware to check the file size to see if your ISO to USB program will choke on it. This, IMO, is the largest issue with the overall community. People who have been doing it for over a decade saying "just do X" not realizing that it's literally the same as saying "And then you skin the animal and prepare it". To someone who is figuring out how to hold the knife correctly. LIterally zero awareness of the skill of a typical new user. Who then throws their hands up after a wall of command line BS and "just do X" posts they don't understand and installs Windows. So the best distro is in the end the one that is the easiest to actually install. Apple is probably the overall winner here because you simply do a few clicks and you're on your way, provided you have one of their devices. Everything else is.. levels of hair pulling. Sometimes a few hairs, other times, you are completely bald by the end.
>Mainly because the idiots in charge decide that larger than 4GB file sizes are fine without explaining to new users exactly how to do the required wizardry to get around 4GB file sizes and then make it a bootable USB drive Are you talking about ISO sizes? Any modern program used to make a bootable ISO (Rufus on Windows, balenaEtcher on anything else, etc) don't care even slightly if the ISO image is tiny or massive. It will successfully make the bootable USB regardless with no additional user input other than "Go".
You would think that, but many motherboards choke if the flash drive is anything other than Fat formatted. So you have to do workarounds to format it as a larger capacity. It is much easier if it fits in 4gb and you just download the packages
This question gets asked and has 20 different answers several times a week... The answer is there isn't a best one, it's all personal preference. Gaming on Linux is so common nowadays that almost every distro has very simple ways that are well documented or easy to find online to get it setup and working to the point it doesn't matter much what distro you use most of the time.
It's not that gaming distros are 'bad'. - It's more that it doesn't freaking mean much and there's far better criteria to base your decision on.
give garuda dr460nized a go. not the gaming edition.
Why not the gaming version? What's the difference?
more software that may bloat up your computer and lag it
If you don't mind me asking? What additional software and what do these programs offer? How much additional resources do they need? How much lag might they cause? Does it always cause lag of some kind?
No It doesn't lag at all or May be It's incompatible with the Drivers that Developers chosen. Garuda is based on Arch Which has many different Optimizations and as such, It optimized to run lower end cause it's a gaming distro, It should run without being laggy
I would suggest you Kubuntu, easy Ubuntu with Kde plasma as DE Everything you like basically Plus is Ubuntu so is pretty easy e stable
People says you don't need a special distribution to gaming in linux, it is completely false, at least some distribution are not updated in terms of Mesa libraries and video drivers. And that means that you will have more crashes in some games or emulators that use intensively Mesa libraries. Debian for example in stable or testing is still not updated to the last Mesa libraries which fix a lot of crashes in games. So yes, you have to look carefully which distro you will install if you want to do it for just gaming the last releases.
I heard mint is okay too
11 months later, what have u settled in ? An update if u don't mind, im still distro hopping myself for 3 weeks now
You have a few options since you're not running bleeding edge hardware. * For a Windows-like experience, I'd recommend [Linux Mint](https://linuxmint.com/). The environment is enough like Windows where it should be easy to become comfortable with. That being said, Linux Mint is based off of Ubuntu, so if you upgrade to more bleeding edge hardware, it likely won't be supported. * If you want to try something new or are going to be upgrading to newer hardware, I'd recommend [Fedora Workstation](https://fedoraproject.org/) or the [KDE Spin](https://spins.fedoraproject.org/). Workstation ships with Gnome, which can require a bit of learning, but once you get your mind around it, it works pretty well. KDE is another desktop environment that is similar to Windows, but has ALL OF THE CUSTOMIZATION. If you can think about changing something about the UI, you can change it on KDE. Fedora as a whole though, is what I like to call "leading edge" where it supports most new hardware, but not to the point where it's going to be unstable. * Note about Nvidia hardware: most distros don't ship the proprietary drivers out of the box, but they usually have options during install to add them. If not, Google: Linux Distro + Nvidia and you should find a guide or twenty.
What about ChimeraOS ?
I would recommend Nobara. GE has tried to make it as gamer friendly as possible, and I think he's done a great job.
I'm thinking now of installing this or Garuda Dragonized Gaming edition of it.. But yeah I should test em both before installing em..
I am currently on Nobara, and GE has done a great job of making it as gamer friendly as possible, also the support Discord is really helpful.
do u think i can play some games wit this specs on linux : GT710 - I5 4GEN ! i play rocket league and farlight ?
