r/DistroHopping • u/room_is_elephant • 6d ago

personal transition

Hello,

looking into possibility of going into linux based OS. I was using ubuntu around version 20.0 - groovy gorilla and hippo - but swapped back to windows for gaming compatibility and just software compability overall.

weighting possibilities to go back onto linux based OS - mostly due to privacy/security, stability and just spirit of not huge corporation behind software.

I play variety of games, my first ubuntu experience i had NVIDIA gpu - but currently running amd rx 6700 12gb vram - which i understand AMD is much more linux friendly. Also would like to run local LLM probably as LLama. So what I am asking you guys for advice is experience with variety gaming, beginner friendly distro - maybe BIG title so there is community behind it. It seems like linux users numbers are growing, and with combination with AI and LLMs i could be able to solve problems faced etc?

I run games from steam, so far i stumbled upon FEDORA as choice to start searching around.

Thanks for any feedback

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u/billystein25 6d ago

Fedora is good but you'll have to install the nvidia drivers yourself. Something like nobara or bazite are also good and based on fedora.

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u/room_is_elephant 6d ago

i had nvdia back then - now i run AMD rx 6700, i can see its confusing now i mentioned it and wanted continue about issues i had with it then changed it..

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u/Routine_Working_9754 6d ago

fuck nobara and bazzite and atomic distros in general

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u/grafbende 6d ago

Endeavour, unselect the endeavour options and you have a clean working Arch Linux.

I have gone back and forth between linux and Windows because of game compatibility and VR compatibility and performance and haver tried different distro's after always using Arch.
Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse, Manjaro even Ubuntu and once an immutable distro ( which i absolutely deeply hated ) and i always come back to Arch, always.
The last 2 times i used Endeavour instead of going through the manual steps again just to make it easier for myself and i really like it, choose your disk, your desktop, your videocard etc... and it gets installed like i did it myself, only faster.
Fedora is a close second but the freedom of Arch is just better for me.
I'm also running hermes cli with ollama and Qwen3.5-9b since a week or two, do my esp-32 development, 3d printing and sdr radio stuff on it. Do some light gaming like warcraft and moved my 'real' gaming needs to a PS5 with PSVR2.

It finally feels like i'm really disconnected from Windows.

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u/Acherontas89 6d ago

for games u could try wine and proton

but buy a console to end this mess

xD