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!codecels !g*mers I need suggestions on what distro I should move my vidya computer to

I do not want to give my processing power and data to the antichrist skynet. Leaning towards Mint since it seems simple.

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TempleOS is the only correct answer. :taddance:

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If you have Nvidia drivers using Pop!_OS will be more painless. :marseygamer:

If you think you can work around Nvidia quirks on your own Linux Mint is like "Win 7 desktop UI" Nirvana. :marseymonk:

Fedora is fun if you like the idea of getting new software faster. :marseysonic:

People will shit on Ubuntu too but it's a decent choice if you want it to "just work" and have a TON of resources at your fingertips. Anything you'll want to run on Linux will have an option on how to do it on Ubuntu. :marseylaptop:

I know there's some Debian ppl here but I can't say I'm a huge Debian guy, it always felt like worse Ubuntu to me :marseyshrug:

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Mint has a built in drivers app which handles nvidia drivers for you

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Does it ship with them out of the box?

Maybe it's different from when I've debugged it (I never used Nvidia on a personal machine) but I had many friends who would just get zero output until they did nomodeset from live CDs.

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You have to open the app and it will install them, but its as easy as scanning your system for the needed drivers and the app installing them rather then enrolling in the repo like on fedora.

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Yeah I think it's just way better that Pop ships them out of the box. Not even getting to the installer and already having to change kernel command line options isn't a great first impression.

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I use Arch btw

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Mint or Debian

I would have recommended Pop! Or Fedora like 4 years ago though.

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Fedora is quite good now, I was using it on desktop before I switched to macOS.

I'm super excited for Pop's new DE.

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Fedora uses Btrfs by default, which is heck for gaming.

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I wasn't aware of that. What's the effects of a CoW filesystem on gaming?

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This video has good tests showing how bad Btrfs is on desktop, mainly falters with read performance. Other filesystems don't have this issue, it's Btrfs itself that is uniquely terrible.

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btrfs itself that is uniquely terrible.

I mean you don't need to convince me of that :marseysmirk2:

It doesn't look like he touched on ZFS or bcachefs?

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Video is older bcachefs wasn't really viable then. I think he did a video with ZFS, he's done multiple about filesystems iirc.

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Mint gives you the most familiar experience without needing to tinker to get things working. They even have a tool for doing GPU drivers automatically.

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Either get Debian or rm -rf / yourself

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consider windows 10 ltsc 2021 iot, for linux just go with kubuntu

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Honestly, Linux makes a bad gaming machine. Just run Linux/Mac as your main machine and keep the windows box around for gaming.

Steam OS is fantastic on the deck though, so there's definitely some promising steps in the right direction.

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Nobara is the most batteries-included distro for gaming. It ships with cowtools that help you wrangle all of the things that don't work OOTB, i.e. Nexus Mods.

Choose the official or KDE flavor.

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