2026-10-19 04:51 UTC
If you war a good first Linux experience, stick with anything Ubuntu-/Debian-based; they are
stable workhorses, i.e. they don’t break on you as easily as rolling release distros like CachyOS.
wildly popular, i.e. you’ll find plenty of resources to help you get started (although, to be fair, the Arch wiki is also ridiculously detailed).
Whatever you do, steer clear of immutable distros like Bazzite for now. As cool as the concept is (I run Bazzite on my gaming machine) - as soon as you do something “non-standard” (and modding your Minecraft .jar with Optifine already qualifies as such), you’ll have to fiddle with the terminal and distrobox containers, both of which will be alien concepts for you at the start and may be top much to make it a good first impression.
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@Well1@lemmy.world 2026-10-19 10:26
That’s very helpful, I’ll totally have that in mind🫡
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@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-19 16:11
stable workhorses, i.e. they don’t break on you as easily as rolling release distros like CachyOS. I disagree. When I had Ububtu on my old server it would randomly break every few months. It was generally because I had an Nvidia card and the drivers needed updated, but it makes no sense for graphics drivers suddenly causing issues without an associated OS update