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What distro for creative use switching from windows
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Noooooob here: As title said - I don't know what distro I should choose. My needs are student stuff like Libreoffice & Videoconferences but also creative things, photo-management and cutting videos. Does it matter at all? Do I have to check for every single program I use or is there a distro that is recommended?
I was planning on getting a Tuxedo with Tuxedo OS, but my neighbour recommended another "no os"-seller and now I'm not sure. I was opting for Tuxedo mainly because of the support since I'm leaving windows after many years^^
(Picture shows the lilac and blueish ports that we had for mouse and keyboard back "in my days" with the words "How old are you" - "Me:" on top - just because this community semmingly requires a picture added)
I wouldn't say I try to avoid proprietary drivers. nVidia's worked well for me even better that open source, but amd's caused issues with my graphics even after reinstalling Mint without them. Now that I reinstalled them months later it works better... Who said the world wasn't magic anymore 😂✨
I guess what I initially tried to say is that it is worth to do some research on the supported distros for proprietary gpu drivers, should you need them to hopefully avoid freak accidents like this.
I too like to think that any ubuntu based distro should be okay running software for ubuntu, but when I messaged AMD's support they basically just tapped the your distro is not supported sign xD And I guess it makes sense, given that there could be critical differences between stock ubuntu and ubuntu based distros, too much to cover for a remote tech support.
Ah, I gotcha. Thanks for explaining. Yeah, it is a thing that some people will just have a random issue on Linux that seems unique compared to most. I would guess that sometimes we've installed a package that puts something in a weird state somewhere that we can't really know about. Someday I'm going to try an immutable distro. Those aim to solve problems like that.