Hello there!

After some lurking on r/Unixporn and its Discord, I’m more and more tempted to try Linux as a daily driver. While I’m by no means a pro, I’ve been using WSL at work the past year and generally I can fiddle around finding solutions when something doesn’t work.

These being said, the main requirements I would have from a distro is to be able to run League of Legends (saw that it’s pretty straight forward using Lutris) and not be insanely complex from the get-go (wouldn’t want to jump straight into something like Arch), I intend to use something like Hyprland.

So far I am split between OpenSuse Tumbleweed, NixOS, Fedora and EndeavourOS, but would gladly hear alternatives.

      • aegisgfx877@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Mint is the best ubuntu derivative that I have seen and I use it for a lot of installs. Its easy to upgrade and maintain, easy to use, rock solid. Great overall distro for desktop or server

      • rokejulianlockhart@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I find that most of its user-friendlyness is due to every app having at least a .deb version, whereas no guarantee exists that a .rpm will exist, much less anything else.

    • vanquesse@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I switched from win11 to pop_os this week. I’ve had a good deal of linux exposure but most of that was in the '00s. As such I don’t have familiarity with any other distro in recent times, but I would not recommend people start out with pop. It feels not quite ready for prime-time yet. It would probably be perfect to try after you’ve had a bit of experience.

      • sadreality@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thank you for heads up. What are your concerns?

        I also recently switched and Pop was my first choice; however, I could not get it install, it would get stuck with some weird error where it could not load core files from my flash drive.

        So I went Mint, no problems really besides having some BT disconnects from my xbox controller. Still working on fixing it.

        Otherwise, I am doing what I need to do and gaming like a Chad. Kept Win10 for CoD and BF. However, I am not playing them much anymore, might just go full Linux over next few months.

        • vanquesse@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          It’s a pretty young distro so there’s some stuff missing or not working. My main issue (beyond struggling to install it due to a wrongly setup usb that would fail at the end of the install for no discernable reason) is window snapping not working properly on monitors in portrait orientation.
          But I’ve had a few times where stuff should work but didn’t with no feedback from the OS. It feels like a beta version that’s almost ready for release.