• @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Well, there are a lot of newb-friendly distros these days. Some options:

    • Linux Mint (any spin) - one of the easiest to get help with online, with minimal compromises
    • Fedora - also pretty easy to get help w/ online
    • Bazzite - great if you just want to play games; it’s about as close to SteamOS as you get w/o an official release

    Any of those should be pretty friendly to users new to Linux, and they go roughly in order from fitness as a regular desktop (top down) to fitness for gaming (bottom up), but any of them can handle gaming and desktop stuff pretty equivalently.

    • @warmaster
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      85 days ago

      Bazzite is freaking awesome. I started my Linux journey with Arch, then tried Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Mint, Zorin, Endeavour and more. Bazzite has been on my PC for a year and it’s been the best experience I had with PCs in my whole life. I freaking love it.

      • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        35 days ago

        It does look nice. My main concern is the read-only root, which seems annoying to deal with for non-gaming stuff. I’m a dev and sometimes need to install new dependencies and whatnot. But I’m sure there’s a good workflow for that as well.

        • @warmaster
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          65 days ago

          Aurora (KDE) or Bluefin (gnome) have dev editions. They are based on ublue like Bazzite, but are more dev oriented.

          • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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            25 days ago

            I’ll have to check it out.

            I’ve also considered trying the openSUSE MicroOS versions as well (Kalpa for KDE and Aeon for GNOME). I use Tumbleweed on my systems right now, so that would be a natural transition.