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New PC incoming, should i stick to Mint? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I am pretty new to Linux (a bit over a year) but to be fair, I haven't really messed with it. Once set up, everything works, so I never really use the terminal. to me, it is just an OS, and i don't mess under the hood with it.

I use Mint (Cinnamon) and I am pretty happy with it. My thoughts now are, with a new PC comming, if I should stick to Mint, or install an other distribution?

I use it mainly as a home desktop, but also do some image editing, video editing, learning CAD at the moment and of course a bit of gaming (through Steam)

Any advice is welcomed

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[–] stuner@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I think those should be fine with Mint 22. You'll just need to use the graphics-driver-ppa to get an up-to-date Nvidia driver.

So, it's basically up to you if you want to play around with another distro or not. But tbh it sounds like Mint is a good fit for you.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

What is graphics driver ppa?

[–] stuner@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's an unofficial repository (PPA) for Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu and Mint: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

If you add "ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa" in "Software Sources", you'll be able to install newer driver versions in the "Driver Manager". For a 50-series GPU, you'll want at least version 570 IIRC.

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