So I've mentioned before but was waiting on an SSD upgrade, but I'm finally taking the plunge into Linux gaming now. Those of you that are using Linux for gaming, is Garuda the best distro? Should I try something else?
Main concerns are being able to run as much of my games as possible, with the biggest portion of my library being from GoG, the rest with Steam. I'd prefer to not have to spend hours on config files for every game. I do intend to keep a Windows partition to dual-boot, but for me to consider this a success, the vast majority of my single player games and emulation needs to be in Linux. I don't plan to share installs on an NTFS drive so I can play on one or the other or anything, if it's to run in Linux it will be on a proper Linux partition.
My Linux experience and knowledge is well above average, it's been my "productivity" desktop for about 4 years now. I've done some small-scale server administration going back 20 years. Command line doesn't scare me, but I'm pretty bad at getting things to work that I have to compile myself.
I know Trump is the hot topic right now, but no reason to be the only topic.
I'm on Garuda, I use it for the convenience of easy setup to many of the libraries (winetricks, mostly), and it does have a few nice bells and whistles. Basically checkbox for 'nvidia drivers, proton-GE, steam, wine, winetricks' and boom it's at least there in a non-ass configuration.
I've gotten bit by this distro probably twice in the last year though, as they are a small team that can't find everything before updating their deps. So in one instance I couldn't boot and had to use a snapshot (thankfully easy to do cus again, it was set up that way without me touching it) and found out minutes before I updated they had a breaking dependency change.
The other time they moved from one library to another for their UI layout and it took about an hour to get my configs back to looking how I'd already set them up, which eh, all things considered not a bad deal.
Overall I'd say about 8/10, would recommend.