I’m a developer but I like to game in my free time. right now I’m dual-booting ubuntu and windows but I want to fully let go of it. I have heard about some linux distros that are tweaked for gaming like nobara and garuda. I was wondering if those would be as good as other distros for development. And if so what linux would you recommend. I have an nvidia gpu with an ryzen 7 cpu
I was with pop_os for a few months, recently changed to Ubuntu 22.10 and found it much more convenient and games like AC Odyssey, Skyrim, that I struggled for a long time to work were installed much easier and worked much smoother. I agree that “gaming tweaked” OSs aren’t a big difference. This is also not a matter of Ubuntu being for beginners- I actually stayed away from Ubuntu because of that, for work I use everything from Arch to RHEL.
Ubuntu is just a much more”finished” project, you’ll notice it in the small things (like annoying tiling or software shop that doesn’t show install progress in other OSs) which aren’t the end of the world but “grains of sand make a mountain” and when it comes to using Linux for personal use Ubuntu just does everything with significantly less headaches.