cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
As far as my novice knowledge understands, this isn’t a fixable “issue”. But I’d love to use Debian as my main OS for everything, but I know there’s gonna be issues with Steam/GOG games and GPU drivers. My patience and tolerance with “daily drivers” is much lower than my servers, so as far as I know that pretty much limits me to Mint (which isn’t as cool)
What about trying a non-Debian distro that “just works?” The only main difference is package managers, and some files being in a different place (excluding home directory).
I’d consider it, got recommendations?
Something Arch or Fedora based depending on what you want to do. EndeavorOS, Garuda on the Arch side. Fedora is good too as-is, just make sure you add RPM Fusion, another package repo, because some stuff like NVIDIA drivers aren’t available. RPM also has a graphical setup option on their website.
Basically I would take a glance at the docs for Arch and Fedora and choose based off which one I like reading better.
Thanks for the info! I’ve heard very little about Fedora so I assumed it had a large learning curve. My only experience with Arch-based distros is whatever they put on Steamdecks, and my friend with one has had problems every time he’s over
There’s also Ubuntu (which is even less cool than Mint, i guess, but nevertheless exists).
I ran Debian as my main OS for years around 2005-2010 or so. If you run the testing branch it gets you pretty new stuff. Just don’t run the testing branch for a few months after they do a stable release as that’s when all the big breaking changes take place. Also, Trixie is still relatively new and has a new enough kernel to make most GPU stuff work well. If you need a newer kernel it’s not too difficult to build a new one and use that so you can get fresher amdgpu modules, for example.