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What Distros Should I be Considering For my Old win10 Gaming Laptop? (lemmy.world)
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I've got an old win10 laptop. It's nothing fancy in 2025, but I use it now and then while traveling, just to have a proper computer on hand. It's time to move it over to Linux, and I have A LITTLE Linux experience. I work in software dev, so I know my way around CLI, but I don't have much firsthard experience, other than occasionally using Kali for offsec tools. What are the distros I should be considering for a personal gaming laptop for occasional use for both gaming and occasional general use? Why?

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[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 7 points 4 days ago

be advised that if you're doing dev work on Bazzite, you might have to make use of a distrobox depending on the software you use. for example, VSCode is available as a Flatpak, but if you want to use other things with it like NPM, you'll have much less headache trying to get it to work by installing it in a distrobox.

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/integrate_vscode_distrobox.md

[-] Interstellar_1 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's true, I forgot to mention that, thanks

Edit: Bazzite has tools for this preinstalled as well so it would be very simple to set up if needed.

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