I’ve been using this hp gaming laptop with win10 since 2 years ago with an old dumb LG screen for coding/emulate (35%) or gaming (25%) and other 40% without the 2nd screen (browsing/documents).

I’ve used fedora/red hat in university but it was almost 10 years ago for specific software (emu/simulators) so I’m kind of noob in general terms and I’m afraid I’ll be leaving dual boot just in case.

I’ve read some posts before about out of the box distros (because the nvidia gtx 1650ti mainly) but I’m not sure if I should go for bazzite or cachyos or opensuse tumbleweed or a better distro that fits great in my case and about desktop, KDE (plasma) is my choice at the moment.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: I appreciate your comments and warnings (mainly about arch/gaming based distros and other tips). I didn’t want controversy but I use that laptop for almost everything at home and I’m realizing that I need to invest more time both learning and extracting backups because the machine is limited and I’m willing to become a full linux user in the mid term.

  • themadcodger@kbin.earth
    6·
    2 days ago

    I have Bazzite on my steam deck and Bluefin on my laptop and have been very happy with them. The atomic part is great for not messing things up as a noob, but if OP does decide to dual boot then these distros won’t be the best choice as they don’t play well with other distros.

    • visnudeva@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 days ago

      Same here, since I have found those immutable fedora based distros I never looked back, no more distro hoping. I am gaming with bluefin with an NVIDIA GPU and it is just good.

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
        1·
        1 day ago

        Are you using Bluefin DX? And a separate question, are you able to install additional gnome extensions?

        • visnudeva@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 day ago

          I’m using the regular bluefin, not DX, and yes I am able to install any gnome extension.

            • visnudeva@lemmy.ml
              2·
              4 hours ago

              I also created my own custom immutable distro based on ublue but with hyprland instead of gnome. So I can use it as I wish out of the box without needing to tweak it. It is called blupr and it is on github.

              • Telorand@reddthat.com
                1·
                2 hours ago

                Nice! I saw another project called Sodalite which is uBlue with Pantheon (from elementaryOS), but with a few tweaks to bring some of their custom apps in line with Fedora.