I am pretty new to Linux (a bit over a year) but to be fair, I haven’t really messed with it. Once set up, everything works, so I never really use the terminal. to me, it is just an OS, and i don’t mess under the hood with it.

I use Mint (Cinnamon) and I am pretty happy with it. My thoughts now are, with a new PC comming, if I should stick to Mint, or install an other distribution?

I use it mainly as a home desktop, but also do some image editing, video editing, learning CAD at the moment and of course a bit of gaming (through Steam)

Any advice is welcomed

  • InvertedParallax@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    So, I kind of would say no?

    Don’t get me wrong, mint can handle anything.

    But now is not a bad time to experiment a bit, maybe try kubuntu, it’s got good support for gaming, while keeping the base Ubuntu safety, plus KDE is incredible compared to gnome.

    The best part of kubuntu, if it doesn’t work out you can apt install Ubuntu-desktop and you’re right back to safety.

    All the gaming stuff is well tested and the drivers work too.

    Only downside: snap, but you can generally get around it, and it’s not as bad anymore.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Every distro has essentially the same support for gaming, assuming the same kernel and whatnot. Mint is based on Ubuntu (unless it’s the Debian edition), so it’ll have the same kernel.