My LMDE VM has been excellent for several years now. My laptop with Bazzite that I set up to test out the gaming side of things has also worked well, but that’s only been in use for a few weeks now and I still have a lot of niche stuff to test out before I can really recommend it. As a baseline just being able to play games there’ve been no issues just running the games I tried.
Define “decent”.
I tend to recommend Linux Mint, it’s pretty easy to grasp for noobs (i’ve installed on two of my family’s laptops, no complaints). Zorin OS also seems nice.
I don’t know, I don’t know much about hardware. A gaming laptop from 5 years ago. Still usable today, ran windows 11. I only upgraded because I flooded the keyboard and it stopped working.
Step 1: Just don’t pick Ubuntu
Step 2: Refer to Step 1
Optional step: Don’t pick GNOME for the Desktop Environment lol
I honestly don’t understand the Ubuntu hate.
Then again, my computer usage is just a glorified browser now as all my app needs are on the cloud anyways.
if you want something that just works, and don’t have any special requirements, ubuntu is a decent option
Idk, Gnome is quite nice. The biggest downside of gnome is the lack of Settings, but apart from that I really like the look and feel.
So which one should I pick? I have a decent spare pc at the moment and was thinking about trying it out for Linux.
My LMDE VM has been excellent for several years now. My laptop with Bazzite that I set up to test out the gaming side of things has also worked well, but that’s only been in use for a few weeks now and I still have a lot of niche stuff to test out before I can really recommend it. As a baseline just being able to play games there’ve been no issues just running the games I tried.
Define “decent”.
I tend to recommend Linux Mint, it’s pretty easy to grasp for noobs (i’ve installed on two of my family’s laptops, no complaints). Zorin OS also seems nice.
I don’t know, I don’t know much about hardware. A gaming laptop from 5 years ago. Still usable today, ran windows 11. I only upgraded because I flooded the keyboard and it stopped working.
I will try that Mint, seems nice.
You can “flash” the installer file on a USB drive and boot from it to test it out without installing (it’ll be slower though).