I have heard good things about nobara. I don’t mind doing a little thinkering to have things work but I also don’t want to spend hours doing recharch on how to fix things.

Edit: thanks for giving input everyone. I will try Linux mint and if it does not go well will give nobara a go instead.

Edit part two I had to boot mint in compatibility mode because I got black screen for like 15+ minutes and then I couldn’t get it to see more than one monitor and 3 hours later gave up…Just put on nobara will load mint to my laptop and try to learn more because I want to but also tryna game :) you will hear more from me

  • Blxter@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    Won’t I have to install Nvidia drivers? This is my big concern if I’m being frank (I have a Nvidia card)

    • MentalEdge
      17·
      9 months ago

      Mint makes this very easy, it had a driver installer in settings last I used it.

      • png@discuss.tchncs.de
        5·
        9 months ago

        AMD “just works” unless you dare expect hardware encoding that you explicitly picked your card based on to work properly

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          9 months ago

          Yeah, if you’re planning on doing anything fancy (e.g. RTX, FSR/DLSS, streaming w/ a specific encoding, etc), do some digging to check compatibility on Linux, you may need a newer kernel or something. If you just want a general experience (e.g. mostly playing/using apps on default settings), it’s less of a concern.

    • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Mint has a program that simplifies the process of installing Nvidia drivers. I think it’s just called “Driver Manager”.