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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (7 children)

That might be the sign I waited to switch to Linux. Now... let me just search for the coolest noob friendly distro

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Mint. Really. It basically just works. A decrapified Ubuntu.

    I'm on CachyOS right now, and love it. I call it "Script Kiddie Arch". Really nice, but it took some tweaking for my particular setup, no driver stuff, rather my use case.

    Since it may require mild terminal stuff, and using the AUR, I'd say it's an intermediate/advance user distro, although it may just work for you.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    Only asterisk I'd add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I'd go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.

    Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn't there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they've overcome that hurdle it'll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    mint, pop_os, bazzite, fedora, nobara, mx, cachy, zorin

    the coolest of those is cachyos probably

    bazzite and cachy are intended for gaming but also sutied to other usage

    more in detail:

    • mint is basically ubuntu without the bad things (snap and canonicals other bullshit)
    • pop_os is basically the same thing done differently
    • bazzite is immutable (parts of the filesystem are read only, features easy update rollback) and fedora based and intended for gaming
    • fedora is a simple and universal desktop distro that tends to try out new interesting technologies
    • nobara is fedora with a few improvements
    • mx is a simple and easy debian based distro
    • cachy is arch but not difficult, has normal stuff preinstalled unlike arch, and is intended for gamers and is intended to let normies be power users
    • zorin is another de-canonical-ed ubuntu but weird, it is kinda corporate
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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Do it! It's so easy. It's also easy to build it up in your head like it's this big complicated thing. It's not. When I finally did it my first thought was "why didn't I do this sooner?"

    I've been happily using mint for years. Do it.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Thanks for the advice! I plan on basically gaming half of the time, so... I'll look into it. And try dual boot just to try everything. Btw, I have all my files on an SSD, together with window 11. Hope it will be possible to keep my files in the process 🫠

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