PC Gaming

I’ve been considering doing the same recently for the reasons you listed but I’m fairly technologically stunted. How did the process go for you? How smooth was the transition? I’m fed up with windows and need a change but I’m not tech savvy at all.

Zoring boi!

Three months of using Arch and you've not included your 'btw' when claiming to use it? Most suspicious.

But yeah, agree completely. I made a new-years resolution about five years ago to try 'Linux only gaming for a month' rather than dual booting; worked so well that I wiped Windows a few months later and have never missed it for a minute. That was for Mint, which is great but hard to keep cutting-edge. Decided to try Arch instead, and after a couple of false starts (hadn't read the install guide carefully enough to have networking after restart, that kind of thing) it's been absolutely superb - rock solid, got everything I want at the very latest versions for work and games, best documentation of any distro.

Most of it is probably steamos devices, which is an arch derivative

It's as good as any other distro

im using fedora and its nice, but i installed bazzite on a mates laptop recently, and when it comes to nvidia, and especially hybrid graphics (laptops with nvidia gpus), it’s so much easier to use bazzite with their preconfigured nvidia stuff than anything else. so, bazzite is really nice to use and based on fedora, but for my main machine i’ll probably stick to fedora for now.

People are still choosing Ubuntu too much which feels annoying to me considering how much better the alternatives are, including mint which is second highest.

I guess more likely Fedora being an RPM distro with its own set of system standards keeps people from switching.

I would think Bazzite and Nobara would have boosted the usage, but I guess not as much as I think.

I’m on Fedora and it’s great. I think I had a GNOME-related performance issue the other day, so I’m trying Plasma KDE

I'm on Fedora and I always use the flatpak version of steam, which is listed as 4th. If you redistributed the flatpaks to the actual distro, I wouldn't be surprised if Fedora was in the top 10. Probably above CachyOS. Fedora encompasses all the immutable child distros like Silverblue, Kiniote, and Bazzite.

Fedora is fine for gaming. The biggest issue I had with it was that if i had an issue with it, I had to do a web search for fedora + issue and I got a lot of unrelated hits for hats.

That said, gloriouseggroll made their own Fedora based gaming distro called Nobara. However I don't know if they would have based their distro off of fedora if they didn't work for Redhat.

Personally, I prefer rolling releases which is why I no longer use Fedora.

i still need a windows installation for those games that refuse to work on Steam (I play Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 coop and I can’t get expedition 33 to run on Linux

All three of those have a gold or higher rating on Linux, meaning they run fine on linux with little to no effort. Helldivers 2, Space Marine 2, Expedition 33. If you are having specific issues, check out the linked pages where people share their fixes.

I had to change Proton version and use Gamescope to run Expedition 33, and it runs quite well.

Linux users are also more likely to be private people and not willing to share info about their system. Both of those two effects are probably pretty small and cancel eachother for this survey.

It's not a manually filled out survey. It's just a box that pops up on Steam, you click OK to share info, and that's it. I think there's very little bias involved in it.

Just don't install Steam with snap. Many have had issues in the past with it. Either flatpak or grabbing the deb file from Steam