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So I've been running Windows on my gaming system and Linux on my laptop for Uni for a while. I chose this to discourage working instead of relaxing, or gaming instead of working. However, I am finding that I often get the opportunity to work from home and I find it easier to just use my laptop on the go (I have a dual monitor setup + kvm switch so its a little annoying to have to come home and run 3 cables just for some extra screen realestate).

I want them to run the same OS so I can use the same tools and workflow. I use Ubuntu 23.04 on my laptop, W11 on my PC. I have nvidia GPU's in both (1660 Super Desktop and 3050 Laptop), so installing and maintaining drivers would ideally be easy. I would use Ubuntu but I plan to move away from it since they're moving away from .debs. Any recommendations? I am looking for stability, but something I can game on. I've never had a linux gaming pc so I don't know how much that changes things. I don't want to do much tinkering, I am more of a set an forget type.

I generally prefer Gnome, XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon, Mate in that order. I looked it up and a lot of the games I play are Proton DB Gold or up. The only game with an anticheat that I play is the MCC and I'll just disable the anticheat if its an issue.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've been using Linux Mint and found it to be great. Not a single issue so far, whereas I was having quite a few with PopOS, which was my daily for about two years prior.

Haven't had to do any special tinkering at all. Currently hopping between Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate 3, and BattleBit without any problems.

It's Ubuntu-based (which is based off Debian?) BUT Ubuntu it is not. Now I'm confused. ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] joshcodes 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll definitely give Mint a go! I'll give pop os a try as well since they have their new DE coming soon.

Edit: spelling