I think I should just choose Arch.
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I’d say that unless you want a “game console” like experience, bazzite is maybe not the right option. It’s not bad but if you want a daily driver computer it’s probably not what you’re looking for.
It’s fedora based, so if you’re curious about it, I’d just suggest using fedora. The big difference between it and Debian being the DNF package manager vs the APT package manager.
For the secure boot issues, Debian derived systems shouldn’t have any specific issues, but it does require some extra steps on set up to get working properly, ones that are not going to be obvious at first glance In the documentation but should be fairly easy to do in the live boot session before instal.
Also, I’m confused as to why you would download a kernel from GitHub? if you want to install Mint or Ubuntu, you should probably just use one of the ISO images they offer on their websites, write it to some sort of storage medium (probably flash drive), boot from that and then configure the install in the live session.
the bigger difference to Debian, at least for me, is that before is based on the atomic version of fedora. I'm very happy with bazzite on my home pc, so i tried (the corresponding) fedora silverblue on my work laptop (10yo) and it works perfect!
There are immutable/atomic distos downstream of Debian and Arch as well.
But I’m just not convinced atomic or immutable systems really bring anything to the table in regards to a daily driver. Like, the problems they solve are not that prevalent in my experience, and the limitations seem very extreme.
that is probably just a matter of taste. it took me a bit to get used to it, but now i barely feel any limitations and enjoy it quiet much.
They're great for less tech savvy people, though terrible if you do know more and want to muck about your system more.
https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
That was the kernel I installed,
Thanks for the advice, the tinkering is honestly part of the fun! I’ll try again this weekend :)
you’d probably want to change over to that kernel after getting the system running with the standard kernel rather than starting with it. Since most of the additional support is for ancillary things like multi touch support.
Something you couldn’t really do with something like bazzite as it is immutable.