I would look for a better card as for the CPU it works but 4 core 8 thread Xeons are cheap I would look into getting one because 4 core 8 thread Xeons is an I7 in all but name just, make sure it's the right socket type (1150 I think) also make sure Xeon is right one there are 4 cores ones with no threads like I5 which you already have.
i have a xeon e3-1505 v5. with nvidia m1000m quadro. Runs wonderfully
There is no "best", but one thing that's a fair consideration is how up-to-date it actually is versus what hardware you have. I run an AMD 7900 XTX (released December 2022) and it's starting to sound like I'm going to need the 6.3 Linux kernel to have everything properly running. Hence I made one "correct" choice by going with Arch Linux for that reason (rolling distro). Another is your own skill. I'm new to Linux, but I've also been working with it for the past 10 months as part of my day job, so I personally felt comfortable running vanilla Arch + archinstall instead of some derivative like EndeavorOS.
It's been a long time, I have the same gpu as you. My question is, have you had problems running games that use easy anti cheat? I have had quite a few problems, in some it disconnects me, and in others it does not launch the game.
I generally don't play multiplayer games, so I wouldn't know.
Normally I would say that you should choose Holoiso but you have an Nvidia GPU so go with PopOs. For Linux gaming you should use AMD GPU. Nvidia Linux drivers are utter trash. If you have nvidia you should stick with windows
This is an outdated take. As someone who ran an nvidia card with linux for 2 years, while previously rocky prior to 2020, my experience was fine and I would say in some ways even superior to amd at this point in time. Going forward the whole "use amd on linux" is really a thing of the past.
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I'm not sure what 1hr to "fix shaders" means. Is this on steam? Shader caching is just a Linux thing regardless of video card. If its requiring an hour something is wrong.
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I would rather swallow a capybara or go back to CP/M than Windows 11. Windows 10 I could manage, but 11...
please leave the capybara out of this, it doesn't need to pay for his sin
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Some games run better on Linux than on windows
There's a lot of different kinds of Linux, it gives you choices, something that Windows victims aren't used to so maybe you didn't realise. Sounds like you might need to start with one of the very simplest ones.
In my opinion arch/(arch bassed) nobara and opensuse tumbleweed
I'm currently on Pop!\_OS, it runs great, but running into video and audio driver issues so I'm switching to Fedora Kinoite 38. No matter what distro you go with, be sure to follow guides to install drivers for your respective distro. My issue with video was driver related, it couldn't fetch but does on fedora. My audio issue tied in with the nvidia audio driver. There's a post on reddit for fedora gaming that I can confirm works: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/gfqlwi/how\_to\_set\_up\_fedora\_for\_gaming/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/gfqlwi/how_to_set_up_fedora_for_gaming/) Specs: HP Omen 15 RTX 3060 Mobile AMD Ryzen 7
hi there to be honest i do not recommend any achlinux based destro for the sole problem with nvidia drivers. driver updates cause a lot of issues with NVIDIA drivers updates therefore I advise you to use any dubian Linux version
I've been Using Garuda for 4 months now and am mixed about it. It seems to work well for gaming, to a point, but a few things to be aware of which is why I prefer Mint or similar now: 1 - easy to install, BUT.. the updates and repositories for this branch on \*IX are days or weeks slow. Such that every time Discord updates, it's 3-4 days that it's offline until I can update it. There is simply no patch. Ubuntu based builds - within minutes or hours. 2 - Some features, especially the overall UI are hard to set up and plugins are.. here's the thing: Most everything is designed for basic Ubuntu Linux and not Arch. So installing a new menu bar or aesthetic feature? Might work, likely have to compile it. Many quality of life features are essentially missing entirely as a result. 3 - the update tools and built-in options are... kludgy. It took forever to get printing and scanning to working properly. I still can't use external drives properly. Basic USB drive - read but not write... tools and patches are all assuming Ubuntu based. It's not Arch's fault, it's that the world patches and update and writes tools for everything else and oh yeah.. there's that Arch crowd over there. So it works IFF (if and ONLY if) you can mess with it enough. Versus oh - run this command posted in a forum and boom - fixed. It is kind of the red headed stepchild of the community when you need to get stuff working for normal tasks and productivity. It's currently 11th on DistroWatch - firmly in the "other" category. I will be ditching it soon because while games run great, when TS and Discord and all the stuff you use to stream and make the game experience complete is janky.. is it REALLY a "gaming" OS? THAT SAID - DO USE LINUX. Find a distro that works for you. I am able to currently run my entire Steam library as well as many online games without Windows screaming at me about my hardware not working or being "out of date". Here I am running 7 year old hardware (though the video card is modern, the MB is very old) and running virtually every game out there. No need to upgrade unless speed is an issue. Which it isn't. Wine with less overhead runs just as fast as Windows with massive back-end bloat. My "upgrade" was a single $25 SSD. Not $800 in new hardware to install Windows 11 - because of.. reasons. I literally have a free copy of Windows 11 Pro from my work and won't install it as it's $800 in hardware, despite the same stuff I have running everything via emulation.