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Couple questions about gaming on Linux (lemmy.zip)
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I'm a long time Linux user that hasn't gamed much in years. Previously I tried it by installing wine and going from there but I had to manually hunt for DLLs so I gave up. So I have recently installed Bazzite and stuff that I want is working :) But I'm not a huge fan of Bazzite outside of gaming. So how does one reasonably setup gaming stuff on another distro? Is flatpak the way? On Ubuntu you have many different ways to install Steam for example. What about Proton? I saw people wrangling multiple versions for different games.

If someone can point me to somewhere where tech landscape is explained it would be great.

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[-] fluckx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Most people I know have been enthusiastic about cachyos after switching to it.

Currently also running on bazzite, so I can't comment on experience. Bazzite does have it's own quircks due to the immutability. The distroboxes to run software ( both graphical as CLI ) are pretty great once you get used to them. Its nice to be able to install a .deb file in a distrobox if I have no other alternatives available.

Cachy is arch based and having access to the AUR is probably a big +.

Its hard to advise on "I don't like some bazzite things outside of gaming" though. Anything specific you miss/dislike on bazzite? Speed? Immutability?

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