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PopOS gaming was a shit show for me, steam wouldn’t work and installing non free drivers borked my system like it was Ubuntu 12.04. I honestly don’t have any idea what PopOS does that others don’t for gaming, steam/wine/lutris/bottles are distribution agnostic. I’ve only ever heard people say PopOS for gaming but never seen anything showing why it’s better.

Full disclosure this was a while ago and I’ve gone separate ways with Debian and derivatives for now.

Yeah, I need more of an all 'rounder, but Linux choice is all about use cases. Ubuntu is just so bog standard I can set it and forget it for most things and I appreciate that.

I mean, currently I’m having less trouble using Arch to game than I was with anything else. I think the big thing is that Aech has a rapid release of updates, and the Steamdeck is based on Arch.

If you want those benefits without a lot of the annoying complexity during setup, there is always EndeavorOS. It’s pretty close to a basic Arch install, but it holds your hand a lot more.

Sounds like something you might say if you hadn't used Arch to daily drive? I'm about to hop off Lemmy and play some ff7 remake which cost me exactly no effort to install. Maybe arch used to be hard, but I've yet to see it and I built from minimal install. Meta packages yo.

It's really not that bad

But also, you're fine anyways. Use what you want

Sounds exactly like what I’m looking for.

I have my old pc parts that I want to turn into a living room coop gaming system and have been looking for a linux version that’s minimal to run.

Have you encountered any issues like the other response?

Btw I have 0 experience with Linux and thought it would be a good project to get introduced.