I’m wanting to switch my gaming PC to mint from Windows. I’m new to Linux, that’s why I’m going with mint. What GPU should I buy for my use? (RTX is not important to me. I just need it to play my games well)
I swapped my gaming PC from Windows to PopOS a few months ago and it’s been a seamless experience with driver installation with an Nvidia GPU / AMD CPU
I can vouch for Bazzite and always will as long as they keep up the solid work. Running on a laptop (gnome variant for easier fingerprint login) and desktop (KDE, cuz I just prefer KDE day to day). It just works™️.
I think that card fell right in the gap when the switch from the older Radeon driver to amdgpu happened (or sth. across those lines, I sometimes see that exact architecture needing some love to run nicely). Didn’t had any issues with anything from RX 550 upwards ever since amdgpu became the default.
RX 9070 when it comes out, Mint is good but there are so many good options. I suggest using cachyos and trying out all the DEs so you pick something you like. Although you don’t have to stick with CachyOS if you don’t want to.
I’m wanting to switch my gaming PC to mint from Windows. I’m new to Linux, that’s why I’m going with mint. What GPU should I buy for my use? (RTX is not important to me. I just need it to play my games well)
Honestly they both suck in different ways, which also means that unless you’re quite unlucky, they both mostly work fine.
I swapped my gaming PC from Windows to PopOS a few months ago and it’s been a seamless experience with driver installation with an Nvidia GPU / AMD CPU
Installed and played Civ 7 perfectly yesterday.
I know mint is often said to be the friendly new distro.
I’ve heard good things about Bazzite. Like really good things.
I’m currently running Endeavour OS. As soon as I get a chance, I’m planning on checking out Bazzite.
If you are going in fresh, I think Bazzite is something to try for a week or so.
I can vouch for Bazzite and always will as long as they keep up the solid work. Running on a laptop (gnome variant for easier fingerprint login) and desktop (KDE, cuz I just prefer KDE day to day). It just works™️.
Thanks. I’ll go check it out.
I have a RTX 3050 mobile with Intel cpu laptop. So far… Everything works fine on fedora and arch. I haven’t installed Debian based on it however
If you already have one, just try that, see if it works.
You’ll probably be fine with anything, NVidia’s gotten to work well over the last year or two. If you want to be safe any AMD card should work well.
I’d just buy the best used AMD card in your budget.
I had a ton of trouble getting my R9 390 working on Linux, so ymmv
I think that card fell right in the gap when the switch from the older Radeon driver to amdgpu happened (or sth. across those lines, I sometimes see that exact architecture needing some love to run nicely). Didn’t had any issues with anything from RX 550 upwards ever since amdgpu became the default.
Ah, that would make sense. Too bad I had to upgrade to Nvidia since I do 3D modeling.
RX 9070 when it comes out, Mint is good but there are so many good options. I suggest using cachyos and trying out all the DEs so you pick something you like. Although you don’t have to stick with CachyOS if you don’t want to.
What does DEs stand for? I’m very new to Linux.