Linux

Best Linux distribution for gaming?

None. None of them will provide you the performance they claim that you can't get yourself by picking a regular distribution and using the latest updates.

So to get the best performance, one simply needs the latest updates. All linux distributions provide the same packages and provide updates. Some provide them faster than others. So any distribution that updates its packages the soonest after upstream, is good, in our opinion.

Beware of what you search/read online!

Beware of what you search and read online on the Internet, it is the general rule that one shouldn't believe everything they see online.

Not everything will work out the way you intend it may work, sometimes the advice online is outdated or just incompatible, so be sure of what you're seeing will work for your system or not, before running any commands or changing configurations, and breaking your system in the process.

If you need a guide, the Arch Wiki is good and works universally for most distributions.

Downloading

Direct Download Sites

🌟 Torrminatorr - GOG, Linux games & Scene releases forum / Registration required
🌟 KAPITALSIN - Game repacks forum (occasionally has lossy, or compressed repacks) / Translator
🌟 CS.RIN.RU - Game piracy forum / Registration required / Enhancement mod / Password: cs.rin.ru

Torrent Sites

🌟 johncena141 - Linux games
🌟 RuTracker - Linux games / Translator

Software

Kernels

DANGER

Custom kernels can significantly change your system behavior, disable security mitigations, and cause all sorts of instabilities and reliability issues. It is recommended that you keep backups and a backup kernel installed to boot back to, from GRUB.

INFO

Real time kernels do not improve performance, and are only useful on embedded systems and when running applications built to use real time scheduling that are latency critical.