An alias file is what I’ve found to be the simplest. Just have to add one line to either .zshrc or .bashrc that links to the file. I store the alias file and some custom scripts that a few aliases call in a git repo so it’s literally just a matter of git pull, add one line to the rc file and then close and reopen the terminal and everything is ready to go.
ag to be honest I’m so frustrated by having to remember what package manager was used for installing which binary. I don’t have time for this horse shit
For Nvidia, your best bet is Pop_OS, as it has the Nvidia drivers prepackaged. I wouldn’t mess with arch for gaming especially if you’re new to Linux - you’d need to do a lot of tweaking to get it right.
If you go arch go something like endeavor, vanilla arch is a bit much coming from windows - you have to set basically everything up yourself. People will tell you Nvidia is a bit shit sometimes on Linux and they’re right but my 3090 is fine for the most part, even on Wayland.
Just waiting for my AMD gpu to get here and I’m making the switch on desktop. Been running linux on my laptop for a year already. Few minor issues here or there, but for the most part been super reliable.
Any popular distro will work equally good. The downside is that you have a NVIDIA gpu and it doesn’t work with Wayland. Nvidia said they’ll release Wayland support before end of the current year but let’s see.
For the best Nvidia support out of the box you’d probably try Pop_OS! first. But you can just format your biggest usb stick with Ventoy2Disk and just drag and drop any file into it and test the distro in live mode before installing anything until you’ve found your favorite distro. At this point you choose the one which satisfies your eyes most.
There’s also Nobara Linux, which is created and maintained by the Linux gaming legend GloriousEggroll, but it is unclear to me does it provide any benefit over other distros.
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