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To be clear, this question is for general PC use, and not only gaming.

Desktop mode on my Deck has easily become my favorite PC experience in a very long long time, and I use it more docked as a PC than for gaming. I've used Windows and Apple my entire life before now, so I have zero experience with Linux, other than the Steam Deck, but the OS is incrediby friendly to newcomers, and I'd say it's essentially a modern and polished version of Windows 95.

So what would you recommend as a similar experience for desktop?

Edit: I should probably add that I'm an artist and designer, and play around with Blender and 3D modeling stuff, and maybe even some game dev at some point. So Adobe support, and GPU Blender support would be superfantastic.

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[–] chris@lemmy.grey.fail 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Welcome to the world of Linux. Check out Fedora Kinoite. Here's how they're similar:

✅ It's immutable -- core OS files are read only. Just like the SteamDeck, this is more stable and secure. Updates happen all at once and the entire system can be rolled back to a working configuration ("snapshot") if it all goes south.

✅ Applications are containerized and installed via a software store. Flatpak via Flathub is my personal preference, here.

✅ It uses the KDE Plasma desktop environment. In Linux there are a handful of DEs to choose from. The SD uses KDE and so does Kinoite. This is probably where you'll see most similarities (that Windows '95 feel).

✅ Fedora's community, like the SD, is large. Got a problem? There's probably someone on the forums who had the same issue and can provide a solution.

I've been running it exclusively for two years now. As a self proclaimed distro-hopper, that's really remarkable.

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

[–] chris@lemmy.grey.fail 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least you didn't use the em dash (—)

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like the em dash and am very upset that AI has stolen it.

[–] torch_and_blanket@sopuli.xyz 1 points 23 minutes ago

It hasn't stolen anything, lol. You can and should still use it — it's at code point 2014, just where it always was.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Lol, I will choose to trust this reply isn't an elaborate AI ploy. I'll definitely consider that, and you've already taught me a couple things 👍

Note that bazzite/aurora is fedora kinoite with some stuff preinstalled like a thing that makes twitch.tv work out of the box, they're essentially straight upgrades.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No reason to choose fedora kinoite when aurora and bazzite exist, they just add some nice qol, for example, on stock kinoite ffmpeg has the shit patents that make twitch not work.

[–] chris@lemmy.grey.fail 1 points 1 day ago

Nice. I'll check those out.