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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

How are you enjoying it? I'm debating between Mint and Bazzite. I'm a lifetime Windows guy that doesn't want 11 lol

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

    Not the person you asked, but I've been running Bazzite for close to a year now. While my intention was an easy time installing any Linux on a laptop with dGPU, everything just works so nicely that it's my daily driver at the moment.
    The only thing that drove me alomost nuts was installing a TFTP server on console. But once I found out about distrobox that was a solution.

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

    Again not the original person you asked, but I found Bazzite a tad too restrictive - I couldn’t for the life of me get PIA’s VPN client installed (for all of those Linux ISOs on my home server).

    Ended up switching to CachyOS, which is also very gaming-focused (and Arch-based, if that matters at all!). It’s a bit more open, allowing you to fiddle (or not) with everything a bit more than Bazzite.

    As an aside, my only hang-up is that it sometimes hangs while trying to boot up the GUI (not sure why, hasn’t bothered me too much), and it can’t wake from Sleep - but I’m pretty sure that’s just something misconfigured in the BIOS.

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

    It's difficult to argue against Mint when your use case is a current windows user who just wants to drop Linux in its place.

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

    Thats exactly where I am. As soon as I can be arsed im on it.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    If you're putting it off you might be frustrated afterwards once you see how easy and fast it was, lol. If you make a bootable USB drive, which you should, you can boot to a live desktop and see linux running on your hardware before you install anything to a hard drive.

    I have recently converted from Mint, including a brief stint with LMDE, to good old Debian + KDE Plasma and I absolutely love it. But I am also enough of an enthusiast that the few extra setup steps were fine.

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