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After a few days of reading documentation, I was able to get Slackware installed. It was entirely my fault for messing up user groups (add wheel and editing the sudo file) and failure to install every package (I accidentall left out KDE). It's all better now. I am learning as I go and so far It has been rather enlightening handling something that seems so daunting, dependency management. The first order of business is getting multilib set up so I can have steam running and that would essentially be my entire computer needs.
 

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Slackware is a very nice distro I used to use daily on machines that were even old or low end by 2010s standards. The only issue I have is the lack of automatic dependency management.
 
Belisarius Cawl said:
You'd be much better off probably with some form of Debian like Lubuntu targeted at such specs
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I mean I pretty much use EndeavourOS as my distro of choice and both of my computers are certainly more modern and powerful than what I was using a decade ago. I was just talking about that specific time in my life. The lack of software availibility and dependency management was far less of an issue back then compared to now.
 
I'm thinking of trying to make the switch to linux again, but I'm a bit uncertain what distro to use. I'd like to use it for gaming as it'll be installed on a MSI Trident 3 with a Nvidia 1660 Super, I'd like a level of stability and a decent desktop OS. Eventually I'll probably get a Lenovo Legion Go and on Reddit Bazzite was reccomended for it tho it's built on Fedora
 
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I'm thinking of trying to make the switch to linux again, but I'm a bit uncertain what distro to use. I'd like to use it for gaming as it'll be installed on a MSI Trident 3 with a Nvidia 1660 Super, I'd like a level of stability and a decent desktop OS. Eventually I'll probably get a Lenovo Legion Go and on Reddit Bazzite was reccomended for it tho it's built on Fedora
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People say if you wanna game on linux get Nobara, but I don't know much about that besides the name.
 
Kiwi2Shoes said:
People say if you wanna game on linux get Nobara, but I don't know much about that besides the name.
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It's basically a fork of Fedora with tons of tweaks and improvements for gaming performance/compatibility. I wanted to install it on my computer, but it didn't support full-drive encryption and secure boot. I've switched to Arch instead, which I could configure as needed.
 
I have given up slackware, for now. It is truly wonderful and jam packed full of useful tools. It is like booting up windows 7 all over again but this time I control the car. I was held back by setting up multilib so I could get my games to run and I messed up along the way as one program made to automate it said I was already set up and yet Steam failed to launch. I will come back to it soon enough once I learn more about how to make it sing better. When I was trying it out initially it is like someone left a guide book or a note at every point of intrest like "X is what normally goes in in this file path" and "Here is the config file for X program, the defaults are C,B,A but to change them mark X as Y" and so on. It is almost like having a wiki pre-installed, you just need to open the files yourself to learn what each thing does.
 
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Betonhaus said:
I'm thinking of trying to make the switch to linux again, but I'm a bit uncertain what distro to use. I'd like to use it for gaming as it'll be installed on a MSI Trident 3 with a Nvidia 1660 Super, I'd like a level of stability and a decent desktop OS. Eventually I'll probably get a Lenovo Legion Go and on Reddit Bazzite was reccomended for it tho it's built on Fedora
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attractive_pneumonia said:
Linux Mint using the Cinnamon desktop environment. The various flavors of Ubuntu are also acceptable entry level distros.
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This is exactly what I did when Steam quit supporting Windows 7. If you have even the barest ability to tinker a bit Linux Mint with Cinnamon more than capable for a gaming / general use computer.

I also like that when something weird did eventually break with a program install it was easy as pie to reboot back to a recent snap shot and carry on like it never even happened. I'm shit at the technical side of computers and know jack about why what works works, but my computing experience switching to Mint has been nothing, but positive.
 
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Hey. I would like to install Linux the hard and autistic way, on mine main machine. The reason of this change is that I want use Linux as daily driver, ending of win10 life support and VM's dosen't reflect problems with hardware which sooner or later I'll have to deal. With Linux I have around 2-3 years of experience, but I feels like a newbie. On PC I would do office task, basic video montage, recording, coding, playing vidya, torrenting. As components I have: Intel i5, nvidia geforce 1060, 8GB of RAM. All of them are 5-10 years old.

Also, I did some research on the problems with Linux and what programs to install on the system, but I would like to ask you for advice related to distro, DE, display server ect. so here what should I download:

Distro:
Debian / Arch / NixOS
So here's choice between stable distro, unstable one, but with most recent packages and… that thing. I have experience with Debian and Arch, but with flakes, ech, the idea seems fine and worth learing, but it isn't treath as real distro by some randoms on web.

