Hi guys, I have a question if you would be so kind. I’m a professional developer looking to finally make a semi break into Linux.

My daily driver is a Legion 5 / 6800H with 3070ti 32GB and I have been running Linux Mint in a virtual box now for a few weeks.

I can’t make a 100% transition over to Linux due to the nature of my work but I could be running at round 80-90% of my work via a Linux OS.

With the above said, I’m finally going to install a dual boot instance today. Is Mint a good starting point? Anyone else have experience with Mint and Legion or would you recommend I start somewhere else? (I have heared many people mention POP OS).

Essentially I want something I can jump head first into and just make a start familiarising myself.

I’m trying to regain some control over my data and a jump to Lemmy and a Jump away from Windows feels like a solid start !

Thank you and keep rocking…

  • Lengsel@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    For your hardware setup, I would suggest prioritizing good nVidia driver support over everything. A few distributions do not make the nVidia driver natively available for installation. I expect your Ryzen to be natively supported with 6.1 or 6.2 kernel, but test to see who has the latest nVidia driver to install and thrn decide from there.

    • orangesOP
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      2 years ago

      Thanks ! I ended up installing Mint and couldn’t be happier.

      It installed the Nvidia driver for me, the one thing I did note is it didn’t play well in managing the dual graphic chips.r When I was using a secondary display, there was a huge amount of lag on the second monitor even when mirrored.

      I changed the system settings to only use the Nvidia card and job is a good one. It’s been many years since I have dabbled with Linux (I’m talking Windows XP era) and to see how far it’s come and how easy the process is these days was surprising to say the least. I got everything set and today will be the first of using Linux as a daily driver!