• RustyNova@lemmy.world
        0·
        7 months ago

        Min- oh.

        I don’t really know a bunch of distros, but I helped convert some normies so here’s a list of pain points I rather not have as a first experience

        • No rolling distro. While some people may never see an issue in their life, some may see it right away. Bad first impression (Someone insisted on starting on fedora, then noticed the hard way that the current Nvidia drivers were incompatible with the shipped kernel)
        • easy Nvidia driver install (only for gamers on Nvidia)
        • Has a gui app store
        • has a common package manager that is often shown in tutorials (like apt. You always see exemple apt commands)
        • sudo is configured
        • doesn’t have a DE that tries to revolutionize UX

        New users are dumb, so it needs to be easy for them

        • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
          01·
          7 months ago

          the current Nvidia drivers were incompatible with the shipped kernel

          A more common issue with Nvidia is older hardware no longer being supported by Nvidia’s current drivers and the kernel not supporting the old drivers. For older cards, you need to run kernel 6.8 or older for the binary drivers to work. The open source Nouveau driver is noticeably slower and getting hardware accelerated video to work can be difficult. So you can easily end up with mesa-llvm, meaning your CPU emulates OpenGL.

          The easiest way to get this to work is to install Linux Mint 22.1.

  • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
    01·
    7 months ago

    Best of both worlds:

    • install boring stable distro
    • use Homebrew to install bleeding edge stuff, separately from the base system.
      • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
        01·
        7 months ago

        Homebrew is supported on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora.

        I use it on my recent Linux Mint install. Mint has pretty old packages or enormously bloated flatpacks, that come with limitations.

        neovim only came in an ancient version, that doesn’t support lazyvim. Nicotine+ came as ancient from the Mint packages or as a 4 GB monster via flatpack.

        I used Homebrew and everything installed quickly in current versions and worked like a breeze.

        The great thing about Homebrew is that removing it is as easy as rm -r /home/linuxbrew

        Nix is great as well of course and very powerful. Can be a bit of a bitch to write all the config files though.