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Would you consider Drauger OS noob friendly for gaming desktop? (lemm.ee)

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I'm backing up my windows device today and plan on installing a Linux distro. My primary use for this PC is gaming, though I do complete some banking and other tasks I find cumbersome on my phone.

My technical skill level is "knows enough to get into the shit, but not enough to get out." I did use Ubuntu exclusively for a period of about 3-5 years over a decade ago.

One con I've found regarding this OS is that it has "no browser in Live environment," but I have no idea what that means.

If anyone has experience with this OS or good tips/recommendations, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

This question has highlighted what to me is the number 1 issue with Linux as an ecosystem.

Drauger OS, per their own website, is an Ubuntu based distro that reached end of life in 2022. It no longer has Apt repos online.

I recommend you just pick one of the big 4. Debian, Ubuntu, mint (all Debian based, all solid), Fedora is great if it works with your hardware (some configs are just bizarrely and inexplicably wayyyy slow with Fedora). Since you're a gamer, if you have the right hardware (amdgpu) go for bazzite or smth like that and you'll have a console experience with a desktop as a secondary experience.

Keep it simple mostly though. The less fingers are in the pie the less likely it is someone has dirty fingers, don't go fuckin around with unvetted, unpopular distributions. If you have changes you wanna make, make them yourself as you learn what is safe. Never make a change you don't understand, and don't go follow someone's list of unvetted changes just because "muh performance tho".