I’m moving away from Windows and I’m looking for distro for coding and occasional gaming. If more context is needed please let me know.
I’m moving away from Windows and I’m looking for distro for coding and occasional gaming. If more context is needed please let me know.
Opensuse for peace of mind ( + its kinda very stable arch experience ) , or as always for new linux users go with linux mint
As long as it’s tumbleweed.
Non rolling release distros are completely inappropriate for desktop use
Why exactly? Because you need to manually upgrade to newer versions?
Yes. It makes sense on production servers because you have staging envs to test upgrades. All it does on a desktop is make you use old versions of tools until one day you have a massive update to new old versions of tools, which is way more likely to break shit than doing small, consistent upgrades
I completely agree, it seems ridiculous to have to reinstall, manually edit sources or have a large number of programs break on you to stay up to date. It’s one of the things Windows does better. I’m personally considering switching to OpenSUSE Slowroll when it leaves beta testing.
Fwiw arch is great. As long as you regularly update, it’s never an issue.
And they now have an
archinstallscript on the live image. It’s not a GUI, but it’s a very simple cli app to set up your complete install.But why would I choose Arch over something like Fedora?
Well for one, fedora comes with gnome. So that’s already a reason not to. Also afaik fedora isn’t actually a true rolling release.
Also pacman is the best and the arch repos are amazing, augmented with the AUR
There are spins with various DE’s: KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE+Compiz, i3, LXQt, LXDE, SOAS, Phosh (Phone Shell), Sway, Budgie. You aren’t supposed to able to change or install multiple DE’s though as far as I know, but that isn’t a problem for me because I always use KDE.
That’s true, the updates are a bit slower. But I actually prefer that, that’s why I’m interested in slowroll.
I have heard a lot of good things about the AUR. I’m currently using a combination of zypper packages, nix packages, Flatpak apps and opi and using a single method would be preferable (system packages and flatpak would be fine too).