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Screw it, I’m installing Linux (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As a veteran geek but absolute Linux noob, can you explain a bit the differences of Bazzite vs Mint? Just recently installed Mint on an old laptop, and it went quite smoothly... But the real test will be my plex server!

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Mint is Ubuntu/Debian based and uses their Cinnamon desktop environment.

    Bazzite is Fedora based and uses KDE as the desktop environment.

    The biggest difference is that Bazzite is atomic or immutable distro. The core systems are read only so it's harder to break. It's also harder to tinker with. You're mostly limited to packages that are available in their package manager. You can install other stuff via layering if you really need to tinker.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Bazzite is good for noobs looking for a gaming option because it's "immutable" which means the OS filesystem can't be edited, which makes it nearly impossible to break.

    Mint is still very noob friendly, just not immutable. Both are solid options because neither one requires any command line to get it on-par with Windows.

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