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Recommend me a distro? (lemmy.ml)

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I am considering moving away from Ubuntu, but I haven't tried other distributions for years. I started on Linux Mint Cinnamon back in 2012, but switched to Ubuntu when I built my current PC in 2020 because I wanted more up-to-date packages. Now I am faced with needing to replace my SSD which gives me reason enough to install a new distro. I have an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X with 32G of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, so I would need something that plays nicely with nvidia. I routinely use libreoffice, digikam, gimp, virtualbox, bambu studio, sublime text, filezilla, thunderbird, minecraft, steam, Open WebUI and Stable Diffusion (Automatic1111). I liked Ubuntu because it was familiar, fairly easy to customize, and everything was kept fairly well up to date. I am not a big fan of snap, and I would prefer a more logical and unified package management system. I was wondering if you all had some recommendations for me. Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That was a supremely enlightening explanation! I'm installing bluefin in a vbox to check it out and ordering a new SSD. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

One thing to keep in mind with this is it's "a new way" so expect hickups. I use Bazzite on my living room PC, and have had:

Installation of software fail because yum wasn't supported for what I wanted to do
Keys for updates get rotated by maintainers, causing all updates to fail without me realizing

I do love Bazzite, and just recommended it in another thread, but I would not run it on my workhorse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I use Aurora (the KDE version) as a software dev/ gaming machine. It’s great!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm also on Bluefin for my daily driver and Bazzite for my Steam Deck. I love it because the important part is set and forget it, and the part I tinker with is separate from the part that keeps things running. And if an update borks something, you can just revert to the image you came from.