Okay I have a case coming in to shove my junk in it. 8500t (temporary until I get a 8700k) -16gb ram -1060 6gb -2 2.5ssd -2 3.5hdd

I’m partial to Mint and Debian commands. Anyone have a suggestion before I go balls deep into a Mint distro build?

  • kronarbob@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    For gaming and having it work out of the box ?

    • Based on Debian : pikaOS
    • Based on fedora : Nobara
    • Based on Atomic fedora : Bazzite
    • Based on Arch : CachyOS
    • Based onUbuntu : PopOS (not so sure about its current state, their cosmic desktop isn’t released yet)

    Beginner friendly : Mint, most of gaming distro (cachy might be a bit more advanced )

    I do not know much about the current state of snaps, so I won’t recommend Ubuntu and derivatives (kubuntu, Xubuntu…). I guess it is easier to use .deb now, but I can’t call beginner friendly a distro that require terminal or tweaks to change packages you can install on it.