Hello there!
After some lurking on r/Unixporn and its Discord, I'm more and more tempted to try Linux as a daily driver. While I'm by no means a pro, I've been using WSL at work the past year and generally I can fiddle around finding solutions when something doesn't work.
These being said, the main requirements I would have from a distro is to be able to run League of Legends (saw that it's pretty straight forward using Lutris) and not be insanely complex from the get-go (wouldn't want to jump straight into something like Arch), I intend to use something like Hyprland.
So far I am split between OpenSuse Tumbleweed, NixOS, Fedora and EndeavourOS, but would gladly hear alternatives.
LE: Read (and tried to reply to) most messages. I will come back with an update once I decide my pick and see how it goes. Thanks everyone!
I don't think NixOS is a good option because you'll have to learn a lot more than any other distro. Tumbleweed and EndeavourOS are good , for more graphical tools you could also consider Manjaro and maybe switch to unstable if you want more up-to-date packages, but I am a little biased as you can see.
Also heard about Manjaro, but from what I've seen several people say it's not ideal.
The maintainers have slipped up a couple of times, mostly their website's SSL certificate expiring, but it has never affected me really.
people will usually send you to this lovely website but it's been a while since the maintainer's last felony.
If you're concerned about the stability of the AUR then you could simply switch Manjaro to Unstable, so that the repos are synched with Arch.
Manjaro considers Arch unstable, but itself stable?
But then they release it and ask in the forums "We released a new update. Did we break anything for you?" instead of actually performing integration testing.
No matter how much you test, you'll never hit every edge case.
Just let users tell you what problems they faced, put their feedback under the update page on the forum, users open the forum page for the update they're about to install and they see all the problems people faced, it's a very good idea.
No:
It considers the AUR, and Manjaro's new tools unstable when they enter the unstable branch. Please read the notes.
Thanks I have been using Manjaro for a few years now and like it, but didn't know about those issues. Like how aur scripts are not checked. Maybe it's time to switch around again.
The only reason I switched from Mint to Manjaro was that my new laptops video card wasn't supported (like mint wouldn't boot). But that was a few years ago, so it's probably not an issue anymore.
I used to like Ubuntu but hated Unity and hate snap.
Linux Mint turned snap off back in 2020 and replaced the snap packages with debs again.
I couldn't boot Linux Mint unless I switched from UEFI to Legacy so after 2months of using it I switched to Fedora and then Manjaro.
To this day Kali Linux and Linux Mint cannot boot on my device if it's using UEFI. I tried searching around, asked on forums and nothing came out of that, it's really weird.