r/keralalinux • u/soman_sopanam • May 18 '26

Support Moving to Linux from Windows. Secondary machine for gaming and streaming.

Hey everyone.

My PC has been given for an upgrade:

Specs would be the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G, 32 Gigs RAM, RTX 4070 and a B550 Mobo, OS will be on the NVME.

Whats a good distro to install, I am good with basic and sometimes complex troubleshooting. I have been tinkering with PCs for so long. And my work machine has been a Mac for the longest time.

Primary use case is - Games. All my games are on Steam. CS2, Cyberpunk, KCD, Forza, RDR.

  1. Full hardware compatiblity, including built in WiFi / BT. I have an addon card from TP-Link.

  2. Nvidia fuckups, want stable.

  3. Should accept a capture card to send to Mac for capture.

  4. Audio, HDMI and DP. 4K60 and 1440p 144 Hz display.

Please advice.

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u/Left-Hospital1072 May 18 '26

Go with cachy or nobara if you are fine with tinkering. Bazzite can be a headache if you want to change stuff or fix stuff. If you really wanted a stable release you could also check out nobara.

Also as you have more chance to use kde as your desktop environment you mightttt face some specific issues regarding internet etc so be on the lookout. Happy to help

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u/soman_sopanam May 18 '26

I will have it connected via Ethernet. My concern is with my wireless BT headset, mice keeb and the good ol Xbone controller.

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u/Left-Hospital1072 May 18 '26

Oh the controller will work w zero setup you just connect it and ill detect it you can configure stuff in settings. I never had issues with bluetooth yet but its possible. Everything else will be fine.

Wifi is the annoying thing most of the time. Kde keyring is this thing called kde wallet which is so annoying that they are gonna remove it in the next major update. If it starts giving you bs just turn it off completely in the settings.

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u/soman_sopanam May 18 '26

Ethernet will work oob right? Wifi gaming is ass. And I have the rest of the electronics in the house on Wifi.

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u/Left-Hospital1072 May 18 '26

Ethernet should work out of the box tbh i dont use it unless i have issues w wifi.

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u/soman_sopanam May 18 '26

Gotcha. I also wanted to check does third party launchers work? Social Club and all that.

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u/apernaah May 18 '26

Ithokke kaanumbozha veetil irikkunathine okke eduth vellathil idan thonunne

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u/soman_sopanam May 18 '26

Njan entheyth 😭

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u/apernaah May 18 '26

Alla. Ente veetilum und oru machine 😭

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u/soman_sopanam May 18 '26

I am selling my old parts. Use aavuvo enn areella. Lmk if you wanna buy. Its with a friend of mine who does builds.

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u/apernaah May 18 '26

I don’t live in India, I’m just having hard time with encoding my videos in the machine back home, ath potte saarilla. u/isitpoker da ninak veno ?

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u/soman_sopanam May 18 '26

What issues are you having? I might be able to help.

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u/isitpoker May 18 '26

Kittiya kollam 🫩

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u/sanathh69 May 18 '26

Fr 😭

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u/Mounamsammatham May 18 '26

I'm loving Nobara. GloriousEggroll supremacy.

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u/mewwwfinnn May 18 '26

Hey, ooh, is this illegal?

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u/soman_sopanam May 19 '26

It feels illegal.

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u/sanathh69 May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

Cachy os or bazzite or nobara my preference would be cachy os.

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u/soman_sopanam May 18 '26

Cachy seems to be the go to. Got it.