Does anyone here have experience with gaming on immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinote, OpenSUSE MicroOS or any other general desktop variants? I know SteamOS 3 and ChimeraOS are both immutable, but they come with all kernel mods and libraries baked in.
Are there any issues with drivers or performance that otherwise do not happen on a more mainline distribution?
Do you have to deal with getting Nvidia drivers installed or is that handled by the system?
I’m asking because I’m considering making the jump to either Silverblue or Kinote, but I am curious to hear your thoughts.
Personally, I wouldn’t recommend immutable distros, as I think they limit our freedoms far too much, not that the way the general stack is going doesn’t do that already. Not debating that here, since it’s a hot and controversial topic currently, at least in the segment of the linux using population that cares about this stuff and which picked linux for that. Imo, if we do this, we’ll basically make of the OS one block, from bootloader, to kernel, to initramfs, to display manager and finally desktop, especially since I’m hearing whispers of attempts at removing the tty kernel rendering being done, which will force us into using a specific compositor, desktop and so on, so we’ll be exactly like windows or mac or android, so we lost everything, and then what’s the point of linux?
If you want to use immutable distros anyway, I don’t recommend silverblue for gaming, but I do recommend you give ublue linux a try, it has many drivers included, even some udev rules.