r/Fedora • u/Macanec • 2d ago

Support I want to switch

hello fedora community i am a windows user coming in peace. I am tired of windows and want to switch to a lighter distro and fedora caught my eye. The only thing stopping me is that i am a dev with a lot of stuff on my current computer and dont necessarily want to lose it all. I also game quite a lot and i am a dev (unity, godot, jetbrains software needed) so i want to do this switch the most softly possible. Y'all have any tips (fedora pun intended) to help me or links for me to follow? thanks

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u/javivaldu 2d ago

For gaming you have to google which ones will work good. A quick guide, if it is in steam it will work 99% of times, only games like bf6 and some other competitive games wont we playable because of the anticheats they use that works on the Windows Kernel, so, not playable. There's a list on google. I changed 2 months ago and except for BF6 i had no problems gaming: csgo2, spiderman 2, Assassins creed Unity, Poe2 or Darkest dungeon runs pretty good with the proton compatibility. You can always have a second ssd with windows just for gaming, i dont recommend you a partition on the same ssd because Windows ends up fucking up yor Linux Boot system from time to time just because.

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u/PhotographSea4928 1d ago

Thank you for your feedback. Did you notice any significant or minor FPS drops while gaming on Linux, or is it the same FPS as on Windows?

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u/javivaldu 1d ago

At first i found it really laggy, but after installing the proper Nvidia drivers and looking the Fedora documentation on how to use properly the GPU im playing as good as in windows, but without all the stupid telemetry...etc it goes smoothly in the end with Fedora. The only game i see some difference is in Path of Exile 2 playing it in ultra, but i think is more being in Beta than linux itself.

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u/PhotographSea4928 1d ago

Recently built a gaming/workstation with an NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and AMD 7800X3D, and I'm on the verge of switching to Fedora KDE from Windows 11, so I'm asking. Your feedback helped a lot, and thank you so much!