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Recommend a distro for a 13-year-old gamer
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Bazzite:
I've been using Fedora KDE on my own PC for a few years, but I've had some pretty severe breakages when updating. Though I suppose most of them happened because I had Cuda SDK installed, or monitor ICC profiles, but early on I also had Plasma crash on login while testing different themes. I'll look more into Bazzite though!
The first point of bazzite and other atomic/immutable distros is to prevent such breakages. updates aren't applied over your existing installed packages, the base read only part is updated and your layered packages come after if you even have any. A kid's computer won't need it though. Most of my installed software is flatpak, appimage, or brew. I have maybe 3 packages installed via rpm-ostree. If I ever need anything not possible this way it's not a job for my gaming pc.
I use Bazzite on a laptop that's shared by family, and it's great. I never have to worry about downtime, and I know they'll always have a computer should something happen to me.
I once had a bad update, and I just used
rpm-ostree rollback
, and I was up and running again. Really great for anyone that wants to set it and forget it.Legacy Nvidia drivers a couple months ago? That was a fun time, lol.