Fedora did not break the top 10. Is it not good for gaming? Genuinely curious as I was thinking of hopping to Fedora.
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
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It's as good as any other distro
I'd argue that for Nvidia and their drivers management there are better choices, such as Manjaro.
Although on desktop I didn't have any problems, laptop with AMD iGPU and Nvidia dGpu, prime etc. It's really a PITA on Fedora.
AMD 9070 on Wayland and Plasma isn't perfect neither.
I don't get the hateboner the linux community has against Manjaro, it's the only distro that booted correctly in live image mode with full nvidia support on my PC, so seems like they at least take Nvidia pretty seriously.
manjaro really does some things right. it’s the best grub boot menu i’ve ever seen, with perfect dual/triple booting detection and such, but it kept breaking all the time and was a pain to fix. switched to fedora and never looked back. i got debian on machines where i don’t want to fiddle with the is often. then fedora on what i use a lot and need to be flexible. bazzite on machines where its supposed to just work and manage the nvidia optimus pain, which it does really well. also i’d opt for mint for people starting out, or not as tech savvy people. different distros for different use cases, but manjaro has proven to be too much work (on my workstation and those of multiple friends). (also i’m looking into nixos)
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People are still choosing Ubuntu too much which feels annoying to me considering how much better the alternatives are, including mint which is second highest.
I guess more likely Fedora being an RPM distro with its own set of system standards keeps people from switching.
I would think Bazzite and Nobara would have boosted the usage, but I guess not as much as I think.
I’m on Fedora and it’s great. I think I had a GNOME-related performance issue the other day, so I’m trying Plasma KDE
Fedora is fine for gaming. The biggest issue I had with it was that if i had an issue with it, I had to do a web search for fedora + issue and I got a lot of unrelated hits for hats.
That said, gloriouseggroll made their own Fedora based gaming distro called Nobara. However I don't know if they would have based their distro off of fedora if they didn't work for Redhat.
Personally, I prefer rolling releases which is why I no longer use Fedora.
I game on fedora (nobara) fulltime and its enjoyable and works great
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But how does one participate in these statistics? Via the Help menu -> System report -> Submit?
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