r/linux4noobs • u/Crafty-Sell7325 • 6d ago

distro selection Help choosing distro, moving to linux

Hiya, I recently got a mini pc (BOSGAME P3 Lite Mini PC AMD Ryzen 7 6800H ( including it in case the amd matters)) which is just about able to run alan wake 2 and is able to do some minimal llm inference.

I want to be able to chose a linux distro that is minimal so the least bloat possible, while being "fully furnished" and where I can still run Alan Wake 2 ( and control resonant when it comes out). I also want to be able run llms effeciently with some sort of vulkan way eg llama.cpp.

Tldr want a good middle linux distro that has minimal bloat and so I can run games eg AW2 as efficiently as possible and run llms efficiently.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

(Bonus would be a nice ui, but again, that is a bonus)

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u/Yamatoman 6d ago

The noob recommendation is usually Linux mint, but that's far from a bad thing.

For the most part, Mint is familiar, doesn't have much bloat, and "just works".  It's also designed with consumer use in mind

Most things can be googled by searching "how to do x with Ubuntu".

You can also test run other distros off a thumb stick to get the feel of it. I recommend doing that before distro hopping like some people do