Okay I have a case coming in to shove my junk in it. 8500t (temporary until I get a 8700k) -16gb ram -1060 6gb -2 2.5ssd -2 3.5hdd
I’m partial to Mint and Debian commands. Anyone have a suggestion before I go balls deep into a Mint distro build?
For gaming and having it work out of the box ?
- Based on Debian : pikaOS
- Based on fedora : Nobara
- Based on Atomic fedora : Bazzite
- Based on Arch : CachyOS
- Based onUbuntu : PopOS (not so sure about its current state, their cosmic desktop isn’t released yet)
Beginner friendly : Mint, most of gaming distro (cachy might be a bit more advanced )
I do not know much about the current state of snaps, so I won’t recommend Ubuntu and derivatives (kubuntu, Xubuntu…). I guess it is easier to use .deb now, but I can’t call beginner friendly a distro that require terminal or tweaks to change packages you can install on it.
Keep in mind that 1060 will give you a lot of headache for games using DirectX 12. If you can, get an RTX 20 series or GTX 16 series card, or dual boot with Windows.
Yea my laptop is running Linux mint with a 1060 and it’s kinda a pain to run. I just flat out don’t want to use windows at all.
Mint because shit is easily labelled on the programs and shit just works. Tons of info online.
If you care only about gaming: Bazzite or Nobara.
I am using Bazzite with Gnome as a first linux distro after windows and its been a pretty seamless transition. I did run into some trouble with the bazzite packaged installer so I installed fedora, then rebased to bazzite but since then its been great as a dd.
Rhino. it is a new, but very promising distro, ubuntu based and rolling, which is great for gaming
I’ll try some VMs tonight. Never heard of it
Just install @archlinux and be happy for many years 😌.
Man. If I had the time to maintain arch I would
YMMV… but in my experience that whole “time to maintain arch”-idea is overstated.
I defintiely spend less time on issues like “oh, there’s a bug. let’s role that update back and try again in 6-24 hours when it’s fixed” or “defaults changed in a new version, let’s take a quick look at the changes” on arch than on annoying bugs persisting for years in fixed distros. And that’s before calculating the whole “distro upgrade every otehr year”-stuff. Which likes to kill a whole weekend at least and barely ever works (followed by the same “oh, defaults changed” but now on dozens of components at the same time).
And because of that second point in particular even if archlinux wouldn’t be my choice I could never go back to a non-rolling release.
I’ve been using Linux since the nineties and I’ve been through the rolling distros and agree with you that usually it’s not a big hassle, just keep an eye on the process and .pacsave/.pacnew (or .rpm-ditto) - but I just don’t bother at all anymore, I only game and code some Rust and I prefer a LTS distro that keeps the kernel up to date, for me that’s the best of both worlds.
I’d also say that running a major upgrade on my stable distros (both on servers and laptop) takes less than an hour, not a weekend and I never have issues with it. Issues when upgrading either rolling (every update) or LTS releases usually comes from the admin having made incompat/bad changes to the system on their own.
Bluefin is nice.
Fedora! It’s great
Thinking about making the move from Pop!_OS. Pop has been good, and it’s not like I need to be on the latest thing, but it’s still on Gnome 42 I think. Pop is starting to feel a bit long in the tooth.
Why? isn’t it 22.4? And five versions old Gnome. Have you tried the new alpha?
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). It, with Cinnamon, is what I use for my home servers.
Debian get it from the source
Why not Mint? Just use what you like. It doesn’t matter nearly as much as people say.
Personally I like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
I think you’re right, but if I don’t ask and see what else is out there I’ll stay stagnant and it isn’t going to help me find anything new.
I’ve been a Linux user for nearly 20 years and my main gaming rig is Mint because it’s convenient and gets out of my way when it’s time to game.
+1 for tumbleweed. Swapped to it from Ubuntu a few years back and it’s been great. Up-to-date everything, very stable, built in recovery just in case the last update had some regressions. Highly recommend
