I'm not very worried about the monitor thing, right now I have some basic 1080p monitors and I may just eventually get one big great monitor. Hopefully just one monitor will not give me issues? How was gaming on Pop? I had a bit of a time getting Nvidia to work - kept getting some error. I needed to get the reinforcements (aka software dev boyfriend) to help. I heard Pop comes preinstalled with a lot of drivers.

[–] Black616Angel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh right, Pop ships with the non-FOSS Nvidia drivers and the only thing you should look out for is not updating those first thing in the morning because you will need to restart the PC right after.

I dont really play AAA-games, so your mileage may vary.

Gaming is great. I mainly use Steam with Proton which gives me most games (see protondb) and otherwise Look out if the games are available on Linux in any way, which a lot are. The exception being some restrictive multiplayer titles using BattleEye or EasyAnticheat or stuff.

A little overview of what I am playing/played recently:

Minecraft (PolyMC as Modmanager)
Slay the Spire
Stardew Valley(also modded)
Dwarf Fortress
Darktide
VVVVVV
Orion: Prelude
Tabletop Simulator
Mtg: Arena

[–] kat@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing this! I also play Steam with Proton and the only games I play are Minecraft, Stardrew, and the Sims 4 (modded). I want to switch distros but I don't want to have to deal with the Nvidia thing again so if POP ships with drivers outta the box, I'll be happy.

I need to try some of those other games. I'm not big on any major AAA titles myself.

[–] Black616Angel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Okay, if you like Steam and Proton, try the Heroic Games Launcher and Lutris.
Both allow you to play non-Linux games via Wine.

Lutris already has user-built configs and a lot of built-in shops which is great.

And Heroic allows you to install games from gog and Epic with Wine or Proton. There you have to do a little bit of trial and error but can get games you otherwise wouldn't easily be able to play.

[–] kat@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I've had a pretty bad time time to get Heroic to work, but I'm very slow with this stuff. I think I'm a very non-tech person that constantly attempts techy things... And the results are all over the place!

I'll try it again soon, but I'm garbage at getting anything Wine related to work. Why I put myself through this, I'll never know.