Unless you’re using NVIDIA. Didn’t work out of the box for me and required a couple hours of fiddling. Mint worked seamlessly.
Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
kuneho@lemmy.world 11 months agofor newcomers, maybe this is the best combo. Debian stable with KDE Plasma.
jimerson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Matriks404@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s weird. It worked for me just fine. I have GTX 1060 3GB.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Wrangling my Nvidia drivers into Mint also took a couple hours for me but I haven’t had problems afterward
Monstrosity@lemm.ee 11 months ago
PopOS (scroll down to the “Pop_OS with Nvidia” link).
It is tailored for Nvidia cards, is Debian(Ubuntu) based, & super friendly for new users.
DogWater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Saving this.
metaldream@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Debian is not a good choice for beginners. It’s extremely bare bones compared to Ubuntu or Mint.
Drivers on Debian stable are also heavily outdated
Matriks404@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Drivers being outdated is not a big deal, unless you use recent hardware, then it might make sense to make a jump to current testing release (trixie), or just stay on testing indefinitely.
metaldream@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
It’s definitely a good thing if you’re interested and knowledgeable enough to build what you want. I was just arguing it’s not the best choice for a casual user because a lot things they’ll want won’t work out of the box.
Even updating to the next stable Debian version requires editing system files and running the command line.
Drivers can matter quite a bit if for example you’re on an Nvidia card and the Debian drivers are 2 years old. It happened to me and caused dlss to not work in some games.
I run a Debian server and it’s amazing for that.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I definitely agree with most of the points but I don’t get what do you mean that you can’t move to testing, because that’s what I literally did recently by upgrading from bookworm to trixie with no issues whatsoever.