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When Windows 10 dies, I am going to jump ship over to Linux. Which version would you recommend for someone with zero prior experience with Linux? Edit: Linux Mint it shall be. (self.linux)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by FatTony to c/[email protected]

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Whom also likes to game every now and then ;)

Edit: Thank you all for your input and suggestions! Linux Mint shall be my next OS! Though, I think I'll give Pop!OS a look-see as well.

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[–] agent_flounder 0 points 10 months ago

I appreciate what glorious eggroll does. And I've had no issues with the few games I've played on Steam.

I've been running Nobara for several months and it has been very stable though I find it is lacking a little polish around the edges in some areas. Kind of like how Mint was when I first started about 10y ago.

I'm trying out Fedora now for a while. On kernel 6.5. I was on 6.1 in Nobara. I have one game that's crashing now (it wasn't crashing in Nobara .. go figure). So I may have to go back to Nobara or try to figure out what they did with Nobara vs Fedora that would help.

When Mint gets to kernel 6.x some day, I might jump back. (5.19 doesn't support my GPU). Overall Mint became very polished. I hardly ever ran into weird issues. Although I do remember feeling Cinnamon blew up every so often.