Best distro for gaming is whatever works for the individual and what systems he values more than others.

I personally don't see the reason to switch to "hype" distros. I also hate reinstalls, so i keep rolling with my 2013 install. Ofc i have been a linux user since 2007, so i have way more experience than someone who recently switched or planning to switch.

$ grep -a -m1 filesystem /var/log/pacman.log 
[2013-01-21 17:45] installed filesystem (2012.12-1)

That being said, I honestly don't know what to suggest to new users these days.
We are in a mess of wayland transition also. Lots of edge cases where things are buggy on wayland when it comes to gaming and at the same time x11 has its own quirks. So we basically have 2 "broken" systems.

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My list.

Game of the Year: Kingdom Come Deliverance II
Most Innovative Gameplay: ARC Raiders
Labor of Love: Witchfire (Though its still in Early Access)
Best Soundtrack: Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon

Haven't really played much new releases in 2025. Too much of backlog to play.

Jump Space and Deadzone:Rogue are in my wishlist, so probably will get around to play them this year.

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Quoting: vic-bayi can't agree with arc raiders victory in the innovations category, because there were zero innovations in the game. to be honest i doubt there can be significant innovations in video games in general. in the last 30-40 years almost every possible idea has been already tried. not every possible combination of ideas, but combining existing ideas is not innovation. everything else looks okay, at least people voted for it.

But there is. The innovation is the NPC AI. They adapt and learn how to get to you. They adapt if they have broken propellers etc. Now i'm sure there have been games trying to do that before, but in a multiplayer setting i think its the first in this area.

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ARC Raiders and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 are both amazing games released this year

I would also include Witchfire Early Access, but it looks that one came out late last year.

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Quoting: fabertaweOne other thing, I actually think this game is better played through Proton than Windows native, from reading the "discussions". The amount of "issues" Windows users have is bewildering 😆

Yeah i completed the game back in launch (105 hours) or within few months of release with zero stability issues. Few quest bugs, animation jankyness only. But reading all the troubles people seem have had with this game, seems like its very solid on linux indeed. I guess people have different hardware/software, so everyone could have different experience but i really cant complain

Hopefully they can improve the performance a bit more with the patches in the future.

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Quoting: GerarderloperI'm just holding out until the NVIDIA driver fix because this is one of the WORST affected by the NVIDIA DX12 performance issues. We talking %37 performance drop compared to windows. So if you got 100fps in windows you get 63fps under Linux, its pretty bad!

Strange.. is it affecting only 4000 series?
i seem to get very similar perf (within ~5%) to windows with my aging 5800X3D and RTX 3080, by checking people on youtube benchmarking it with the same hardware and ofc same game update.
590.44.01 drivers...allthough i seem to be CPU bottlenecked in many places where GPU utilization is not even near 100%. But seems on line what people get on windows still.

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Quoting: rammaWhy's it a waste of space? Are you getting two title bars?

no i don't. Its waste of space to have the channel name and things up there on top toghether with min,max,close.
Before they added that, it was just starting from where the searchbar is. So i could toggle my WM titlebar off and It was fine. now i cant disable the discords own titlebar.

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Quoting: scaineI love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users. :grin:

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

Its fine if you like it.
flatpaks are just awful with their runtimes and permissions. Appimage at least is fully self-contained sandbox, not some random runtime this and that here and there with sometimes no access to this or that unless you manually modify things.
each their own. I don't like my distro to become an android device.
native distro packages are prefered for me.

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sad that you can't disable the discords own titlebar. waste of space on my screen tbh
Before i could at least toggle the borders off from my WM and it was clean, but now the discords own titlebar thing is still wasting the space.

not the end of the world ofc, but yeah.

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flatpak :sick:

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

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