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Spending over an hour of research trying to figure out which distribution of Linux I should pick. I primarily do a lot of gaming on my PC with some writing. I also have a storage drive attached to my PC that I have a bunch of movie stored on to. I'm not entirely motivated to try out each distribution to see which I like, so I would want to see what people think about which version is best.

Spending over an hour of research trying to figure out which distribution of Linux I should pick. I primarily do a lot of gaming on my PC with some writing. I also have a storage drive attached to my PC that I have a bunch of movie stored on to. I'm not entirely motivated to try out each distribution to see which I like, so I would want to see what people think about which version is best.

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Which version is best? "It depends".

I would choose one of the bigger distributions because: 1. Valve/Distro devs care about that Steam works. 2. Any problems are easy to search for (big community) 3. Patches arrive in a timely manner.

For me that would be one of Ubuntu, Manjaro or Fedora, depending on whether you prefer Debian based, Arch based or Red Hat based.

Personally I've been running Steam on Ubuntu with no issues since 2017.