Okay I have a case coming in to shove my junk in it. 8500t (temporary until I get a 8700k) -16gb ram -1060 6gb -2 2.5ssd -2 3.5hdd
I’m partial to Mint and Debian commands. Anyone have a suggestion before I go balls deep into a Mint distro build?
Mint because shit is easily labelled on the programs and shit just works. Tons of info online.
I recsntly set up my PC again and had fomo when selecting a distro. First ai helped to choose, just tell it what your requirements are. Second, its Linux. After the installiert you can do whatever you want with it. Just pick one if the 3 best fitting ones
If you care only about gaming: Bazzite or Nobara.
I am using Bazzite with Gnome as a first linux distro after windows and its been a pretty seamless transition. I did run into some trouble with the bazzite packaged installer so I installed fedora, then rebased to bazzite but since then its been great as a dd.
Why not Mint? Just use what you like. It doesn’t matter nearly as much as people say.
Personally I like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
+1 for tumbleweed. Swapped to it from Ubuntu a few years back and it’s been great. Up-to-date everything, very stable, built in recovery just in case the last update had some regressions. Highly recommend
Bluefin is nice.
I use it too. I am too old to tinker with my OS, Bluefin has some nice defaults and stuff just works (mostly)
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). It, with Cinnamon, is what I use for my home servers.
Fedora! It’s great
Thinking about making the move from Pop!_OS. Pop has been good, and it’s not like I need to be on the latest thing, but it’s still on Gnome 42 I think. Pop is starting to feel a bit long in the tooth.
Debian get it from the source
Rhino. it is a new, but very promising distro, ubuntu based and rolling, which is great for gaming
I’ll try some VMs tonight. Never heard of it
just search ut up on youtube, there are many great summaries about what is it.
Just install @archlinux and be happy for many years 😌.
Man. If I had the time to maintain arch I would
YMMV… but in my experience that whole “time to maintain arch”-idea is overstated.
I defintiely spend less time on issues like “oh, there’s a bug. let’s role that update back and try again in 6-24 hours when it’s fixed” or “defaults changed in a new version, let’s take a quick look at the changes” on arch than on annoying bugs persisting for years in fixed distros. And that’s before calculating the whole “distro upgrade every otehr year”-stuff. Which likes to kill a whole weekend at least and barely ever works (followed by the same “oh, defaults changed” but now on dozens of components at the same time).
And because of that second point in particular even if archlinux wouldn’t be my choice I could never go back to a non-rolling release.
I’ve been using Linux since the nineties and I’ve been through the rolling distros and agree with you that usually it’s not a big hassle, just keep an eye on the process and .pacsave/.pacnew (or .rpm-ditto) - but I just don’t bother at all anymore, I only game and code some Rust and I prefer a LTS distro that keeps the kernel up to date, for me that’s the best of both worlds.
I’d also say that running a major upgrade on my stable distros (both on servers and laptop) takes less than an hour, not a weekend and I never have issues with it. Issues when upgrading either rolling (every update) or LTS releases usually comes from the admin having made incompat/bad changes to the system on their own.
