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Arch-Based Distros Dominate the Linux Gaming Scene
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this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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If you've already installed vanilla arch on your laptop then you're good to go, that's the hard part. EndeavourOS has a very user friendly installer but still uses Arch's official repos. I like to think of it as a quickstart installation, but still feels pretty much like arch. I wouldn't recommend Bazzite to a main computer, especially since I believe their gaming stack is optimized for AMD.
Gaming on arch/endeavour is pretty straight forward
steamSteam > Settings > Compatibilityand enable "Enable Steam Play for all other titles"Thanks! That's what I wanted to hear. When researching distros they always talk about them being optimized for gaming or what have you and I was worried some of that wasn't as simple as installing the drivers and fixing steam.
I look forward to converting this weekend or next!
Optimized gaming distros often have stuff pre-installed, such as nvidia drivers, steam, heroic launcher... But you can pretty much install whatever you want and replicate that behavior.
Bazzite in particular provides a fantastic gaming experience but, in my personal opinion, a bad desktop experience. It's great for devices used almost exclusively to gaming, not so great if you have to work every day.