Mint. Really. It basically just works. A decrapified Ubuntu.
I’m on CachyOS right now, and love it. I call it “Script Kiddie Arch”. Really nice, but it took some tweaking for my particular setup, no driver stuff, rather my use case.
Since it may require mild terminal stuff, and using the AUR, I’d say it’s an intermediate/advance user distro, although it may just work for you.
Only asterisk I’d add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I’d go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.
Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn’t there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they’ve overcome that hurdle it’ll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.
I know this is one of my hotter takes, but IMO rolling release vs. stable has no influence on how beginner-friendly a distro is, at least not in a one-size-fits-all manner.
Particularly for gaming, I’d say a rolling release distro is a much better fit because bugs with new games and hardware will be gone much faster than what you’d see in something slower moving.
I use nobara. Which, if you google ‘best linux for gaming’, its the first thing that pops up. I have no idea if its actually the best, but i havent had any issues so far.
Thanks for the advice! I plan on basically gaming half of the time, so… I’ll look into it. And try dual boot just to try everything.
Btw, I have all my files on an SSD, together with window 11. Hope it will be possible to keep my files in the process 🫠
That might be the sign I waited to switch to Linux. Now… let me just search for the coolest noob friendly distro
mint, pop_os, bazzite, fedora, nobara, mx, cachy, zorin
the coolest of those is cachyos probably
bazzite and cachy are intended for gaming but also sutied to other usage
more in detail:
Regular use: Mint
Gaming: Nobara, Bazzite
Mint. Really. It basically just works. A decrapified Ubuntu.
I’m on CachyOS right now, and love it. I call it “Script Kiddie Arch”. Really nice, but it took some tweaking for my particular setup, no driver stuff, rather my use case.
Since it may require mild terminal stuff, and using the AUR, I’d say it’s an intermediate/advance user distro, although it may just work for you.
Only asterisk I’d add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I’d go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.
Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn’t there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they’ve overcome that hurdle it’ll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.
A rolling release distro like openSUSE Tumbleweed is not for noobs.
I know this is one of my hotter takes, but IMO rolling release vs. stable has no influence on how beginner-friendly a distro is, at least not in a one-size-fits-all manner.
Particularly for gaming, I’d say a rolling release distro is a much better fit because bugs with new games and hardware will be gone much faster than what you’d see in something slower moving.
I use nobara. Which, if you google ‘best linux for gaming’, its the first thing that pops up. I have no idea if its actually the best, but i havent had any issues so far.
Thanks for the advice! I plan on basically gaming half of the time, so… I’ll look into it. And try dual boot just to try everything. Btw, I have all my files on an SSD, together with window 11. Hope it will be possible to keep my files in the process 🫠