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I think the current received wisdom on Linux gaming boils down mainly to three letters: AMD. As a company they’re “friendlier” to Linux for drivers and such.
That said, I’m running an 11th gen intel i7 and nvidia 3080 and not having any problems. I haven’t tried starfield yet but Baldur’s Gate 3 runs like a champ.
I’ve got an old vega56 in hand because I upgraded an old mac pro and I’m wondering whether I can build a usable Linux gaming rig with it.
I don't use a Nvidia card, nor play Starfield, but I've seen some videos explaining that Nvidia drivers 535 don't work well with Starfield. People had to downgrad to 530 or 525 to have it work. I don't know if nvidia released new drivers since, but if you have issues trying Starfield, you can keep an eye on that.
In contrast I am having lot of problems with Baldurs gate 3 and new AMD 7600 card, their driver oss constantly causes kernel panic.
I've seen some things about maybe stick to a 6000 series for now until AMD gets their 7000 series drivers worked out? Do you have any experience with a 6000 series card?
I’ve got a 6600XT and have had zero issues with Ubuntu and Fedora.
Not really, just jumped from gtx 960 to 7600, hope they iron it out.
Today i installed Debian with the intention to initially set up my linux gaming system. The installation was ok, but everything after that seems like a lot of effort e. g. installing Nvidia drivers, apt doesnt know steam or discord...
Do i really have to Invest that much research or so i miss Something? Is there a better distro for me?
Yes, there are a bunch of gaming-oriented ones. I’m using pop!_os (stupid name) and it took me nearly zero effort to start playing steam games. There’s also Drauger OS, Garuda, Lakka, and Bazzite, among others.