My Predator Helios from 2018 is working just fine with win10, but I really want to move over to linux.
Probably I will start to have problems but I would like to hear comrades opinions.
This Laptop is mostly for gaming.
That’s the distro i’m using. I’ve switched away a few times, but I end up back at Garuda. It’s been pretty painless in regards to gaming.
Every time i try to switch to something that doesnt have aur/chaotic, i tend to miss it.
It’s also nice to have something to lean on when you don’t have the answers between the os, wiki, and forums you should be able to figure out whats going wrong.
Garuda is great
Be wary of GPU drivers. AMD used to work fine, but nvidia can sometimes get wonky and either make booting slower than it should be or just outright break your X server. But overall games work super smoothly nowadays with Proton, and you can even run non-Steam games with it.
And if you’re not acquainted with it, the Arch Wiki is always useful, but specially for arch-based distros like that one.
Thanks, comrade. The system recognized my Nvidia 1060, hopefully It will run fine.
What’s X server? is it related to X11 thing?
It’s one of the window system on top of which gnome or other desktops run. But I misspoke there, what usually got messed up was the display manager, specifically lightdm.
But if everything is running fine I doubt you’ll have any future issues. Just remember to check nvidia-smi in case of FPS drops to see if the game is using the GPU.
Games generally ram fine with me under Linux and proton. I did however have some issues with anti cheat preventing me from playing some online games.
Edit: was running Xubuntu 20.04 at the time.
Yeah, I finished installing it yesterday with KDE environment and it looks neat now (their default is too colorful for my taste). The system seems to be solid so far.
KDE is really neat once you realize its full potential
Cool! I feel like I am only on the tip of the iceberg and it is already great lol.
Sadly, I cannot send a screen as I’m nearly all out of data!
No worries, You can send it when you have data. or post to !unixporn@lemmy.ml and tag me :) I am interested to see it.
