If you're a longtime #Windows user who might want to give #Linux a try but you don't know where to begin and are worried it will all be too overwhelming for you, then I suggest #Fedora #Onyx. You'll get a very similar desktop experience via #Budgie with a very low maintenance Linux experience under the hood. And yes, you can game with it 😎.
@vwbusguy hrmmmmm I do detest windows but.....Linux!?!?!
@heurism I initially didn't switch to #Linux because I wanted to run Linux. I initially tried it out because #Windows finally annoyed me too much. I remember the first thing I did in Linux was created folders for "My Computer" and "My Documents" just so I had some kind of familiarity. People coming from Windows today will have a much more familiar experience with #Budgie.
The thing I'm most concerned about is gaming, drivers, etc.
@heurism @SoftwareTheron Did I mention that #Fedora #Onyx is a good choice for gaming? ;-)
I'm about to go play some Steam games on my #Fedora laptop right now. 😎
@vwbusguy @heurism @SoftwareTheron
How hard is it to install old NVIDIA drivers on an immutable OS?
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Whic immutable OS we even talking about. Closest I can think of outside of livecd based distros is nixos... but ive never heard it called that.
@voidabyss @freemo @heurism @SoftwareTheron In Onxy, when you enable 3rd party software (it asks on your first post-install boot), it enables the RPMFusion nVidia driver repo. In other words, very easy.
@vwbusguy @heurism @SoftwareTheron
Hey Scott, are you familiar with **vtoyboot**? I use it to boot linux distro I installed on a virtual disk (vdi,vhd,etc) so I have native hardware performance when booting the disto vdi disk using ventoy.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_vtoyboot.html
In order to do that, I have to run vtoyboot script on that disto, I don't know exactly what that script do, I am not that knowledgeable on #linux (hopefully nothing nefarious).
I would like to know if fedora #atomic desktops are compatible with that vtoyboot script.
Thank you!
@voidabyss @heurism @SoftwareTheron I have to ask why you don't just install Fedora directly on the USB stick in that case?
@vwbusguy @heurism @SoftwareTheron
I tried that way, it's just usb stick i/o is too slow, there is nothing like running linux desktop on native hardware especially SSD/NVMe hard drive for i/o, a lot of ram and integrated graphics for video games.
Installing a distro on virtual disk gives me a lot of flexibility moving the VHD between hosts and having the option to run the disto as a virtual machine.
@vwbusguy @heurism @SoftwareTheron
vtoyboot script doesn't seem to works out of the box with fedora Kinoit and even messed up the grub2 a bit now I can't boot in EFI. Is there a away to overlay the script modifications on top of fedora Kinoit?
https://pastebin.com/hheUm8Jv
@freemo
The one mentioned by OP fedoraproject.org/onyx/
Btw, there are so many immutable Linux Distros its crazy. Fedora has four flavors, Ubuntu has one, OpenSUSE has one too. Popular one is https://vanillaos.org/
Even the Steam Deck OS is immutable.
I like tweaking my Linux setup and I have old NVIDIA discrete card, so I don't want to fight my OS to install a driver or to make changes. But I never had the experience working on Immutable Linux OS so I can't judge yet.
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