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Please help with distro decision (lemmy.world)
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I have an older i7 circa 2009, 16 gigs ram, and a gtx1060 with an ssd for os. I'm thinking either Pop!_Os or Nobara? Idea's, what do yall think?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nobara has been an absolute pleasure and “works out of the box” experience. Mainly due to having things preinstalled or prompting for installation of gaming dependencies and software up front.

My “get into Linux gaming” distro was Pop. Solid distro tho and having isos depending on your hardware is super helpful and cuts down on a lot of issues you may encounter with other distros. You can’t go wrong either way. If you are looking for a “do it for me/minimal tinkering and installing” go for Nobara. If you are looking to “possibly tinker/install a bit more up front” go for Pop.

Edit: Forgot to mention my specs are somewhat the same as your. i5 with 16gbs of RAM, 1080ti and 1tb ssd. Both Pop and Nobara run smoothly with heavy games like Cyberpunk as an example.