The Best Operating System for Linux Gaming: Which One Do You Use and Why? | Linux Today

The Best Operating System for Linux Gaming: Which One Do You Use and Why?

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Marius Nestor
Feb 12, 2017

We all know that the world of gaming is split between Nvidia and AMD users. Now, if you’re using a Nvidia graphics card, even one from five years ago, chances are it’s supported on most Linux-based operating systems because Nvidia provides up-to-date video drivers for most, if not all of its GPUs. Of course, this means that you shouldn’t have any major issues with most GNU/Linux distributions if you have a Nvidia GPU. At least not related to graphical artifacts or other performance problems when playing games, which will drastically affect your gaming experiences.

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Marius Nestor

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