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So I've been running Windows on my gaming system and Linux on my laptop for Uni for a while. I chose this to discourage working instead of relaxing, or gaming instead of working. However, I am finding that I often get the opportunity to work from home and I find it easier to just use my laptop on the go (I have a dual monitor setup + kvm switch so its a little annoying to have to come home and run 3 cables just for some extra screen realestate).

I want them to run the same OS so I can use the same tools and workflow. I use Ubuntu 23.04 on my laptop, W11 on my PC. I have nvidia GPU's in both (1660 Super Desktop and 3050 Laptop), so installing and maintaining drivers would ideally be easy. I would use Ubuntu but I plan to move away from it since they're moving away from .debs. Any recommendations? I am looking for stability, but something I can game on. I've never had a linux gaming pc so I don't know how much that changes things. I don't want to do much tinkering, I am more of a set an forget type.

I generally prefer Gnome, XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon, Mate in that order. I looked it up and a lot of the games I play are Proton DB Gold or up. The only game with an anticheat that I play is the MCC and I'll just disable the anticheat if its an issue.

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[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love to do this someday but I really don't have the time to experiment at the moment. I need something that allows me to be lazy so I can just work on things.

[–] alexcoder04@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was a joke, but tbh, I use Arch myself and it runs pretty ok. The problem is rather that you are tempted to experiment and waste your time (because you can).

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Well maybe once I get a job in tech (I graduate at the end of november) I could justify spending the time... it will give me a better understanding of computers after all.