Obviously this is somewhat subjective, but I’ve had a lot of problems in my previous attempts to switch to Linux, so I’d like to create a list of distros to try out, and see what works for me. I’m mostly expecting to be doing basic office work and light gaming via Steam.

  • JakenVeina@midwest.social
    3·
    14 days ago

    Only reasons I moved off of Mint was that it had minor issues with NVidia gaming performance, and I ended up liking KDE Plasma better than Cinnamon. Was plenty stable, otherwise.

    Can’t really recommend bazzite, that I moved to, since there’s several issues that have proven unsolvable for me, due to the filesystem veing immutable.

        • SecondComingOfPheusie@programming.dev
          2·
          13 days ago

          Thank you!

          1. I can understand why the random long load-times for apps is very frustrating. I don’t recall other Bazzite users complaining about it. So I don’t know how widespread the problem is.
          2. I’ve effectively been on GNOME ever since I made the jump to Linux. So I can’t comment on Dolphin.
          3. I can 100℅ relate to windows not restoring their prior states. I’ve used a tiling window manager extension on GNOME just because it handled that more gracefully; I like them maximized anyways.
          4. The audio sink thingy should have been available as a toggle by now. It’s unfortunate that it seemingly hasn’t. Though, I do wonder if pavucontrol would have been sufficient. There seems to be a flatpak for it if you’re interested.
          5. The developer experience on Flatpak leaves a lot to be desired 😅. FWIW, I prefer that within a distrobox.
          6. For GameMaker, installing it within a Ubuntu distrobox would probably have been sufficient.

          FWIW, I don’t think any of these are directly related to “immutability”; i.e. in the case of Bazzite, some subfolders of / being read-only at runtime.