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XDroidie626

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Registered: 2014-02-05

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Arch Linux Gaming Setup - Advice?

Okay so with the arrival of BL2 on Linux I want to setup Arch for gaming, but I need some advice towards this.

How would you personally set it up? UEFI or BIOS, EXT4 or BTRFS. FOSS or Catalyst?

What desktops would you also have? I am tempted via KDE5, I think it looks rather sweet, or maybe budgie.
also should I use 3.17 or 3.16?

Any other suggestions for this, I am not very good at setting up arch for gaming..

Many thanks!

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: Arch Linux Gaming Setup - Advice?

Any of those options are fine and won't make a noticeable difference.

The biggest choice is whether to use the open source "radeon" driver or Catalyst, but that's simple to decide: Start with the open source "radeon" driver (it's dead simple to setup). If it doesn't meet the needs of the video games you want to play, then try Catalyst.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Arch Linux Gaming Setup - Advice?

You don't need a DE to play a game. Start a separate X server w/ some light WM - see the wiki.
Use the current linux kernel from the repos.