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why? because it's not triggering an obscure anti cheat on a game I've been playing when using wine (performance is still the same tho), everything else is just work no missing dependencies and it's doesn't get in my way like other distros (I tried Arch, Opensuse, Ubuntu, Debian), just to clarify I'm a complete noob when it come to Linux so maybe if I know better I probably make everything works just like Fedora

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I can't install fedora because they require you to have a mouse connected by cable to your computer to install.

It's absurd. I only have a Bluetooth mouse and you can't get to the Bluetooth connect screen. So Mint it was.

I even saw someone complaining about this on the fedora forum and the response was totally "Do you not have mice?" energy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What stopped the install process working without a mouse?

Surely they'd have a keyboard navigation method.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

They do... For the first screen of the welcome page only. When it gets to connect WiFi the keyboard nav is broken. Tabbing doesn't work.

Beyond that if you hit alt F4 to close the welcome page you get to your desktop, but Fedora doesn't come with any predefined hotkeys (or at least none of them worked on Fedora 39, if there were any - it might have been part of the welcome screen). So I couldn't open up a terminal or anything to actually get to useful controls.

After an hour of fighting with this and seeing useless forum posts I scrapped it and installed Mint, where they actually bothered to let you open up Bluetooth connection management with only a keyboard.

[–] ColdWater 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fedora+KDE is the perfect match

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kde and fedora is definitely a good choice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. The only annoying thing is the automatic updates not working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I have a Nvidia gpu and I did run into issues on Fedora with drivers and cutscenes, switching from Gnome to KDE and wayland to X11 fixed some problems, but I fidn't manage to get it to work properly and have given up in a few weeks.

However, I switched to Nobara which is based on Fedora and handles the gaming related configuration for you, and so far O've had a great experience without any issues for half a year already, so if gaming is what you're primarily after, I'd recommend going with Nobara.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For Nobara, which would you say it's the best (DE + X11/Wayland) setup for an Nvidia GPU?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I preffer KDE and use x11. Wayland is getting better with nvidia, but I still had some bugs with taskbar freezing often when I first tried it, so I just switched to X11. I haven't tested it recently though, so it may be OK now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I think Bazzite or Nobara is easier for casual gamers that just want things to work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah DNF rocks and the new builds always have the new fun stuff right away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Bazzite has been amazing for me!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which Steam package did you install? I remember tried the rpm package from the software store and encountered problems.