Hey all, I’ve been thinking about making the jump from Windows to Linux as my daily-driver and I’ve been struggling on what distro to use.
On my laptop I’ve been using Fedora’s KDE Spin for a bit but I can’t say I really like KDE all that much. I took that Distrochooser test and 9/10 of the suggestions were all Ubuntu-based or Arch-based for some reason lol.
I would prefer a distro that “just works” but I’m not scared of having to troubleshoot or fix things. I guess I’m just looking to see what everyone else uses and what you all recommend. Thanks!
IF you want Steam, THEN please consider every variant in the official Ubuntu family.
Steam-support told me in their system, iirc in early 2023, that they ONLY support the Ubuntu family ( directly ).
As Linus Torvalds noted, it isn’t possible to release software that is going to work on all distros.
Even glibc has been broken by one, in that talk of his, and it wasn’t a niche distro, either, iirc.
Pick which subset you CAN afford to support, and do not add to that subset until you’re rolling in money, from your linux-customerbase.
( slight sarcasm on the last line, but business is business: destroying-resources costs, and if there is no benefit, it isn’t sane to continue doing it. )
Decide which capabilities/functions/apps you NEED, and then don’t even consider distros that break your required-set on you.
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This post is making it seem like they will have problems with steam on other distros which simply isn’t true.
Wasn’t there just a post about the snap version of steam having major issues recently?
Valve chose an arch based distro for the steam deck. Read into that what you will.