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?

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
    2·
    22 hours ago

    It’s worth it to note for people switching that your network printer is unlikely to have usable scanning functionality with flatpak scanners you install (unless something has changed in the last 6 months since I tried last)

    • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
      1·
      15 hours ago

      This is very ymmv when it comes to Linux and proprietary hardware, not a bazzite only issue. For what it’s worth my brother printer / scanner works fine on bazzite.

      • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Is your printer network attached and scanning via flatpak packages?

        Network printing works fine, USB printing and scanning works also, it is just anything having to use saned that flatpaks can’t seem to use

        I have hopped through multiple distros and I have never once had scanning not work on a “normal” one after correctly setting up saned. Only bazzite because of the flatpak/system split (also why any embedded programming needs distrobox)