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World on warcraft on Linux (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by Lanske@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hello everybody! I want to escape Microsoft and windows, and I am looking for a Linux distro. I have some experience with Unix and a very old Ubuntu distro. But that's quite some years ago. I am looking for a Linux distribution where i can play World of Warcraft on. I mainly use Nvidia graphics (RTX 3070).

I have found some distributions that are supposed to be good for gaming. I suppose, as i am still a Linux Noob, I am also looking for a distribution which is easy to get into. Especially for an older gamer ;)

I came with these distro's myself. What does the Linux community say?

Bazzite

Developer: Universal Blue (US?)

Drauger OS

Pop!_OS

Developer: system76 (Denver, US)

SteamOS -based on Debian 8 (Jessie) -designed to run steam and steam games -set to auto update their OS from Valve repo's https://store.steampowered.com/steamos

Developer: Valve (US)

Manjaro -based on Arch (rolling release model for latest software/drivers) -KDE plasma desktop (Pro-tip: enable flatpak and install ProtonUp-QT) https://manjaro.org/products

Developer: Majaro (EU - Austria, France, Germany)

Ubuntu: -the go-to linux distro for millions of users, incl gamers -best for beginners and gamers who want stable well supported distro -works seamlesssly with steam, lutris, wine (pro-tip: install the gamemode package (sudo apt install gamemode)) https://ubuntu.com/download

Developer: Canonical ltd. (UK)

Nobara -based on Fedora -optimized for gaming on newer Nvidia graphics (drivers come installed) https://nobaraproject.org/download-nobara/

Developer: Thomas Crider (Denver, US)

Mint -based on debian and Ubuntu -friendly OS, works out of the box, extremely easy to use https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

Developer : Linuxmint (French, Dutch, UK)

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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Im personally on pop!_os, though im not sure how much I'd recommend it at the moment as they're building up to launching their new DE, which probably isn't gonna be the most stable

Mint is a good "default" newbie distro :3 zorinOS is another one I see mentioned a lot these days though I've not personally tried it

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I hear great things from Mint, thnx for your reply!

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Try using all of them in a vm and see which one you like

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[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just rebuilt my wife's old Dell laptop (AMD with a super generic Intel on-board GPU). It's now running Debian stable + KDE and WoW installed easily under Lutris (start with their Battle.net wizard). Diablo III runs as well, but with some weird grphical glitches. Wife thinks they're cool tho, so I stopped trying to fix it. Anyway, WoW seems playable enough for her, though super crowded towns like Orgramar (sp?) occassionally crash the game.

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for that! Happy to read Diablo is also running!!

Lok-tar Ogar! ( your wife will know what it means if she is horde)

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really think the district does not matter, but for some reason really matters to those who haven’t tried yet or are in a Linux cult, ie Arch or Gentoo. I’m on fedora and it’s great :) I used to run Ubuntu on my servers and it worked well too. Now I run fedora on everything because it’s easy. I game a lot and have zero issues

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thnx for your reply, which games do you run?

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Everything except for games with kernel level anti cheat work. I mostly play warthunder though

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I ran WoW for years on Arch until I stopped playing a few years ago. IDK what the experience is like these days, but it was fine then.

Personally, since I don't like the runaround to install things on Bazzite, I would use Nobara or just vanilla Fedora with your own drivers. You can use Btrfs Assistant to set up Snapper snapshots and boot entries if you want, but I've never seen a Fedora update fail in any critical way. Frankly, I'd be inclined to just go with vanilla Fedora since GloriousEggroll is a busy guy and updates aren't very up to date on Nobara IME.

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[–] vintageballs@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I am running Manjaro KDE on two general purpose PCs, both with Nvidia graphics, both without problems.

On my living room gaming setup (also Nvidia), I am running Bazzite, which also runs very nicely.

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Thnx for your comment!

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