edit: Fedora it is then!

He will be running the AMD 9800 X3D w/ RX 9070 XT, B850 motherboard.

I am deciding between either Fedora (probably KDE) and Bazzite (also KDE), but I’m not sure whether an atomic distro would be better/worse for a newbie.

As far as I understand, atomic distros can be easily rolled back after an update, but you are unable to use apt/dnf/etx, you need to use Flatpak, I think. Would that be limiting for the average user? Also, does Bazzite have better driver support for newer AMD hardware compared to Fedora?

  • mrcleanup@lemmy.world
    22·
    3 days ago

    It would be nice if it were that easy, but the login screen settings are in the immutable portion.

    I don’t care anymore though, I switched to Garuda and everything works as expected out of the box.

      • mrcleanup@lemmy.world
        22·
        2 days ago

        Great, maybe they fixed it. Still don’t care because I moved on to a great system a few years ago where that didn’t need to be fixed.

          • mrcleanup@lemmy.world
            12·
            2 days ago

            Look, I’m not going to study immutable systems for other potential problems just to argue with you. I’m just pointing out that sometimes you can’t predict what will cause a problem for someone and there are other easy to use options out there, so people can make well-informed decisions.

            I’m sure Bazzite is great, I liked it well enough while I was using it, but it wasn’t until after I switched to something else that Linux started making sense to me. Bazzite may be harder to break, but for me as a Linux newbie, it wasn’t “better” and it felt weird to use in a way Garuda never did.

            • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              There are countless documented issues that are fundamental to non-immutable systems, your example is both not a fundamental issue with a design and has been fixed. It’s not good info.

              • mrcleanup@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 days ago

                Whether you like it or not, “I had trouble with that distro but not this other” is always valid info.

                • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
                  1·
                  1 day ago

                  whether you like it or not that’s simply false, when the issue has been long resolved it stops being of any real value and actually becomes misleading. If any issues I report are not current I no longer say them unless I’m trying to make a point about the competency of the distro, however, that point wouldn’t be valid in your case because immutables were in their infancy until relatively recently.

                  if I reported that I had issues with adobe flash player on fedora in 2009 it would not be useful info to anyone now, similarly.

                  furthermore that’s not even considering if it was caused by hardware or cosmic rays, if the issue cannot be reproduced it’s likely misinformation.

                  so no, it simply is not the case that all reports are valid or contain useful information for making a decision, in your case it’s quite the opposite.