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Could anyone suggest what I should try - I guess I am thinking mostly of support for the video card
Thanks, Rick
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The default drivers for your card are atm at version 415.25.
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but thanks - now it looks like I'll go with the vote here
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Fedora doesn't really have any major drawbacks for gaming (not being able to build 32 bit wine [quirks having to do with multilib support in Fedora] is about the only gaming-related frustration I can recall having in a very long time). It's also real easy to add multimedia & proprietary driver repos. It's a pretty fast moving distro, and occasionally (rarely) a kernel update might break the proprietary nvidia drivers -- which is not a big deal, as it's easily fixed. But still, with Ubuntu you don't have to think about any of this right as you're starting out.
If you want something with less overhead, by the way, you might want to try Xubuntu first. It's standard Ubuntu that comes default with a somewhat simpler (in my opinion, FAR more useable) desktop environment. Check out www.xubuntu.org and decide for yourself.
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Maybe can begin with lubuntu / xubuntu / ubuntu mate
Gnome and kde needs some tweaks
^_^
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Also, with this kind of hardware, he shouldn't really worry about any overhead. The games performance won't be affected be the DE of choice.
In my experience, Ubuntu is not the easiest. Why? Because the upgrades between releases don't always work correctly. I've always had headaches when upgrading between releases.
Manjaro could be a nice introduction too in my opinion.