Personally, if you want a beginner distro that still is super easy to game on, use Linux mint
Once you’re more experienced they can switch but for now I recommend sticking with the easy stuff
Apparently zorin is good too but haven’t personally used it
Canonical should really wake up and stop thinking that rewriting in rust is a magical way to remove bugs.
Sure the rust rewrite will surely be easier to maintain and less error prone (Assuming the code is idiomatic), but you can’t rewrite software maturity.
They should put it behind a checkbox instead of shoving it down anyone’s throat. They are literally testing in prod
Actually mint ship free software by default! Although there’s nothing preventing you from downloading more (no please add non free software checkbox)
Nvidia drivers are actually opt-in (it’s actually nouveau by default), so for the average person that should be fine… Personally I need the proprietary drivers for blender so I 'm stuck with it.
Although I don’t see how going to debian would help with anything…
Mint veteran here. You aren’t safe. Nvidia will come for all of us.
Meme aside, they have been pretty stable lately. But 2023-2024 had some pretty iffy drivers for my laptop GPU.
Kernel is on the older side, but safe. You don’t really need to have the latest kernel all the time though. All those 1% performance improvements can wait.
Went Mint > Nobara > Mint. I totally understand your take. It was fun tinkering a bit on mint, but I wanted more by going to Nobara.
I had to reinstall it 3 times. There have been some breakage due to KDE updates and Nvidia drivers, and when you go back from a long day at work and you just want to do some chill gaming, coming back to a non functional setup is a pain, even more when you just wanted to update and it wasn’t your tinkering.
So yeah, not for me. I do still think both have their own place in the world
TBF, it’s not the first time the LTS base changes, and it wasn’t a disaster at all.
Despite, there’s the Debian and Linux mint repos, as well as the entirety of flatpak.
It will be fine.
TBH if it’s just for that I’d rather use nix packages. But flatpak’s sandboxed app are better for sus packages or proprietary-might-spy-everywhere packages.
I personally only use navidrome’s web UI for full random, or listenBrainz when I know what I want to play. LB’s Navidrome integration is brand new so there’s some instances where the played track isn’t the correct one, although it does help a lot if the track is properly tagged.
Although I don’t like using random really much. My collection is vast, and some albums are really just there to be played every 5 months. That’s why I prefer radio that actually recommends my most listened to tracks first, then lesser listened after a while of not listening to them
My latest setup is probably too complicated for what I need… But it works.
The music server is a Navidrome server
I play those files using ListenBrainz so that I have centralised public playlists and being able to play tracks rereleased in multiple albums.
To add files to Navidrome, I use a local copyparty for a webui, as well syncthing to have a subset of the library always locally available in case of the server crashing or internet outage
When I don’t have the mood for any particular playlist, I use Alistral to generate a radio based on my listening habits
Of course 99% of the files are tagged using MusicBrainz Picard
Best part, the whole stack is foss software! And self host able too. I just don’t self host listenBrainz as I prefer the public instance
From wise man flork of cows
Well it really depends on your use case because as a daily driver I never see any buggy page. Not even the enhanced protection thing is blocking pages
I really like librewolf. Does need some getting used to and actually learn to manage profiles (which it sadly remove the new profile browser for some reason?), but pretty great and “just works”
Been maining Linux mint for 3 years now. I did distrohop once to nobara to see if the grass was greener on the other side, but had to revert due to Nvidia.
… The grass wasn’t green, but tasted exactly the same. Apart from Nvidia (which isn’t a distro issue but more shitty company that can’t make things right), the only noticeable changes is going from cinnamon to KDE.
There’s no “stupid distro” nor “smart distros”. Everything is valid. (Although I’d argue that Linux mint is the best beginner distro, to let people get into Linux gently before eventually trying something else)
You’re looking for !fuck_ai@lemmy.world
Linux, in an nutshell.
A lot of Linux issues are actually just messing around then finding out
TBF I haven’t had a sound issue after Linux mint switched to pipewire.
Mint main here, and I’ll say outright: most distros are good for gaming. Got steam? Then you have an easy install of proton. Got flatpak? You got bottle to help you setup wine configs.
Mint is not setup out of the box for gaming (unlike distros like nobara), but it’s still arguably easier to install than windows’s exes.
I recommend mint to start getting into Linux. Keep it 4-5 months as daily driver, then you’ll be free to try other things. Personally I did some distro hopping, but came back to it as it was just… Good and stable.
… Until you talk about Nvidia. By default, mint uses the nouveau drivers… Which can be hit or miss. There’s the driver manager to help you one click install other versions, but you might have to try a few to get it working. If steam games crashes on startup, but not in Nvidia GPU only mode, that might be a bad version. That’s not really a mint thing, but it’s good to know.
Personally I use docker on a debian 13. I don’t need an interface as it’s all available from the browser.
For my dev container, a simple vscode tunnel works
Meanwhile, on debian (and derivatives):
Use the official build, but you are forced to update manually at each new update
Use the flatpak build, but can’t use screen sharing
What does that do?