Suggestions to switch a daily laptop to linux.
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I've been using this hp gaming laptop with win10 since 2 years ago with an old dumb LG screen for coding/emulate (35%) or gaming (25%) and other 40% without the 2nd screen (browsing/documents).
I've used fedora/red hat in university but it was almost 10 years ago for specific software (emu/simulators) so I'm kind of noob in general terms and I'm afraid I'll be leaving dual boot just in case.
I've read some posts before about out of the box distros (because the nvidia gtx 1650ti mainly) but I'm not sure if I should go for bazzite or cachyos or opensuse tumbleweed or a better distro that fits great in my case and about desktop, KDE (plasma) is my choice at the moment.
Thanks in advance.
I don't recommend bazzite. I am using bazzite right now it is great for gaming. But it is a nightmare to install any software via the terminal often times you have to use a virtual environment and even that doesn't work very well.
If your a little familiar with fedora then it is a very good distro still and it has a kde veriant. (take my advice with a grain of salt I am pretty new to linux as well)
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Same here, since I have found those immutable fedora based distros I never looked back, no more distro hoping. I am gaming with bluefin with an NVIDIA GPU and it is just good.
Are you using Bluefin DX? And a separate question, are you able to install additional gnome extensions?
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I would suggest Debian. Rock solid and it usually has all you need. If you need newer software on it you can allways use backports and there is also a really cool project called distroboc that will let you run pretty much any application in a container.
i'll second debian but with a bit of a warning: for gaming-related stuff, dont use what ships in the repos. its been a while but last i tried, debian stable shipped a pretty old version of wine (the basis of running windows games on linux) and this is one area where it's important to use the latest. not sure how best to do that, i invested the time to learn arch linux but that is a bit of a committment (very worthwhile though IMO).
winehq itself says to add their own repo to debian, so that might be an easy enough way of doing it.
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I've been using this hp gaming laptop with win10 since 2 years ago with an old dumb LG screen for coding/emulate (35%) or gaming (25%) and other 40% without the 2nd screen (browsing/documents).
I've used fedora/red hat in university but it was almost 10 years ago for specific software (emu/simulators) so I'm kind of noob in general terms and I'm afraid I'll be leaving dual boot just in case.
I've read some posts before about out of the box distros (because the nvidia gtx 1650ti mainly) but I'm not sure if I should go for bazzite or cachyos or opensuse tumbleweed or a better distro that fits great in my case and about desktop, KDE (plasma) is my choice at the moment.
Thanks in advance.
My crappy HP laptop works great with Linux I used Debian I had to install some packages to make things work but it was a decent way to learn the basics and now everything just runs. KDE makes it very useful
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I haven't used Arch Linux in years so I haven't tried out their installer.
Manjaro doesn't require using the command line at all to install, so if Arch Linux can match that then it's probably at least as good.
i mean you have to "use the command line" for the arch installer i guess, but it's literally just typing "archinstall" and then having a TUI pop up where you can graphically set the install options and start the installation
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Are you using Bluefin DX? And a separate question, are you able to install additional gnome extensions?
I'm using the regular bluefin, not DX, and yes I am able to install any gnome extension.
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I'm using the regular bluefin, not DX, and yes I am able to install any gnome extension.
Sweet. Customization can be tricky with immutable distros.
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There’s nothing especially gaming-focused with bazzite that would interfere with general PC usage.
The only thing is that there’s not a lot of distro-specific guidance out there, and the immutable concept is a bit new and unusual.
I use it for my general distro as well:
- atomic
- fractional scaling
- seamless background updates
- tiling window manger
All out of the box. Not something I've found with any other distro.
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Upvoted with caveats
I choose clean OSs with minimal additional code and settings added by distro maintainers. Fedora is fairly good. ArchLinux is excellent.
ArchLinux actually makes quite a good first distro if you're willing to learn GNU/Linux. If you grew up with the early non-NT (DOS) Windows then you're more than used to trying to squeeze the most out of Windows by learning how it works. That was a long time ago now.
I moved from Windows to Linux just after the turn of the century because Microsoft were making it more difficult to use your own OS on your own machine.
After Fedora Core 4+ I ended up using ArchLinux for the longest time. It's early adoption of systemd was a factor, as was the rolling nature.
Archlinux is good if you accept that you'll need to spend time to learn it, and that those moments might be frequent and unavoidable early on. Definitely wouldn't recommend it to somebody who needs their computer to work, since a new user with no experience might find themselves breaking their boot images and spending hours trying to figure out how to fix their computer not booting.
So yeah, I think that's an important caveat: if you don't know Linux already, and you can't afford to spend time learning and fixing your system, don't use Arch.
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Why not bazzite? It's just kinoite with some extra stuff installed, some of which is very nice (patent things that make twitch work for example)
Only thing i hate abour fedora is that they respect patents so much. Media codecs? Nope. Vlc? Nope. VA-api? Nope. Atleast not by default.
Thoose are free software, but won't include because it is against american software patent laws. And they also don't want to prompt users to install thoose hardware accelerations, because they belive it makes them non-free
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Sweet. Customization can be tricky with immutable distros.
I also created my own custom immutable distro based on ublue but with hyprland instead of gnome. So I can use it as I wish out of the box without needing to tweak it. It is called blupr and it is on github.
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I've been using this hp gaming laptop with win10 since 2 years ago with an old dumb LG screen for coding/emulate (35%) or gaming (25%) and other 40% without the 2nd screen (browsing/documents).
I've used fedora/red hat in university but it was almost 10 years ago for specific software (emu/simulators) so I'm kind of noob in general terms and I'm afraid I'll be leaving dual boot just in case.
I've read some posts before about out of the box distros (because the nvidia gtx 1650ti mainly) but I'm not sure if I should go for bazzite or cachyos or opensuse tumbleweed or a better distro that fits great in my case and about desktop, KDE (plasma) is my choice at the moment.
Thanks in advance.
I really enjoy running nixos because there is very little uncertainty of what's installed. I don't run any games so I can't speak to that, but the centralized configuration makes fixing problems relatively easy. The downside is a steep learning curve to writing your own derivations, the community is split between "flakes" and normal nix derivations, and sometimes you just have to accept that it doesn't work on nixos without putting in the work to write the derivations yourself. (Don't get me wrong, people have made derivations easy to build, but it's an unexpected side quest when you just want to try some new software)
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I also created my own custom immutable distro based on ublue but with hyprland instead of gnome. So I can use it as I wish out of the box without needing to tweak it. It is called blupr and it is on github.
Nice! I saw another project called Sodalite which is uBlue with Pantheon (from elementaryOS), but with a few tweaks to bring some of their custom apps in line with Fedora.
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Nice! I saw another project called Sodalite which is uBlue with Pantheon (from elementaryOS), but with a few tweaks to bring some of their custom apps in line with Fedora.
Great, ublue is a really interesting Linux evolution.
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I've been using this hp gaming laptop with win10 since 2 years ago with an old dumb LG screen for coding/emulate (35%) or gaming (25%) and other 40% without the 2nd screen (browsing/documents).
I've used fedora/red hat in university but it was almost 10 years ago for specific software (emu/simulators) so I'm kind of noob in general terms and I'm afraid I'll be leaving dual boot just in case.
I've read some posts before about out of the box distros (because the nvidia gtx 1650ti mainly) but I'm not sure if I should go for bazzite or cachyos or opensuse tumbleweed or a better distro that fits great in my case and about desktop, KDE (plasma) is my choice at the moment.
Thanks in advance.
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