I ended up with Nobara
As some of you already know I’ve been playing around on a small partition with Linux Mint. Learned basic troubleshooting and fixed some driver issues.
Now I’m very impressed with how it runs and decided to daily Linux and keep Windows for things Linux can’t do. Currently installing Windows on a new small SSD as we speak. (240Gb for the OS plus it’s gonna get a 500GB NTFS partition on my 2TB gaming drive)
This brings me to my question. Which Distro? I’ve narrowed it down to keep using Mint or Fedora KDE Plasma 41. Mint is something I’ve already screwed around with and there’s loads of guides online about it.
But Fedora seems like a better for for me. I’m not afraid of tinkering at all. But as long as I came game and daily it for browsing, emails etc. without too much issues, I’m good.
What’s the consensus? Setting it up tonight after my new W11 install is up and running.
I’m doing the same thing. Someone recommended Bazzite to me and it seems to come with a lot of the compatibility stuff ready to go. I haven’t really gotten into it much but my plan is to dip my toes in with it and at least learn the names of the apps and what they do. After that If I want to switch I hope it will be easier. The biggest hurdle for me is just knowing what’s what.
I do love the file browser on it already. I’m doing the same stuff with it I had to install 2 3rd party apps in Windows for.
Bazzite is definitely a good choice for a PC that you’ll use like a console. But because it’s an atomic OS (immutable) downloading less popular apps may be a bit annoying. It’s not impossible but just keep that in mind if you ever get frustrated. If an immutable OS isn’t working for you, then id give Nobara OS a try.
I’ll keep that in mind. So far haven’t hit any walls other than FreeCAD running like ass but I’m not sure that’s Bazzite’s problem or something else. Still digging into it.