What’s the difference? No matter how hard I look, most of their websites just consist of them advertising that they are immutable.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I see lots of people recommending immutable distros to new users as if they are able to debug the inevitable breakages that occur or difficulty installing external programs.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      2 days ago

      This goes right with recommending Mint for gaming where Wayland is experimental and everything else is behind by several versions.

      • stuner@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 days ago

        I’d say Mint is fine for gaming, as long as your hardware is supported. I’m using it with an Nvidia GPU on X11 and I can play all the games I want to play (Steam is Steam after all). My main gripe is that multi-monitor VRR doesn’t work on X11, but it hasn’t pushed me to another distro just yet…

        For people/beginners that mostly want to game on a computer, I’d say that actually something “immutable” like Bazzite might be one of the best options.

        • NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
          10·
          2 days ago

          For basic gaming the experience should be at the very least about equal for all GPU vendors right now. If you want anything fancy beyond that, like HDR or properly paced and multi-monitor VRR then Wayland is the only way to even have a chance of it working.

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          2 days ago

          I’ve certainly found so. X11 is on life support at this point.

        • _spiffy@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I’ve had multiple instances where games performed better on Wayland than on x.

    • Zeddex@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      151·
      2 days ago

      Yeah this I don’t understand. I do use immutable distros and quite like them(Bazzite/Aurora/Kinoite) but I would never recommend them to a new user to Linux. They just work too differently than most other distros so like 90% of the documentation you might find for other programs is pretty much useless. Like if you look up some piece of software and it says use your package manager to install, then what? It’s usually easy enough to solve if you read the distro’s docs and use their recommended approach(flatpak, brew, AppImage etc) but that’s already probably way too advanced for someone new too Linux.