I’l be honest with you… I’m using mint atm with both the laptop and desktop, but don’t know why… haha
I distrohopped a lot to the point I lost an entire day booting three to four distros. At the end they’re pretty much the same, what differs the most is the initial setup, the DE (which you can change with a tad of work) and the package manager.
Pop is the most beautiful and readily available of the ones I went through. You just install it and voila, there it is, just some apt update and upgrade and you’re pretty much ready to go.
If Pop didn’t use apt it would be even better… if it was KDE and Pacman for instance it would be my all-time favorite
I think I was confusing myself with the AMDGPU-PRO thread I saw before about compatibility for red cards and couldn’t remember if that driver had to be installed and if it did, support for older cards etc.
Windows doesn’t work well on windows. I work on windows machines at work. It keeps me busy because of all the problems with Microsoft. Linux has such a huge set of resources.
I recently, had issues with the default drivers in Ubuntu. But the instant I installed AMD’s proprietary drivers all my issues went away. My games were saying I didn’t have a proper driver and the desktop would crash and dump me into CLI every now and then. I would have to restart x.
But as soon as I installed the latest AMD driver for ubuntu, it all went away. Probably something I should report to the devs, but I don’t know how to do it.
I installed Pop OS, and set up Steam with Proton etc. I have installed a few games from my Library and a few worked straight out of the box, a a few work but are a bit glitchy and one or two just did not work at all but the ones that did not work at all I am putting down to the spec of the machine more than anything tbh.
However, as I have a 7950, after doing a bit of research it appears I had to blacklist my radeon driver as its technically a re-hash of a R9 280/290X, it also helps if you install the most recent versions of Mesa and LLVM. Once I did that I was able to actually run one of the games that wouldn’t run previously, quite choppy but it ran. Again I put this down to possibly the spec of my machine.
Well, if it’s based upon Debian, then it would probably be rather easy, if it was needed.
I use a tweaked POP!_OS. Which I kind of like, but when I read about it, it was like, bla bla bla, this is ready with that and that and this, and it’s the best system for gaming etc etc etc. LYING PIECES OF S***.
Oh well, I have been thinking of switching to Manjaro, because I am not really that afraid of challanges, but I have never used pacman, and it’s been 15+ years since I used Slackware, which probably is more difficult to use than Arch will ever be. (Since you compile everything and have to download most of the things manually, now doesn’t that kind of sound like Windows? Memorizing half the internet in order to get your computer up and ready.)
I remember the weeks it took me to tweak the system to my liking, and when I fudged something up, and had to re-install it and do everything over again. It’s much easier now. People should not complain at all over the small tweaks that they have to do in Linux. They are for the most part easier than Microsoft Virus systems.
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