Ubuntu has little support? That's interesting, but hard to believe since they're backed by canonical.
Some distributions set up the Gaming aspect for you, like Garuda. Make sure Native steam and Runtime steam is up and running out of the box, the same with Proton and Mangohud, gamemode, and so on, so it's all there, and you don't need to do anything besides logging into steam and play. POP_OS has some of the stuff, so it's a little easier to get up and run, but Ubuntu has non of them installed, which means you have to install it all by yourself and compile it unless you know what you are doing; you may end up installing the wrong things and break the system or just get frustrated over some things don't work it's not just install steam and NVIDIA then go. Other libraries can help make the games run better, and distributions like Ubuntu don't have it out of the box. That's why i would never recommend Ubuntu as a gaming distribution unless you know what you are doing i only used Fedora once. I was not too fond of it, but i heard many are. For me, it didn't feel like a great experience when i was gaming on it, so i stopped using it. PS. Installing Nvidia is easy on Ubuntu-based distributions i always use sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa and then sudo apt update to make sure i have the newest stable driver, and for steam, that easy that sudo apt install steam. I have not seen Ubuntu-based distributions yet where that doesn't work, and on the arch, it just sudo Pacman -Syu since it should be in the kernel if it's an Nvidia-based distribution, from my understanding, and sudo Pacman -S Steam for steam.
So Garuda already has the drivers installed?
PCLinuxOS is an okay distro and for the most has always worked on most every desktop I've used it on OOTB.
"PCLinuxOS is a user-friendly Linux distribution with out-of-the-box support for many popular graphics and sound cards, as well as other peripheral devices."
Also, is it recommended for gaming when compared to Ubuntu? Ubuntu is main recommended distro for gaming.
That's how I always do. I hate to use the GUI. It doesn't tell you anything, and if somthing goes wrong, you are in the dark. But, on the other hand, using the terminal will tell you everything, and if somthing goes wrong, you now have a log you can look at or take a Screenshot to ask on the forum about.
I'm curious to know what other libraries you are talking about? Now days I install Steam, Lutris, gamemoded, gamescope, Wine and ProtonGE. All my games run fine there is rarely one that isn't playable or that crashes. I've gone through a lot of gaming websites articles and Youtube channels and the only game tweaking they usually do is various Proton forks, launch options and kernels with different schedulers etc, I can't recall any extra libraries mentioned anywhere?
Though I would not count PCLinuxOS as a gaming platform. It's a good Desktop OS. It does come with many Nvidia drivers pre installed. Updates are done via the Synaptic package manager. It's what I would call a semi-rolling release It's the only distro that I know of that is .rpm based and yet uses apt for package management. I've used it over the years on many different boxes and it's always been good out of the box. It's normally very solid. and some have used it for years with out a total system reinstall. They have one of the Linux Worlds best monthly magazines also.PCLinuxOS is an okay distro and for the most has always worked on most every desktop I've used it on OOTB.
PCLinuxOS is a hands on distro with none of the bells and whistles that the mainstream distros come with.
You update it manually using the terminal.
I've never seen any proprietary graphics card drivers.
I don't know that I'd say it's a good choice for a gaming disto.
There is a bit of a learning and it has a good wiki how to guide.
I use PCLinuxOS and I like it.
PCLinuxOSHelp Knowledge Base
pclinuxoshelp.com
The world is yours ;-) Well, until you start selling the software...
At the bottom of the gardualinux.org website it says.
I would think that is a license reference?
It definitely came unnoticed. Still, conflicting with the fact they include proprietary software by default.
