I’ve been using Ubuntu as my daily driver for a good few years now. Unfortunately I don’t like the direction they seem to be heading.

I’ve also just ordered a new computer, so it seems like the best time to change over. While I’m sure it will start a heated debate, what variant would people recommend?

I’m not after a bleeding edge, do it all yourself OS it will be my daily driver, so don’t want to have to get elbow deep in configs every 5 minutes. My default would be to go back to Debian. However, I know the steam deck is arch based. With steam developing proton so hard, is it worth the additional learning curve to change to arch, or something else?

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    If you like Ubuntu but don’t like the direction it’s going, you can try Mint. It’s Ubuntu, but with the bad decisions reversed. Or use LMDE, which is Mint but Debian based.

  • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.comEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Fedora or Nobara if you’re lazy are a good option. If an immutable variant appeals, I have a good time on Kinoite. There is a gaming centric ublue version now too IIRC

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I always recommend Linux Mint Debian edition. I don’t use it, but I’ve had friends who’ve had good luck with it. Straight Debian is a great choice as well. If packages aren’t new enough, you can always use testing and keep a really stable experience.

    It honestly doesn’t matter much which you pick unless you’re using the absolute latest hardware or something. I personally use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, which has worked really well for me. I don’t recommend it because there just isn’t as much help available online specific to the OS, so I tend to recommend more mainstream distros. I used Arch for a few years before I switched, and Tumbleweed feels pretty much the same, but with less fiddling.

    Anyway, regardless of what you pick, feel free to come back and ask questions. Most problems have similar solutions regardless of distro because Linux is Linux, so please don’t hesitate to ask.

  • heleos@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I use tumbleweed, but I had a strange issue with the flatpak version of heroic launcher. I ran a benchmark of cyberpunk 2077 with the flatpak heroic, and was averaging 100 fps. I had nixos installed on a separate hard drive and that benchmark was 160 fps. I thought there was an issue with opensuse, but I installed the flatpak version of heroic on nixos and also got 100 fps. So I installed the regular version on tumbleweed and have 160 fps. I would keep that in mind when looking at programs to launch games, whether it’s wine, bottles, heroic, lutris, etc

  • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I moved from Kubuntu to Endeavor (Arch-based) and was also afraid of bleeding edge stuff breaking all the time. I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised by how stable it is. The only couple issues I had was 1 bad kernel version and vmware update. I learned how to roll back and avoid upgrading these 2 packages for a couple weeks until the new versions of both fixed everything. I was also reluctant to learn a new package manager since I already know apt, but yay is arguably easier to use than apt. My gaming has been great, no issues.

  • brenno@lemmy.brennoflavio.com.brEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Anyone that has video drivers and flatpak should work in your case. If you dislike Ubuntu and don’t like the direction, usually poops and mint are the ones recommended.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Fedora. Cutting edge but works out of box. Very little change in use compared to Ubuntu.

    Debian is good but very stable so no guarantee for some package updates which is useful for gaming and maybe proton.

    On a related note, this is pretty useful: https://davidotek.github.io/protonup-qt/