I’ve been using this hp gaming laptop with win10 since 2 years ago with an old dumb LG screen for coding/emulate (35%) or gaming (25%) and other 40% without the 2nd screen (browsing/documents).

I’ve used fedora/red hat in university but it was almost 10 years ago for specific software (emu/simulators) so I’m kind of noob in general terms and I’m afraid I’ll be leaving dual boot just in case.

I’ve read some posts before about out of the box distros (because the nvidia gtx 1650ti mainly) but I’m not sure if I should go for bazzite or cachyos or opensuse tumbleweed or a better distro that fits great in my case and about desktop, KDE (plasma) is my choice at the moment.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: I appreciate your comments and warnings (mainly about arch/gaming based distros and other tips). I didn’t want controversy but I use that laptop for almost everything at home and I’m realizing that I need to invest more time both learning and extracting backups because the machine is limited and I’m willing to become a full linux user in the mid term.

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    I don’t recommend bazzite. I am using bazzite right now it is great for gaming. But it is a nightmare to install any software via the terminal often times you have to use a virtual environment and even that doesn’t work very well.

    If your a little familiar with fedora then it is a very good distro still and it has a kde veriant. (take my advice with a grain of salt I am pretty new to linux as well)