Consider that with the latest hardware your processor is under 1% or 2% load running a bloat machine like windows even if you used the lightest weight distro without any desktop environment at all the maximum possible performance gain would be 1% or 2%.

Oh your right I wasn’t aware that box buddy is just a gui for distrobox. I thought it was a reskin of the boxes program built into fedora.

Although from my experience box buddy in bazzite doesn’t work super reliably.

OK so a lot of people are recommending bazzite. I have been using it for a while and I do not recommend it. Mainly due to the fact you more or less can’t install any program other than through the software centre unless you use a vm with the included “box buddy” program which for me has been very hit and miss for which programs work.

Go ahead and try bazzite for yourself but I would recommend either fedora or Linux mint both with the xfce desktop since a lightweight desktop seams to be what your looking for.

Mmm delicious.

I don’t recommend bazzite. I am using bazzite right now it is great for gaming. But it is a nightmare to install any software via the terminal often times you have to use a virtual environment and even that doesn’t work very well.

If your a little familiar with fedora then it is a very good distro still and it has a kde veriant. (take my advice with a grain of salt I am pretty new to linux as well)

From what i’ve heard if your not willing to use the nvidia proprietary drivers then DON’T go for nvidia you will get terrible performance and amd will always be significantly better.

If you consider the proprietary drivers then I think it depends on your use case. For example AMD is better value if your gaming without ray tracing if you want to play with ray tracing or do any kind of productivity Nvidia is generaly the better option. For machine learning Nvidia has much better compatibility with everything so you will have a better time and better performance, Although if you only care about running the largest models you can with the available vram then AMD gpu’s will have more vram for the price.

Intel arc is also always an option if you are aiming for a lower tire/mid range card. They have really price competitive cards and unlike amd they have very decent ray tracing and productivity capability’s. They also have lots more vram for the price compared to Nvidia.

Also I highly recommend buying a used graphics card, you help the environment, save a lot of money and if you don’t like the card you chose you can sell it for the same price your bought it and buy a different one.

Maybe if you could specify your use case and what cards you are currently looking at I could help you out more.

Oh that’s pretty cool! Basically a better version of tldr?

Wait I did this to my main drive everything went black is this suposed to happen? will it start working again?

No nothing worked for me I think it’s pretty much a lost cause I’ll sell my old 6700xt and I might get an arc a770 It’ll be a good upgrade from my 1660 and it will be fun to try something new. It also has the most vram of any gpu for the price which will be good for running ai models.

Thanks for the reply and I will definitely use some of the less advanced options for now.

Thanks, I guess I will go with x11 with a tiling window manager, I’ve had enough of windows being on top of each other and I like the idea of using my mouse the least amount possible. One last question most apps and packages don’t support pacman sometimes the only option is to install with apt and you download a .dev file is there a way to get around this?

Firefox is the default on Linux. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I thought rolling releases were still pretty stable to things really break that often?

Thats really cool thanks.

I just want to get a better understanding on linux and I think arch is the way to do it. I love computers and I want to know them well.

Legend

see this post for my experience with amd lol.

OP was specifically asking how to learn more about Linux. And it’s nearly unquestionable that OP is going to learn more about how Linux works if they use the lower-level tools rather than take-you-by-the-hand point-and-click-adventure programs your grandmother could probably figure out.

Yes I am op.

and thanks for the reply. So I guess I should just skip anything with a desktop environment like manjaro and just figure out how to install bare arch?

Like, to the parent directory of your home directory? cd … should always go to the parent directory of your current working directory. (/ is its own parent, I believe, so you can’t go any further up the chain than that.)

Yes cd .. was what I was looking for thanks!

duck duck it

I use searx. Ok but seriously very helpful I will look into that.

It’s sad to see Firefox continue to lose popularity I thought there might be some kind of comeback but no.