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Diving into daily driving Linux (lemm.ee)
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I ended up with Nobara

As some of you already know I’ve been playing around on a small partition with Linux Mint. Learned basic troubleshooting and fixed some driver issues.

Now I’m very impressed with how it runs and decided to daily Linux and keep Windows for things Linux can’t do. Currently installing Windows on a new small SSD as we speak. (240Gb for the OS plus it’s gonna get a 500GB NTFS partition on my 2TB gaming drive)

This brings me to my question. Which Distro? I’ve narrowed it down to keep using Mint or Fedora KDE Plasma 41. Mint is something I’ve already screwed around with and there’s loads of guides online about it.

But Fedora seems like a better for for me. I’m not afraid of tinkering at all. But as long as I came game and daily it for browsing, emails etc. without too much issues, I’m good.

What’s the consensus? Setting it up tonight after my new W11 install is up and running.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hah. I just went with Fedora on a new build, got all the way to setting up all the stuff I need that computer to do and found that it seems the power management is borked and sometimes it just decides to die on a black screen after being left unattended for no discernible reason.

That doesn't mean anything to you, but I wanted to whine in public about it. If you want to factor in my specific set of bugs feel free to do so, though.

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

Well, I'm grateful for your complaints for off topic reasons. To bring it back to the thread, I recently built a living room gaming PC with the 9070XT and have been really pleased with EndeavourOS having easy access to the latest packages (like Meta 25) to be able to run brand new hardware.

I just ordered a Framework 13 and my natural choice of distro was Endeavour again. You made me realise I have absolutely no idea how I would approach power management, so maybe I'll start off with an officially supported options whilst researching things like kernel tweaks, tools, etc that could help. Ironically, the officially supported distros include Fedora lol!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

My PC is made from scraps and some of the hardware isn't that standard. At the same time it's not new, so I'm not giving Fedora a pass, either. It was not waking up from sleep, getting stuck on some power settings, not taking modifications through the GUI and other stuff. I think I have it working now, we'll see.

That was on my third attempt, too. I really don't like distro hopping.