My plan is to buy an NVMe today, install linux as a dual boot, but use linux as a daily driver, to see if it meets my needs before committing to it.

My main needs are gaming, local AI (stable diffusion and oobabooga), and browser stuff.

I have experience with Mint (recently) and Ubuntu (long ago). Any problems with my plan? Will my OS choice meet my needs?

Thanks!

  • bumbly@readit.buzz
    3·
    2 years ago

    Nothing wrong with it. Here’s a website to help you choose the distro: https://distrochooser.de/

    Personally, for gaming, I’d recomment Mint or Ubuntu. Probably your hardware will be supported. There’s also Pop!OS, which seems to be completely gaming related as well as SteamOS, but I’ve never used them.

    You can run a hardware probe from the live USB to see how well the distro handles your hardware too
    https://linux-hardware.org/

    • mihnt@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      It just recommended elementary OS to me and that’s the next one I was going to try, lol.

      I’ve got Nobara installed and it has shit the bed for whatever reason. Was way too unstable for me as well. Also, support is lacking there. A lot of hostile attitudes in response to any questions I had.