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I'm wanting to switch my gaming PC to mint from Windows. I'm new to Linux, that's why I'm going with mint. What GPU should I buy for my use? (RTX is not important to me. I just need it to play my games well)
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If you already have one, just try that, see if it works.
You'll probably be fine with anything, NVidia's gotten to work well over the last year or two. If you want to be safe any AMD card should work well.
I'd just buy the best used AMD card in your budget.
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I had a ton of trouble getting my R9 390 working on Linux, so ymmv
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I think that card fell right in the gap when the switch from the older Radeon driver to amdgpu happened (or sth. across those lines, I sometimes see that exact architecture needing some love to run nicely). Didn't had any issues with anything from RX 550 upwards ever since amdgpu became the default.
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Ah, that would make sense. Too bad I had to upgrade to Nvidia since I do 3D modeling.
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What does 3D modeling have to do with that?
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CUDA cores
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I have a RTX 3050 mobile with Intel cpu laptop. So far... Everything works fine on fedora and arch. I haven't installed Debian based on it however
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I know mint is often said to be the friendly new distro.
I've heard good things about Bazzite. Like really good things.I'm currently running Endeavour OS. As soon as I get a chance, I'm planning on checking out Bazzite.
If you are going in fresh, I think Bazzite is something to try for a week or so.
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I can vouch for Bazzite and always will as long as they keep up the solid work. Running on a laptop (gnome variant for easier fingerprint login) and desktop (KDE, cuz I just prefer KDE day to day). It just works™️.
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Thanks. I'll go check it out.
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Honestly they both suck in different ways, which also means that unless you're quite unlucky, they both mostly work fine.
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RX 9070 when it comes out, Mint is good but there are so many good options. I suggest using cachyos and trying out all the DEs so you pick something you like. Although you don't have to stick with CachyOS if you don't want to.
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What does DEs stand for? I'm very new to Linux.
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A mistake people make very often is to conflate the distro with a "look" or "theme" to the UI, and it's not their fault.
Distros bundle a desktop environment which contains many applications used to navigate the computer graphically with things like "file managers" such as Windows explorer for example.
A DE can bundle lots of programs or very few and these programs differ in looks and functionality, not only that but these programs can be installed / uninstalled regardless of what distro you're using.
In short: distro doesn't affect DE but must distros bundle a DE based on things like philosophy, functionality or maybe just looks.
There are many DEs which is why I suggested installing CachyOS as part of the installation shows you options, you can try them out rewipe the drive, try out another one in less than 3 minutes. So it's the perfect sandbox environment to try new things. I guess you can use VMs as well, not sure how well cachyos works on VM.
As a personal note on DEs when I first used Linux about 5 years ago I used KDE plasma because I thought it was the most windows-like. But I had many issues with KDE, chances are if you use your search engine you'll see similar complaints about it which I likely share.
5 years in the future my favourite DE is basically using Sway and a file manager like Nautilus. Sway has Swaybar as a status bar and that's really all I need.
Not sure if Sway counts as a DE though, I think it's a window manager first and foremost.
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Thank you. Looks like I have some homework to do. I'm getting excited, I've been reading a bunch about Linux and there are sooo many options. I'm barely started and already loving Linux.
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My piece of advice if you have 2 drives, and this goes for any OS not just Linux.
- drive for your OS
- drive purely for storage. never store anything in the 1 drive except for user installed programs or updates.
that way you can wipe the first drive whenever you run into anything or you want to change anything without being worried about losing data
make sure your browser is using a password manager so stored passwords don't vanish
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I swapped my gaming PC from Windows to PopOS a few months ago and it's been a seamless experience with driver installation with an Nvidia GPU / AMD CPU
Installed and played Civ 7 perfectly yesterday.
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