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I've got an old win10 laptop. It's nothing fancy in 2025, but I use it now and then while traveling, just to have a proper computer on hand. It's time to move it over to Linux, and I have A LITTLE Linux experience. I work in software dev, so I know my way around CLI, but I don't have much firsthard experience, other than occasionally using Kali for offsec tools. What are the distros I should be considering for a personal gaming laptop for occasional use for both gaming and occasional general use? Why?

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[–] Jjoiq@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Specs like cpu, ram etc would be handy?

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'll have to dig up finer details in a bit, but it's a backup device I got on discount years ago. i5 what gen I'm not sure, gtx 960m, I may have replaced ram up to 16gb at some point and it's running on an ssd at least.