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People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Fedora (including Silverblue/Kionite) is hard to recommend as a first distro though. It's an excellent platform when you know your end goal and how to get there, while providing "leading-edge" packages that's great for gaming.

But a project like Bazzite? Phenomenal new user experience for gaming and a very easy recommend.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you want a non-gaming alternative to Bazzite to recommend, there's it's two universal blue siblings, Aurora (general purpose desktop) and Bluefin (silverblue/workstation distro). They both have the same setup as Bazzite but without the explicitly gaming elements. https://universal-blue.org/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm literally switching from Bazzite to Aurora right now.

Bluefin and Aurora are the same except they use Gnome and KDE respectively.

Each offers a general purpose version and a developer experience version.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I think they're based off the fedora atomic desktops of Silverblue and Kinoite respectively which are gnome and kde based. They do angle Bluefin as more workstation oriented, for what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I love Bazzite. It's now my daily driver on my laptop and Stream Deck! It just works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Bazzite is broken AF on Nvidia right now, with no X11 and no explicit sync driver. I can't wait to see if driver 555 fixes it.

Edit - 555 is out, and yes it is considerably better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Ouch, didn't realize the Nvidia build was struggling. Hopefully it gets patched up soon.

If there's a previous commit before the issue is introduced you can pin it and wait to unpin until the issue gets resolved.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I just switched it to x11 and it was fine.

I recently picked up an AMD GPU so I re-based to the regular one which was amazingly easy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I have an Nvidia image and haven't had these issues. I can run Wayland just fine. I believe they include X11 as well.