cross-posted from: https://feddit.ch/post/4192351

New Manjaro Linux Gaming Handheld from OrangePi

This is exciting! A gaming handheld from a great open source hardware company that makes SBCs like the RP5. It looks to have all the quality features and combines the best of all the handhelds I’ve seen. This has me really excited.

I am wondering though what gaming on Manjaro Linux is like if anyone knows. I’ve heard of Bazzite and Nobara as well as Chimera and HoloISO which are all focused around gaming. Does Manjaro ship with all the gaming features preinstalled?

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    5 months ago

    I’m currently running Nobara and personally cannot recommend it due to a lot of annoying issues. Can’t even drag & drop shit out of the FF download window into Dolphin, even though that was working fine on any other distro I used before (including Manjaro, which was still the most stable distro I used).

    • Shadywack@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      5 months ago

      That to me sounds like their wayland by default setup, which is really more about the wayland ecosystem and reliance on xwayland (although firefox is suppose to launch wayland native on Nobara with KDE).

      I’m aware of a few quirks, but that sounds pretty specific. My experience with all DE’s right now has me pretty negative on Linux overall until we get fully migrated to wayland sessions with explicit sync working…and that’s a year off at least.

      • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        Wayland is generally a huge mess. At least I can disable Fsync now, which caused my screen to go black for brief moments, especially when playing. Lots of other game or app specific issues remain as well…