Gordon_Freeman

I want to return to Linux. Recomendations?

Like 10-15 years ago I was into linux and tried a bunch of different distros (PCLinuxOS, Mint, CentOS, OpenSuse...) and was quite happy with the, then, limited options of gaming on linux (It was the time Valve released TF2 for linux)... #linux_gaming

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Like 10-15 years ago I was into linux and tried a bunch of different distros (PCLinuxOS, Mint, CentOS, OpenSuse...) and was quite happy with the, then, limited options of gaming on linux (It was the time Valve released TF2 for linux)...

Jul 21, 2023 at 5:46pmWeb
Show threadapersonJul 21, 2023
Just pick a distro and give it a whirl. Don’t like it? Pick another. The only way to learn is to use.
Show threadentropicdriftJul 21, 2023

I’m running Mint on my main gaming PC with an OEM kernel for 6.1 instead of the default 5.15 and the kisak-mesa PPA for my GPU drivers. Runs great, super stable. Love that the built-in updater updates Flatpaks as well as packages from apt.

Given that you’ve got an Nvidia GPU, Mint using X11 instead of Wayland is actually a plus rather than a detriment. I previously had a GTX 1080 in my PC and the built-in driver manager was fantastic and dead simple to use.

My CPU is older than yours: i7-3770K. Still runs great.

Show threadCIWS-30Jul 21, 2023

Kubuntu, Linux Mint with Cinnamon, Xubuntu, or maybe ZorinOS.

Especially if you don't want to relearn everything and want things to "Just Work" similar to Windows. If you tried Mint before, it's still really quite good. Maybe even better than you remembered it. I went distrohopping a few months ago only to find out that Mint was still #1 for me, especially with Cinnamon.