So I was thinking of switching my desktop to linux. I have been running fedora on my laptop for 3 years and I really like it. My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs) and can I use VMs in any of the gaming oriented ones (mostly because I don’t wanna keep dual booting).
Edit: I have gone with Bazzite for now and it seems to be working fine. Some games don’t rrally work acceptably (I expected that) so I will keep dual booting for a while.
Bazzite is made for gaming and it’s worked for me pretty flawlessly for about 6 months BUT I had a lot of issues getting it to run a VM. I’m certainly not a Linux expert but I eventually gave up trying.
I think there’s some hidden complexity with immutable distros that most people ignore, I also had issues getting podman/docker to run properly there IIRC but dunno if its the same thing
I saw “gaming focused distro” and immediately jumped into it without any research but that’s just the way I do things. Sometimes I work my way backwards and develop at least some understanding. I believe it’s commonly referred to as a learning disorder. Don’t regret it though.
There’s a ujust script to set up virtualisation on Bazzite.
ujust setup-virtualizationin the terminal should get you going. Alongside the background stuff it sets up, it installs a GUI virtual machine manager.It’s all a blur now but I know I did something with ujust. I’ll try it again to make sure, thank you for the info.
There is a ujust script for enabling KVM.
I forget exactly how I had to do it. If there’s anything need beyond ujust, if you search for it, you’ll find solutions (if nothing for Bazzite, try “silverblue” instead in your search as it’ll likely be the same solution)
Never heard of silverblue. That should narrow things. Good info, thanks
It’s another immutable Fedora spin that predates Bazzite.
If you’re using Bazzite and have trouble finding solutions online, usually substituting silverblue works for me. “Kinoite” might also work. Anything with ostree is going to have similar solutions for most things.
Awesome, thank you
I’m pretty sure if you use bazzite-dx you get the virtualization setup as a ujust set-up script
I’ll give that a try too, thanks