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Help me find a fitting distro (kbin.social)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/linux@kbin.social
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Hello there!

After some lurking on r/Unixporn and its Discord, I'm more and more tempted to try Linux as a daily driver. While I'm by no means a pro, I've been using WSL at work the past year and generally I can fiddle around finding solutions when something doesn't work.

These being said, the main requirements I would have from a distro is to be able to run League of Legends (saw that it's pretty straight forward using Lutris) and not be insanely complex from the get-go (wouldn't want to jump straight into something like Arch), I intend to use something like Hyprland.

So far I am split between OpenSuse Tumbleweed, NixOS, Fedora and EndeavourOS, but would gladly hear alternatives.

LE: Read (and tried to reply to) most messages. I will come back with an update once I decide my pick and see how it goes. Thanks everyone!

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Of those I think I'd recommend Tumbleweed, it's a great polished distribution with some extra helpful administrative tools (yast for instance). It's rolling but feels as stable as a normal dist to me.

The others are far from bad though! I just have a soft spot for suse and opensuse :)

Ubuntu or pop_os could be nice starting choices as well since they're so big and well supported.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    Also recommend Tumbleweed. I've distro hopped for many years, and currently am using Tumbleweed and have no plans of leaving soon. It really is the best I've ever used.

    I wouldn't recommend doing a Hyperland setup right away on first time ever using linux. Just run with KDE or Gnome for a while until you're comfy then you can try Hyperland. The reason I say this is check this page:

    https://wiki.hyprland.org/Useful-Utilities/Must-have/

    "Must Have
    This page documents software that is critical / very important to have running for a smooth Wayland / Hyprland experience.
    DEs like KDE / Gnome will do this automatically, Hyprland will not (because you might want to use something else)
    A notification daemon
    Starting method: most likely manual (exec-once)
    Many apps (e.g. Discord) may freeze without one running."

    So you have to do a LOT more setup and configs to get Hyperland up and running. Just use KDE lol. Tumbleweed rocks with Plasma.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not really fancying about Ubuntu to be honest.

    Do you have any Tumbleweed tips/hints? (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

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