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As a first time Linux user pretty much what should I use for gaming. (lemmy.zip)
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I have heard good things about nobara. I don't mind doing a little thinkering to have things work but I also don't want to spend hours doing recharch on how to fix things.

Edit: thanks for giving input everyone. I will try Linux mint and if it does not go well will give nobara a go instead.

Edit part two I had to boot mint in compatibility mode because I got black screen for like 15+ minutes and then I couldn't get it to see more than one monitor and 3 hours later gave up....Just put on nobara will load mint to my laptop and try to learn more because I want to but also tryna game :) you will hear more from me

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[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Been eyeing Bazzite up for a bit. How is it using it daily?

I'm been dragging my feet but I think I can dual boot and still mostly avoid Windows outside a few games. I know some Linux basics from playing around but I'm not sure if it's enough to make this not painful.

Are rpm-ostree backups robust enough for the guy who fucks around and tends to blow up the OS often?

[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm too busy gaming right now....but for the meantime:

I made a write up of Universal Blue when it's Kinoite-main image was still in beta for Fedora 38, before Bazzite was out:

Since then I've never had to rollback. I only rebased from Kinoite-main 38 to Bazzite 38 when it came out. And using the -lastest tag auto upgraded me to Bazzite 39 when it came out.

So easy peasy.

Think of Atomic Desktops like Chromebooks or modern Android 14/15 with 1/2 or A/B partitions.

Can't really mess it up because you can't mess with much of it.

If you end up needing to layer many rpm ostree packages.....you could always flatten em right into your image, no more layering.

If you wanna customize Atomic Fedora images to be your own consider:

But between Flatpaks and Distrobox exporting of apps and now Nix/Fleek there's so many ways to install things in containers.

Quickie on how that all works:

Bazzite.....But Why??

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow, that's a thick write up, started picking though it. I'm still early into planning things out and still trying to settle on my setup. I haven't even figured out my storage mess yet.