Okay I have a case coming in to shove my junk in it. 8500t (temporary until I get a 8700k) -16gb ram -1060 6gb -2 2.5ssd -2 3.5hdd

I’m partial to Mint and Debian commands. Anyone have a suggestion before I go balls deep into a Mint distro build?

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
    1·
    18 hours ago

    If you want an out of the box ready to game experience with no maintenance, then I suggest Bazzite.

  • kronarbob@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 days ago

    For gaming and having it work out of the box ?

    • Based on Debian : pikaOS
    • Based on fedora : Nobara
    • Based on Atomic fedora : Bazzite
    • Based on Arch : CachyOS
    • Based onUbuntu : PopOS (not so sure about its current state, their cosmic desktop isn’t released yet)

    Beginner friendly : Mint, most of gaming distro (cachy might be a bit more advanced )

    I do not know much about the current state of snaps, so I won’t recommend Ubuntu and derivatives (kubuntu, Xubuntu…). I guess it is easier to use .deb now, but I can’t call beginner friendly a distro that require terminal or tweaks to change packages you can install on it.

  • pogodem0n@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 days ago

    Keep in mind that 1060 will give you a lot of headache for games using DirectX 12. If you can, get an RTX 20 series or GTX 16 series card, or dual boot with Windows.

    • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      5 days ago

      Yea my laptop is running Linux mint with a 1060 and it’s kinda a pain to run. I just flat out don’t want to use windows at all.

    • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      I am using Bazzite with Gnome as a first linux distro after windows and its been a pretty seamless transition. I did run into some trouble with the bazzite packaged installer so I installed fedora, then rebased to bazzite but since then its been great as a dd.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    3·
    6 days ago

    Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). It, with Cinnamon, is what I use for my home servers.

  • WbrJr@lemmy.ml
    1·
    6 days ago

    I recsntly set up my PC again and had fomo when selecting a distro. First ai helped to choose, just tell it what your requirements are. Second, its Linux. After the installiert you can do whatever you want with it. Just pick one if the 3 best fitting ones

  • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
    21·
    6 days ago

    Rhino. it is a new, but very promising distro, ubuntu based and rolling, which is great for gaming