What are some recommend changes for gaming for linux distros? Know I or to get steam and portion, but not sure what else

Have a AMD Gpu and cpu if that is important

  • @stuner@lemmy.world
    9•4 months ago

    If you have an AMD GPU (except for the very latest GPUs), you should be good out of the box. The AMD driver comes pre-installed with mesa.

    Other than that… don’t use NTFS to store your games.

    Edit: Maybe I misunderstood your question. I understood it as: What are some recommended changes to do after installing a Linux distro. Did you meant to ask about differences between distros?

      • Luffy
        7•4 months ago

        Yes, ntfs

        It will, if your games even work, nuke your performance into oblivion

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
        -5•4 months ago

        It’s a Microsoft network filesystem. They’re probably telling you: don’t leave your games on an old Windows computer and try to remote mount the drive with NTFS; if you do, you’ll be sorry. Re-install the games on Linux.

        • @catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          4•4 months ago

          NTFS has nothing to do with the network. Maybe you’re thinking of NFS? But natively Windows uses SMB.

        • @vintageballs@feddit.orgDeutsch
          2•4 months ago

          It’s not a network file system. It’s a regular file system for hard drives, SSDs and such, which is used by default on Windows since Windows NT (that’s where the NT comes from - it doesn’t stand for network but “new technology”).

          The implementation in Windows is closed source meaning the file system had to be reverse engineered to even work at all under Linux. Support nowadays is okay-ish, but as soon as you don’t properly shutdown your computer or use the file system under Windows, you will run into weird problems.

          Also it just straight up doesn’t work for most games running under wine.