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Artix and the home PC

Hey, everybody!

Guys, I need help for a newbie (after a long break of about 7 years of not using Linux).

As it happens, I need to go back to linux, which I'm glad I did. I had experience with gentoo before, but I don't want to go back to gentoo on my home PC.
At first, I had the choice of endeavouros, I liked this distro for its simplicity and everything works out of the box, but it turned out that it works on systemd (Yeah, I don't like him) and I'll be using the KDE.

So the choice is on the artix and I have a few simple questions:
1. How are things looking with the games? So I'll need to install steam + vulcan?
2. What's the status of the drivers now? I remember before there were problems with radeon video cards. My setup is R7 7800x3d and 7900xtx.
3. Additionally I will use a home PC, for Cybersecurity, Virtual Machines, Lab Environment, small web project (JS, Frontend) - I think 4. there is no problem here, the software will be standard.
What do you recommend to do after installing a fresh Artix? What can be tweaked or added to make the system work stably.

Thank you!
p.s. don't hit me hard, I really remember a lot of things now and my questions may seem silly to you! ::)


Re: Artix and the home PC

Reply #1 –
1. Gaming is improved, especially with Steam, 2. AMD cards work just fine.
Install the plasma or better the community-qt edition and don't update every 4 hours, unless you encounter stability issues or bugs.

It's really simple.

Re: Artix and the home PC

Reply #2 –
I use it for everything... servers, laptops and workstations

Re: Artix and the home PC

Reply #3 –
1 - Not exactly sure what you want to play, but Steam with Proton makes gaming very easy on Linux. You can even add non steam games, set it to run with whatever proton version you want, and most likely than not, you will be playing on it after a little wait. Wine, Lutris, etc, are pretty easy to set up. 
Another thing is that even very new games can run pretty OK on Linux, because developers are now trying to get it to run on the Steam Deck ASAP.
The one thing that is not working is some mulitplayer games with certain anticheats. I don't play those kind of MP games, so for me Linux allows me to play 100% of what I want.
2- AMD's GPUs play very nice with Linux nowadays thanks to the mesa drivers. I have a 2021 ROG Strix Asus Advantage Edition (all AMD) and it works perfectly. Had 0 issues with it (and hopefully it will stay this way!)
3- I actually work on this machine doing dev work, and I do full stack for web and mobile apps, and then I work on other bigger projects in which the codebase is in C++ and I have to use different virtual machines to for example have an enviroment to compile a new feature or what have you. So that won't be an issue neither I think.
 

Re: Artix and the home PC

Reply #4 –
Artix is a great choice. For gaming, Steam with Proton should work well, and AMD drivers have improved significantly. After installation, consider setting up essential tools like virtual machine software for your lab projects and tweaking system settings for stability.