This isn’t me asking for help or anything, I already replaced it with fedora kinoite. I just felt like talking about this ridiculous venture of mine.

So a couple weeks ago I started hyper focusing on cities skylines, but played on my Xbox. I learned that mods and all kinds of fun custom content was available on PC so I tried to play on my system. Problem, my laptop has an rtx 2070, but I was running fedora kinoite and couldn’t figure out how in the world to install nvidia drivers.

So after a bunch of searching around I give up and decide to try installing a “gaming” focused distro in the form of endeavour os. It was awful.

Maybe I am weird but the x11 rendering didn’t feel good at all, the lack of some default applications, as well as a bunch of apps I didn’t know the purpose of. (This one is my own fault since they have a kde spin, but I remembered why I didn’t like gnome) and finally today it froze in the middle of an update and hard rebooted, no longer able to launch.

Worst part, I didn’t do a lick of gaming on the thing cause I moved on to Borderlands 3

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
    37·
    6 months ago

    EndeavourOS isn’t a gaming distro it’s just an Arch installer with some defaults. It’s still Arch and comes with Arch’s woes. It’s not a beginner friendly just works kind of distro.

    Coming from kionite, you’d probably want Bazzite if you want a gaming distro: it’s also Fedora atomic with all the gaming stuff added.

    • TheMonkeyLord@sopuli.xyzOP
      71·
      6 months ago

      Yeah that’s why I put it in quotes, it just kept popping up when I searched for distros more inclined towards gaming lol.

      Yeah I didn’t know about bazzite before going about this whole thing, but I am not going to try gaming on my system until nvk becomes more capable. Even then only light work.

      I’m not necessarily a begginer as I have been using Linux for a few years now, but arch is definitely out of my wheelhouse

      • lolpostslol@kbin.social
        2·
        6 months ago

        You can also get used to Arch over years until you find yourself editing kernel code directly and fixing the drivers by yourself

        • steeznson@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          Gentoo has a lot of nice quality of life features if you want to roll a custom kernel. You can do it on any distro though.