I used nvidia with vrr on linux for a while before getting sick of the paper cut issues. I used gnome fedora which has pretty good support for nvidia wayland, and then whenever I wanted to game I logged out and into x11 with a single monitor config, as that would allow vrr to activate. it was janky but it worked and worked well. If you are stuck with Nvidia for the foreseeable future it is the only way if you are dedicated to the linux route.
Just try it with my brother. He plays a LOT of EAC-protected titles and somehow loves Wilndows 11. I tried convincing him to the penguin distros, but he’s very anti-penguin as in anti-Linux. At least I told him how to speed up Windows and he agreed, so I ran a debloat tool from CTT. But at least I convinced my grandma to switch to Linux Mint.
All the software developers will say “there’s GIMP” and then anyone who’s actually used GIMP will laugh in their face, amd now you see why so much of the open source community is such shit.
I’ve used all of these distros and I always come back to pop. I will say though Nobara is an excellent project. I’m just not a huge fan of dnf as it’s notoriously slow compared to other package managers.
I don’t get it, which work? On debian I run apt install nvidia-driver and everything works flawlessly. What do the pop_os driver do better? A GUI for that?
Canonical isn’t exactly clean from controversy, and Ubuntu is a rather opinionated distribution. I appreciate how RedHat contributes upstream as much as possible, and how vanilla Fedora is. In my opinion, that makes for a better user experience.
It’s in the Snap Store as a release candidate. But sure if it will let you install it but Canonical seems to have it and be in the verification stage before releasing to stable.
I’m on it now on arch. TBH it’s kinda making my life harder because some things I’m used to using have moved. I’m sure I’ll see the advantages of it at some point.
The AUR is a great option. I’d argue that it can often be a better experience than upstream deb packages, because there is more oversight to how it is packaged.
For example, lots of vendors will give you a binary “installer,” which kinda does whatever it wants to your system. Packages in the AUR often abstract this to simply a package with raw files.
Additionally, there may be problems with a deb, even on Debian. Instead of restoring to hacks, the AUR build scripts often include patches and fixes to get things to work, and it’s built right into the package.
I’m not saying that Arch and the AUR is always better, but the level of control you have over what you’re installing, and the visibility and quick feedback loop you get while fixing things is invaluable, in my opinion.
When it comes to Debian, you might find yourself getting more up-to-date software with the backports repo, particularly when it comes to the kernel. It’s not a large selection of packages, but there’s some useful stuff in there.
You can also use apt pinning, but that requires maintenance and makes it fairly easy to break everything.
Good idea might be to keep Timeshift on a decent schedule and if you mess something up, run through an older snapshot.
Alternatively, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is a good rolling release that has full integration with btrfs, so mess up an update and just boot into an old snapshot. Can also choose any DE (that’s in their repos, at least) on installation. It doesn’t require much maintenance at all. Very unlikely to break regardless.
You should look into distros that do this specifically, they are called kiosks. There might be a way to configure your distro of choice to be a kiosk, it is definitely a solved problem.
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