I have a flatmate who is making the switch from windows 10 to linux and I Fedora is a distro that I trust to provide a good stable experience. I however use Nobara which comes with all the gaming related tweaks already done. I dont want to recomend Nobara because its package management is intuitive.

The changes i think I need to make is, remove fedora flatpak store. Enable non free software repo. Install proprietary nvidia driver. Install steam, wine, lutris, heroic store.

Is there anything that is required for a smooth Fedora gaming experience?

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I just use Bazzite because it’s Fedora with all the gaming tweaks preinstalled (including NVIDIA drivers and displaylink drivers for docks). Best part is it’s immutable so you can’t mess it up irreparably by deleting something or putting some random commands into terminal. This doesn’t quite answer your question but since you mentioned this is for a roommate who is switching from w10, I figured I’d chime in with my usual shilling.

    • warmaster@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      This.

      I am freaking happy I switched to Bazzite. It rocks HARD. I have never ever used a PC OS as stable as this, everything works out of the box, and the best of all is that it doesn’t need any maintenance.

      I cannot recommend it enough.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I mostly recommend Bazzite because it comes with fractional scaling, a tiling window manager, and seamless background updates out of the box.

    • Guenther_Amanita 🍄@slrpnk.net
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      2 months ago

      +1 for uBlue (Aurora, Bazzite).

      Everything you want and need is already set up for you, and the OS is just in the background for your games and other software to run on. No need to install any codecs, or even updating it, because it’s already done for you. And if something breaks, then you can just roll back in seconds.

      Very user friendly.

      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        I’ve been toying with Linux since 2011 and this is the first easy no maintenance Linux. I’ve been running it for a year and a half without any needs to reset or urge to distro hop

        • Fizz@lemmy.nzOP
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          2 months ago

          Can I do like rpm-ostree install firefox and have firefox install? I dont mind if the command is different i just want to make sure system packages can still be installed

          • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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            2 months ago

            Maybe but I just download the flatpak from the discover store. I’d check the documentation or their website

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Beyond removing the fedora flatpak repo so your app store prefers flathub, there isn’t really anything I think is necessary since steam sorts it all for you nowadays.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Why remove flatpak?

    If your flatmate is new to Linux, it will probably be helpful.

    If he is using the gnome de, then install whatever extensions you need to give the windows a minimized button, or point him towards the plasma spin.

    • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Specifically, it is Fedora Flatpaks, as there have been several problems with Fedora Flatpaks being broken where the official Flatpaks are not.

  • some_random_nick@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I am using stock Fedora for casual gaming. Most games I play have a native linux port. Just install Steam, enable Proton in the menu and you are good to go. Heroic should also come with its own Wine version preinstalled. I never had the need to setup Lutris, Bottles or a system-wide Wine install.

    Depending on the games you play, using X11 over Wayland might be the biggest change needed. CS2 with AMD on Wayland stutters a lot, has mouse glitches and random crashes. With X11 the framerate is x2 higher and a lot smoother (though still a lot worse than Win10).

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Man why not just use Kubuntu and be done with it. You get proprietary drivers out of the box along with proprietary codecs and all.

    Steam, Heroic, etc all install great with the packaging system of your choice (deb, snap, flatpak, appimage whatever)

    Seriously, I complained about snaps at first, but as a daily user for several months now as a gaming system it works fucking great. And it’s stable as heck so I NEVER have any problems.