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What distro for creative use switching from windows (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago by bmpvy@feddit.org to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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Noooooob here: As title said - I don't know what distro I should choose. My needs are student stuff like Libreoffice & Videoconferences but also creative things, photo-management and cutting videos. Does it matter at all? Do I have to check for every single program I use or is there a distro that is recommended?

I was planning on getting a Tuxedo with Tuxedo OS, but my neighbour recommended another "no os"-seller and now I'm not sure. I was opting for Tuxedo mainly because of the support since I'm leaving windows after many years^^

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[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can second the recommendation.
Irun Bazzite on an HP Victus laptop and SteamOS on the SteamDeck.
Both are immutable, although based on different distros.
Sadly an update a few days ago broke the desktop mode on the SteamDeck: the whole desktop was unusable and it wasn't even possible to properly shut the OS down. Gaming mode was working flawlessly at the same time - huzzah!
Gladly the last update fixed it again.
In all fairness I need to admit that I don't run the most stable release channel, because I want to have encryption on my SteamDeck.
Bazzite has been running like a charm ever since I installed it.

Seperating the OS from the apps by putting the apps in containers instead of having them install files resolves the issue of dependencies for good amongst introducing security benefits. And the OS won't get borked by apps doing strange things or introducing dependencies that can't be resolved easily.

[–] bmpvy@feddit.org 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Haven't heard of immutable Distros yet, that's a good advice! I've got a Steam Deck - but has it Steam Os by nature or did you tweak smt?

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

SteamOS versions 3.x are immutable and based on Arch. Here's a lot of info about SteamOS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS
The only thing I did tweak was enabling encryption (https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/holo/dirlock/-/wikis/Enabling-disk-encryption-on-the-Steam-Deck), because I use the desktop mode heavily and didn't want my personal data unprotected in case of loss or theft.