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.
##### 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: