Jandarsun8
New Member
Greetings!
The title says it for the most part but had some questions still. I installed a couple different versions of Linux on a Lenovo laptop (W530) that has an Nvidia video card in it and Linux Mint seemed to be the only one I was able to get Steam to work on. I didn't care so much for Ubuntu, I thought it felt kind of dumbed down and didn't seem to give a lot of options for hardware settings, and I don't remember the other version I installed since it's been a couple of months. Is there a distro that seems to work better with games and/or be more compatible with hardware then other versions? I've currently been using this laptop to test on but I'd like to move Linux over to my main box which is an AMD Ryzen 1800X and a Vega 64 video card on a Gigabyte MB (although I'm not finding a lot of Linux drivers for Gigabyte, are they not Linux friendly?). I was kind of hoping that Steams Linux based OS would push developers to look more to Linux and offer another OS friendly to gaming other then Windows but not sure if that will ever come to be.
So I'd like to get some opinions on anyone else that games with Linux on what they use for both distro and hardware.
Thanks.
The title says it for the most part but had some questions still. I installed a couple different versions of Linux on a Lenovo laptop (W530) that has an Nvidia video card in it and Linux Mint seemed to be the only one I was able to get Steam to work on. I didn't care so much for Ubuntu, I thought it felt kind of dumbed down and didn't seem to give a lot of options for hardware settings, and I don't remember the other version I installed since it's been a couple of months. Is there a distro that seems to work better with games and/or be more compatible with hardware then other versions? I've currently been using this laptop to test on but I'd like to move Linux over to my main box which is an AMD Ryzen 1800X and a Vega 64 video card on a Gigabyte MB (although I'm not finding a lot of Linux drivers for Gigabyte, are they not Linux friendly?). I was kind of hoping that Steams Linux based OS would push developers to look more to Linux and offer another OS friendly to gaming other then Windows but not sure if that will ever come to be.
So I'd like to get some opinions on anyone else that games with Linux on what they use for both distro and hardware.
Thanks.