It’s time for the time-worn question. Which Linux should I choose?

I have experience running Ubuntu both as an install and through WSL, and I’ve been in charge of multiple Linux servers, one RedHat and a few Ubuntu. So I’m not afraid of some fiddling. Though I will say, I’d like it to just work most of the time. That’s why I’m here.

Typical use case for my computer is I have a ~40" ancient TV and a ~22" monitor to the side. I often put videos or something on the small monitor and play games on the TV. Most of my games are FitGirl repacks or otherwise from the seas. I know Linux gaming has come a long way, but would this be an issue? Also, I like that I can turn the second monitor on and off easily through the UI with WinKey + P.

Aside from that, anything can do what I want it to. I dabble with some programming here and there, etc.

Thanks in advance for your input. I’m honestly just tired and don’t feel like doing all the research myself at the moment.

  • nfms@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m going to assume you’ve used the terminal before. Since you’re not afraid of some fiddling I recommend Fedora or CachyOS. The desktop and hardware work out of the box on newer hardware and Wayland has great support for multi monitor. Get flatpak. Stay away from Nvidia.
    I don’t do pirated games but since you’re not updating the game you can use Bottles to install non Linux software or maybe Lutris.
    I’m running arch (on AMD) and just installed Fedora on my partner’s computer (with Nvidia RTX 4050) both using Heroic and Steam for games.
    Just keep trying what works for you. Linux is improving more and more.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        The hot swappable scheduler is super neat

        They also let you pick you user shell in the installer now so you don’t have to get stuck with fish if you don’t want to

        • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          4·
          4 months ago

          What’s a hot swappable (assuming cpu?) scheduler? I thought the scheduler could be changed on the fly on any linux system.

          Edit: for posterity, schedulers are usually baked into the kernel. If you are familiar with them you might have heard the names “performance”, “powersave”, “ondemand” etc. This means that if you want to use some new scheduler algorithm you would normally have to compile the kernel to include it in the available options.

          I don’t know what cachyos’ sched-ext exactly is but it allows you to install and use new scheduler implementations on the fly from the userland.