I am pretty new to Linux (a bit over a year) but to be fair, I haven’t really messed with it. Once set up, everything works, so I never really use the terminal. to me, it is just an OS, and i don’t mess under the hood with it.
I use Mint (Cinnamon) and I am pretty happy with it. My thoughts now are, with a new PC comming, if I should stick to Mint, or install an other distribution?
I use it mainly as a home desktop, but also do some image editing, video editing, learning CAD at the moment and of course a bit of gaming (through Steam)
Any advice is welcomed
I think those should be fine with Mint 22. You’ll just need to use the graphics-driver-ppa to get an up-to-date Nvidia driver.
So, it’s basically up to you if you want to play around with another distro or not. But tbh it sounds like Mint is a good fit for you.
What is graphics driver ppa?
It’s an unofficial repository (PPA) for Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu and Mint: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
If you add “ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa” in “Software Sources”, you’ll be able to install newer driver versions in the “Driver Manager”. For a 50-series GPU, you’ll want at least version 570 IIRC.
Thanks!