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What Distros Should I be Considering For my Old win10 Gaming Laptop? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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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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[–] RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you want to focus on gaming go for bazzite.with kde. If not go for fedora kde.

Both are close enough of W10 and will offer a good starting point.

If you want to learn linux try arch but I would advocate it as a daily driver unless you know what you are doing.

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

Agreed. While I would say Mint for older computer reasons, the entire debian line (includes Ubuntu) is too "vintage" to be of use for gamers, mainly because gaming support in kernel, drivers, wine/proton, and the big Wayland switch is happening at warp speed, where debian is designed to be a stable and reliable dinosaur that works for servers and business desktops, and isn't RedHat Enterprise.