I am in the process of building my own PC. Nothing fancy, just something that is much more powerful than the old PC I currently have. I’ve been using Linux on my laptop for a few years now (KDE Neon), and I’m very happy with it, I would like to put Linux on my next PC, but I have my doubts…

I don’t know if I should stay with the distro I already use or if there is one that better suits my needs.

On the one hand, I’m a graphic designer but I’ve been using only FOSS for many years, I only use Adobe in the office (reluctantly). On the other hand, I have seen that thanks to Steam with Proton gaming on linux is getting better and better. What I don’t know is if SteamOS can be good not only for gaming.

I would like to know if there is a distro that works well both for gaming and designing using FOSS (like Krita, Inkscape, KDEnlive, etc) or if it’s ok to stick with KDE Neon.

      • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 days ago

        Stable Distros such as debian hold updates longer for testing, for example the newest Nvidia driver in the Bookworm Stable repo is 530(535 maybe?) wheras rolling release or bleeding edge distros might have up to 570 already.

        You’re always able to manually install any software not available in your distribution’s repositories, but beware, in some cases here be dragons. Most of the time these manual installations are trivial, but in the case of Nvidia drivets for example, its VERY important you properly prepare your system, lest you end up in a state without graphics. This is of course, easily repairable, but a pain in the bum and something that can scare away new users.

        • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          23 hours ago

          I just installed Nobara 42 like a week and a half ago and it came with 570.153.02, and it works great.

          I had a Pop install about 6-8 months ago that sooorta worked but I think it had the 535 drivers and whenever I tried to update it to the then-current version it would hard-lock my system and reboot with the default video driver no matter which version I used (except 555-server for whatever reason, which still didn’t fix my games.)

            • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              22 hours ago

              Huh, I never knew that. I’ll have to remember that if I ever have to manually update this one, but so far nobara has been pretty good about finding and pushing updates.