Context, I use Linux, usually. I have been a user of Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora for a few years.
Recently, I acquired a decent graphics card (GeForce RTX 4070) and, for others reasons, decided to uninstall my Windows and install Linux.
I saw that Pop!_OS already has an image with everything pre-configured from Nvidia. Is this pre-configuration worth it, are the games more stable on this distribution, or is it the same as installing Nvidia’s proprietary drivers on Manjaro?
I asked this same question on other communities, but only now I found a specific community for gaming on Linux. Thanks.
I went with the preconfigured pop after being too annoyed at Ubuntu having to update all of the time, and it never felt like the drivers were 100% installed with ubuntu. I never looked back after swapping to Pop. It just works, all of the time. It’s like a completely different linux experience to me. Add in the pop store where flatpak and stuff is just enabled by default (and snap is still there, but flatpak is definitely the preferred)… and man it’s hard to look back.
If you’re only going to pick Pop!_OS or Manjaro, I’d suggest you go with Pop!_OS. The Manjaro team has been very weird, and made some poor decisions in recent years. I’ve had a very good experience messing around with Pop on an Nvidia GPU.
Instead of Manjaro, if the goal is to use an Arch Linux based distros, EndeavourOS is a good option. It us popular, more user friendly then arch, sticks pretty close to Arch main, the community seems friendly, and offers ways to customize your software install on first-boot
Any time I see someone mention Manjaro here, I see someone mention EndeavourOS; so maybe check that one out too?
