Hello guys i have a qustion about which distro i should use?
I want to dual boot windows and linux
I just want a safe place away from microsoft eyes to do edit and drawing and other hobbies on my pc. And playing some games like cs2 & 2d games Also the distro run my wallpaper engine Should be popular distro so if i have a problem i can ask about it
Please dont tell me linux mint because i tried it 3 times and everytime i do anything simple the distro goes off and i should re install i won’t give it anymore chances thank you 😖
Edit: thank you guys for typing your suggests. after some search i will give bazzite try and if won’t work like i want. I will go with the other suggests I really enjoyed reading all your suggests
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OP specifically declines to use Linux mint, per their final point in their post. As a 2 decade user who is currently using Mint, OP is right. The windows experience is so handholdey that new users often aren’t familiar with even HOW to research to fix their problems. Mint, a distribution that gives you training wheels but will not hold your hand is not ideal for someone who has already broken it several times, doing activities they didn’t feel were necessary to share.
OP needs an immutable distro.
I’ve been thinking about making the switch. How difficult do you find it to play steam games on your setup?
I switched to Linux Mint like a month ago and Inhad no problems at all. Valve pushes Linux a lot since the Steamdeck. Had not a single problem with a game. I even played Itch.io games. Just set the compatability options to proton and most stuff will run fine. Online Multiplayer games do make problems though. They have kernel based anti cheat and that is not supported. If you are unsure check this website for the games you play: https://www.protondb.com/
LMDE (mint sans ubuntu) user here, gaming is a dream, but sometimes a nightmare. You may need eventually to manually update the graphics card driver If you’re on Nvidia, as the debian repos it pulls from are hella out of date. Otherwise, smooth sailing.
You’ll likely only encounter problems on native games, Feral ports specifically seem to assume people have a libraries that they don’t, so I often find myself launching their games in a terminal a million times to figure out what libraries are missing and manually link them or just copy them into the game lib folder.
For me was difficult i tried to run rust using proton and tried to run some games on it like the witcher 3 beatblock and inscryption some games work and the others no i fix it and make all of them run but still after playing sometime i have crushes and black screen and even just the game desied to close and not work i wasnt care that much on gaming on linux but sometimes i just wanted to open the game for a minutes but nope