Leah

Mine freezes the display output to one monitor after awhile. (Intermittent, my favorite.) This was probably 6-9months ago. Usually apps kept working behind frozen display. Just with reduced utility.

Monitors are identical make/model 2K 165hz

Toy commander was just pure joy back in the day.

I mean, fair. It also doesn’t have mint’s driver manger, which is a bummer.

Edit: it does have the driver manager! The hell with vanilla mint for sure then.

I’m an ubuntu hater / snap hater. I prefer my mint without junk in the trunk. I’ll confuse people though, I think systemd rocks. And let’s make more people mad, vim is a pointless flex and nano is better.

You’re not wrong. It’s a pick your poison sort of thing. I’m not in love with the burger menus either. KDE apps just feel bloated and fragile to me. (and have forever) I used to like Windows though, in a galaxy far, far away. So my opinion is probably whack.

I distro/DE/WM hopped a ton over the last year. I’ve wanted to love KDE/KDE apps for the last 20 years. Dolphin is fine, Nemo is just exactly what I want it to be. It also runs fairly well from the terminal over ssh and I can configure it fast since it doesn’t need a ton of tweaking. Dual pane and terminal plugin like was mentioned in another comment.

I threw the fedora 43 i3 spin on a box. So far so good. I haven’t rage quit back to cinnamon yet. Ended up chickening out and did i3 because I have Wayland nvidia multi monitor trauma. So I’ll ride X out a little longer.

It’s also developed by glorious egg roll, the GE in GE-proton. I wanted to love it but Wayland + multi monitor + KDE + Nividia = pain

No kidding…… interesting. It’s true that dolphin can do everything Nemo does, just poorly.

Mainline mint is a derivative of Ubuntu. Lmde is largely the same OS with a pure Debian heart without Ubuntu clogging the arteries

I could spin up a VM and check, I’m 99% sure you’re wrong. Also lmde includes almost the same preinstalled programs.

or…

apt install -y gparted

LMDE 7 and send it. Regular mint has Ubuntu nonsense baked in, lmde is basically the same end user experience and smooth Debian jazz underneath.

Like someone else said, steam, heroic.

I’d avoid any of the gamer distros.

Any advice? Or some good dot files / configs / guide you used?

Both are meh. I wanted to love KDE but it always lets me down. Cinnamon has been great, running a fedora spin with it now. Sway has been calling my name tho.

Gnome apps are better than KDE apps. GParted vs partition manager, for example. Dolphin sucks eggs next to Nemo too.

Just my incorrect opinions obviously. Use the stuff ya like.

EDIT: I’d avoid bazzite in general. They have great marketing and it works. But as an Immutable distro, aka read-only, it can give inexperienced users unique challenges to learning Linux. Caveats apply obviously and if you like it and it’s working for you that’s rad too. I’m a cranky bitch but I’m all about people enjoying their stuff to the max in their own way. And the more nerds using Linux the merrier.

I stick with X over Wayland but I’m an nvidia loser. I’m on fedora but would not recommend it to someone just starting out. Same with straight up Debian or arch. They’re all great if you know what you’re doing. But distros exist for a reason.

CachyOS/EndeavorOs. Rock on. I loved these and they’re my fallback if fedora or lmde makes me mad or I want need arch for some homelab thing. I’m weary of the AUR though, making arch kinda pointless for me.

But I stg if you complain about your second monitor again I’m taking your thunderbolt dock away.

Dabs up, good luck

Arch was fun for a while. I’m also a fedora enjoyer these days.

Thanks to both of you. And thanks for cat tax.

Got slammed for asking why for context. Ended up in the O room for “being too smart”

##### RPM Fusion & Terra  
sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm  
# https://github.com/terrapkg/packages  
sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck --repofrompath 'terra,https://repos.fyralabs.com/terra$releasever' terra-release  
sudo dnf group upgrade core  
sudo dnf4 group install core  

##### firmware  
sudo fwupdmgr refresh --force  
sudo fwupdmgr get-devices # Lists devices with available updates.  
sudo fwupdmgr get-updates # Fetches list of available updates.  
sudo fwupdmgr update  

##### appimage  
sudo dnf install -y fuse fuse-libs  
sudo flatpak install it.mijorus.gearlever  

##### graphics_drivers  
# https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA  
### nvidia  
sudo dnf install -y akmod-nvidia  
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda  
sudo dnf mark user akmod-nvidia  
sudo dnf mark user xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda  
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable vulkan  
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs  
modinfo -F version nvidia  
reboot  
lsmod | grep nouveau  
sudo lspci -vnn  
#look for your gpu, and see what module is in use.  Should be nvidia :)  

##### Media Codecs  
sudo dnf4 group install multimedia  
sudo dnf swap 'ffmpeg-free' 'ffmpeg' --allowerasing # Switch to full FFMPEG.  
sudo dnf upgrade @multimedia --setopt="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin # Installs gstreamer components. Required if you use Gnome Videos and other dependent applications.  
sudo dnf group install -y sound-and-video # Installs useful Sound and Video complementary packages.  

##### H/W Video Decoding with VA-API  
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable ffmpeg-libs libva libva-utils  

##### OpenH264 for Firefox  
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable openh264 gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 mozilla-openh264  
sudo dnf config-manager setopt fedora-cisco-openh264.enabled=1  
# After this enable the OpenH264 Plugin in Firefox's settings.  

##### gaming  
sudo dnf install -y steam lutris gamemode goverlay meson gcc pkgconf  
sudo flatpak install bottles Proton-GE protontricks Heroic ludusavi  

protonup-qt (flatpak)  
# get from https://flathub.org/apps/net.davidotek.pupgui2/install  
# would not install from cli from flathub for some reason :eyeroll: