Maybe TUXEDO OS is something you want to consider. From the description of Distrowatch: “The distribution uses KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop (…) removal of Ubuntu’s snap daemon and snap packages…” The first review mentions that “You can even switch between X11 and Wayland at the log-in screen” and Distrowatch also lists all the packages so you can compare if they are newer than Debian’s.

I haven’t tried it myself yet, but I’ve read some good reviews - might be worth a try. Let us know, what you settled with, please!

I’d suggest OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and one of the UBlue images - maybe Bazzite, since you mentioned gaming. But Steam and GOG run on all of those.

And how is that relevant in a post about “Linux Mint and Steam”?

In Mint most people recommend installing Steam directly from the website as .deb. There are dozens of informative threads on the official forums, which also explain some differences of the installation method, for example: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=427582

Also Valve’s guide on how to use Steam with an NTFS disk (which I assume you’re using) can be found here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows

No I haven’t, I don’t have Firefox installed. Yes it probably is, well then I just have to live with it or use a different app. Thanks!

Thank you so much for introducing me to Liz Climo, I love her work and keep sending it to friends since I’ve found it.

first off, do you realize where we’re at? normies don’t frequent lemmy

No need to be passive aggressive, but if you think all people on lemmy are so tech savvy, then why post it here?

https://joinmobilizon.org/

Maybe you can also find open source communities in your area. After some digging, I was surprised how many groups there are in my area and they are always happy to get additional hands to organize stuff or run errands etc.

Sure it’s allowed, but we have these questions a lot, so some enthusiasts made some really great posts with tons of info, for example:

https://lemmy.ml/post/12123645

https://lemmy.ml/post/18268622

I’d recommend to read through them, then come back and ask more specific questions.

Because it was nowhere to be found after the teleport.

No seriously, I remember that too, but I think it was a photon.

For all those suggesting Bazzite, Ublue (including Bazzite) images are offline installers only, see: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/couldnt-get-aurora-into-test-mode-in-live-usb/4567

I had a similar issue on a Dell Latitude a few weeks ago, with installing Mint though. The problem there was that it had an entry in the BIOS that was called something like “Windows Boot Loader”. So Mint could find the OS with the Live USB, but not when starting the Laptop. Turned out, only unchecking that entry didn’t do the trick, I had to delete it in the BIOS and that worked by clicking into the entry, then a button would appear that let me delete it. I only ran into that solution by chance. Maybe you can check the BIOS for any sorts of entries like that. Please let us know how it goes.

Oh good to know, last time I checked they said on their website they’re not supporting it. That’s great news, thanks!

Yeah Waydroid doesn’t support these yet sadly.

Waydroid not working? You don’t happen to have an Nvidia card, do you?

I really like Mint, but I wouldn’t say it “has relatively up-to-date updates”.

First thing that came to mind was Fedora, if you are willing to try an immutable distro I highly recommend Bazzite, but tinkering has its limits there.

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What a great actress. She will be missed.

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