Leah

Mine freezes the display output to one monitor after awhile. (Intermittent, my favorite.) This was probably 6-9months ago. Usually apps kept working behind frozen display. Just with reduced utility.

Monitors are identical make/model 2K 165hz

I mean, fair. It also doesn’t have mint’s driver manger, which is a bummer.

Edit: it does have the driver manager! The hell with vanilla mint for sure then.

I’m an ubuntu hater / snap hater. I prefer my mint without junk in the trunk. I’ll confuse people though, I think systemd rocks. And let’s make more people mad, vim is a pointless flex and nano is better.

It’s also developed by glorious egg roll, the GE in GE-proton. I wanted to love it but Wayland + multi monitor + KDE + Nividia = pain

Mainline mint is a derivative of Ubuntu. Lmde is largely the same OS with a pure Debian heart without Ubuntu clogging the arteries

I could spin up a VM and check, I’m 99% sure you’re wrong. Also lmde includes almost the same preinstalled programs.

or…

apt install -y gparted

LMDE 7 and send it. Regular mint has Ubuntu nonsense baked in, lmde is basically the same end user experience and smooth Debian jazz underneath.

Like someone else said, steam, heroic.

I’d avoid any of the gamer distros.

But I stg if you complain about your second monitor again I’m taking your thunderbolt dock away.

Dabs up, good luck

Arch was fun for a while. I’m also a fedora enjoyer these days.

Thanks to both of you. And thanks for cat tax.

Got slammed for asking why for context. Ended up in the O room for “being too smart”

##### RPM Fusion & Terra  
sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm  
# https://github.com/terrapkg/packages  
sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck --repofrompath 'terra,https://repos.fyralabs.com/terra$releasever' terra-release  
sudo dnf group upgrade core  
sudo dnf4 group install core  

##### firmware  
sudo fwupdmgr refresh --force  
sudo fwupdmgr get-devices # Lists devices with available updates.  
sudo fwupdmgr get-updates # Fetches list of available updates.  
sudo fwupdmgr update  

##### appimage  
sudo dnf install -y fuse fuse-libs  
sudo flatpak install it.mijorus.gearlever  

##### graphics_drivers  
# https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA  
### nvidia  
sudo dnf install -y akmod-nvidia  
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda  
sudo dnf mark user akmod-nvidia  
sudo dnf mark user xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda  
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable vulkan  
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs  
modinfo -F version nvidia  
reboot  
lsmod | grep nouveau  
sudo lspci -vnn  
#look for your gpu, and see what module is in use.  Should be nvidia :)  

##### Media Codecs  
sudo dnf4 group install multimedia  
sudo dnf swap 'ffmpeg-free' 'ffmpeg' --allowerasing # Switch to full FFMPEG.  
sudo dnf upgrade @multimedia --setopt="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin # Installs gstreamer components. Required if you use Gnome Videos and other dependent applications.  
sudo dnf group install -y sound-and-video # Installs useful Sound and Video complementary packages.  

##### H/W Video Decoding with VA-API  
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable ffmpeg-libs libva libva-utils  

##### OpenH264 for Firefox  
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable openh264 gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 mozilla-openh264  
sudo dnf config-manager setopt fedora-cisco-openh264.enabled=1  
# After this enable the OpenH264 Plugin in Firefox's settings.  

##### gaming  
sudo dnf install -y steam lutris gamemode goverlay meson gcc pkgconf  
sudo flatpak install bottles Proton-GE protontricks Heroic ludusavi  

protonup-qt (flatpak)  
# get from https://flathub.org/apps/net.davidotek.pupgui2/install  
# would not install from cli from flathub for some reason :eyeroll:  

This is about my distro hopping journey. (kinda freaky honestly) Skipping the Red Hat CD’s from compusa and some other fun times over the past 20 years ago or so. -LMDE is my keep going back to distro if I need it to just get out of the way, but have more creature comforts than vanilla debian. Cinnamon is great, it’s kde without the issues for me. The driver manager is excellent and just everything from the mint utilities, themes, and polish are lovely. -MX/void/antix…I’ve never had the patience to learn not systemd. These are rad, I love the older school window managers and the light weight indie vibe. Maybe I’ll stop being lazy and keep screwing with them in vm’s and actually learn other init’s.
-Manjaro, I wanted to love you so fucking bad, I tried to more than twice and you were a massive disappointment each time. (if it’s working for you, cool. But you should really just look at EndeavourOS/Cachy OS, you’ll have a way better time)
-Did the Arch from scratch thing. Just to do it. btw, I ran Arch.
-Endeavour/CachyOS are amazing and you’ll have a good time for the most part. More complete experience than doing it yourself with much less effort.
-Fedora, ohh fedora. We’ve wanted to love you forever and ever. Going back to running linux as a Daily driver a few years ago, when I re-visited fedora it was exactly as this picture describes. Ironically, I just installed fedora, replacing cachyos last night. I spent the time to research and translate my arch notes into fedora and so far I’m pretty happy. Bit more fiddling out of the box than the derivative distros obviously. Gaming performance is what I expected once we got settled in and I haven’t run into any show stoppers yet.

It really doesn’t matter what distro you run. As long as you can install and run the software you need, and interact with it in a way that makes since to you, then have fun. It’s your computer.