I'm switching to Linux

[Lunch-b0x]

I'm currently in the process of backing up personal files and such from Windows 11.

The performance differences is the only reason I've held off for so long. Today, after seeing a lot of benchmarks and comparison's on the performance of AMD hardware between Linux and Windows, I'm ready to fully switch. No dual boot. Just a full dive into it.


So whilst I'm backing up my files and such, I need to pick a distro. That's where you guys come in. I'd really appreciate some good suggestions. I'd kind of like an easy-medium distro, that's well rounded and able to do anything. As my system isn't just for gaming, it's also for some productivity like streaming, light-medium video editing and/or encoding, etc. My specs are on my profile. If you disagree with my intentions with the specs I have, feel free to explain why and how I can improve the system for my intentions. (I was personally thinking upgrading to a 5900x or 5950x, but Im not sure.)


Ive always been somewhat partial to Ubuntu, if this is the wrong move for my situation, please let me know and feel free to suggest something else. I'm not really much interested in the gaming specific distro's, but I don't really have much of an opinion or reason to not be...sell me on one if need be.



TL;DR: Need distro suggestions, thanks.

[HIVEmind]

arch linux. has drivers and steam client.
if you cant handle it. pick ubuntu.

oh and the windows 11 members club says bye. hehe

[Lunch-b0x]

Originally posted by HIVEmind:

arch linux. has drivers and steam client.
if you cant handle it. pick ubuntu.

oh and the windows 11 members club says bye. hehe

I've heard a lot of bad things for Arch Linux for beginners. Is it as hard to pick up as people say? Do you have any experience with it?

[Omega]

Any of the major distros are fine. I recommend picking something which is up-to-date, avoid old LTS distros.

Linux Mint, Manjaro, Fedora Workstation, etc..

Ubuntu is quite unpopular within the Linux community, it is the most corpo of Linux distros. It forces stuff on the user and bothers them with popups.

[Omega]

Originally posted by Lunch-b0x:

Originally posted by HIVEmind:

arch linux. has drivers and steam client.
if you cant handle it. pick ubuntu.

oh and the windows 11 members club says bye. hehe

I've heard a lot of bad things for Arch Linux for beginners. Is it as hard to pick up as people say? Do you have any experience with it?

Do not go Arch as a beginner, unless you are willing to learn Linux system administrator.

[Lunch-b0x]

Originally posted by Omega:

Any of the major distros are fine. I recommend picking something which is up-to-date, avoid old LTS distros.

Linux Mint, Manjaro, Fedora Workstation, etc..

Ubuntu is quite unpopular within the Linux community, it is the most corpo of Linux distros. It forces stuff on the user and bothers them with popups.

I didn't know that. I don't think any of that happened back when I tried it a few years ago, I think 16.04 or something like that.

[Zef]

Originally posted by Lunch-b0x:

Originally posted by HIVEmind:

arch linux. has drivers and steam client.
if you cant handle it. pick ubuntu.

oh and the windows 11 members club says bye. hehe

I've heard a lot of bad things for Arch Linux for beginners. Is it as hard to pick up as people say? Do you have any experience with it?

You're gonna get a thousand different opinions here but don't listen to that dude, Arch is terrible for beginners.

I would recommend fedora or manjaro, or if you need some handholding and only want to work with flatpaks, you can use bazzite, which is completely foolproof since it uses an immutable distro and it's already setup for gaming.

Linux mint is the most beginner friendly but i wouldn't recommend it for gaming out of the box at least, as it usually favours stability over more recent updates (kernerl or otherwise). Linux mint is what you install on your grandpa's pc if he just needs some light browsing and officework done.

[DevaVictrix]

There's no answer for 'distro suggestions'. It's been asked more than a million times before. imo, don't get bogged down with spins. Arch, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu or openSUSE are where to look. I'd only ever consider openSUSE or Fedora... but that's me!

Arch seems tempremental, Ubuntu messes about doing it's own thing too much, Debian has lost it's way and can be a fiddle at times. Fedora and openSUSE just work. openSUSE has YaST which Fedora doesn't. Neither get the attention they deserve, openSUSE in particular. I wouldn't bother looking at any of the spins.

[Lunch-b0x]

Originally posted by DevaVictrix:

There's no answer for 'distro suggestions'. It's been asked more than a million times before. imo, don't get bogged down with spins. Arch, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu or openSUSE are where to look. I'd only ever consider openSUSE or Fedora... but that's me!

