I use KDE Neon on my laptop and I’d prefer to have KDE as a DE on this one too (if possible) but I don’t mind a non Ubuntu base. Basically I’d just like to be able to play games on it without much hassle but I know how to paste commands into the terminal if the need arises.

  • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago
    1. This PC is not old.
    2. Literally every Distro works on such new hardware
        • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgOPEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          They explicitly mention the GTX 10xx series not being supported due to being too old. I’m sure there’s a workaround but bazzite works out the box so I’m set.

      • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        In that case you can just use fedora itself and install the drivers that way

  • Bruhh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    With a 10 series cards, dx12 performance will be terrible. Nvidia already has issues with dx12 on newer cards but Pascal is beyond worse. You’ll have to enable dx11 on games that support it.

    I decided on installing debloated windows for my 1070ti media machine. Plugs into a 4k tv and runs modern games well enough at 1440p on medium.

    This is my experience and your mileage may vary. I still use linux (cachyOS) on my main machine with a 3070ti but Nobara or Bazzite are also good as others have mentioned.

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Bazzite has been the winner for all of my old windows pcs but all of my pcs are AMD cpu/gpus. There is and nVidia specific version of Bazzite but I have no experience with it so I can’t verify if it works well or not.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      I’ll second Bazzite. It’s secure, it stays up to date, and it “just works”.

      If the immutable system becomes a problem for any reason, try Endeavor. openSuse Tumbleweed is also a good alternative.

      • Profligate_parasite@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        I would just toss in my experience w Bazzite as a warning - I don’t recommend, unless you’re already a fedora devotee or really cool with how an atomic distro works. The ‘it just works’ was exactly NOT what I experienced - had to constantly manually set Xwindow compatibility with Flatseal (apps just … wouldn’t open… no explanation! Yay! The wayland is buggy? Took a few threads on Bazzites official discord to figure that out). It wouldn’t mount secondary drives… would take a fuckton of work to get them recognized, mounted, and then it would ‘forget’ them again! Discord NEVER functioned properly (no streaming, even on Canary fork, etc. etc. etc.) It come’s with things ‘preinstalled’ and if those are exactly what you need its probably fine, but its a handheld/steamOS facing project… I don’t see any reason to recommend it here. For me (prefer GNOME environment, despite limitations), I’ve settled on a slightly tweaked version of Pop!_OS and s76’s cosmic environment… but y’know, as others mention, this will run most popular stuff. I always love to go w a Debian fork for stability and familiarity. YMMV. Good luck!

        • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Thanks for the warning. I am currently running Fedora (because “it just works”) and I’m drowning in bugs and incompatibilities.

          I was considering Bazzite because of all the recommendations, but considering my luck (and probably my hardware combination) I’d probably end up just like you described.

          • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            16 hours ago

            Could try Nobara, too.

            its Fedora based, as well… and I am a blithering idiot and had almost no issues with it.

      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I have found it won’t mount internal drives on boot except for the main OS drive and its a real pain in my ass to fix otherwise it’s been fairly good. definatley much better than any other distro I have tried.

        • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          I faintly remember having to deal with that. There’s a built-in “Device Auto-Mount” app that may be able to help with that without messing with fstab, assuming the drives are recognized.

          • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            If you happen to remember what it is called it would be appreciated. I had to install Gnome Disks in order to get it to work because the default KDE disk manager wouldn’t do it even though there was an option for it (greyed out).

  • Drathro@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    Bazzite would be my suggestion. Throw the full install on the ssd then format the HDD for general storage. I’d be a little concerned about the 1060 3GB GPU though. Drivers will likely be fine, but the “10 series” have notoriously awful async compute and take a much larger penalty when running games/apps under proton/vulkan if I recall correctly.

  • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Latest drivers and packages?

    • yes: Arch, Fedora, Bazzite
    • no: Debian

    Want to do maintenance work, set it up and learn?

    • yes: Arch
    • some: Fedora, Debian
    • none: Bazzite

    Note: Bazzite is so established that Marvel Rivals’ developer Netease has released game patches targeting that distro specifically. It’s the current most recommended gaming diestro.

    I use Aurora on my laptop & Bazzite on my desktop.

  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    This is faster than my computer :(

    I use Ubuntu studio with KDE but I’m not necessarily recommending it.

    I heard popos is good with games.

  • clubb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    There’s already a thousand comments, but I’ll give my opinion anyway. Debian is by far the most reliable distro I have ever used. It’s easier to install than arch in my opinion, and is completely rock solid. However, if you have at least a year experience with linux and you like tinkering, nothing beats arch. I don’t recommend using distros like pop_os, endevour os, or manjaro, simply because once you have a bit of experience, it just introduces more points of failure.

    TLDR;Debian, or if you are experienced, arch.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Building off of that:

      I recently discovered PikaOS, which is a Debian based distro that… more or less is as Nobara is to Fedora, highly streamlined, tons of optimizations for gaming built in, closer to, but not literally bleeding edge to keep up with driver optimizations, as well as comes pre packaged with a number of common, useful apps and packages.

      I have seen some benchmark videos of it actually outperforming Nobara in gaming performance on older hardware… maybe not as old as OP’s, but like, 10% to 20% more frames.

      Downsides for this use case, seemingly a relative linux noobie, are that… well its still arguably in the experimental/development phase, it is fairly new, and of course, as compared to something like Bazzite, it doesn’t come with guardrails via sandboxxing everything into flatpaks and making it more difficult to do something destructive to the core OS.

  • muhyb@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    We have a similar machine and it has openSUSE Leap for nearly 2 years. It’s been fine so far.

  • FQQD! @lemmy.ohaa.xyzEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Those are really decent specs! Which I had this kinda hardware sitting around. I’d probably try arch. Its kinda fun if you don’t break it.