DE:
KDE / Hyprland
I have experience with both of them, Hyprland is promising DE, but will have to be built from scratch and instaling more packages related to it, unlike kde. Also by using hl, I'll have to use wayland. Speaking of wayland

Display Server:
X11 / Wayland
I would choose wayland because both DE would work on it, but i would like to hear your thoughts.

Audio Server:
Jack / PipeWire
I heard that PW is fine and works alongsite jack, so i can pick both

And that's it, Thanks in advance for the answer.
 
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For a daily driver I would just use Linux Mint as it's stable. Otherwise Debian is a slow moving os, and htprland only works on Debian 13 which is still unstable. Based on your options Arch with KDE would be the most supported with better setup guides
 
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I might go with Manjaro/Plasma on one machine, Zorin OS on another (for just watching pirate streaming sites in the browser). I had already used Manjaro on Pi4 for a little while a year ago, now it's time for x86.
 
I could not install Zorin OS or Manjaro, probably because of some gay shit Acer is up to that make the SSD invisible. I disabled Secure Boot, Fast Startup, and tried this but it doesn't work:

I don't have enough time to deal with this right now so I'll become a proud new user of Windows 11 and work on this garbage again in a couple of months. To be clear I blame Acer and Micro$haft in this case, not Linsux.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
I could not install Zorin OS or Manjaro, probably because of some gay shit Acer is up to that make the SSD invisible. I disabled Secure Boot, Fast Startup, and tried this but it doesn't work:

I don't have enough time to deal with this right now so I'll become a proud new user of Windows 11 and work on this garbage again in a couple of months. To be clear I blame Acer and Micro$haft in this case, not Linsux.
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Is there more than one drive on the computer?
Does Acer offer special hardware drivers to access the SSD, even for Windows?
Is a generic Windows installer downloaded directly from Microsoft able to see the SSD?
Does the BIOS have some sort of raid or caching configuration set up for the drive?
 
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Catgirl Tyranid said:
This is exactly what I did when Steam quit supporting Windows 7. If you have even the barest ability to tinker a bit Linux Mint with Cinnamon more than capable for a gaming / general use computer.
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Hope that whenever the day you do something stupid to break the computer, you'll know how to fix it too. Maybe you do because it's pretty clear you are a furry and they're all working in IT somehow.
There are ways to break Linux in a manner to make it unusable and you can't possibly fix it without the help of an expert because that has happened to me before and Linus too when he used the apt command to install something, but it uninstalled his whole fucking system.

The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
I could not install Zorin OS or Manjaro, probably because of some gay shit Acer is up to that make the SSD invisible. I disabled Secure Boot, Fast Startup, and tried this but it doesn't work:

I don't have enough time to deal with this right now so I'll become a proud new user of Windows 11 and work on this garbage again in a couple of months. To be clear I blame Acer and Micro$haft in this case, not Linsux.
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Can't you just burn the ISO into the drive? Does your USB gets recognised on boot? Maybe you could figure something out to install Linux.
 
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Kiwi & Cow said:
Hope that whenever the day you do something stupid to break the computer, you'll know how to fix it too.
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So far it's been fine. Had one hiccup where I had to reset to a backup, but process was unbelievably simple. This is literally over a decade old gaming PC I built in... 2010? Replacing my SSD in the case something goes catastrophic is not the end of the world, but I doubt it would come to that. Just an excuse to upgrade to a bigger drive since I was retarded and got a 500GB drive when I built it instead of ponying up the cash for 1 TB.

Kiwi & Cow said:
Maybe you do because it's pretty clear you are a furry and they're all working in IT somehow.
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I'm a 40K fan, not a furry, but that's arguably worse.

No, tech is all trouble shooting and Greek to me. I tried to learn programming once, but I failed miserably and now I don't have the time to teach myself because I need to keep my family fed.

My only current problem is I desperately want to play Duskers on my machine, but it has some sort of V-Sync bug I can't find a fix for online that seems specific to Linux which causes CPU usage to spike and the game slows to a crawl. Speaking of which, if anyone knows anything about Duskers I will give you all the stickers if you can help me figure out how to fix the issue.
 
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My only current problem is I desperately want to play Duskers on my machine, but it has some sort of V-Sync bug I can't find a fix for online that seems specific to Linux which causes CPU usage to spike and the game slows to a crawl. Speaking of which, if anyone knows anything about Duskers I will give you all the stickers if you can help me figure out how to fix the issue.
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it's a unity game, it should work well enough unless it does something weirdly out of the norm.
 
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