Hello community!
I come to you for advice. Using an m1 macbook air since 2020, I installed popos on my old 2013 macbook pro and I was quite happy with it but… I bought a steamdeck two weeks ago and exploring its desktop mode made me reconsider some choices. Using distros based on different systems, with different commands, desktop environment, etc. gets a little confusing for someone like me, who doesn’t use linux as my main machine. Do you have any advice for me? From what I understand, steamos is debian-based while popos is ubuntu-based: is that the biggest part of how a distribution works, ie commands, etc.? Good ui/ux is important for me so i should maybe use nitrux or deepin, that are debian-based, or is it a bad idea to choose a less common distro for a amateur like me?
Thanks in advance, I’m a bit lost.
Since you’re a gamer and like PopOS, I think you’d really enjoy Garuda Linux.
Looks like you need to switch one driver to get full retina graphics going, but here’s how to do that: https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/macbook-pro-10-1-mid-2012-retina-garuda-works-but-one-more/23751/8
Check out Garuda here - I’m betting you’d like the Dragonized Gaming Edition: https://garudalinux.org/downloads.html
Install video here (don’t worry about the German language stuff, your installer would be in English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYsL5J5vVC4
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=JYsL5J5vVC4
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