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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (17 children)

There's Two Main Choices:

Packages....

  1. Pacman-based - Arch, Arco, Endeavour
  2. RPM-based - Fedora, SuSE
  3. Aptitude-based - Ubuntu, Debian

Choose Pacman for rolling release, bleeding edge. Pick aptitude for servers and pick RPM if you want something that 'just works'.

Desktop....

  1. Full DE - Gnome, KDE
  2. Window Manager - Awesome, i3

High end machines with lots of fancy features and ease of use pick a full DE. WM is good for speed and low-end hardware but harder to use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

So for gaming.... Pacman? I thought mint and kubuntu use aptitude, and was under the impression those are two of the better gaming distros.

I hate windows, but am sick of trying Linux every 5-6 years and finding out that I cannot get half the games I play to work. Admittedly, with you guys I might not be going it alone this time.....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Steam on linux has tons of games. But not all of them (Baulder's Gate 3.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

BG3 running fine on my Ubuntu box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Steam on linux has tons of games. But not all of them (Baulder’s Gate 3.)

I play Baldur's Gate 3 on my Fedora KDE Linux system just fine.

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