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I looked at Mint since I use it on my desktop, but it has an out of date kernel (I heard that you need 5.8 or above to game with Nvidia, once again fuck them.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)

  • frippa@lemmy.mlOP
    7·
    10 months ago

    I was about to pull the trigger on nobara for my desktop, I will certainly try it on live USB after reimbursing my windows license (God bless the best 9/11, 9/11 2014,the day from which we can ask for reimbursement for windows keys) I’m used to APT but I think the switch won’t be hard, thanks a lot!

    • roguestew@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      Pop_OS has NVIDIA support out of the box. I know it comes with gnome, but it’s fairly simple to install another DE. That’s the route I ended up going, as an apt fan

      • frippa@lemmy.mlOP
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’ll try Pop too, I’ve actually tried that on liveUSB on a desktop (not the best thing I know, it’s a laptop distro) and I think their modified gnome isn’t that bad, I think I might get used to it. The fact they use APT is a huge plus IMO, I’m used to it.