Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

• jimerson@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unless you’re using NVIDIA. Didn’t work out of the box for me and required a couple hours of fiddling. Mint worked seamlessly.

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  • Monstrosity@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • DogWater@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Saving this.

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  • Aphelion@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Manjaro with KDE Plasma has been working pretty flawlessly with an nvidia card for me.

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  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wrangling my Nvidia drivers into Mint also took a couple hours for me but I haven’t had problems afterward

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s weird. It worked for me just fine. I have GTX 1060 3GB.

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• metaldream@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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  Drivers on Debian stable are also heavily outdated

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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    Drivers being outdated is not a big deal, unless you use recent hardware, then it might make sense to make a jump to current testing release (trixie), or just stay on testing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.

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    • metaldream@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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