What distro to choose in parallel to steamos
What distro to choose in parallel to steamos
Hello community!
I come to you for advice. Using an m1 macbook air since 2020, I installed popos on my old 2013 macbook pro and I was quite happy with it but... I bought a steamdeck two weeks ago and exploring its desktop mode made me reconsider some choices. Using distros based on different systems, with different commands, desktop environment, etc. gets a little confusing for someone like me, who doesn't use linux as my main machine. Do you have any advice for me? From what I understand, steamos is debian-based while popos is ubuntu-based: is that the biggest part of how a distribution works, ie commands, etc.? Good ui/ux is important for me so i should maybe use nitrux or deepin, that are debian-based, or is it a bad idea to choose a less common distro for a amateur like me?
Thanks in advance, I'm a bit lost.
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Since you're a gamer and like PopOS, I think you'd really enjoy Garuda Linux.
Looks like you need to switch one driver to get full retina graphics going, but here's how to do that: https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/macbook-pro-10-1-mid-2012-retina-garuda-works-but-one-more/23751/8
Check out Garuda here - I'm betting you'd like the Dragonized Gaming Edition: https://garudalinux.org/downloads.html
Install video here (don't worry about the German language stuff, your installer would be in English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYsL5J5vVC4
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The comment about the driver to support retina screens is appreciated, that's the kind of thing that could make me go around in circle for too long. I'll check it out thanks!
Install the OS first and see if it even affects you. That was one year ago, so it may not even be an issue now.