Arch seems tempremental, Ubuntu messes about doing it's own thing too much, Debian has lost it's way and can be a fiddle at times. Fedora and openSUSE just work. openSUSE has YaST which Fedora doesn't. Neither get the attention they deserve, openSUSE in particular. I wouldn't bother looking at any of the spins.

Seeing as Fedora has been mentioned so many times so quickly here...I'm leaning towards it. I've looked at a few videos and went to the webpage.

Which download to ii go with? Core, or workstation?

[DevaVictrix]

Workstation is the one to go for. You'll know you want/need core.

[Zef]

Originally posted by Lunch-b0x:

Originally posted by DevaVictrix:

There's no answer for 'distro suggestions'. It's been asked more than a million times before. imo, don't get bogged down with spins. Arch, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu or openSUSE are where to look. I'd only ever consider openSUSE or Fedora... but that's me!

Arch seems tempremental, Ubuntu messes about doing it's own thing too much, Debian has lost it's way and can be a fiddle at times. Fedora and openSUSE just work. openSUSE has YaST which Fedora doesn't. Neither get the attention they deserve, openSUSE in particular. I wouldn't bother looking at any of the spins.

Seeing as Fedora has been mentioned so many times so quickly here...I'm leaning towards it. I've looked at a few videos and went to the webpage.

Which download to ii go with? Core, or workstation?

Neither, the KDE plasma edition:

https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde

But if you want GNOME you can use the regular version aswell.

[Lunch-b0x]

Originally posted by Zef:

Originally posted by Lunch-b0x:

Seeing as Fedora has been mentioned so many times so quickly here...I'm leaning towards it. I've looked at a few videos and went to the webpage.

Which download to ii go with? Core, or workstation?

Neither, the KDE plasma edition:

https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde

But if you want GNOME you can use the regular version aswell.

I'm not really sure what I want. What exactly is GNOME and what's the difference between having it and not having it? KDE looks nice and looks like what I usually see people have on youtube.

[HIVEmind]

i didnt know arch has a bad front end. i did tell him to go ubuntu

[Zef]

Originally posted by Lunch-b0x:

Originally posted by Zef:

Neither, the KDE plasma edition:

https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde

But if you want GNOME you can use the regular version aswell.

I'm not really sure what I want. What exactly is GNOME and what's the difference between having it and not having it? KDE looks nice and looks like what I usually see people have on youtube.

It's just a desktop environment, GNOME & KDE are some of the most popular ones but you've got plenty of others aswell.

In general GNOME is more "minimalistic and modern (think Apple)", but in general it's also less stable and is less customizable.

KDE is more traditional (think windows 7-10 esque) but in general more stable and more customizable.

At the end of the day it's more of a personal preference. For me it's KDE

[Lunch-b0x]

Originally posted by Zef:

Originally posted by Lunch-b0x:

I'm not really sure what I want. What exactly is GNOME and what's the difference between having it and not having it? KDE looks nice and looks like what I usually see people have on youtube.

It's just a desktop environment, GNOME & KDE are some of the most popular ones but you've got plenty of others aswell.

In general GNOME is more "minimalistic and modern (think Apple)", but in general it's also less stable and is less custimizable.

KDE is more traditional (think windows 7-10 esque) but in general more stable and more customizable.

At the end of the day it's more of a personal preference. For me it's KDE

Oh okay, I get it.

So for someone that's never touched an apple device in their life, KDE would be more suited for them (me) considering it's closer to a windows like desktop? I think that's what I'm going to go for then.

Just to be clear, I can still definitely play games pretty well on fedora KDE?

[Zef]

Originally posted by Lunch-b0x:

Originally posted by Zef:

It's just a desktop environment, GNOME & KDE are some of the most popular ones but you've got plenty of others aswell.

In general GNOME is more "minimalistic and modern (think Apple)", but in general it's also less stable and is less custimizable.

KDE is more traditional (think windows 7-10 esque) but in general more stable and more customizable.

At the end of the day it's more of a personal preference. For me it's KDE

Oh okay, I get it.

So for someone that's never touched an apple device in their life, KDE would be more suited for them (me) considering it's closer to a windows like desktop? I think that's what I'm going to go for then.

Just to be clear, I can still definitely play games pretty well on fedora KDE?

Yes, the games will run fine, just install steam and run them through proton like you would on any other linux OS.

Steam OS uses KDE aswell, btw.