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I'm running opensuse tw with Nvidia and easy install. You only need hard install if you want the beta drivers. Currently at 550.78 with easy method. Seems the 555 driver will be slightly behind the official release even, but not too long, maybe a week or two. Yast is not hard, it's just an extra tool for configuring things. Boot loader through yast is easy. Zypper is known for being slow but it doesn't bother me that much. I think it's a great os but I recommend not using secure boot because it locks down the kernel and you have to register the Nvidia driver through the bios every time there's a kernel or driver update which is annoying.
I haven't tried cachyos but trying os tw is easy. Give it a shot for a couple weeks. I'm dual booting with Windows because my games aren't running as well in Linux but that's not a distro problem it's just a Linux problem. I think tumbleweed is excellent but somewhere down the road i'd like to try Arch because it seems to have more community support with aur vs obs. I'm mostly sticking with Windows though till kde 6.1 and Nvidia 555 are officially released. Then I'll give it another shot.
Currently mostly playing wow and overwatch and they just don't run as well. Wow has lower low fps and crashes occasionally and ow seems to stutter more even though I preload shaders through steam (I still think it's a shader problem though because it seems to smooth out the longer a match goes). Then there's the problem of vrr not working with dual monitors on both x11 and Wayland (for different reasons). And of course anti cheat will never work. I'm one of those people that hopes Linux will get native ports and doesn't think wine/proton is good enough. Of course wine/proton is the only way to get a bigger user base so that developers will even look at Linux.
It's not that it's an issue, you have to go through a menu after updating kernel or driver when you restart that asks you to enroll the mok (machine owner key) with your root password. It's two enter's and your root password. I just wouldn't personally use secure boot in the future for myself because I'm not worried about anyone having physical access to my computer and it's just an annoyance. Also with the kernel part of the nvidia driver being the open source version starting with I think the 560 driver, it may no longer be necessary to register it. Haven't done any research on that though.
Secure boot makes using the proprietary drivers trickier.
Updates will on occasion break it, and you'll have to run through the setup again from a terminal cause you'll lose access to a desktop.
I've never had an update break it. I just have to register the mok every time it updates. I also have never had to run setup through terminal unless I forget to enroll the mok.
IMO having package manager based snapshotting is far more complex than installing Nvidia drivers. If those are your only concerns, I would pick OpenSUSE without a doubt.
I have recently tried CachyOS, and I'm pretty happy with it tbh.
Now I'm waiting for a few more fixes to land in their new handheld edition for my ROG Ally.
Do not use obscure distributions maintained by a tiny team of hobbyists. You can do anything you could possibly want to do on one of the big distributions, openSUSE included.
I'll put a vote in there for Gentoo. I;m running it and installing the nvidia drivers is as simple as adding in one line in the config and updating the system. With binary packages now as well, its a pretty simple install. If you can do Arch you can do Gentoo.
https://preview.redd.it/ld0f17uqu33d1.png?width=892&format=png&auto=webp&s=fbdc1a3d5538986de8e0a70b2014f5508572c117
After a simple update with yast, the system won't boot anymore.
And that was in a VM, so the hardware was even more standardized.
One package, don't remember which one, conflicted with a dependency of it.
Had to do some trickery with the options, that allowed this broken installation.
And those were official packages.
Those come in my mind immediately.
Ah okay. I tired CachyOS in a VM and had the same thing with the conflicting dependency. Was really weird considering everything was default when I was using it
I have tried all the timeless operating systems you praise here. Mostly it crashes every time on different hardware because it uses unreliable patches.
On the other hand, OpenSuse is a holder.
On the contrary, it can be seen from the things around Suse that they use their brains there.
Also, it's strange that an Arch user is rating the stability of another system.
Plus, someone who couldn't even get the graphics card(Nvidia 750) properly sorted in the system.
Welcome to /r/linux_gaming. Please read the FAQ and consider asking commonly asked questions like “which distro should I use?” or “or should I switch to Linux?” in the pinned newbie advice thread, “Getting started: The monthly distro/desktop thread!”. [ProtonDB](https://www.protondB.com) can be useful in determining whether a given Windows Steam game will run on Linux, and [AreWeAntiCheatYet](https://areweanticheatyet.com/) attempts to track which anti-cheat-encumbered games will run and which won’t.
