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  • That’s quite the glowing recommendation for nixOS!

    Definitely a learning curve to installation, but I like the idea of config once/cry once, then in the future you’d never have to do it again. I’m just wondering how true that is in practice? Like, I configure it once, but over the course of a few years I install a bunch of stuff. Do I have to keep my config file manually up to date? Or once I’m up and running does this happen automatically?

    I’m not opposed to a fair amount of cli legwork to things up and running, if the payoff is as good as you say.

    I’m definitely curious about this distro, thanks!


  • To streamline my request for help, I omitted some details, and combined some of my experiences.

    My desktop has a 3060ti in it, but I haven’t actually run Linux on that lately, besides some live environments.

    Most of my testing has been on a few year old thinkcenter with integrated graphics, Intel CPU. That’s where I was having problems with jittering and mouse capture. Actually that’s still installed, but it’s doing server things so I’m disinclined to mess with it at the moment.

    I have an older PC, again with integrated graphics, that I’ve installed Mint on and have been playing with it.

    Ultimately I plan to more or less replace my desktop with a new framework 13 I’ve got in the mail. That has an AMD iGPU.

    I kind of disregarded the idea of DE swapping, because I did it in the past and screwed stuff up. Maybe it’s easier these days?

    Thanks for the /home suggestion!













  • That’s really good to know thanks, I guess I need to do some more research into how exactly it works. I’m not informed on rpm-ostree yet. But I’ll take your word for it, and take it into consideration!

    Definitely leaning heavily towards bazzite right now.

    Of course I’m gonna do my due diligence and at least test out most of these distros. But look and feel only get you so far, so I appreciate the input of what’s under the hood!