Back again haha, I asked a little while ago about making the switch from Windows to Linux and general consensus was maybe don’t, as I use my PC for work doing voice acting, music production, and digital art.
Anyway, my PC has been crashing lately so I may be at the point soon of re-installing my OS, so I may as well bite the bullet if/when that happens. Right now I’m making some backups, making a list of Linux programs I’ll need, and just trying to get my ducks in a row so I’m not scrambling if I wake up one morning and have to do the thing. Which brings me to Distros.
I’ve done some research into it but already but there are a bunch of options (thinking maybe Bazzite or Fedora?), and I’d rather know what I’m going with if my PC dies so I don’t have to waste time trying to figure it out then. My PC specs are:
Processor 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11400F @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Obviously the priority is to get up and running but I’d really like to use a distro that I can learn some as well. I’ve installed Mint on an old laptop (recommended for being similar to Windows) but ideally I’d like a distro that’s a bit more Linux-y. I’m ok taking some extra time getting up and running, though I’m not at a point for something like Arch yet haha.
That was posted 3hours ago. By now you could have installed at least 1 “normal” distribution (i.e. pretty much anything that allow you to download packages for your architecture, not LFS) and have some of your work files either copied on
/homeor better mounted as a directory that is safely on another partition or even disk.Don’t like whatever you installed? Explain us WHY then we can better help you narrow down what you need.
Overall software availability and performances are pretty much NOT distribution specific.
It is rare that a specific feature is not available as driver that can not be installed somehow, same for state of the art software, e.g. something coming right of the repository rather than a built package.