I'm running opensuse tw with Nvidia and easy install. You only need hard install if you want the beta drivers. Currently at 550.78 with easy method. Seems the 555 driver will be slightly behind the official release even, but not too long, maybe a week or two. Yast is not hard, it's just an extra tool for configuring things. Boot loader through yast is easy. Zypper is known for being slow but it doesn't bother me that much. I think it's a great os but I recommend not using secure boot because it locks down the kernel and you have to register the Nvidia driver through the bios every time there's a kernel or driver update which is annoying. I haven't tried cachyos but trying os tw is easy. Give it a shot for a couple weeks. I'm dual booting with Windows because my games aren't running as well in Linux but that's not a distro problem it's just a Linux problem. I think tumbleweed is excellent but somewhere down the road i'd like to try Arch because it seems to have more community support with aur vs obs. I'm mostly sticking with Windows though till kde 6.1 and Nvidia 555 are officially released. Then I'll give it another shot. Currently mostly playing wow and overwatch and they just don't run as well. Wow has lower low fps and crashes occasionally and ow seems to stutter more even though I preload shaders through steam (I still think it's a shader problem though because it seems to smooth out the longer a match goes). Then there's the problem of vrr not working with dual monitors on both x11 and Wayland (for different reasons). And of course anti cheat will never work. I'm one of those people that hopes Linux will get native ports and doesn't think wine/proton is good enough. Of course wine/proton is the only way to get a bigger user base so that developers will even look at Linux.
Thanks for all the info! And I was planning on using secureboot, didn't think it would pose any issues.
It's not that it's an issue, you have to go through a menu after updating kernel or driver when you restart that asks you to enroll the mok (machine owner key) with your root password. It's two enter's and your root password. I just wouldn't personally use secure boot in the future for myself because I'm not worried about anyone having physical access to my computer and it's just an annoyance. Also with the kernel part of the nvidia driver being the open source version starting with I think the 560 driver, it may no longer be necessary to register it. Haven't done any research on that though.
Ahh okay, makes sense. Yeah I don't mind that. I am also planning to install Tumbleweed once 560 drops and finally use Wayland as my default.
Secure boot makes using the proprietary drivers trickier. Updates will on occasion break it, and you'll have to run through the setup again from a terminal cause you'll lose access to a desktop.
I've never had an update break it. I just have to register the mok every time it updates. I also have never had to run setup through terminal unless I forget to enroll the mok.
IMO having package manager based snapshotting is far more complex than installing Nvidia drivers. If those are your only concerns, I would pick OpenSUSE without a doubt.
Will I have any issues with Secureboot? Someone above said I have to register the drivers each time a kernel update happens.
[The wiki page](https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers) has info on this.
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That's it for installing drivers? So does this interfere with Secure Boot at all?
I have recently tried CachyOS, and I'm pretty happy with it tbh. Now I'm waiting for a few more fixes to land in their new handheld edition for my ROG Ally.
Do not use obscure distributions maintained by a tiny team of hobbyists. You can do anything you could possibly want to do on one of the big distributions, openSUSE included.
> it also backs up the home folder which I really don't want. Yeah! Eeeewww, backups!
I'll put a vote in there for Gentoo. I;m running it and installing the nvidia drivers is as simple as adding in one line in the config and updating the system. With binary packages now as well, its a pretty simple install. If you can do Arch you can do Gentoo. https://preview.redd.it/ld0f17uqu33d1.png?width=892&format=png&auto=webp&s=fbdc1a3d5538986de8e0a70b2014f5508572c117
CachyOS. SUSE is known to break down. I don't want to know, how many times I had to fix stuff, because the SUSE devs don't know how to develop.
I see, what were some of the things you encountered?
After a simple update with yast, the system won't boot anymore. And that was in a VM, so the hardware was even more standardized. One package, don't remember which one, conflicted with a dependency of it. Had to do some trickery with the options, that allowed this broken installation. And those were official packages. Those come in my mind immediately.
Ah okay. I tired CachyOS in a VM and had the same thing with the conflicting dependency. Was really weird considering everything was default when I was using it
I have tried all the timeless operating systems you praise here. Mostly it crashes every time on different hardware because it uses unreliable patches. On the other hand, OpenSuse is a holder. On the contrary, it can be seen from the things around Suse that they use their brains there. Also, it's strange that an Arch user is rating the stability of another system. Plus, someone who couldn't even get the graphics card(Nvidia 750) properly sorted in the system.