I’m looking for a specific distro to handle some tasks.

I got a second hand rig with Nvidia GTX 1050 that I want to use as a home server. I wanted to use HoloISO but it doesn’t support nvidia. If someone says “do it anyway, it’s fine” I’ll install it though.

The idea is to support a Jellyfin server and Steam Link gaming but steam is not big on Nvidia so it’s hard to narrow down “black screen” issues etc. I’m also planning to manage it via VNC and SSH.

I’m familiar with Ubuntu based systems since I develop software on Ubuntu based KDE distro but never had a graphics card.

So it boils down to:

  • Ease of setup including nvidia drivers
  • Ease of update via command line (I’m not going to download nvidia drivers from their website to update proprietary drivers)
  • Graphics performance
  • Prefer Ubuntu based

I’m up for Gnome, Xface, Cinnamon, KDE or whatever DE.

Edit: Changed title to better reflect requirements and not have misleading “headless” and “server” in it

  • CavemanOP
    1•9 months ago

    I installed Bazzite on my system and experience so far has been great. It’s not what I would choose for a day-to-day workstation but for a computer that mostly just runs games and servers it’s been really nice.

    Setup was super easy, installing packages with rpm-ostree works very similar to dnf just takes very long. That’s a small price to pay for Sunshine/Moonlight with VAAPI hardware encoding and Steam optimisations in my case.

    • @[email protected]
      1•9 months ago

      I do use it for day to day, even work. Not saying it’s bad, but when you have an issue, you’re basically alone. For example I’m still using the image from Feb 14th because all the newer ones boot to black (clean image, nothing layered).

      I’m hoping at some point a newer one will eventually work, the same way it stopped working on Jan 16th and worked again early Feb.

      I can sort of deal with it, but wouldn’t recommend based on my experience.