Heyo comrades, I just bought a laptop with an Nvidia RTX 3060 (don’t call me a capitalist, Italy discounts VAT on tech stuff if you’re disabled) and was looking for a noob-friendly distro with a good Nvidia support (fuck those proprietary pigs)

I looked at Mint since I use it on my desktop, but it has an out of date kernel (I heard that you need 5.8 or above to game with Nvidia, once again fuck them. Never had an issue with my trusty rx580) would just updating the kernel be an option or should I be looking for a different distro?

My only 2 requirements are that:

It’s noob friendly (something Debian-based maybe, with a .deb and APT based package management)

And that doesn’t use a gnome DE, maybe something more like cinnamon, KDE of XFCE would be nice.

Thanks.

(sorry for long post, had to insult Nvidia)

  • pigginz@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Glad you’ve had a good experience with it! My experience was also “it just works” up until April or so too. YMMV. I’m hopeful that it’ll get there again, just been a rough few months especially for AMD CPUs and GPUs. Kernel 6.5 should at least put the AMD fTPM issues that have plagued us since 6.2 or so to rest finally.