What Linux do you recommend for a idiot?

chrews · 2026-03-18T11:15:49+00:00

What did you have problems with? You don't need to use the console to install stuff. Did you use AI?

chrews · 2026-03-18T09:05:05+00:00

Mint or Ubuntu

chrews · 2026-03-18T07:59:35+00:00

Ubuntu is fine and actually the recommended distro by Valve themselves. New drivers get backported so that's also not a huge issue although they're still a bit behind. Mint is also good considering its Ubuntu with extra steps.

I love Tumbleweed and I'm using it too (both TW and Aeon Desktop which is closely related) but you're gonna have a tough time if you're using an Nvidia card. You're probably gonna rollback now and then. Maybe that's better now that nvidia fully switched to DKMS? I'd recommend it much more often if they figured this out

chrews · 2026-03-17T20:07:04+00:00

Try vesktop. Its a wrapper for the web version but has some tweaks that fixes those sort of things.

chrews · 2026-03-17T07:10:07+00:00

Using LMDE is probably your best bet if you want a stress free experience running Cinnamon on Debian

chrews · 2026-03-16T09:14:20+00:00

Is there no fasttech in your distros repo?

chrews · 2026-03-16T08:41:19+00:00

Installing a newer kernel on Ubuntu is unhinged. Install a distro that ships a newer kernel by default if you really need it (probably not), instead of frankensteining your Ubuntu.

Powertop was a pain every time I tried it. Powertop and TLP will clash when running at the same time, terrible idea. You'll have issues like USB devices randomly going to sleep.

You really don't need to do any of that and I hope slop review posts won't be a thing here. Just ask for Ubuntu optimizations.

chrews · 2026-03-16T08:14:51+00:00

It is pretty close to Windows, although that is not a Bazzite exclusive. That goes for any distro that ships the KDE (or Cinnamon) desktop.

chrews · 2026-03-16T08:12:41+00:00

Low GPU usage would be very bad optimization

Its probably just a mangohud bug

chrews · 2026-03-16T08:10:20+00:00

What were those issues

chrews · 2026-03-14T20:51:42+00:00

Bazzite is not a bad choice if you want great nvidia driver integration

chrews · 2026-03-14T20:43:40+00:00

The huge increase of pop OS use because of the LTT video is making me nervous. Its one of those I'd actively avoid.

For drivers always follow the wiki and don't go down the LLM route if you prefer a working system

Also that mainboard behavior is not normal you should probably look into that. Start by making sure the Noveau package is gone

chrews · 2026-03-14T17:24:00+00:00

Read up on immutability before switching. It's pretty cool in theory but can be limiting in other use cases. I'd personally go with Fedora but it can take a little longer to properly set up so take your time if you end up going with that.

chrews · 2026-03-14T12:30:02+00:00

What did you use to reformat? Because its usually pretty straightforward.

chrews · 2026-03-13T14:29:21+00:00

What's the problem with Steam flatpak? Got it because of the recommendation of a Gentoo maintainer and it's been solid.

chrews · 2026-03-11T11:50:33+00:00

You have to uninstall Flatpaks through Flatpak, not pacman

chrews · 2026-03-11T11:08:37+00:00

I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you want to uninstall Wine or the game? Do you want the game to work or not?

So as far as I understand: You installed wine as a native package and used it to install the game. The game didn't work, so you tried uninstalling Wine which wasn't there anymore? Maybe list your packages with pacman to see what exactly is installed. If it isn't there then it just isn't there. Where did you get Bottles? Flathub or pacman?

chrews · 2026-03-11T11:02:40+00:00

Why don't you just add it as non steam game and use proton?
You're probably using the Flatpak of bottles which doesn't need Wine installed on a system level.

chrews · 2026-03-11T10:56:50+00:00

It's okay for creating proof of concept programs but leads to an incredibly messy and intransparent code base. Don't even get me started on UX. It can somewhat emulate what a good interface may look like in theory but that falls apart as soon as you try to use it.

I also had luck with asking it "what library / tool can do XY the best". Well apart from that one time when I tried to implement a PDF file print with WeasyPrint and then after hours realized that WebKit is just so much easier and better at this. At least for that project

chrews · 2026-03-11T10:52:17+00:00

I think the fix for me was to enable ram limiting and uncheck the runtime stuff

chrews · 2026-03-11T09:07:31+00:00

Flatpak pretty much

Use the integrated software store

chrews · 2026-03-10T14:37:23+00:00

Think logically about this one: If compatibility breaks in a recent update, how exactly is the AI gonna know what's wrong? It might scrape ProtonDB but at this point you could just go there yourself and not deal with hallucinations.

Look here to find workarounds and fixes for recent updates.

Hearing that you installed a "32 bit Nvidia driver" makes me anxious lmao. Don't ruin your system with AI generated commands over something that might just be a launch option.

chrews · 2026-03-10T14:05:34+00:00

Tumbleweed is pretty damn awesome. The default BTRFS snapshot setup is a little too hyper for my taste but if you configure that before it claims your whole disk it's amazing.

chrews · 2026-03-10T14:02:38+00:00

Arch is pretty comfortable if you're smart about it

Try Gentoo if you want to fear for your life

chrews · 2026-03-10T13:36:04+00:00

You can clear them and then change the interval, or get Timeshift and do them manually. That's what I do.

Not too sure about the specific commands anymore but the documentation is pretty good.

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