Planning to switch to Linux for my next PC
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Thanks for the input, like I said though in my post I’m not really looking for something I can fiddle with but thanks for advice
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I think a lot of the problem is every tutorial expects Fedora/RedHat/Ubuntu/Debian and it’s easy to figure out which instructions are compatible with your distribution, but there isn’t a good knowledge base for Fedora Atomic or related OS. I have a Bazzite VM. Normally I use Ubuntu and am familiar with RHEL compatible, but am constantly lost with Bazzite, trying to use the wrong instructions.
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I'm going to agree with you, and I've been using Linux for over 25 years, and used to moderate the Mint subreddit.
Mint isn't ready for gaming without a lot of work that I don't think you want to put in, it's Wayland support is sadly lacking, and overall it's gotten a bit behind for anything more demanding than browsing and office work.
If you want a low-fiddle distro with good gaming support and graphics tweaks already in there, I'd say Nobara or Bazzite. Bazzite is very similiar to SteamOS in that it's an immutable distro, and it is very up to date without you having to do much beyond keeping it updated. But the immutable part might make installing things a little non-intuitive. In which case, Nobara is a normally installed distro with all the tweaks, and it's based on Fedora, uses Wayland, and has pretty much all the gaming software pre-installed.
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Well that’s quite the resume! Yeah idk if I mentioned it to you but I was planning on using bazzite first
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FWIW, if you decide to go with KDE and manage to delete your panel, it's
- right click on the desktop
- enter edit mode
- add panel
- default panel
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Good to know
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If you go with Amazon you might get a PC that works with Linux but it probrally wont be preinstalled or optimized for Linux
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Oh I highly doubt something has Linux which is why I wanna figure out installation and stuff
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Keep in mind by purchasing from Linux brands such as System76 you directly support the development of Linux. In addition Amazon is great for finding PC parts but awful for finding a decently priced prebuilt.
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Using Linux since 2008 ish.... (As non IT user), I recommend going and route, and using pop os (or bazzite which people say also works well but is personally haven't tried), I am currently using tuxedo os on my laptop but my pop os journey for your use case on the home machine has been the smoothest, and if you go do route which I did, I had never thought about any driver issues.... The only thing in pop (which I haven't updated for a year now, yeah life got crazy), was that always do apt get updates / upgrades as pop OS's package manager gui used to get stuck sometimes, once the terminal completes the updates then use the GUI to update the pop os things. Other than this small hiccup, never had to do anything else.
(Oh yeah when buying hardware some people told me that getting the latest and greatest cutting edge sometimes takes time for the kernel to catch up to the optimizations of drivers, but I always bought 1 or 2 gen behind the latest and never had any issues, I mostly play Indy games other than 1/or 2 like Tekken series at 2k monitor so I never cared about 4k 120 or above fps.) -
I second this. I installed bazzite on my basement pc and am very happy with it. As a total linux noob it was easy to use. I use that pc more now than my actual gaming pc, because win 11 is just so annoying and slow.
I’d like to add one thing: Don’t use Nvidia graphics, as they don’t play nice with linux. It saves you a lot of time in the future if you build your computer with amd stuff. -
Ah good to know, any recommended parts I don’t really keep up with hardware
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Fwiw I'm new to Linux and went with KDE and it seems totally buggy as shit. I love it though. I don't even wanna try the other desktop environments
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I would get a 6000 series radeon gpu and a x3d ryzen cpu
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Alright thanks! I was probably gonna make a follow up post specifally for hardware today just so I can ah more info
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In Bazzite, installing software, for example, works differently than under a typical distribution.
This is true, but it's also on the whole a lot more familiar to a non-Linux user (open app store, search, download).
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Just get an all AMD (CPU & GPU) build and flash a thumb drive with Bazzite (bazzite-deck), your PC will be very similar to your Steam Deck.
I did this, best decision ever.
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Yeah I was looking at some AMD stuff and pretending all the tech specs make sense
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If you want, post what you are looking at and we can help you chose.
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You’re right, but part of the draw of Linux is that you have more control over your OS. An immutable distro makes that a lot harder to get at as compared to non-immutable.
