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It's aimed at curious beginners, and has fun banter and fair facts - i.e., if you play anti-cheat enabled multiplayer games you may want to dual-boot Windows, you will need to learn to use the terminal if you want to do advanced stuff, you'll have to tackle your muscle-memory from your previous OS, but Linux isn't as difficult as some would have you believe. That sort of thing.
Linux Mint is used for the example, and installing it is shown from start to finish - along with how to start getting into Linux gaming, of course!
It might be worth sharing around if you know anyone who's after a guide like this.
Last edited by Pengling on 30 March 2024 at 4:33 am UTC
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As far as I can tell, the only people watching them already use Linux, that's not a very good thing.
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Ubuntu is less friendly when it comes to installing .deb packages. You need to use the command line for that. On both Debian and Linux Mint, there's a graphical program for installing .deb packages. Linux Mint also has Flatpaks setup by default, so it's a lot easier to install them than on Ubuntu. Snaps also caused weird problems for me on 22.10, as much as I tried to use them as a normal user would. Snapd would interrupt updates and installs.
Also...the Ubuntu installer straight up failed on me last month, which was the first time I tried to use it in several years.
Fedora isn't a good recommendation because of all the setup you need to do as a beginner. openSUSE isn't bad and is quite beginner-friendly but it's a little obscure. Also, the graphical package managers sometimes fight each other. Manjaro, Arch, Garuda, Nobara, and EndeavorOS are not good choices for a beginner. Debian is...fine, but has ancient kernels.
Linux Mint is the only logical choice for a beginner in my opinion. I hope Mint has Wayland sorted out next year, which is hopefully when the last major blockers for Wayland (HDR/CM protocol) have been removed. The stable kernels are also certainly a hindrance, so it'll be good to see them sort that out.
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The only reason I'm hesitant to recommend it is the same reason I'm hesitant to recommend Linux Mint: it's a fork of a mainline distribution. Ubuntu itself is a fork, but it's fair to say it has established its own identity with all its own infrastructure. Mint has been around longer so I trust them more, but I have barely used it myself except in a VM for research. I know at least two people who use (or have used) Mint and really like it.
Ubuntu was the first distribution I used, and it stopped booting within a month. Last time I used it in a VM, I liked it, but Snapd prevented me from updating the system. Last time I tried to install it on bare metal (last month), it failed to install. The Snap Store is policed poorly, too. Hopefully that last item, at least, will change.
I would love to recommend Ubuntu but I have yet to have a consistently good experience with it... I can at least say Mint has been a good experience in a VM, and Pop!_OS has been a pretty good experience on bare metal over the course of a few months. But if I had to choose between Pop!_OS and Mint right now...I'd probably still say Mint. Next year, probably Pop!_OS.
I was seriously considering moving to NixOS from Arch...but it seems like too much work. I hope the next time I try Fedora it's a less awful experience. As much as I want to move away from Arch, I have yet to find anything else that "just works".
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The newest game I play is WRC 10 from 2021.......
Ive really been enjoying Mint so far........ I could definitely see that there *might be* issues if you used the latest and greatest hardware or played the newest of new games that require the most up to date drivers because of the older Kernels in use.........
But for my use case though it has been pretty flawless.......
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I use Mint (I went from using Kubuntu in 2007, then Xubuntu from 2008 to 2023, then Mint Xfce from then to present after some issues with Xubuntu that forced the change) and I've been big on computers since I was around 6 or 7 years old (I'm 40 now; Started with a Commodore 64 and loading games from cassette-tapes! ), and I've done a bunch of gaming on it. That said, my main requirement in anything computing-related is for things to just work and be stable so that I can get things done - I'm entirely a portables person, so I'm pretty used to that approach by now!
I'm much like my good friend Spider, above - newer games generally don't offer a lot for me, so I really don't need to deal with all-singing-all-dancing latest-and-greatest tech and kernels. The sorts of games I play don't tend to have high system-requirements even when new (the newest PC games in my library are 2023's Super Bomberman R 2 and 2024's Ekans, neither of which are heavyweight stuff by any means), and other than that I do a lot of emulation. Mint's more than ideal for that and from what I've seen plenty more besides, and I think it's a perfectly fine recommendation as a starting-point or a long-term prospect - and as the video notes, users may well find that they want something else as they gain more experience, or they may not.
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I love Pop!_OS and the UI is amazing once you get comfortable with it. That being said, the constant automatic updating of the kernel is an annoyance to me. Every other distro I've used gives you the choice of when to update kernels. The same approach extends to overall updating, which gives you little to no control over the process. It is all or nothing! (Which, I admit, probably helps to keep things stable.) Mint simply does it better.
In the end, though, what caused me to move on and give Linux Mint XFCE a try for gaming on my new-to-me Nvidia MX150 laptop was the stale Nvidia driver support in Pop!_OS. The same reason I left Manjaro. Believe it or not, Mint offers a more recent driver series than either Pop!_OS or Manjaro! They also update the legacy drivers more quickly.
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It might be possible to make your own adjustments to the user interface using using various Gnome customization tools but I haven't tried. I've only played with Extension Manager.
You could try this link:
https://support.system76.com/articles/customize-gnome/