I have a home built PC that I want to get off Windows 11.

Specs:

  • Ryzen 3700X, upgrading to a 5800X3D soon
  • RTX 2080 Super
  • 500GB NVME for OS, 2TB SATA SSD for files, programs, etc.
  • 1440p Ultrawide monitor
  • an 8bitdo Ultimate controller

Usage:

  • I usually play indie games, emulators, and occasional AAA games. Most of my library is on Steam, with some games on GOG, e.g. Cyberpunk.
  • I have an original Steam Link in my living room, and I use it to play games from my PC on the couch. Does Steam on Linux even support this?
  • I also write game mods, so I need a distro that is a good fit for software development (C++, Python, and Lisp).
  • Random miscellany: I use mullvad VPN, stream movies from a friend’s plex server, and use an SFTP client to back up photos and videos from my phone.

I’ve been an on/off Linux user in the past, so I know my way around basic/intermediate terminal usage and configuration. Buuuut every previous attempt to move to Linux ended in disaster, so I have little patience for asterisks, strings attached, etc. If you’re offering a distro I’ve never heard of before, you’re probably gonna be hard pressed to convince me.

Thanks for the help!

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Secondly, I couldn’t even install qemu if I wanted to because it wasn’t in the apt repositories that shipped with Debian.

    Debian has a non-free repo containing non-open-source software that it hasn’t historically enabled by default, but I don’t think that that’d apply to qemu. I’m pretty sure that’s all open-source.

    goes looking.

    qemu’s been in the Debian repos since…checks sarge, which was released as a stable release in 2005.

    And it was in main, not non-free, so it should have been there as an out-of-the-box enabled repo:

    https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20050312T000000Z/pool/main/q/qemu/

    QEMU only came out in 2003.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU

    QEMU is free software originally developed by Fabrice Bellard; the first preview release was in 2003.

    It looks like it was packaged in Debian unstable since 2004, though I wouldn’t recommend jumping right on unstable to a new user.

    $ apt changelog qemu-system 2>/dev/null|tail -n 15

 -- Paul Russell <prussell@debian.org>  Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:56:25 +0100

qemu (0.5.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix build problem so bios.bin etc. can be found. (Closes: #237553)

 -- Paul Russell <prussell@debian.org>  Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:43:00 +0100

qemu (0.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial Release. (Closes: #187407)

 -- Paul Russell <prussell@debian.org>  Wed,  3 Mar 2004 02:18:54 +0100
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