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Recommend me a stable distro. No surprises from updates etc.
/rant
Ok , so today an Arch update seems to have broken most of my steam/gog games.I think it may have something to do with libpcre.so.3 but this catches me in a BAAAAD mood.
(Too much going on in my personal life at the moment to waste time troubleshooting.)
/end rant
Looking for a distro that just works out of the box without too much tinkering.
Looking at Ubuntu can't say I like how they do things. May give Mint a go.
Really tempted by Debian. curios how stable it is , but a bit confused which ISO i should use for installation , how Nvidia install goes etc.
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Some relevant links:
https://www.debian.org/distrib/
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libegl1-mesa&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all&sourceid=mozilla-search
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=linux-image-amd64&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all&sourceid=mozilla-search
Edit:
I read your post more carefully. I guess just Debian stable with its regular kernel and maybe nvidia-driver from stretch-backports/stable-backports, but a long time ago, when I used to use Nvidia, the proprietary driver from the stable repositories gave me no problems. I think needing bleeding-edge or bleeding-edge-ish drivers is an AMD "problem".
Relevant link:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=nvidia-driver&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all&sourceid=mozilla-search
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Debian is absolutely stable, maybe too stable for gaming.
I would probably suggest go to Manjaro or Ubuntu (although I hate ubuntu with passion).
Sparky Linux (also debian) is very nice too.
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Hmm , interesting , thank you.
I realize based on your PC info you use AMD , but , how much of a PITA is it to install Nvidia ?
On Arch it is just one command. Curios if Debian is more or less painful.
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I don;t like Ubuntu either tbh , that's why I would opt for Mint.
Have not considered Sparky. Does it have good docs/repos ?
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apt-get install -y nvidia-driver(as root) (so, one command, like you say is the case with Arch). (With AMD, you don't even have to run any command whatsoever.) ;PView PC info
Cool :)
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It is Debian. It is to debian about what Antergos is to Arch (that close not the Manjaro-Arch relation, manjaro remains compatible in every way to Arch but is also independent, while Antergos is not independent).
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Would one of these work for my needs :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.5.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/
?
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Here's a direct link to what you want.:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso.torrent
(The link I gave says "xfce", but it can install other desktop environments, instead of or in addition to Xfce, if you allow the installer to have access to the Internet. Also, the link I gave is the torrent version, which helps reduce the load on the Debian project's servers, as compared to the regular HTTPS download.)