I’m looking for a Linux distribution that is:
1. Completely beginner-friendly out of the box (includes codecs, NVIDIA drivers, and useful system tweaks like ntsync, preempt=full, etc.).
2. Ships with vanilla GNOME.
3. Provides up-to-date packages.
4. Supports Flatpak alongside traditional package management.
Fedora comes close, but it’s not ideal since it requires manual setup for codecs and NVIDIA drivers.
#linux
Mint
Mint is not up to date nor it comes with gnome
1) You can install that shitty gnome if you wish. That's the advantage of any gnu Linux distro 2) what so mean by not up to date? apt update & apt dist-upgrade makes you always up-to-date. Do you want rolling release distro?
I want a distro that comes with GNOME. Which part don’t you understand?
Mint is almost always outdated compared to upstream. What I want is not necessarily a rolling release, but something close to upstream versions of packages, something like Fedora or Arch.
Fuck Mint. It doesn’t even have a proper Wayland session yet.
Mint is so shit. Its not up to date, i cant upgrade to mint 22 because of an issue, packages are broken and cannot be fixed and so much more frustrating errors. I hate mint
Have you considered something like #Bazzite or #Bluefin? Fedora based but with included drivers and codecs. Traditional packaging a little less, but with Flatpaks I don't think you really need that anymore nowadays?
Hey, i am a little sceptical about atomic distros. In the past, i had some troubles running them. I think it's still too early to adopt an atomic desktop, but let's see. They will eventually become default. Thanks.
