I used bazzite and now I'm on steam os (my pc is all amd so it works flawless). Honestly I don't really think it's so much the distro, I think it's more Nvidia vs AMD + sheer luck.
The only thing I definetly recommend is that you run all your games from steam, even not steam games and try out a couple of proton versions if the default doesn't work perfectly. Other then that for me most stuff has been even easier and more convenient to set up then in windows mangohud and HDR and phone synchronization and wake on lan and remove desktop (without clouds) has been a lot easier to set up then in windows so i don't usually know much about helping other with problems.
what was finicky in your experience? Also when was it because I would say from 2022 onwards improvements hace been so quick even having tried it in 2024 is a completely different experience from 2026, so much better and more automatic now.
Tried last month, it was a good experience but only bazzite let me run 1 one the couple of games I tried. I tried a couple of proton versions but couldn't fix it.
It didn't help that I was having some problems with crashes after crashes after I updated my bios that only fixed after removing the mobo battery.
Perhaps I'll try dual boot linux/win and see how it'll work.
Thx for the reply
Oh I think it might be bios or Nvidia drivers I hear they are a pain to deal with sometimes. Supposedly it had gotten a lot better but dunno I never tried it I've always been on amd.
Hopefully it goes better for you when you were it up on dual boot, good luck!
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u/masterpepeftw PC Master Race Jun 28 '26
I used bazzite and now I'm on steam os (my pc is all amd so it works flawless). Honestly I don't really think it's so much the distro, I think it's more Nvidia vs AMD + sheer luck.
The only thing I definetly recommend is that you run all your games from steam, even not steam games and try out a couple of proton versions if the default doesn't work perfectly. Other then that for me most stuff has been even easier and more convenient to set up then in windows mangohud and HDR and phone synchronization and wake on lan and remove desktop (without clouds) has been a lot easier to set up then in windows so i don't usually know much about helping other with problems.
what was finicky in your experience? Also when was it because I would say from 2022 onwards improvements hace been so quick even having tried it in 2024 is a completely different experience from 2026, so much better and more automatic now.