Be careful what you wish for lol. I might be pestering you soon ish lol.
10.03.2026 01:19
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Be careful what you wish for lol. I might be pestering you soon ish lol.
Downloaded a gentoo iso to my proxmox server... shit's about to go down! #Gentoo #Linux
Linux. Mint/mate on my desktop and arch/sway on my laptop.
Been using this article to sway people into not using it. Very well written, and details things I can't explain. Now I'll have to give you credit. I often open tabs in a browser to read later and forget where they come from.
But at a high and simplistic level most distros operate the same other than package managers. Ip a works the same on mint as it does fedora. Then when you get comfortable then explore.
I was out for a while and came back and froze in choice paralysis myself. Then I realized it was simple. Just pick a popular distro. Then others likely will have had the same issue as you. The hard part is picking the desktop environment. 1/2
This can help you pick a distro and desktop.
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I setup arch from the wiki and still use mint for my desktop as i need it to work reliably and it does. So it can support new and seasoned users. Give it a try. You can play with distros/desktops (i.e. cinnamon, mate, xfce) here. I'm not an expert, but willing to help w/ questions
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This^^ Don't overcomplicate it. Just pick a distro and get started. You're probably going to try a few anyways before its over. What do you use your PC for? You'll likely just grab mint, fedora, or popOS to start. Also this helps pick distros and desktop environments
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RedHat Enterprise Linux or RHEL for short is aimed more towards enterprises. I suspect you've heard of fedora though which belongs to the redhat family
Now that I have proxmox and keep standing up VMs, manually updating these distros became a chore. So I wrote an Ansible playbook to take care of it for me using gather_facts and when: ansible_os_family == "Distro".
Ipython is great to test small segments of code
JQ is GREAT for parsing JSON
Arch/mint. I don't use AUR. I've not looked to see if i can just compile individual apps. But not copying the entire repo to my local. Seems I'll advised. So use mint for things that aren't readily available on arch.
Yeah, ZERO complaints from me. Have 2 desktops and 3 laptops so far. One desktop has 64gb of ram for proxmox. Other only has 16. But mint never makes it sweat. My QubesOS laptop has 38gb of ram and others have 32gb
Ive not tested it, but there's a setting in wsl properties. Or you can enable via cli. Cnat recall setting name off top of my head.
Mint/mate and arch with sway
I like the unicorn xfce theme they used. I don't think i could daily drive rhino for too long, but definitely fun to have in VM on the side.
Yeah. I run sway now, but didn't jump straight to that from windows. I played in many other DE/WMs before landing on tiling.
I keep spinning up rhino linux in VMs. It's a fun distro based on Ubuntu devel branch. When I did run it on bare metal an update borked my wifi. Plugged into ethernet and patched again later to fix it. So not great if you need stability. At least in my short lived experience. But cool distro
Maybe. I just keep knoppix on a usb for that sort of thing though. Interested to see what others have to say.
Idk. I just keep asking from free out of warranty thinkpads at work, and they just keep giving them to me. But my 2 desktops, and 3 laptops all work great with various distros. I think the X1 Carbon is my favorite though.
But until they finally say no, I'm going to keep asking π€£π
I think your windows manager will be a bigger choice than your distro. There's plenty of gamer friendly distros. You already know about bazzite. There's Nabora, and pop_os too. Garuda, but see my other comment about arch based distros. This will help you pick a WM.
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I personally wouldn't recommend Omarchy to anyone. And the OP seems to be new or newer to Linux (I could be wrong). But I wouldn't recommend an arch based distro or a tiling WM to a new user asking for windows like experience.
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That's exactly why I'm playing with QubesOS. I don't have anything to hide. But shits getting weird. I need to setup a NAS too. Definitely getting into self hosting rabbit hole now with proxmox
Windows server admin*^^
Ubuntu 9.10
And same. Always dabbled in Linux. Found this on old server in the garage. But when MS introduced whatever that screenshot toll is. Recall maybe? I made the jump. Should have much sooner, but was a windows admin.
Yeah ALL my machines are way overpowered for Linux lol. My desktop has 16gb and never broke a sweat. Proxmox has 64gb and has 5 vms running so far and not using many resources. Laptops have 32-48gb of memory. Running arch with sway lol. QubesOS on 48gb one because that is actually memory hungry
I've been trialing it on an old 6a i got cheap off ebay. Im impressed. I need to actually get cell service on it and daily drive it. And run mint & arch btw lol
