Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada

@evanleibovitch / @el56

On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 7:29 PM Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 04:36:34AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> Thanks. Ugh.
>
> Your timing is perfect, because I'm just about to do a fresh install and
> this would be the time to decide on something else.
>
> I'm looking for an alternative that will offer support for a KDE version as
> well as Steam and my fairly-new AMD graphics card (RX 6500 XT). I'd also
> prefer to live snap-free.
>
> Mint and Pop don't support KDE, SuSE has problems with Steam and I'm
> exhausted enough that I don't want one more learning curve wrt the Arch way
> of doing things. Right now my best choices appear to be MX, KDE Neon (if I
> install the 32-bit libraries for Steam) and (if I want to go back to an
> RPM-based system for the first time since Mandriva ceased,) Fedora KDE.
>
> Any suggestions, either from these choices or something else? Thanks again.

What's wrong with Debian?

Steam installation simply should not be this much of a PITA.

No snap there and it has kde as an option

Option, but not from what I can see a core supported desktop. That's what is attracting me to MX, which is one step removed from Debian, but without the Ubuntu shenanigans.

- Evan