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The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Wine-staging 9.22 made it easier to to use Wine-Wayland instead of xwayland. Still, Wine-wayland isn't ready for my use cases yet. Mouse scrolling doesn't seem to work in-game, and it seems to disrupt wmv decoding. It also does some weird scaling bugs to winecfg that makes window larger than the config area.
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just bricked my windows install, any distros good for gayming I should try before inevitably re-installing windows 10?
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Most will work well these days. I've had wild successes with both Debian and Arch. Gentoo's working great so far, but I haven't banged on it with games much yet. I presume Mint and Ubuntu work well if you're looking for a downstream distro.
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Linux Mint. It's a good stable all rounder distro with excellent support. Debian has an older kernel which will cause problems with games and graphics drivers, and Arch is a bit better if you're already familiar with Linux. Gentoo would be like if you wanted to learn the violin so someone threw an oboe at you and put you in the strong section of The Phantom of The Opera at the Sydney musical hall.
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Overgeneralized and pigeonholed, per usual for the "Irrefutable Rationality" fag.
Bookworm has 6.1, which is scarcely 2 years old. Bookworm-Backports, Trixie, and Sid are all 6.11.
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Bookworm is the most recent general use version that is recommended to users. When you mentioned Debian you didn't say "Debian, but only the unstable experimental versions"
And as someone who tried to use Bookworm-Backports to use an Intel Arc GPU, it is much easier to just install an Ubuntu based distro like Linux Mint which has 6.8 which supports the latest hardware but is still more stable then 6.11
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Sid is called "unstable" and is so stable that there are countless forks of it. Your "unstable experimental version" comment merely highlights how little experience you have with it. Until Bookworm, Sid was what I ran all my web servers on. Sid/unstable is Debian's "rolling release" version. Adding backports is three steps, well documented ( https://wiki.debian.org/Backports ), don't have to touch a command line, and provides users with even more reason to go with a distro so stable that the XZ hack nonsense didn't touch stable, whereas it hit basically every "rolling release" distro. With Bookworm, the old "Debian has bad drivers" canard is now dead, as non-free-firmware is now part of the default distro package. You using weird Intel graphics hardware that no gamer uses really highlights how out of touch you are, especially in context of a gamer asking for help with gamer things.
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You all took too long to respond i'm Manjaro now and since my wifi drivers are a bitch to install icba swapping now.
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I ended up trying the Wayland session for KDE Plasma yesterday and today, and I was a bit surprised that it doesn't really feel different than using the X.org session. I was expecting there to be problems due to being on a (pascal-based) nvidia GPU and I was expecting little (but still major QoL things) like keepassxc+browser integration to still not work. The only thing I notice to be an improvement with Wayland is the lock screen actually working the way it's supposed to.
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Bricked how? You can attempt recovery with WinRE. It's not that particularly useful but I managed to un-fuck and unload my drivers when changing motherboards.
As for distros, try something like Fedora, Mint or Ubuntu.
I'm personally a Gentoo fanatic but I'm not gonna force you to use Gentoo.
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you can pick most anything but 2 things:
1. NEVER EVER EVER get anything with GNOME so that means no fedora and no default ubuntu
2. don't get debian, it's a good distro but not for gaming because of autistic driver issues
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I raped the boot partition, while trying to remove a different version of windows. It's not a big deal I didn't lose anything.
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Generally with Linux, the more users using a distro the more support and contributers it has. Linux Mint is a very popular distro has support on almost every media platform along with their own forum and a community text support hotline built into the welcome app. It has native support for new hardware, and Nvidia graphics drivers can be installed using a driver manager listed in the Welcome app. It uses the Cinnamon desktop environment, which uses a layout familiar to Windows users and the OS generally focuses on stability and user friendliness to people new to Linux.
Honestly the only people who would recommend anything other then Mint are so deeply invested in a specific distro they have forgotten about the learning curve, or are autistic enough to not comprehend that not everyone has dabbled in LFS and knows the difference between fstab and systemd. Or trolls who want to throw you to the wolves.
Honestly the only people who would recommend anything other then Mint are so deeply invested in a specific distro they have forgotten about the learning curve, or are autistic enough to not comprehend that not everyone has dabbled in LFS and knows the difference between fstab and systemd. Or trolls who want to throw you to the wolves.
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There's about 10 different versions of Fedora without GNOME:
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"recommending" is faggot behaviour. As it was apparently too subtle for you, I exclusively speak of things that worked for me and the context of their use. Thank you for highlighting your partisanship and zealotry. I hope users more observant than you pick up on this.
For prospective Mint users, Vox Day uses Mint, so don't think all Mint users are like this autistic faggot.
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That retard regularly breaks his installs in the most retarded ways possible. I swear I've seen 5-10 different distro recommendations by him. Give it a month and he'll be bitching about Mint because it didn't prevent him from deleting his DE.
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Learning curve for what and who, exactly?
Unless you are mentally deficient, you can easily decide by yourself which distribution to use, no?
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Again, you're assuming that everyone knows linux well enough to make sense of a list of pros and cons. Anyone coming from Windows is going to have just the bare minimum of knowledge, and wouldn't know the difference between apt or yum or pacman, or know if they should be running kernel 6.2 or 6.12. And they often don't want a hobby distro where they can spend half a day fixing something that randomly broke or needed changed for something new they want to do, but something that's largely set it and forget it. It would be like going to a mechanic and asking what car to buy, and they recommend you one because every time they have to repair it after it broke down it was super easy to rebuild the engine or switch out parts.
Once they are more comfortable and want to experiment they can try a different distro, but if they want something that just works and makes sense to use Linux Mint is hard to beat.