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Diving into daily driving Linux (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Parptarf@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I ended up with Nobara

As some of you already know I’ve been playing around on a small partition with Linux Mint. Learned basic troubleshooting and fixed some driver issues.

Now I’m very impressed with how it runs and decided to daily Linux and keep Windows for things Linux can’t do. Currently installing Windows on a new small SSD as we speak. (240Gb for the OS plus it’s gonna get a 500GB NTFS partition on my 2TB gaming drive)

This brings me to my question. Which Distro? I’ve narrowed it down to keep using Mint or Fedora KDE Plasma 41. Mint is something I’ve already screwed around with and there’s loads of guides online about it.

But Fedora seems like a better for for me. I’m not afraid of tinkering at all. But as long as I came game and daily it for browsing, emails etc. without too much issues, I’m good.

What’s the consensus? Setting it up tonight after my new W11 install is up and running.

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[–] Parptarf@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It did definitely do that for me. Tried that and Pop.

Luckily this community helped me figure it out together with information found searching the web. If I wasn’t persistent and somewhat tech savvy I’d be stuck for sure.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

And this is why Linux is still far from mass adoption. Normie's will not be able to troubleshoot this stuff right out of the box. If there's going to be widespread adoption then Linux needs to come pre-installed and set up, and preferably unbreakable (like Steam OS).