What I need to know is what would be the best Linux distro between Fedaro and PopOS? This system will turn into just a photo editing and programming system after I get a Ryzen 9 gaming system built and the graphics card will be changed out to an AMD Radeon Pro WX7100.
For gaming you want distro with the freshest kernel and drivers available. or dualboot/looking glass windows
For your other usescases distro literally doesn’t matter.
oof for gaming I usually want people on amd. AMDGPU is a lot nicer than the nvidia kernel driver. It kinda kills itself after an update. Its super gay TBH.
Otherwise the question I pose to you is what commands / which package manager do you like? Will everything do as you need it to? Make sure to check it all over first.
Past any of that… If it runs in wine or proton, I don’t see an issue with any of this.
I recommend running Windows as your host and using Linux in a virtual machine. The pros of this setup is you will be able to use whatever launcher/game client you want and you’ll be able to play with multiple distros without having to reformat your harddrive.
Once you find what you like, move forward with that one as your primary and see if you can get the games working on it.
Meh those two are not the best possible solution in this situation. My recommendation is Linux from scratch. Works best for games and programming and while you install it you learn a lot about Linux.
Jesus, are you wrong. Any major distro you simply press a couple of mouse clicks to update the Proprietary driver.
@rlmurphy69 if you want to game on Linux Ubuntu is Fine it is officially supported by Valve and if you want some more up to date stuff PoP is Ubuntu based but a little more current than mainline Ubuntu. Comes in handy for Lutris, Proton and GPU passthrough.
Mind you all the games you brought up aren’t Linux native so if all you want to do is game Windows will be easier. If you got an old laptop, chromebooks or raspi Linux is great on those. Or as @AnotherDev said run Linux in a VM. I personally dual boot and Live in Linux most of the time and boot Windows when I feel like gaming.
Not true for Nvidia. On amd, yes. But Nvidia doesn’t care.
Not helping.
That is not true and you know it. Don’t mislead noobs please.
Are you on meth? Linux from scratch is the equivalent to building a car from scratch because nothing out there quite suits your needs.
@rlmurphy69 I’m sorry you got such silly responses. If you’re looking for a recommendation of a distro, I’d recommend Ubuntu or PopOS. Fedora is good for people who are a bit more experienced and while it definitely won’t be a bad experience, the learning curve is a bit steeper than pop. No matter what you choose, there are people here who are willing to help you out.
also, no. It’s more you’re given a lego set and few instructions, and you just wait for hours for the legos to snap together while you learn close to nothing.
If you have a spare PC around why wait? Just dive in and see which distro you like best or am comfortable.
Also avoid Distro hopping, where you can get so caught up in finding “the perfect distro” you don’t enjoy your computer and gaming on it because you spend so much time with the OS.
