Hi. I’ve been using Linux for decades on my work machines, but most of my knowledge is pretty rusty. However for gaming I’ve always used a Windows machine. I’m thinking of getting rid of microsoft entirely, since I’ve been hearing such good things about steam & proton lately.
I was going to just install Mint on my gaming computer, but since there are a ton of experts here, I figured I should check in to see if there is any reason not to use Mint for this? And if there is any other considerations or setup I should be aware of to keep my games running well?
Mint is fine :3 there’s probably gonna be something about not using the latest kernel or whatever in terms of getting “peak performance”, but I don’t think that’s a major issue generally? Also last I heard the nvidia 5000 series cards had issues with gaming, but I don’t know what state we’re at now
Other than that on steam you’ll need to enable proton in the settings, there’s a tab for compatibility; protondb.com is a good website to check before making any game purchases as it lists compatibility and tinkering steps that people have needed, and that’s all kinda it?
Mint is fine :3 there’s probably gonna be something about not using the latest kernel or whatever in terms of getting “peak performance”, but I don’t think that’s a major issue generally? Also last I heard the nvidia 5000 series cards had issues with gaming, but I don’t know what state we’re at now
Other than that on steam you’ll need to enable proton in the settings, there’s a tab for compatibility; protondb.com is a good website to check before making any game purchases as it lists compatibility and tinkering steps that people have needed, and that’s all kinda it?