So I’ve been running Windows on my gaming system and Linux on my laptop for Uni for a while. I chose this to discourage working instead of relaxing, or gaming instead of working. However, I am finding that I often get the opportunity to work from home and I find it easier to just use my laptop on the go (I have a dual monitor setup + kvm switch so its a little annoying to have to come home and run 3 cables just for some extra screen realestate).

I want them to run the same OS so I can use the same tools and workflow. I use Ubuntu 23.04 on my laptop, W11 on my PC. I have nvidia GPU’s in both (1660 Super Desktop and 3050 Laptop), so installing and maintaining drivers would ideally be easy. I would use Ubuntu but I plan to move away from it since they’re moving away from .debs. Any recommendations? I am looking for stability, but something I can game on. I’ve never had a linux gaming pc so I don’t know how much that changes things. I don’t want to do much tinkering, I am more of a set an forget type.

I generally prefer Gnome, XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon, Mate in that order. I looked it up and a lot of the games I play are Proton DB Gold or up. The only game with an anticheat that I play is the MCC and I’ll just disable the anticheat if its an issue.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    I actually started looking around for this myself as a way to recommend some easier intro points.

    I’ll have to take a look at popos from the comments, but anyone have any experience with how well maintained Manjaro is these days?

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      1 year ago

      I haven’t used Manjaro but you might also be interested in Endeavour as an easy intro to Arch

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      1 year ago

      Manjaro is poorly maintained and, if you use the AUR, broken by design. If you want an easy way to install Arch, use EndeavourOS.