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Why Mint and Ubuntu? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by Leminski@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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Keep noticing that when taking about Linux distro recommendations (on Reddit) users recommend Mint and Ubuntu for gaming.

Now don't get me wrong, they're great distros and with a bit of work are great for games, but I feel like theres better recommendations for new users looking into getting into gaming on linux.

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[–] cerement 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

people asking for those recommendations are newcomers to Linux and Ubuntu and Mint (especially) are both very newcomer friendly with large support communities when any questions come up

once they become more familiar with their system, they can turn to the Arch Wiki and the Gentoo Handbook as they fine-tune things

but neither Mint nor Ubuntu are going to hit you with any big surprises – unsupervised access to AUR in Arch, long compilation times in Gentoo, obscure (and semi-documented) programming language in Nix, or dealing with commands that are a little bit different in BusyBox, musl, or OpenRC systems …