I just picked up a cheap older gaming PC with a GTX 1050 and and Intel I7 CPU. Trying to decide what distro to load on it for gaming. Curious that others experience is gaming on various distros.

  • echo@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    Pretty much any distro will work for gaming these days. Really up to personal preference. I use Arch but have heard good things about Pop!_OS.

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      8 days ago

      I was on pop for a while! It was cool.

      Why does the pop shop suck though? Why?? Why is it so slow, why does it crash so much? Why is this such a problem with so many users? It wasn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back, it was more like an unnecessary brick the camel had to carry.

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        7 days ago

        The pop shop is ass, but you can install the cosmic store and it works wonderfully (cosmic is the DE in development by system76).

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          7 days ago

          Unfortunately I already left Pop! for Fedora when I updated my GPU. I needed something with an updated kernel anyways and Fedora played nice with it out of the box.

          But man, I still am surprised when I open up software and it just… loads with no issue.