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I know gaming has gotten a lot better on Linux and I'm working on a new PC and I'm wondering which distro to try.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's far better than it used to be. They didn't get the reputation for no reason. There were lots of Nvidia-specific bugs that have been slowly sorted out over the years. I'm told Wayland is even in a roughly usable state now. But it takes a lot of time to regain the lost trust. Let's see how long it takes them to support HDR, and what that support looks like.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Well up until the last driver version I was scared of putting my lappy to suspend cuz it wouldn't wake up sometimes and I'd have to directly power off sometimes causing a kernel panic. 545 was a blessing.