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    Year of Linux on the Desktop (lemmy.world)
    submitted 10 months ago by Limonene@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

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    [–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    I second popos and mint. I love fedora but if he is a gamer you want something that will just work (navida built in or a very easy one click mechanism to get it). If he has to research PPAs and installing rpmfussion it will get all too hard very quickly. Also do some expectation setting before hand, research what games he plays work on linux, better he finds out now rather than after 2 hours of pain or getting band for "hacking" because of proton triggered an anti-cheat thing.

    Edit: I run fedora on all my machines except my gaming rig which is popos. Fedora works too but popos is hassle a free experience.

    [–] asuka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Fedora more or less just works. I followed, like, 5 simple steps on the top Google result for "installing nvidia drivers fedora" and that was all it took. No further configuration or fiddling required.

    [–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

    I've done it. I agree it can be done very easily. But is relying on all new users entering the right question into google and google returning a correct answer for their distro that is not 7 years out of date the best strategy in the long run?

    Any distro that does not offer a option during install or on first boot to just install this stuff with a promt is not new user friendly.

    [–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Ublue-nvidia. Just works

    [–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Would Ublue be of any use to someone who uses AMD? I'm seeing it recommended a lot lately.

    [–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Yes I use it on Amd / Intel too

    The project in general is huge. Checkout secureblue or hyprgreen, these all use ublue as base.

    Really, ublue made Fedora more like Ubuntu with all the variants. Just a looot more modern.

    [–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I'll have to give it a shot then, maybe on a VM or something. I thought it was mainly for specific configurations at first.

    [–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

    No its a toolbox (not the program) based on Fedora, with minor changes and improvements.

    This is a great way to package stuff, as it means changes are done fully automated and scalable.

    Ublue has maaany images, for more Desktops than Fedora officially supports (so they wont be as stable but they are there), including different kmods and rules for Asus, Framework, Surface, with or without NVIDIA drivers.

    There are other projects using ublues tooling, like Secureblue, which is now in a well working state.

    So its not only good for Nvidia but the shitty mess that is kernel modules and proprietary drivers, while being on a recent distro, can be tamed best in ostree and immutable snapshots.

    If an update fails, you wont get it. And even if, you will have a rollback image that you can select on boot.