Linux is still for nerds but I hate windows 11 more than I hate being uncool so I’m just going to have to step down my rizz and learn more computer stuff.

  1. My 3 concerns are, in order, gaming (mostly through steam or fitgirl), playing TTRPGs through Foundry Virtual Tabletop and Discord, and image editing (but really simple image editing. more paint.net than GIMP). What distro would be best for this? What are the actual differences in distros beyond appearances? Is it worth installing the Steam OS, or is that still really only useable with handhelds?

  2. Can I just shove all the data I want to save on an external drive, install my chosen distro, and transfer stuff back on? Will the external drive need to be formatted in a specific way first? can I just slot stuff like program settings back in the new system or will I have to convert them to a different file format?

  3. Do I have to buy the thigh highs or do they just appear? Will it still work if I don’t wear them? I don’t like wearing socks so I’d prefer a distro without them if possible.

If it helps I’m running a Ryzen 5 2600 and RX 7600, and my favourite colour is purple.

Edit: Thanks for the answers everyone, I’m going to do a bit more reading on distros before choosing one, but I have a better idea what I’m looking at now.

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Have fun with repacks!

    There are a few guides and many many people saying “it is easy, I’ve never had any problems” but all I have had is problems. Hopefully you’ll have better luck than I do but getting repacks to work is an utter shit show IMO to the point where I now have my Windows laptop that is kept to run my DJing software is now also my repacks laptop because like fuck I’m going to start paying for games.

    Conversely everything I have downloaded and run via steam has worked perfectly.

    I’m using Pop OS.

    • LeZero [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Repacks are a coin flip usually (although dodi repacks never failed me on fedora, but FitGirl and kaos are usually unpredictable)

      • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        I usually stick to dodi where I can but have tried fitgirl too with equal amounts bad luck.

        I’m not very experienced with Linux anyway so I’m hoping in time I can figure out what is going wrong. The last issue I had was trying to launch and the game saying it didn’t have the correct c++ redistributable. I installed them in a few different manners but nothing seemed to work. I’m sure I’m missing something and in time I’ll figure it out though.