Just don’t ask how long it took to get my dGPU working properly :D But thankfully, there were a bunch of helpful folks with tips!
Following the ancient traditions, I’m here to tell you that you picked the wrong distro. 😉
But welcome aboard.
Oh undoubtedly!
Hopefully my partitioning was decent though, so distro-hopping shouldn’t be too hard if I feel like switching (or even running different distros side-by-side?)
I was personally drawn to it because: it’s not Ubuntu; ButterFS seems like a nice safety net; KDE Plasma is sexy AF; noone seems to have anything particularly horrible to say about it.
Why is your chosen distro (obviously) the superior choice?
I’ve been running opensuse for years now. It’s great. Welcome aboard
Fedora. Because it’s the best supported distro on Apple hardware :P (running asahi here)
Yeah, those are the same reasons I chose tumbleweed. Plus the rolling release.
I hope you made your system partition large enough. I had about 20G for / (excluding /home), which used to be enough for kubuntu, but quickly ran out of space on tumbleweed. I assume because of the Btrfs snapshots.
I reinstalled tumbleweed on a larger partition. Then couldn’t install the proprietary codecs, because of an error I couldn’t resolve.
Installed it a third time recently, now it runs smoothly.
It suggested 200GiBs for root, which seemed a bit excessive but I didn’t argue
If you intent to run virtual machines with virt-manager (especially if you keep the default path), that 200 Gb will seems short a bit :-)
With most PC things (RAM, disk space, CPU, etc etc), too much is better than too little, provided you have the resources.
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The partition running full did prevent me from updating the system. That surely can be somehow fixed. But with time and skill being limited resources in my life, it doesn’t mean that it is unimportant.
Btrfs does not stand for butterFS lmao
But b-tree file system sounds way less fun!
It’s already cemented itself as butterfly system in my mind lol
“ButterFS” is one of the accepted pronunciations though.
Mint for gaming, because it’s nice to have a rock-solid OS that doesn’t need much beyond updates in terms of maintenance. Arch for hobby tinkering, because voiding warranties is fun.
Mint was 2nd in line on the choice list, so not far off!
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I’m sure it’s great but I’ve had no issue on Mint.
Hell yeah! Great choice choosing Tumbleweed!!! It’s been my go to for years
Aw yisss, someone else using SUSE
I tried a lot of different distros, but SUSE’s YaST tools are the shit. No distro has anything quite like them.
I don’t know about its derivatives, but Mandriva had something similar.
There’s nothing like the smell of a freshly installed Linux box.
Welcome to the party pal
Thanks! Next step is getting equivalents for all the software I use and figuring out proton.
Most of them (thankfully) are foss, but I’ve a few without equivalents.
Proton should work well but if you have any questions you might wanna subscribe to
!linux_gaming@lemmy.ml, !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
I hope you will find everything you need and that the transition will be smooth!
Edit: Fixed the links, thanks bot.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml, !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
If you haven’t I would join the Matrix space, really helps when there’s a gap in the docs!
I’ll go have a look
Welcome to the penguin party! 🐧
Welcome to Linux :)
I also started with tumbleweed in December, but it didn’t play nice with my desktop for some unknown reason so I switched to Fedora. Also didn’t make much sense to run a rolling release on my laptop so I just moved to Debian on the laptop and it’s been great.
I hope you enjoy your experience. Plenty of very helpful people here and forums to find answers to questions you might have later down the road (or tomorrow if you’re anything like me).Running Tumbleweed as daily driver. Which Debian do you use for your laptop? Never tried it, but the itch is there…
Linux mint Debian edition. I just wanted to properly try cinnamon since I know GNOME isn’t for me and I really like KDE. Other options strike me personally as mostly just downgrades to KDE. It’s been very easy, absolutely nothing to complain about.
And the best part is I don’t update 2000 packages every time I use it lol (it mostly sat in a drawer collecting dust).I don’t know that there’s really much difference use wise aside from the lack of updates. Everything largely looks and feels the same. Debian doesn’t have YaST obviously, but I never actually used my laptop enough to appreciate it so idk what I’m missing out on there.
No harm in trying stuff out, especially if you don’t use your laptop much like I do.
Welcome in the world of the penguin! 🐧🐧
Did you use Fedora before? If yes, how does SUSE compare?
Haven’t tried. I did use Mint on a second laptop a while back, and that was nice, but I wanted something with KDE Plasma this time
You can install plasma on mint no problem
Fedora Kde version is better
