I’ve got an old win10 laptop. It’s nothing fancy in 2025, but I use it now and then while traveling, just to have a proper computer on hand. It’s time to move it over to Linux, and I have A LITTLE Linux experience. I work in software dev, so I know my way around CLI, but I don’t have much firsthard experience, other than occasionally using Kali for offsec tools. What are the distros I should be considering for a personal gaming laptop for occasional use for both gaming and occasional general use? Why?

  • RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    101·
    22 hours ago

    If you want to focus on gaming go for bazzite.with kde. If not go for fedora kde.

    Both are close enough of W10 and will offer a good starting point.

    If you want to learn linux try arch but I would advocate it as a daily driver unless you know what you are doing.

    • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      21 hours ago

      Agreed. While I would say Mint for older computer reasons, the entire debian line (includes Ubuntu) is too “vintage” to be of use for gamers, mainly because gaming support in kernel, drivers, wine/proton, and the big Wayland switch is happening at warp speed, where debian is designed to be a stable and reliable dinosaur that works for servers and business desktops, and isn’t RedHat Enterprise.