▲ 175 ▼ I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 7 months ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/linux@programming.dev 26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 25 points 7 months ago (1 child) Brave to say such controversial things in a Linux community! permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (3 children) pc gamer is a linux community? anyways, since y'all here: I wanna change to Linux but didn't use any for almost 20 years (changed my lavor of nerd to social science amid others). Soo whats the best one if you don't have tooo much time on your hands for some proper computer nerding? I do light gaming, office stuff and torrents. Thanks so much in advance! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Magnum@infosec.pub 4 points 7 months ago Debian Stable works great for me out of the box. permalink fedilink source parent [–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago I've been using EndeavourOS for 12 months now. Very light steam gaming. Office stuff is basically web browsers (occasionally I have to swap to windows boot for silly excel spreadsheets that don't work online). Programming is delightful. It's been solid, and the installer was great. The major issues have been from dual booting windows (disable fast boot!) and from not updating frequently enough (keychain issues, tho endeavouros has plenty of "newb needs to update" helpers). I love it. It's mine, I own that laptop, and endeavouros works for me. I feel so much more in control than I ever did on windows. I do have some basic experience running Debian servers (VMs for single service, or docker stuff), and I do programming. permalink fedilink source parent [–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago Mint is very popular and easy permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (3 children) pc gamer is a linux community? anyways, since y'all here: I wanna change to Linux but didn't use any for almost 20 years (changed my lavor of nerd to social science amid others). Soo whats the best one if you don't have tooo much time on your hands for some proper computer nerding? I do light gaming, office stuff and torrents. Thanks so much in advance! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Magnum@infosec.pub 4 points 7 months ago Debian Stable works great for me out of the box. permalink fedilink source parent [–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago I've been using EndeavourOS for 12 months now. Very light steam gaming. Office stuff is basically web browsers (occasionally I have to swap to windows boot for silly excel spreadsheets that don't work online). Programming is delightful. It's been solid, and the installer was great. The major issues have been from dual booting windows (disable fast boot!) and from not updating frequently enough (keychain issues, tho endeavouros has plenty of "newb needs to update" helpers). I love it. It's mine, I own that laptop, and endeavouros works for me. I feel so much more in control than I ever did on windows. I do have some basic experience running Debian servers (VMs for single service, or docker stuff), and I do programming. permalink fedilink source parent [–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago Mint is very popular and easy permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 4 points 7 months ago Debian Stable works great for me out of the box. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago I've been using EndeavourOS for 12 months now. Very light steam gaming. Office stuff is basically web browsers (occasionally I have to swap to windows boot for silly excel spreadsheets that don't work online). Programming is delightful. It's been solid, and the installer was great. The major issues have been from dual booting windows (disable fast boot!) and from not updating frequently enough (keychain issues, tho endeavouros has plenty of "newb needs to update" helpers). I love it. It's mine, I own that laptop, and endeavouros works for me. I feel so much more in control than I ever did on windows. I do have some basic experience running Debian servers (VMs for single service, or docker stuff), and I do programming. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago Mint is very popular and easy permalink fedilink source parent