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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.
Thanks, comrade. The system recognized my Nvidia 1060, hopefully It will run fine.
What's X server? is it related to X11 thing?
@caboclo @AlbigensianGhoul yep, the x server is one half of x11. Though Wayland will replace both of them any day now...
Should I look into replacing it already with Wayland?
@caboclo depends. There is still a good amount of issues that make it a lot harder to get to work. It is the future though.
It's one of the window system on top of which gnome or other desktops run. But I misspoke there, what usually got messed up was the display manager, specifically lightdm.
But if everything is running fine I doubt you'll have any future issues. Just remember to check
nvidia-smiin case of FPS drops to see if the game is using the GPU.Thanks for the hint, I will take note.
Some people mentioned that the system defaults to the onboard GPU instead of the dedicated one, so it is good to learn this command.