Hey guys i’d like to switch to Linux (maybe Manjaro) completely and I was wondering how good would be the performance of my AMD Ryzen 5 5600g on it while gaming, there’s any gamer with Linux here, I would like to read your experiences.
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Using EndevaourOS here, it is just fine. Tho RT performance is not at desired levels, which is somewhat ok because 99 percent of the games that i play doesn’t have RT.
Mesa 23.2.1
Keep your windows install around on another drive as a backup. Best thing you can do is grab a cheap SSD to put Linux on to experiment with.
I’ve been using Linux for a long time and while it’s gotten incredibly good for gaming, it still has some weak points and can give you issues. Sometimes you’re just gonna want to have Windows there if you wanna play something and not think about it. But hey in a few more years that probably won’t be the case.
As for what distro, please just use fedora. Garuda, nobura, manjaro, or any other distro that adds a bunch of stuff just isn’t worth fooling around with for your first distro. Fedora is up there with ubuntu for popularity and support, both being maintained by large organizations. They have their own media writer, they support everything you’ll ever need, it’s stable and up to date as well.
I can’t comment on CPUs, but Radeon is the way to go with Linux gaming. I haven’t booted into Windows in years and play whatever I want.