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Hey can y’all help me out? I wanna start switching over, but I need a beginner friendly distro that can work well with my 2070 super for gaming. I need something simple to set up or I’ll get ADHD paralysis and never do it.
I’d also love if it worked well with my Valve Index, but if that still has a lot of issues across the board I may still have to dual boot :c
i started on mint, with a 2080, played through hl alyx (with one weird issue - when i had my old xbox 360 controller plugged in, alyx and vr home couldn’t start, but that was a few years ago, maybe it’s not an issue any more).
which is to say, the index is not the issue, most vr games don’t have a native linux version, so you have to rely on proton, and especially with nvidia cards they’re far from guaranteed to runThanks so much!
Mint. It started as the beginner friendly distro and it’s becoming the “main” distro as of late.
Given they have an Nvidia and want stuff like the Valve Index to work (so in the best case to have all those super new drivers, libraries installed and stuff) it should be a distro that comes with a lot preconfigured, like the Nvidia driver.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Bazzite in this regard.
If you like the color green pick linux mint. If you like blue pick zorinOS.
If you really want to use arch as noob pick Garuda.
80% of recommendations will be an Ubuntu/debian child so pick whatever looks good and works. See the first two.
If you really don’t like Ubuntu/deb check out Fedora. If you want a big screen steam mode pick bazzite.
Thank you!
I don’t have time to mess around with Arch or customizing things. I tried a couple live boots and went with Mint. Spent 2 hours picking a theme, wallpaper, and menu icon. Boom, done.
I’m a simple man, but I love Fedora
Fedora is the best because it fits my use case the best.
I’ve bounced around to plenty of distros, Fedora KDE is my current daily driver.
The best distribution is always the one you currently use. All others are trash.
and it is also the worst.
Until you realize that the current distro isn’t the worst like the others were.
That’s when you know you’ve found home.
Pfft Linux is too mainstream… I run BeOS and OS/2 Warp.
Haiku! 🍁 exists :3
I loved BeOS. It was great.
Pfft, those are still maintained (Haiku and ArcaOS respectively) and so corporate man.
TempleOS all the way baby. Nothing is more powerful the the almighty HolyC.
Like this BeeOS?
Tap for spoiler
Okay just kidding I know you wrote BeOS, I just wanna promote metaroom cause I like listening to them and their song was on when you posted this.
Rad music. Reminds me of Earthbound battle music.
We need a healthy mashup OS between TinyCore, KolibriOS, ReactOS, and TempleOS, then I’ll be happy.
Why not just ReactOS atop FreeDOS?
I’m not even sure if this is satire or not, but is that even doable? I mean I’ve tested both FreeDOS and ReactOS before, but do they play well together somehow?
Side note, I’ve also tried KolibriOS before, amazing project for its tiny size, still have it on physical floppy disk right now even.
That’s like asking if MS-DOS and WinNT work well together. I guess they can both rw off FAT32 and run on x86-32…
Hey, there actually are NTFS drivers out there for MS-DOS/Win3.11, I’ve used that for data recovery when neither Windows NT nor Linux could access the partition.
Very little surprises me anymore, and I have no idea what all tricks FreeDOS and ReactOS have up their sleeves.
Mostly satirical.
Gotcha, no worries 👍
Future goal, emulate Linux (any version that might work) under KolibriOS.
I think that’s actually doable, to some extent… 🤷♂️
I thought you said healthy.
You’re right, we also need a CP/M terminal running on top of the Minix kernel…
Red Star OS!
Can’t complain about that one!
Devuan GNU+Linux with sysvinit
sorry, i don’t speak spanish
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It depends on what you’re using it for.
It’s NixOS
This is my favorite comment on the thread.
I miss Antergos. I know Arch is still there. I know Manjaro exists. I miss Antergos.
I use Nyarch, btw.
Fucking Astolfo in there… this is just too good.
Thank you for this, you’ve made my day.
I didn’t really like Gnome, but one day I might spin up a VM for this.
Holy shit I lost it after Material UwU. The system requirements and FAQ (including a famous Torvalds quote) were excellent highlights as well.
Found the weeb
Cant take EndeavourOS from me.
I don’t know maybe the bue one
I use the blue one, btw
You don’t need to ask, because they will tell you their thoughts regardless.
Just switched to NixOS recently, after years on LMDE.
Fuck yeah NixOS! I freaking love declarative config!
See I just like LMDE. Everything works without fiddling (I want my OS to be boring). And if I feel spicy - backports.
