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I didn't read through the whole FAQ, but I did read through the distros section. For a gaming focused subreddit the recommendations are outdated at best, harmful at worst. They may have made sense back when they were written, but not today.

First of all, I know it says "The following recommendations are not ranked, so please don’t just pick whatever’s on top of the list", but a ton of people aren't ever going to read that part, they'll just jump to the sub heading they're looking for. And why even mention some of these distros at all?

Two bad recommendations:

• Pop!_OS
  • Yeah, Pop was cool back when it was cool, and I understand why it was written down initially. But it's 2026 soon, and the latest Pop!_OS release was almost 4 years ago.
  • Just get this thing off that list, just don't ever recommend it.
• Linux Mint “Edge”
  • Linux Mint used to be the king, back when all other distros sucked ass and were hard to install. But that's no longer the case, other distros like Fedora, CachyOS, Bazzite, Ubuntu, openSUSE have caught up and are just as easy to install and use.
  • Mint is quite literally one of the only distros out there still running on X11. This means that modern features like HDR, VRR, fractional scaling, VR headsets, and DLSS/FSR might not work properly or at all on Mint. Here's a GNOME team developer explicitly stating that developers don't focus on X11 anymore, they barely fix critical bugs.
  • While the FAQ does recommend the Edge version at least, that too runs on X11 and Mint team in general doesn't have gaming in mind. Edge happens to be good enough in some cases, but that's not even an afterthought, that's a side-effect.
  • Don't get me wrong Mint is still great for home servers and whatnot where you don't need new hardware or games or desktop features, but it's just not for gaming and not really for desktop use either at this point (until they transition to Wayland).

Two missing recommendations:

• Fedora
  • Along with Ubuntu, this is one of the two "basic" general use distros for new users. It should 100% replace Mint on the list.
  • Super simple installation with the Fedora Media Writer that you can run on Windows and get a perfectly working USB drive. No need to download ISO manually and burn it with a separate tool.
  • They ship with Wayland. They are actively dropping support for X11. They are modern and forwards looking, not old and slow.
  • Great out-of-the-box support for both KDE Plasma and GNOME.
  • Similar to Ubuntu, they release a new version every 6 months. That's stable enough to not break things, but bleeding edge enough to support new hardware and whatnot.
  • The only caveat is that the consumer needs to install RPM Fusion to get all the codecs and whatnot. It's one command line instruction, but it's a small minus for sure. This should be mentioned in the FAQ ("Fedora with RPM Fusion").
• openSUSE
  • This would go in the "advanced" section for sure, but Tumbleweed is the most stable and reliable truly rolling release distro out there. If you just want the latest and greatest GPU drivers or whatever, and don't want to actually tinker with your Linux, then there's no reason to pick Arch or EndeavourOS over Tumbleweed.
  • openSUSE's openQA tests run automatically on every release, and they basically ensure that your system will stay stable. Of course mistakes can happen, but in openSUSE's case they're extremely rare.
  • Snapper is probably the best snapshot and recovery tool out there. If your system was to ever break, it's extremely easy to revert back and just wait for a fix before upgrading again.
  • With the new Agama live installer, the installation process is no longer difficult.

That's all, free to discuss and disagree or add new recommendations even. And please, avoid anecdotal "well it's been good enough for me thus far" comments. Just because something can be good enough for some people doesn't mean it should be openly recommended to all the beginners.

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Hi guys.

I don't have much space left on my main drive where Steam is installed, so I want my Steam background video recording and screenshots folder to be set to another drive. However, for some reason background recording doesn't work when the recording folder is set to another drive OR a different location outside of Home directory.
Please help 😢

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I recently moved my gaming setup to Linux Mint and I’m curious about your experience modding the DRM-free Skyrim Special Edition from GOG.

How smooth is the process on Mint specifically? Any problem workarounds you’d recommend?

Also what would your must-have mods list be for someone playing Skyrim for the 20th time, but modding it for the first time? I’m looking for those “I can’t play without this anymore” type mods, gameplay, immersion, or graphical.

submitted by /u/Legitimate_Beat_2136
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Same as title

submitted by /u/Majestic_Boss_786
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What are the most popular distributions to switch from Windows to Linux? I would like to know which one you were with or which one you recommend for a person who wants to change in 2025, without getting very dizzy and that the system is as versatile as Windows and also serves to play

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