beastlykings

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Looking for a new distro. Ditching Windows. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 minutes ago

Thanks for the input! Glad it's working for you!

There are some great recommendations on this thread, I'm excited to try them out!

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[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 minutes ago

Yeah I've been using a steam deck since it's release, Linux gaming is definitely a million times better than days of yore.

Thanks for the Debian recommendation! Not a bad idea.

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[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 24 minutes ago

Thanks for the recommendations! Lots of Fedora in here, I feel bad for never having checked it out.

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[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 25 minutes ago

Another vote for Mint! LMDE was on my radar too, thanks!

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[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 25 minutes ago

I've been hearing a lot of good things about Fedora in this thread. Never tried it, definitely gonna spin one up! Thanks!

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[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 26 minutes ago

Nice! Thanks for the recommendation!

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[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 27 minutes ago

That's quite the glowing recommendation for nixOS!

Definitely a learning curve to installation, but I like the idea of config once/cry once, then in the future you'd never have to do it again. I'm just wondering how true that is in practice? Like, I configure it once, but over the course of a few years I install a bunch of stuff. Do I have to keep my config file manually up to date? Or once I'm up and running does this happen automatically?

I'm not opposed to a fair amount of cli legwork to things up and running, if the payoff is as good as you say.

I'm definitely curious about this distro, thanks!

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[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 45 minutes ago

To streamline my request for help, I omitted some details, and combined some of my experiences.

My desktop has a 3060ti in it, but I haven't actually run Linux on that lately, besides some live environments.

Most of my testing has been on a few year old thinkcenter with integrated graphics, Intel CPU. That's where I was having problems with jittering and mouse capture. Actually that's still installed, but it's doing server things so I'm disinclined to mess with it at the moment.

I have an older PC, again with integrated graphics, that I've installed Mint on and have been playing with it.

Ultimately I plan to more or less replace my desktop with a new framework 13 I've got in the mail. That has an AMD iGPU.

I kind of disregarded the idea of DE swapping, because I did it in the past and screwed stuff up. Maybe it's easier these days?

Thanks for the /home suggestion!

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[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks for the breakdown! Bookmarking this.

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[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

In what way is it a pain? Because of the immutability? See that's what I was worried about, but was assured that ostree could be used somehow? I still haven't had time to look into it

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[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Arch is in the running, I guess, I just didn't know what I wanted and had a bad experience with arch. But it's been explained that while arch CAN be highly customized, it can also be very stable on a pre-customized distro.

Thanks for the input! Manjaro is on the list to try out!

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Looking for a new distro. Ditching Windows. (sh.itjust.works)
 

I've been toying with Linux on and off for almost 20 years now.

Started with damnsmalllinux on some ancient 600mhz Thinkpads. Dual booted Ubuntu for a long time, back when 3d desktop cubes were all the rage, so I'm used to gnome, synaptic and apt.

Tried to stick with it, but never could get away from Windows entirely. Especially for gaming, and a few critical apps. Eventually I kind of drifted away, and went full Windows for years. I always keep an Ubuntu LTS thumb drive around, and would use it occasionally for various reasons, testing etc etc.

Recently I installed Ubuntu 24.04, and had tons of stability issues. Mostly involving video output and the GUI. Screen would jitter left and right a few pixels. And sometimes maximized windows would be transparent to clicks, so you'd be clicking random stuff below the window. This was especially bad with Firefox and VLC, separately. I also had issues with removable drives not mounting properly. Standard stuff, I wasn't doing anything weird. Practically a fresh install.

So I tried Mint, cinnamon. And so far I really like it! I've not been running it daily, but just the same tinkering. And so far no issues at all. But that got me thinking, what else am I missing?

I'm comfortable in the command line, but not proficient, I appreciate a good GUI for most things.

I plan to do some gaming, so steam proton compatibility is important. I don't think that's hard to achieve, but I wanted to make sure, it's important to me.

Last time I played with KDE was a decade ago, I hear there's lots of new developments going on there? In plasma? Unless plasma is different now, IDK I haven't looked extremely hard.

I don't care much about customization, I don't want arch. I want something that is a pretty solid base, with decent features, and good support for when this go sideways. I feel like that's not Ubuntu anymore. Especially with them pushing into Wayland and flat packs.

I guess my question is, does Mint seem like a good distro to start with? Or am I not looking hard enough?

Thanks!

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