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.
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.)
Its important when manually installing the Nvidia drivers to remember to blacklist the Open source nouveau driver.
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.