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?
I suggest Mint, don’t know if you’ve tried it but it seems like the best choice.
Bazzite is a gaming focussed distro and if you don’t really game you don’t need it. I tried using OpenSUSE and it’s really apparent that they’re focused more on system administrators than desktop users (and system administrators are the only ones they monetize).
In all seriousness, do you actually have any problems with Mint? Can’t really answer if we don’t know what you’re dissatisfied with in your current setup. I myself tried OpenSUSE because I wanted to give KDE a shot.
I’ve used mint for ages. Most flavors, and tried most DEs. I use Mint in my laptop currently.
It’s like jeans. You can wear them for ages, for most every situations, but at some point you may decide to give chinos a try. Also comfortable, versatile, but different.