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.

  • Jarmer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Also recommend Tumbleweed. I’ve distro hopped for many years, and currently am using Tumbleweed and have no plans of leaving soon. It really is the best I’ve ever used.

    I wouldn’t recommend doing a Hyperland setup right away on first time ever using linux. Just run with KDE or Gnome for a while until you’re comfy then you can try Hyperland. The reason I say this is check this page:

    https://wiki.hyprland.org/Useful-Utilities/Must-have/

    “Must Have
    This page documents software that is critical / very important to have running for a smooth Wayland / Hyprland experience.
    DEs like KDE / Gnome will do this automatically, Hyprland will not (because you might want to use something else)
    A notification daemon
    Starting method: most likely manual (exec-once)
    Many apps (e.g. Discord) may freeze without one running.”

    So you have to do a LOT more setup and configs to get Hyperland up and running. Just use KDE lol. Tumbleweed rocks with Plasma.