This year we made good progress. You know, Linux gaming becoming better, Reddit fucking up, Metaverse failing etc. But on the other hand Big Tech has or are planning to make some moves. Such as, Google’s Web Enviroment Integrity API (EDIT: they backed off), UK’s encryption bill, etc.
So what do you think of the future? I’m currently optimistic. I think the best recent event was Reddit fucking up. Obviously one of the biggest information sources going down that path isn’t something to celebrate. But it was bound to happen. I believe decentralized social networks becoming more popular is what Aaron Swartz would have wanted if he saw how Reddit was being managed.
I am seeing it as a net positive. Especially because of the Windows 12 bit, the more Windows is an inconvenience, the more will jump ship, and some will land on linux.
What are some good distros these days to dip my toes in as a gamer who is certainly no pro but knows his way around/isn’t afraid of a terminal window?
Ubuntu is a decent place to start.
Before anybody decides to jump down my throat over it, there are some very good reasons to not use Ubuntu generally. I know.
That said, I still recommend it as a first distro because it’s
There are many other, better distros out there for specific needs. Manjaro is a great one for gaming in particular, but can be a little harder to get setup with, or to find help for when things go wrong. But I still think Ubuntu is the best “starter” distro I’ve encountered.
Yeah, I’m on Manjaro and things occasionally go wrong and can be frustrating to fix.
Until you’re comfortable with being in charge of a linux installation, don’t go there.
Fedora is a reasonable choice. You really don’t have to do anything other than enable flathub, and install the steam flatpak.
If using nvidia you need to install rpm fusion and get their driver… But that’s not hard.
Pop_OS! is another good option. System76 is doing great work on it
IBM will run fedora to shit same way they did with CentOS
Completely different parts of the business. Fedora does not directly compete with RHEL. CentOS was exactly RHEL without the support contract.
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But unfortunately will be increasingly irrelevant if only because of its archaic installation funnel.
That has stopped being an issue with 12 Bookworm, as long as you follow any decent guide or YouTube video tutorial on it. Learn Linux TV on YT, for example.
Not the best solution but right now I am using Geforce now. Not gaming on linux but I am gaming while on linux. Didn’t need to touch my windows partition for the past 3 months.
Garuda Linux
I recommend Nobara - it’s based on the rock-solid stable Fedora, with extra tweaks to make gaming easier.
I ended up installing Nobara on one of my drives. I was going to try Garuda but Fedora seemed liked it’d be less hassle dual booting so here we are! Thanks for the rec, you and everyone else!
I’ve been self hosting on a pi so felt like a good time to get back into a Linux desktop environment.
Ubuntu with GNOME. GNOME is the best and most polished DE, period. Ubuntu is the distro with largest community support, and they are not filled with unwelcoming jerks like the ones in Arch community. It has enough tutorials that you might never even need to talk to a person to solve your few issues you ever get.
Here is my Linux/Windows computing guide to get you started. https://lemmy.ml/post/511377
I’ll second Garuda, literally made for good support there. It been my daily driver forever at this point and incredibly reliable.
Imagine Windoge going subscription or “free” but “ad-supported” or something horrible. I personally doubt that even this would make any of my friends switch to Linux, they’d probably bs more inclined to research adblocking on DNS level or Adguard/Pihole. Or going back to pirating Windoge …
I wish I was as optimistic as you are about people ditching Windows. I see that happening only with people who are too poor to afford a monthly subscription. The (relatively) poor people are also likely to adopt Linux/BSD more since they have modest expectations that Linux/BSD can meet. The rest find it hard to adapt, even though there are good alternatives. Imagine people complaining that you need a CS degree to use Linux.
Some users are required to use Windows. It could be the professional software for work only runs on Windows. Or system administrator are forced to use it in their IT environment. You don’t want it to get worse, as it will be more pain for them. You want the alternatives to be better, easy to get, (like every PC comes with a menu with what OS do you want to install). Full software support for everything would be a dream.