So, what's the best powerhouse linux distro for someone who wants to finally bite the move-away-from-Windows bullet (but still presumably use some of the software in wine and shit)?
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As long as you can admit to yourself that it's more complicated, and are willing to learn it, just deep dive into Debian testing (currently called Trixie). Don't come whining and b***hing saying it's not deadbrain like MacOS or Windows.
Wine is a buggy mess. Linux Mint is the best one for newbies in my opinion.
Mint has arguably the most toxic community that exists. If you are fine with your OS being influenced and affected by IDMisc woke nonsense then go for it I guess.
>toxic community
Sorry I never had to deal with them ever in my life because Mint jest werkz. So don't care personally what moronic troony homosexuals they are as long as they keep the good work.
I switched from Windows to Debian (stable) and it has been working mostly flawlessly. I don't game though. At some point I may try testing, but for now I'll stay on stable.
>powerhouse
>some of the software in wine
I like fedora with windows in virtmanager.
>this
I spent a month in linux mint attempting gpu passthrough so I could game in a windows VM, on my laptop.
Turns out it was impossible because of the way the gpus were set up in the laptop, but I learnt a lot along the way.
Gave up on doing that on the laptop, but gave it a try on a desktop and had it working in about 10mins. Was surprisingly easy because I had spent so much time trying to get it to work on the laptop (wouldn't recommend btw).
as long as you can actually read just about anything should be fine
went straight to arch and it has been fine for like nearly 2 years now
>went straight to arch
How? If possible, please tell about your experience of switching the initial experience in detail.
Just use the wiki (Arch and Gentoo wiki) and do some research on whether your hardware is Linux friendly to avoid immediately running into some kind of compatibility hell. The IQfy wiki can be of some use, as long as you remember that most of what is posted is probably a total meme or out of date.
My experience (not the person you're asking) with Arch was trying to get some older Nvidia GPUs to function with PCI passthrough on QEMU but without libvirt (see also: falling for IQfy wiki memes).
Thank you for the excellent tips, Anon!
Figuring out what programs you rely on ahead of time and looking for a replacement that is in the repo's for whatever distro your looking at probably helps a lot to make it as painless as possible.
If it's a computer you actually rely on for work i'd keep the windows partition around for a bit so you have some peace of mind even if you don't end up using it.
I could probably could the amount of times i have actually used mine since i switched on one hand still.
for the install you should probably practice it in a vm atleast once before you go to your actual system to avoid falling into traps like not having network manager installed and having to chroot back in with the usb because you can't connect to wifi
When it comes to actually using it i'd recommend starting with a meme tiling window manager and just forcing yourself to do pretty much all system and file managment things with the terminal at first until you learn it.
Other than that it's just looking up the wiki and reading whenever you don't know something.
if you're looking for a window manager qtile is pretty good and the default config is pretty much entirely useable
I3 is probably the most popular one so i'm guessing it's also alright but never used it
how many fricking times are we going to have this thread
just one more time
This is the year of the gnu/linux desktop, so expect even more newbies
>Noooo.. I'd rather have browser flame war and niece lusting threads than genuine info seeking threads.
It's people like you who shun and discourage proper, fruitful discussion, and then moan about the rapidly declining quality of this board.
>Verification not required.
>you dont like seeing the same exact thread for the 1000th time, therefore you like other garbage things
my dear false-dichotomy-kun, the issue is that the discussion is barely fruitful at all.
its just always the same
>guys what is the best [x] for a [y] like me?
already the premise of the quesion is wrong because usually there is no "best [x]", what ensues is:
>conflicting opinionated or subjective replies, relevant or not, misleading or not
>lmao dont use KrashDE
>lmao dont use linux if you have nvidia or if you want to gayme
>lmao dont learn C no one uses it anymore just learn javascript
>lmao dont learn javascript its babby language learn assembly
>[the one i use] but unironically
these replies usually include some personal sentiment of the poster and dont actually consider OPs context, and this is assuming that every poster is educated on the matter theyre talking about (often theyre not)
see examples:
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/98499448
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/98270178
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/98025720
if that werent enough, OP usually doesnt provide enough context to answer his query specifically.
does OP value freedom in software?
is OP tech literate?
does OP want to learn linux (from the inside), or does OP just want to get used to linux?
does OP want to have a pre-setup environment or does OP want to build the his environment himself?
these questions usually go unanswered, though theyre crucial for a proper answer
believe it or not but i do actually love exchanging information, valuable information especially. this is not very valuable information because you could have gained the same insight ("insight" meaning worthless anecdotes that barely answer anything) from the 1000 archived threads we already had about this or any other topic
my disdain for these threads comes not from a dislike of sharing information, but from a passion to share only meaningful and correct information
Damn, damn, damn, double damn with a thrice-fold serving of damn on the side!
It doesn't matter. They're all the same. Except for Gentoo. Don't fall for that shit
wtf is a powerhouse
just move away bro, it doesn't matter where
taste a bit of freedom
Manjaro Xfce
ubuntu is pretty much the linux distro everything else is more like a passion project
Arch, unironically.
You'll want the latest versions of Wine and Arch delivers that. Also, Steam tends to work flawlessly with it as I believe SteamOS is based on Arch.
Arch, once set up properly and updated regularly, will not slow you down. In $CURRENT_YEAR it is also remarkably solid.
However, Arch also doesn't hold your hand with some pre-configured ready-to-use setup. It might be better to first use a distro which provides that (not sure what that would be, maybe Mint or Fedora) and move to Arch later on (or not).
For me personally, Arch is no longer my go-to distro but I think it would serve you well.
Literally Arch (or Endeavour, Artix, Manjaro)
Ubunut.
Chrome OS
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