Instead of Debian, why not tinyCore?

For some of the last really stubborn pieces of software that kept me locked it to at least dual booting windows, I’ve found running them in bottles is working really well. Bottles has a community preset for Fruity loops Studio, but it wasn’t really working. Oh it would run, but with massive input and audio lag, most VSTs just wouldn’t work with FL in that install. What does work, is creating a bottle for gaming, and then just installing everything through the “run exe” at the bottle prefix page. After 8 years of dual booting, I finally nuked my windows installs.

…damn you…this is also true.

…sunovabetch…I literally just facepalmed. Feel dumb for not having even considered looking into if I could do that. Well…guess papa has a weekend project…

This would be me, except the wife says it’s “wasting energy.” And rather than argue with her I’ve decided that in an effort for the dream of “happy wife, happy life” I’ll just deal with sub 1min boot time

This is exactly why it took me so long to nuke my dual boot windows drive. One program, Fruity Loops, I couldn’t ever get to run well enough to be usable in an unfrustrating manner. Just recently got it chugging away in bottles, there’s a community made bottle for it, but I found that doesn’t actually work. At least not for me. Took 3 weeks of tweaking things to get it going, but I got there in the end.

I just tried and it doesn’t seem to work for me.

Wait…do I need an optical drive for this to work? I think I might have a plug in drive somewhere…

Wherever you land, I hope Linux treats you well. Keep trying different distros, there’s a lot of choice out there, which is kinda the problem tbh.

Try Garuda, the gaming edition is well configured for Nvidia cards, and from what I’ve seen AMD, out of the box. There was some small issues I had Nobara that I’ve not had with Garuda, and at the time I was trying Nobara it was just GE doing all the dev work on it. It has a very active forum where the dev team is quick to answer questions. The two times I ran into an issue that turned out to be a bug, I had devs replying quickly and it was fixed quickly. Highly recommend.

I have my daily driver laptop, which duel boots between Linux Mint and QubesOS.

Which one wins? Is pistols at dawn? I have so many questions!

Ok… I’ll bite…but for me to take it off your hands I’ll need to get a $50 deposit, and another $100 due after it’s arrived to me, you can pay shipping and duties as well…

I actually did install Vesktop a few minutes ago, seems like everything is working the way I expect it to. And I installed kooha to do screen capture, as Spectacle has no audio capture currently on Wayland.

Ehhhhhh! My dude! I’ll try that. I am on Wayland.

Fucking legend!

Pretty sure I’m using konsole right now, whatever it is, it came pre-installed on my distro.
Might check out foot and kitty, what I’m using is working right now, but always nice to look into different options.

Could you highlight a couple, I’m kinda in between with my terminal usage…

Booooo

Mint is a great general entry point to Linux.
I’d say Pop!OS or Garuda Gaming edition for traditional style, and Bazzite for “Atomic”(harder to accidentally Bork), are better ootb(out of the box) gaming distros. I.e. less downloading and tweaking to get games running, more things installed from first boot.