All of them are supported on Linux, you should not have a problem running them.
The only only thing to maybe reconsider is the NVIDIA GPU. It should work but depending on what you want achieve you may have a struggle, because of NVIDIA proprietary drivers. This can cause you problem on Windows as well on Linux.
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I would totally not go for Windows, why is that you can search on this forum or even on internet. If your use-case allows it just go with Linux. Much more cleaner experience overall.
Most of the games I want to play are supported through Wine or Proton.
My intended games include swtor, the Assassin’s Creed franchise, the Batman Arkham franchise and Digimon games including the Playstation one Digimon games through an emulator.
I may also play Nintendo GBA and possibly DS games
Thing is I am not too tech-savvy so I am not sure how smooth the experience would be if I go with linux for the living room gaming PC
I think its all fine on the configuration just like Seimus said with the nvidia card its a bit more complicated.
For the Games there is a website called protondb.com where you can search for the game and see their status and other Gamers used proton or wine versions.
Yes Nintendo GBA and DS is working under Garuda Linux fine i just play a few on it too. Retrobox or libretro is a good choice too.
Im off windows since 11 came out and using Garuda linux or Arch mostly as my daily PC. I just have a win10 SDD in the corner if i want set up some stuff like Alienware keyboard background-colors but dont need it at all anymore. ( Better Cyberpunk2077 speed on Garuda as on Windows funny)
Swap to Linux is a great journey to learn new stuff and skills
Emulators for example are so easy to install setup and use in Linux is unbelievable.
Windows does not as by today provide you any good experience, be it on a Monitor and totally not on a TV.
Windows forces onto you features you don’t want, and don’t need and such that slow the system overall.
Linux doesn’t force anything, you can pick what you want.
Of course is up to you to try it out and see what is better for you. I am on Linux for desktop exclusively now by 3 years and not missing Windows a bit.
Should I use Garuda Linux Dragonised or Garuda Linux Dragonised Gaming Edition for the living room gaming PC? is it good to have the pre-installed software in the Gaming Edition?
By living room gaming PC do you mean it will be connected to the TV?
If yes how do you will control it? KB+M or only a controller?
If you are totally new, and are not sure what to install, Go with the Gaming edition, it has everything pre-installed that you would need for gaming. Other than that you can try out Mokka, but there is chance you will need to install one or two packages.
To be honest for something like that i unless your going to be doing crazy stuff i would say go bazzite in steam mode and also install kodi? or which ever the local streaming one is. On the tv even if you make the ui bigger you still come across a lot of small text.
However while not ready yet kde is bringing back the tv mode, https://plasma-bigscreen.org/
Ya on it just grab retro arch from either discover or if you want it more like arch distrobox. but discover it fine there. for dos games download 86box from the same store.
I only say bazzite or even opensuse slowroll just because for a tv box they are way way more stable then arch. Bazzite being a bit better for the gaming side as it has some things preinstalled or you can install handheld mode. which makes using a controller nicer. then you can add retroarch, Heroic, and 86box to steam big picture and its all just a bit more seamless. Personally i’d do normal desktop and just have steam go big picture on boot/login.
Yeah they are good. Not everyone is as homely as garuda but 99% are good people. Best way to think of it all like Garuda just being arch Bazzite is just fedora under it all.
I can access the Bazzite GitHub page but not https://bazzite.gg/ on either DuckDuckGo browser or Firefox on my Android phone, even after disabling NordVPN
Should I still choose Bazzite?
Edit: The Bazzite website seems to be working on my Linux laptop which doesn’t have NordVPN so I think the problem is with NordVPN on my Android phone
I’ll probably use Bazzite for my living room gaming PC but I hope it works fine
So i feel like i’m the perfect person to answer this post, as I have a TV computer with Garuda on it and i use it daily. With that said Garuda is awesome on my TV but you will have a bad time for many reasons:
Nvidia GPU and not AMD
9950X3D is overkill and your going to have to mess with core parking commands on steam, such as: “taskset -c 0-7,16-23 %command%” or at least that’s what i use with my 7950X3D
Also GPU is overpowered for a TV, most TV can only do 60hz, unless you know your TV is 120
Not all games scale correctly with text or the cursor. (small text) - but im pretty sure this is just how it is even with a steam deck hooked up to a TV.
KDE and chrome work just fine, VLC ect.
So yes go for it but i would get like a 9800X3D and a AMD GPU
I had some computers in the past that became too out of date for the current generation of computer games one or two years after I bought those computers because of which I had to stop playing swtor and Assassin’s Creed Unity
