I’m installing a second disk in my desktop, and I’m going to install Linux.

I’ve had dual boot on all my machines since forever. As in decades. I’m an old hand. Perfectly happy in a terminal.

I have Mint in (on?) my laptop because lazy.

I’m asking about QOL. The only “Gaming” I do are flight Sims, and although I haven’t tried, I believe X-plane is Linux native. However, I do use some apps which are not Linux native, so I’d need some form of wine or performant VMs.

The PC is a Ryzen 9+64Gb, so it should handle a lot of things quite well.

I’ve been playing with both in VMs, but I can’t get a feel for what my virtualization and wine use would be.

BTW, I might do an install of both, maybe side to side, without commitment to either, and then decide. It’s going to be a blank slate install anyway.

From my trials, both seem comfortable enough.

I’ve heard good things about both.

Opinions?

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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    2 days ago

    I don’t know if you’ve read about atomic distros yet, so here’s a link to that. Personally I’d pick OpenSUSE over Bazzite because I don’t like the idea of updates possibly overwriting anything I install myself that isn’t flatpak/distrobox/homebrew, but that’s not a dealbreaker for many, it’s just a different way of installing software that ensures the operating system doesn’t get packages installed that can make it unstable.
    I wouldn’t be too worried using OpenSUSE in particular as it has excellent snapper integration that makes it very easy to roll back any changes made to the system that might cause said instability or inability to even boot to desktop (especially with grub-btrfs set up).

    • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.comEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      I’d pick OpenSUSE over Bazzite because I don’t like the idea of updates possibly overwriting anything I install myself that isn’t flatpak/distrobox/homebrew

      In atomic distributions you would install non-sandboxed programs in a layer that is applied on top of the base system. When your system is updated, that layer is applied back on top of the updated system. The only possible breakage would be if what you installed depends on a dependency in the base system that has been removed or which is no longer compatible.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzOP
      3·
      2 days ago

      From what I see, Snapper is similar, at least in concept, to Timeshift in Mint, which has saved my ass a couple times.

      • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
        4·
        2 days ago

        What @[email protected] said, anytime you add or remove or update your system snapper does a little snapshot which makes it incredible easy to boot back into a system that works. BTRFS makes it so easy, as compared to EXT4. And yeah Timeshift is still just as valid I guess but unless you make timeshift backups every times you install or remove something, it’s hard to compare the two.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 days ago

        Similar benefit. Snapper and BTRFS on OpenSUSE means anytime you make a change to the system (add or remove packages, alter boot stuff, services etc, all through GUI tools) the system is snapshotting the changes and addingvit to the grub menu as another boot choice.

        OoenSUSE is highly stable but should something go wrong by your own meddling you can be back to working just by a reboot. If the system is as you want after the boot to an older snapshot you issue sudo snapper rollback, that tells Tue system to keep that branch as your default