Just don’t ask how long it took to get my dGPU working properly :D But thankfully, there were a bunch of helpful folks with tips!

  • Iceblade@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    Oh undoubtedly!

    Hopefully my partitioning was decent though, so distro-hopping shouldn’t be too hard if I feel like switching (or even running different distros side-by-side?)

    I was personally drawn to it because: it’s not Ubuntu; ButterFS seems like a nice safety net; KDE Plasma is sexy AF; noone seems to have anything particularly horrible to say about it.

    Why is your chosen distro (obviously) the superior choice?

    • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Mint for gaming, because it’s nice to have a rock-solid OS that doesn’t need much beyond updates in terms of maintenance. Arch for hobby tinkering, because voiding warranties is fun.

      • Iceblade@lemmy.worldOP
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        5 months ago

        But b-tree file system sounds way less fun!

        It’s already cemented itself as butterfly system in my mind lol

    • aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, those are the same reasons I chose tumbleweed. Plus the rolling release.

      I hope you made your system partition large enough. I had about 20G for / (excluding /home), which used to be enough for kubuntu, but quickly ran out of space on tumbleweed. I assume because of the Btrfs snapshots.

      I reinstalled tumbleweed on a larger partition. Then couldn’t install the proprietary codecs, because of an error I couldn’t resolve.

      Installed it a third time recently, now it runs smoothly.

        • InstantWeasel@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          If you intent to run virtual machines with virt-manager (especially if you keep the default path), that 200 Gb will seems short a bit :-)