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What Linux distro do you use and why?
submitted 3 years ago * by burnt_match from self.Linux
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[–]Tums_is_Smut_bkwrds 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun - 3 years ago (3 children)
My current goto desktop distro is Manjaro. Ubuntu LTS for servers.
A couple years ago I wanted to give gaming on Linux a try and of the distros I tried I had the most success with Manjaro. But I also quickly realized that Manjaro was smoother and worked better generally, at least on my hardware. A couple years is a long time and I should probably try out other distros again to see where they're at, but so far I haven't had any reason to switch. Though I felt that way about Mint, until I tried Manjaro.
After struggling unsuccessfully to get any distro to run well on the Atom based laptop that I take on the road I got a Pinebook Pro and it too is running Manjaro. It's a bit heavy though so I recently got a PineTab even though it's still in early access. The OS it ships with -- Ubuntu -- is barely functional so I put something called Mobian -- a mobile version of Debian -- on it and so far I'm pretty pleased. A few things are not fully supported yet but it's working well enough to travel with.
[–]burnt_match[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
Did you try mGAMe(manjaro gaming spin). It's made for gaming with emulators, wine, installed out of the box.
[–]Tums_is_Smut_bkwrds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
Never heard of it, good to know. Really I was mostly curious to see how well gaming on Linux worked and though I was pleased with the results mostly I still kept a Win7 box for playing games. And then when we got a VR rig there was no choice but to upgrade to Win10, as loath as I was to.
But like many of us I've got nothing but time on my hands right now so maybe I'll give mGAMe a look. A couple years ago running current AAA titles was still a challenge -- older games generally ran great, better even than under Windows in some cases -- but if that's changed then that would be good to know. Anyhow, cheers!
[–]burnt_match[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
According to the sourceforge project page mGAMe was last updated in 2019.
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[–]Tums_is_Smut_bkwrds 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun - (3 children)
[–]burnt_match[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - (2 children)
[–]Tums_is_Smut_bkwrds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - (1 child)
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