Heyo comrades, I just bought a laptop with an Nvidia RTX 3060 (don’t call me a capitalist, Italy discounts VAT on tech stuff if you’re disabled) and was looking for a noob-friendly distro with a good Nvidia support (fuck those proprietary pigs)

I looked at Mint since I use it on my desktop, but it has an out of date kernel (I heard that you need 5.8 or above to game with Nvidia, once again fuck them. Never had an issue with my trusty rx580) would just updating the kernel be an option or should I be looking for a different distro?

My only 2 requirements are that:

It’s noob friendly (something Debian-based maybe, with a .deb and APT based package management)

And that doesn’t use a gnome DE, maybe something more like cinnamon, KDE of XFCE would be nice.

Thanks.

(sorry for long post, had to insult Nvidia)

  • ghostOfRoux();English
    4·
    10 months ago

    For what it’s worth, you can update the kernel in Mint pretty easily. I did it about a year ago to add support for my new WiFi card.

    • albigu
      2·
      10 months ago

      To add to that, if the only red line is GNOME, you can also install something you’re already comfortable such as the latest Ubuntu, then install a different DE. Lightdm is very versatile and allows basically any other DE.