cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7326835

I currently use Linux Mint with Cinnamon which is fine. Ive been using it since early December. I had (and still have) some small issues, most of which Ive fixed.

I recently got a new GPU (a 9070 XT) and Im running a similarly cutting-edge CPU. In general, my whole desktop is made up of fairly new hardware.

So my question is: is there anything that speaks against switching to Fedora with KDE? That distro seems like it would make better use of modern hardware and be more “cutting-edge.” As I said, Mint is fine, but it seems rather slow when it comes to adopting modern technologies by comparison at least from a novices perspective.

As a disclaimer one of my best friends recommended I try it out (He has been using Fedora for years ) he also works in IT so should something go wrong I have someone a phone call away that could help me.

Main purpose of this machine is gaming

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago*

If your main purpose is gaming you may want to try one of the gaming oriented distributions (e.g., CachyOS, PikaOS, Nobara, Bazzitte).

But Fedora Workstation or the KDE spinoff are fine as well. It's a great general purpose operating system to learn the fundamentals on (e.g., file systems, file permissions, bash scripting, package manager and so on).

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