• jimerson@lemmy.world
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      Unless you’re using NVIDIA. Didn’t work out of the box for me and required a couple hours of fiddling. Mint worked seamlessly.

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        PopOS (scroll down to the “Pop_OS with Nvidia” link).

        It is tailored for Nvidia cards, is Debian(Ubuntu) based, & super friendly for new users.

        EDIT: Here’s a link to the 24.04 release that provides only the Cosmic desktop environment (no X11, no gnome or kde). This is what I use, but it’s in alpha so user beware.

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        Manjaro with KDE Plasma has been working pretty flawlessly with an nvidia card for me.

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        Wrangling my Nvidia drivers into Mint also took a couple hours for me but I haven’t had problems afterward

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      Debian is not a good choice for beginners. It’s extremely bare bones compared to Ubuntu or Mint.

      Drivers on Debian stable are also heavily outdated

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        Drivers being outdated is not a big deal, unless you use recent hardware, then it might make sense to make a jump to current testing release (trixie), or just stay on testing indefinitely.

        Also it being “barebones” is a good thing in my eyes, since I can configure it how I want.

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          It’s definitely a good thing if you’re interested and knowledgeable enough to build what you want. I was just arguing it’s not the best choice for a casual user because a lot things they’ll want won’t work out of the box.

          Even updating to the next stable Debian version requires editing system files and running the command line.

          Drivers can matter quite a bit if for example you’re on an Nvidia card and the Debian drivers are 2 years old. It happened to me and caused dlss to not work in some games. And with Nvidia you can’t just move to testing, you need to backport the driversc and that’s quite involved.

          I run a Debian server and it’s amazing for that.

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            I definitely agree with most of the points but I don’t get what do you mean that you can’t move to testing, because that’s what I literally did recently by upgrading from bookworm to trixie with no issues whatsoever and I have Nvidia card, although older one (GTX 1060 3GB).

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              When I tried it, testing was on the same version of Nvidia drivers as stable so it didn’t solve my problem. It was possible to manually backport them, but it wasn’t straightforward to do.