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?
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.
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 fully second the sentiment that there is no good reason to switch distribution once you have found one that you like.
However, if your goal is to learn something new, and you don’t care about having to nuke the install and start over, then you could go the crazy route and install Linux From Scratch. It is unlikely to yield a maintainable result at first try, but if learning is your goal, this is your best shot at it.
Or you could go the not-that-crazy route and use Gentoo, which is basically Linux From Scratch, but automated. Setting it up is way quicker (couple of hours - except if you configure the kernel by hand), and you will with near certainty get a maintainable system on first try, but it is also far less educational, given that the automation does most of the work for you. (I have switched from Debian to Gentoo 10 years ago, after trying it on my netbook for some time, and I could not be happier. It only does what it should, is rolling release, and only very rarely has issues.)
I would only recommend those two approaches on a second PC though, without immediately switching the main PC over. Linux From Scratch is, as said, unlikely to yield a maintainable installation on first try, so you will likely nuke the install again. Gentoo, while perfectly usable as a daily driver, is certainly not everyone’s beer, and you might simply want to switch away again because you don’t like it.
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
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.
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.
You could get an arch based distro and let the distro maintainers handle it. I use EndeavourOS and its been great for the past 3 years
Bluefin is nice.
I use it too. I am too old to tinker with my OS, Bluefin has some nice defaults and stuff just works (mostly)
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?
I haven’t tried the alpha. Maybe I’ll spin up a VM later.
Its just feeling a little old. Missing out on newer features and more modern looking ui. Nothing critical, just nice to have.
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). It, with Cinnamon, is what I use for my home servers.
Debian get it from the source
I recsntly set up my PC again and had fomo when selecting a distro. First ai helped to choose, just tell it what your requirements are. Second, its Linux. After the installiert you can do whatever you want with it. Just pick one if the 3 best fitting ones
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 search ut up on youtube, there are many great summaries about what is it.
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