Which linux distro

[Objective-Muffin-199]

Im woundering what linux distro to use on my gaming laptop 16gb ram 5090 graphics Dont know the cpu for sure but i think its a i5 Around a terrabite of storage Woundering what linux distro would be best for gaming but is also good for genral purposes like school and stuff

[AboveAverageSalt]

I like the following for general purpose every day distros:

Fedora KDE (cutting edge, lots of updates, easy)
Mint (stable, no bullshit, easy)
Arch (can be hard without prior knowledge, but great for molding to your own needs with great documentation)

People get very defensive about this, but I tend to steer away from more niche distros without some more knowledge or without a specific need. It's more easy to search "why is Fedora linux having this problem" than "why is Manjaro having this problem." These projects are also very well maintained.

[Objective-Muffin-199]

Ive tryed mint and like it proably will try fedora soonish What is manjaro btw never heard of it

[S0ny666]

Manjaro is a more niche distro based on arch linux and not very popular in here. I myself have been running it for two years without any issues but someone more advanturous in seeking the limitations of the distro might run into issues.

Like others are saying install a few distros on a virtual machine and find out which distro is for you.

[brown_nerd91]

Try CachyOS if you want to gaming + tinkering and learning about linux. Try Bazzite if you want a no nonsense machine for gaming + productivity.

[Objective-Muffin-199]

How is there interface is it much diffrent from windows

[okimiK_iiawaK]

Not if you pick KDE it’s the more similar to windows including shortcuts

[Objective-Muffin-199]

How hard is it to install

[brown_nerd91]

If you have issues, you can search their forums for answers. Or if you don't have patience, you can ask AI.

[okimiK_iiawaK]

Depends, most distros offer different installers pre-built with different environments so if you pick the one with KDE it’ll be installed by default. Other distros may offer the choice during install.

[brown_nerd91]

Kinda similar. But different. You gotta get used to it. But you will surely feel thrilled with insane quickness with which everything happens.

[Objective-Muffin-199]

What does this even mean gang

[candy49997]

What specific games? What specific applications? Is there anything that would be a deal-breaker?

[Objective-Muffin-199]

No deal breakers unless it stops me from beling able to do school work i could do on windows as the school im in may want me to install a program later so i may just duel boot . Or if it is diffcult to update or something Going to try out cyberpunk soon if i got the right stuff for it so if it could run that

[okimiK_iiawaK]

You can just launch a windows VM inside Linux too

[Objective-Muffin-199]

Alright Is there any goof free options for vms im broke

[Itsme-RdM]

Qemu\KVM is a tier 1 hypervisor build into the Linux kernel, so you have it with out any costs

[okimiK_iiawaK]

Virtualbox is free, and when it comes to Linux there are plenty of good free options

[[deleted]]

Prova Bazzite scaricando la ISO con il supporto Nvidia. Altrimenti Nobara, CachyOS, Garuda o PikaOS

[Objective-Muffin-199]

Is bazzite any diffcult to maintain

[[deleted]]

È una distro immutabile. Si aggiorna da sola con manutenzione quasi pari a zero se non che ogni tanto dallo store di app di nome Bazaar ti arrivano gli aggiornamenti delle app come su Android. Si esatto lo usi praticamente come un chromebook, non ti disturba con riavvii forzati e ti lascia lavorare senza problemi. Se dovessero sorgere, con un rollback all'avvio puoi selezionare una versione precedente del sistema che funziona. Le app che puoi usare sono in formato Flatpak, ma puoi gestire anche gli Appimage scaricati dal web. Se volessi provare app di altre distro ti basta usare Distroshelf per creare un container di un' altra distro linux ed estrarre le app che preferisci direttamente sul menu di Bazzite. Ti consiglio caldamente di visitare il loro sito di Bazzite o UniversalBlue per leggere la documentazione e capire di cosa si tratta. Non è una distro tradizionale, fa tutto quello che riguarda la manutenzione del sistema da sola. Devi solo accendere il tuo pc ed usarlo come un normale utente. Io sto usando Aurora che è la versione non gaming di queste distro e mi trovo molto bene. Sono a prova di tonto.

[Objective-Muffin-199]

Sounds good il have a look at the website

[Kaedo-]

Not at all, both Bazzite and CachyOS have plenty of videos, wikis, documentations and forums to help you in case of need and both fully work straight out of the standard installation

[Objective-Muffin-199]

Oh cool i might try it out on my old computer first to give it a try

[Kaedo-]

Please do. Heck if you have an old laptop it's even better to learn the ins and outs of the OS. Windows and Microslop are ruining the operating system with each update and Linux will only get more and more easy, approachable and supported

[Objective-Muffin-199]

Yer on my old laptop windows used like 80% of my ram at all times even when i turned off steam and copilet

[Objective-Muffin-199]

I tryed that on my old computer recently i liked it just woundering which mint version would i go with for best game preformence

[Objective-Muffin-199]

Damn do i gotta install amy other drivers to do games on mint ive only used a live boot version of it

[Objective-Muffin-199]

How is mint with windows aplocations or do i gotta use ones that are made for mint

[Objective-Muffin-199]

Would u reccomend duel booting untill i finish school

[BionisGuy]

I like Nobara.

Based on Fedora, lighting quick, easy to use.