[_Understated_]

I have no appreciable Linux skills so forgive my naïvety with this question:

In the promo vid on their site, there are a couple of people gaming. Is this alluding to the fact that you can game on RHEL or that it powers the backend of games?

Just curious...

[asark]

1) There actually are quite a few games available that run natively on Linux these days. Usually not AAA titles but lots of indie games. I've got (checks) about 550 games on Steam, largely through various bundle sales, and something like 30% of them run natively on Linux.

2) Steam now bundles Wine and lots of games are tested and semi-officially supported with it now, bumps the playable fraction to more like 60-70%—and you can enable it for all games with a settings checkbox, too, and more often than not it works.

[aetimmes]

Probably a little bit of both.

You can game on RHEL but it wouldn't be my first choice of distro for it - IMO, Ubuntu and Fedora are both better-suited for that task.

[burk96]

For gaming purposes, I also have to recommend Manjaro purely from how great it handles installing graphics drivers. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for someone's first Linux install, but once you know the basics in case something breaks it provides a better gaming experience out of the box.

[int_19h]

Mint has been doing that for a while.

And I believe Ubuntu has finally started doing it as well in the most recent release?

[burk96]

I wouldn't be surprised if Mint and Ubuntu are both in a better state in that regard since I last used them. Last time I used Mint on my gaming rig, the bundled Mint drivers had something funky with them. I don't remember what it was but I do remember I had to reinstall them. This was around Ubuntu's 15.04 I believe?

[_Understated_]

Why is that? Is it driver-related? Or is it that RHEL is more for stability rather than speed?

[eitland]

RHEL comes with a price tag (although I think they now have free developer licenses.)

Also RHEL development moves sloooowly. This is a feature and one of the main reasons to go with RHEL instead of not only unsupported distros but also supported-but-faster-moving distros, kind of like on Windows LTSB (I know to little about both to compare them, but enough to know that in certain organzations the promise that it will stay the way it is and by default only receive security updates is a huge feature.)

[lmns]

They do have their Software Collections with new major releases for nodejs, python etc., though. It is only the base system that moves slowly.

[snvzz]

For gaming, Arch.

It's rolling release, including the whole stack that's supporting games. And they have a wrapper package that will install steam and its dependencies.

[officeplant]

IIRC there has been some talk that it might be RedHat powering Google Stadia.

[awill]

They use Debian. https://stadia.dev/intl/en_us/about/