My plan is to buy an NVMe today, install linux as a dual boot, but use linux as a daily driver, to see if it meets my needs before committing to it.

My main needs are gaming, local AI (stable diffusion and oobabooga), and browser stuff.

I have experience with Mint (recently) and Ubuntu (long ago). Any problems with my plan? Will my OS choice meet my needs?

Thanks!

  • @themoonisacheeseEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    I use debian for gaming and light LLM workloads and it’s been serving me quite well. Really like KDE.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Are you using Bookworm? I had trouble getting sddm on it to use system resolution. Normally I would ignore that but I only installed it on a VM so I could record an intro for my stream of Debian booting into the gaming.

      I haven’t updated my machine yet because I have no experience with wayland or pipewire and Nvidia with gaming. I was also interested if it’s pretty decent with games and nvidia yet.

      • @themoonisacheeseEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I am. SDDM should work properly out of the box, maybe it’s a wierd issue with virtualization?

        Wayland is pretty much plug and play if you install xwayland (with the exception of OBS studio which used to be wierd about Wayland surfaces, I think that’s fixed now). Pipe wire has been working fine for me.

        I use AMD though, so ymmv with Nvidia.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          Yes, I thought it might be a weird sddm bug so I installed gdm and configured that too with the same result. Next option is to try a different distribution.