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  • I think it highly depends on what kind of hardware you are attempting to install Linux on. You can make it work on almost anything, but the graphical installers are best used with hardware that was widely used when the distribution was released.

    Also the older and more obscure distros may not have installers that pass secure boot checks, which is very frustrating if you don’t know what is happening.



  • I really enjoy running nixos because there is very little uncertainty of what’s installed. I don’t run any games so I can’t speak to that, but the centralized configuration makes fixing problems relatively easy. The downside is a steep learning curve to writing your own derivations, the community is split between “flakes” and normal nix derivations, and sometimes you just have to accept that it doesn’t work on nixos without putting in the work to write the derivations yourself. (Don’t get me wrong, people have made derivations easy to build, but it’s an unexpected side quest when you just want to try some new software)