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.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 天前
    1. Yes, any general purpose distro is fine (I say Tumbleweed OpenSUSE, but Mint, Fedora, etc are good too - don’t overthink the choice).
    2. Anything will work.
    3. Only necessary when you are fixing an old Twinkpad, but it never hurts to be sexy.

    But mostly I wanted to add that for a very limited sense of overall experience - more to the point of getting your confidence up & wrap your mind around how ez installing a new modern OS is - you can just live-boot a distro from a USB drive >!(or literally from whether, bcs Linux things)!<. So in a sense “install” it on an external drive (a few GBs & a few clicks in Windows is all it takes) & you can give it a try, even access your Windows drive as is (to triple-check & make sure that paint.exe hentai is still accessible).

    An extension of that idea, depending on your situation & mindset, is to buy a new (now main) drive for Linux & leave the Windows one as is for as long as you need your imaginary Windows safety (you can use it as a normal extra drive even before you format it/delete Windows, you can even point Steam to it & don’t even have to reinstall the games, tho there are reasons to not do that, but you’ll quickly learn a lot too … also the extra drive space is nice to have + a bit of quick fallback if the OS drive stops working, you don’t even need to go buy a new one).