Hello, so in the past I was considering Linux but that post was on a lemm.ee account, but I also had some other questions (and mostly forgot what was said on that thread). First off I remember a lot of recommendations for Bazzite and Mint as a good distro, however I’m against installing it myself as my dumb ass WILL find a way to mess things and end up with a several thousand dollar paper weight. There was recommendations to system76 as Linux comes preinstalled. Things i use, Steam for gaming, libre office for college work, proton drive for game and college backups, discord for ofc voice and text chat between friends

But first question: based on that is Linux even something for me? I don’t really have a problem with microsoft, mostly that Linux is new (good in that its something different but also bad that i’ll have to learn new things and potentially fix aforementioned things). But is it something that’ll be worth potential headaches as I want a system that “Just works” ™ and everythings good to go out of the box. And yes I’m aware posting in a Linux community will be biased but I’m having doubt about if it will be worth it to make the switch.

Second do things “just work” on linux, just install and go. The issue I dont want to run into is having to bug fix games or programs after a long day and wanting to unwind or an essay due where time is a factor.

I feel like i have more I just forgot :| so ill edit the post if anything comes up

Edit 1: also any hardware recommendations, I’m planning to go top of the line stuff so this PC can last me a while

  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    That’s only really true in the sense that you will “get a bootable OS”. I had Bazzite just stop being able to update itself 3 times in a year, two times I had to entirely rebase to a newer image to get it working again, last time I just left it, pulled the drive out, and installed a different distro. I still have it, it still boots to exactly what it was before, and it still won’t update - but in an external enclosure it makes for a good “emergency” boot option (better than a live USB stick anyway).

    • Hazzard@lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      Fascinating, what were you up to manage that? As far as I’m aware, that should basically only be possible with rpm-ostree commands, which are pretty strongly recommended against in the documentation, and I’ve yet to find something I really need any for.

      • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Nothing that I know of, lol. I use the laptop infrequently, usually at a DnD game every other weekend. I don’t know if that is part of the problem, like it really wants to run updates more often than once every few weeks? I would let it run updates via whatever it is that pops up in the system tray asking to run updates. Eventually, anytime it tried to update it would give me an error message, undo whatever had been done so far, and then close itself. I think they have a new software center now, Bazaar or something? This was before that was released so the problems might not repeat if I tried it again.

        And honestly, rebasing to a new image was incredibly easy to do, it just takes a bit of time, but I didn’t like randomly “having to” do it.

        • Hazzard@lemmy.zip
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          3 days ago

          Interesting stuff. Yeah, can confirm I’ve not had any experiences like that in my 6-ish months with it, despite screwing around with nearly everything under the sun: emulators, modding games, hosting services, third party launchers, etc, but I guess it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that it hasn’t always been that rock solid.

          My only real issue so far has been that Steam isn’t quite wayland-ready, and I’m insistent on tinkering with HDR gaming and therefore run into issues with Steam Input or Steam Overlay.

          • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            3 days ago

            I did jump in when Bazzite first began to gain traction early on, so I feel like it’s reasonable to expect some kinks to work out. And like I mentioned, it is very difficult to completely brick a Bazzite install as you can always boot into the last working configuration.

      • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I was already running Garuda on my desktop for about a year prior to the Bazzite problems on my laptop, so I just switched the laptop to Garuda as well.

          • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            3 days ago

            I love it. It’s been my only OS on my desktop almost 3 years now (and now my laptop for almost 1 year). I know a lot of people get turned off by the appearance, but it is a truly great distro imo… I don’t love the theme either, but I also don’t love default KDE theme, so a fresh install is going to always be a few minutes of tweaking the ui anyway so where it starts doesn’t bother me at all.