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twovests wrote

I'm a longtime Linux user here. If you're looking for any distro recommendations, I can write a really long annoying post about it. (luv luv luv popos)

Proton IS awesome. If you told me in 2017 that "Linux desktop is going to be a viable platform for Gamers" I would have thought you were a delusional Linux stan.

But now, videogames which don't work on Linux are the exception and that's increasingly rare. It's mind-boggling. Most of the exceptions are competitive online games with anticheat enabled.

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hollyhoppet OP wrote

Hmm maybe i'll have a tiny dual boot partition but I don't believe anything i play uses anti-cheat.

Also I really just want something stable that I don't have to fiddle with much aside from mouse speed/acceleration settings which is why I'm looking at debian. If you have any other recs that would fill that role though I'm open to hearing them

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twovests wrote

Ya! My only arguments for pop os ("Pop! OS") is that i love the defaults, so i'll just list the defaults i like

it's based on ubuntu, which is based on debian, has no "snaps" (bad package manager system that has caused my a lot of problems), and it's custom GNOME-based desktop environment has builtin window tiling and stacking.

i like tiling a lot because i dislike the other tiling WMs which all expect you to memorize shortcuts.

i have an nvidia GPU so the ISO that comes with the appropriate drivers builtin is very very nice

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hollyhoppet OP wrote (edited )

yeah pop os looks pretty damn snazzy. might give it a try. how long have you been using it for?

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twovests wrote (edited )

I want to say at least two years now. I used Ubuntu for >10 years before that, but I kept running into issues with snaps which drove me to Pop.

On the side, System76 (popos people) is making a new Rust-based "Cosmic" desktop to eventually replace the GNOME based one. If you've used cosmic-text in a Rust project, that is what it's from!

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