Yeah, that day when you got your first whole MB of RAM... I remember mine was on SIPP chips.
Stillhart
joined 1 year ago
I'm very happy that you had success and such an easy time. Yay, linux! Yay, you! You're the best!
Easier for a linux noobie. Some people want easy, some people like to fiddle. It's good to have choices.
If you're using nvidia and like Fedora, try Nobara. It's gaming focused and comes with nvidia drivers.
If you game, and especially if you use nvidiva, I'd recommend Pop!_OS or Nobara.
If you're not doing anything crazy, there's no reason linux should be any harder to use than Windows.
Once you're up and running, daily life will be pretty straightforward.
Plenty of great advice in the other posts that I won't rehash. One thing I didn't see mentioned is using a live boot to try out linux. You can basically run it off a USB stick before you install it to get a feel for what it's like. Most "beginner friendly" distros will have tutorials on how to create the live disk. Example for Pop!_OS: https://support.system76.com/articles/live-disk/
Ditto. I swapped to linux this summer and landed on Pop!_OS because my laptop has hybrid Nvidia graphics. Pop supports that really well because the company that makes Pop sells laptops with similar hybrid Nvidia graphics.
So far almost every game I've tried on Pop has worked with no issue. Of the games that have had issues, EVERY ONE got working with the help of Proton db. (Note: All Steam games or games with native linux support.)
Anyways, yeah I'm really not the biggest fan of Pop's desktop environment, but it work really well for gaming so I'm leaving well enough alone.
I feel like this post is guerilla marketing for "TempleOS", which I've never heard of before and will absolutely not be looking up after this.
Garuda. It feels like being inside a gaming rig full of blinking RGB lights. Way over the top with the "gamer aesthetic".
He makes a great point about separating "the FOSS crusade" from the linux discussion.