I want to replace Win10 on the desktop system I mostly use for gaming. It is an older system with an Nvidia GeForce 1050ti gpu in it, which from what I found, should not be a problem. I was thinking about going with Ubuntu since it is well supported. I was interested if anyone has any opinions about this. I am also going to try and dual boot it with the Win10 for now. I purchased a new SSD drive just for Linux.

    • crpknkr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’ll second Bazzite. I tried Pop!OS and had a handful of problems with it, but they all evaporated when I switched to Bazzite.

  • mikodzi@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    When I was moving to linux first distro I’ve tried was Ubuntu because of the same reasons. But in my case I didn’t have a good time with it sadly, I have encountered way too many problems that noob as myself could handle. Then I got recommended Bazzite and it worked flawlessly! I was very happy with it, it worked out of the box and was rock solid and stable. I’m saying that in past tense, because now I moved to Arch, but simply because I was curious and wanted to learn linux more and not because I wasn’t happy with Bazzite.

  • Nilz@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    I would suggest Linux Mint over Ubuntu. It’s beginner friendly, very stable and overall a very good choice for any purpose. It’s based on Ubuntu so most of the stuff you find online applies to it as well. The APT package repository contains most if not all the software you might need.

    Down the line almost every distro will be suitable for gaming.