So, oddly enough, I'm not a complete novice. My background is mostly just lubuntu, puppy, mint and a bit of debian. I've shifted away from Ubuntu after the pro service ads in terminal, and the absolute fucking nightmare that is snap.

I've done my time in "oh shit I fucked up Linux again" purgatory, and it's my daily driver for work. Terminal is a place I'm generally ok with; I know enough to find my way around and fix things as needed.

My issue is I've never really run dedicated graphics from a Linux distro, and because of the continual updates and proprietary elements I worry about keeping up. I don't mind breaking things, it comes with the territory.

That said, bazzite sounds interesting - especially the optimisation. The guides on the main page also alerted me to something I'd not considered - going to have to redo my filesystem on every drive. Thanks for the idea of an alt distro, will dig into this a bit more - if it's built in fedora I might have a bit of a learning curve (never used it as a distro).

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Again, infinite free troubleshooting if you run into any issues, feel free to message me! I've given a bunch of people bazzite at this point, and can run you through just about anything.

Make sure not to accidentally choose "steam gaming mode", on the download since that'll turn it into basically a steam-deck interface.