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I am speccing up a new pc at the moment with the plans to install bazzite or Mint from the start,
I have booted into Mint on my laptop off a usb several times but never committed because I have so much stuff on said laptop in concerned about losing.
I tried to put it all on an external hardrive but because of the stupid fractured way windows saves files everywhere in the cloud two random desktop folders etc for no apparent reason in not confident in getting all my photos etc and fully commiting
maybe this is the year of the linux desktop?
sobs
Mint an Bazzite helped me leave Windows about a year ago.
Mint is pretty mint
Me who’s used Debian since 2022 🫡
I just want more NVIDIA support. My first attempt at switching to Linux for gaming was not a smooth one.
I kept having an issue with my monitors freezing. Any community suggestion made just didn’t work at all. It was as if the monitor not only froze but was just turned off. Any UI Element would freeze up and then suddenly my Cursor would only work on the only remaining monitor until that would stop as well
I couldn’t for the life of me figure it out. Tried 2 different OS’s same issue. Was told by the community it was because I had an NVIDIA GPU, 4080. Which is fine except the 2 OS’s tired both had the same issue. I just gave up.
They all have distros with native nvidia support, need to get the right iso
https://download.bazzite.gg/bazzite-nvidia-open-stable-live.iso
https://nobaraproject.org/download-nobara/ (scroll down)
https://cdn77.cachyos.org/ISO/desktop/250530/cachyos-desktop-linux-250530.iso
I have not been able to get my index working on bazzite. And I’ve been too lazy to try anything else on that rig.
I got mine working on manjaro. Unfortunately, because I have a Nvidia graphics card, there’s no asynchronous reprojection
How come Fedora is never mentioned in these sorts of posts? It’s really beginner friendly.
Nobora and bazzite run on fedora but have lots if gaming optimizations over standard fedora
Bazzite is an excellent spin on Fedora Atomic, gaming ready. It will usually get mentioned over plain Fedora
Yeah, Bazzite is basically Fedora on easy mode, with safety guardrails and helpful utilities preconfigured for linux noobs to have something that more or less ‘just works’.
But, the neat part is that you can also use … well they recently changed it from DistroBox to DistroShelf… but basically, by using that, you can also setup another, more ‘hardcore’/‘traditional’ linux env within Bazzite, if you want to branch out into more complex things like developing and compiling your own software, as this containerized linux env allows you to manually fuck with specific dependencies, without breaking the core system itself; worst you can probably do is fuck up that env and then either learn how to fix it, or wipe it out and start over.
Bazzite also has a very straightforward install process, literally simpler and faster than Windows.
Yeah I’m incredibly impressed with Fedora. Rides the fine line of cutting edge, without tipping over, any time something matures enough to adopt, so it’s still stable—which means I’ve found the typical Linux faffing about is optional if I want to do it, rather than mandatory, which isn’t always the case for distros that adopt cutting edge sooner.
That said, distros that pioneer new stuff quickly can be fun in their own right, but right now I’m just happy to have that balance.
Another thing I’ve found is that it makes tinkering easier any time I want to try something new, since the whole distro tends to be on newer but still stable packages, so there’s less breakage. That isn’t always the case on Debian based distros which can sometimes be a little too conservative to make adopting newer things simple, or bleeding edge distros where things tend to break just by virtue of being bleeding edge.
It’s quite literally the Goldilocks distro for me and my needs right now.
I daily drive Fedora and if I had to guess, it’s because you need to manually enable non free software repos and features. If you don’t know what to look for, you can easily get frustrated by things like poor hardware acceleration in browsers (due to some codecs being nonfree and hence not available OOTB) and worse driver availability. IIRC you need to manually add the repos, you can’t just toggle something in settings.
Other distros tend to bundle these things (or give you a direct toggle).
In my experience, as part of the install process you have the ability to click a big obvious button that says ‘enable third party repositories’ (which includes nonfree stuff)
Does that automatically setup RPMFusion? That’s where most of the things I was talking about live. Last time I ran the installer was a few years ago (plus I use the KDE spin which maybe is a bit different) and I don’t remembet an option to enable RPMFusion, so maybe it’s changed.
Yes, rpmfusion is enabled if you select ‘enable third party repositories’ for proprietary NVIDIA drivers.
Yep. This is a great answer, and the cure for it is to search “fedora after install” to get a list of the most common things you should install update and tweak.
Are these distributions that are particularly well suited for gaming? Do you have a reference I can look at?
Bazzite is a gaming distro. It even comes preloaded with Steam.
They’re all pretty good options. Bazzite is very easy to install, runs almost all games, and its immutable nature makes it difficult to break.
Mint is also easy to set up, runs almost all Steam games, but requires a little configuration to run other games. The main advantage is that it can be more easily customized if you’re interested in tinkering.
I haven’t tried the others, but I expect them to be similarly beginner friendly.
Once you’ve picked an OS, you can swap out the desktop environment at any time for a different feel. Cinnamon on Mint or KDE on Bazzite will give you a fairly comfortable Windows-like feel, whereas gnome is quite different.
It’s always a good idea to check ProtonDB before buying a new Steam game for Linux.
EndeavorOS is basically Arch with some opinionated and easy to run install/setup scripts. Once up and running though you use yay (assuming you want to install aur packages, otherwise I guess you could just use pacman).
