My Predator Helios from 2018 is working just fine with win10, but I really want to move over to linux.
Probably I will start to have problems but I would like to hear comrades opinions.
This Laptop is mostly for gaming.
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Games generally ram fine with me under Linux and proton. I did however have some issues with anti cheat preventing me from playing some online games.
Edit: was running Xubuntu 20.04 at the time.
I heard more people talking about the anti cheat issue. For me won’t be much of a problem, as I play mostly single players.
That’s the distro i’m using. I’ve switched away a few times, but I end up back at Garuda. It’s been pretty painless in regards to gaming.
Every time i try to switch to something that doesnt have aur/chaotic, i tend to miss it.
It’s also nice to have something to lean on when you don’t have the answers between the os, wiki, and forums you should be able to figure out whats going wrong.
Garuda is great
Be wary of GPU drivers. AMD used to work fine, but nvidia can sometimes get wonky and either make booting slower than it should be or just outright break your X server. But overall games work super smoothly nowadays with Proton, and you can even run non-Steam games with it.
And if you’re not acquainted with it, the Arch Wiki is always useful, but specially for arch-based distros like that one.
Should be fine! I really like Arch and Garuda promises being gaming friendly so it should treat you well. :)
