Yeah, I’m thinking in a few years, when I have time to play around with my OS, Mint will be the one I try. I still have some reservations about the enormous number of variables that have to be just right, though: when you’re a gamer and an artist, the list of games, drivers, and software that need to play nicely is quite long!
I installed mint, kubuntu, and pop on a 3060 laptop, and 3080 desktop, and none had issues with GPU, drivers, or gaming. I am brand new to this, starting 2 weeks ago, I’m not experienced for sure.
Lutris gave me a command line to update vulkan, or similar, but otherwise mostly CLI-free too.
Pop specifically has an Nvidia iso as well.
THAT SAID- I still agree this is a “hobby” and if you don’t have time to mess with it, then Linux still isn’t “it just works!!” Like people will claim.
Yep! Could I make it work if I had the time? Probably. I might have just gotten unlucky with my previous attempt, or it didn’t like my specific GPU (or it was actually a different component that was causing the problem, despite all the error messages pointing to GPU). But Linux definitely isn’t in “it just works” stage for everyone, and for every person who can say it worked fine out of the box, there’s someone else who can say it wouldn’t work no matter what they did. The hardware combinations for desktops, especially self-built ones, is nearly infinite, and some combinations will be more finicky than others.
Try something besides Ubuntu some day. I just moved from windows to Fedora and it’s been great for the past two weeks.
Mint. For new users, or experienced ones who want a computer that just works, Mint is the answer.
Yeah, I’m thinking in a few years, when I have time to play around with my OS, Mint will be the one I try. I still have some reservations about the enormous number of variables that have to be just right, though: when you’re a gamer and an artist, the list of games, drivers, and software that need to play nicely is quite long!
I installed mint, kubuntu, and pop on a 3060 laptop, and 3080 desktop, and none had issues with GPU, drivers, or gaming. I am brand new to this, starting 2 weeks ago, I’m not experienced for sure.
Lutris gave me a command line to update vulkan, or similar, but otherwise mostly CLI-free too.
Pop specifically has an Nvidia iso as well.
THAT SAID- I still agree this is a “hobby” and if you don’t have time to mess with it, then Linux still isn’t “it just works!!” Like people will claim.
Yep! Could I make it work if I had the time? Probably. I might have just gotten unlucky with my previous attempt, or it didn’t like my specific GPU (or it was actually a different component that was causing the problem, despite all the error messages pointing to GPU). But Linux definitely isn’t in “it just works” stage for everyone, and for every person who can say it worked fine out of the box, there’s someone else who can say it wouldn’t work no matter what they did. The hardware combinations for desktops, especially self-built ones, is nearly infinite, and some combinations will be more finicky than others.