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?

  • yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I use Bazzite with multiple monitors. Can you clarify what you mean when you say another distro might meet OP’s needs better if they have more than one monitor?

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      2 days ago

      I figured it’s possible. I didn’t think there is an easy way, at least that I could tell, to switch the out of the box configuration to use more than one. At least from the gamescope UI it boots into.

      I thought it might be a limitation of that compositor.

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        2 days ago

        Oh, are you talking about the special big picture mode or whatever it’s called? B/c I use the full desktop experience.