What sold me completely on Nobara was how easy the driver setup process was because that's something that completely drove me mad.
From my experience, I never trust when a distro says it's "focused on easy driver setup". It was already the point of Ubuntu way back in the years, or Pop!, Zorin, etc. Not to say it's a lie, but it's never as straightforward as they claim, because there are just way too many different specs possible.
Install Nvidia drivers
The best thing you can do for Linux, is not use Nvidia. Just don't. The drivers are just bad, and no distro can ever fix that. If someone wants to give Linux a fair chance, I'd say invest in a decent but not expensive AMD GPU first. You'll save yourself headaches, and it will still run about 90% of indie games easily. It is possible to use Nvidia on Linux, but it's very likely it won't give you a good impression on Linux at all.
I've tried a few distro, the only one so far that really worked for me is Mint. Almost everything works, and I haven't done a lot of setup. Even softwares like FL Studio (Audio workstation) with complex audio system works almost perfectly through Wine (which really impressed me). I also use Godot with C# on it and it works just fine as well.
I have had issues with nvidia, but I have had one of the worst most infuriating bug with AMD that to this day still isn't fixed and causes issues for people at random(fill gpu crashes). I liked my old Vega card, I even switched it out for TWO different modern ones with similar errors. Put in my old GTX and it ran without issues. I would not discourage people from using nvidia, it just isn't as smooth sailing with it sadly.
I would not discourage people from using nvidia, it just isn't as smooth sailing with it sadly.
I'd argue Linux is never a smooth sailing, which is its main problem since forever and what is stopping it from rising. If you have an opportunity to reduce the risk, especially if you're not a tech-nerd and new to Linux, I'd really try to focus on that.
From my experience, I never trust when a distro says it's "focused on easy driver setup". It was already the point of Ubuntu way back in the years, or Pop!, Zorin, etc. Not to say it's a lie, but it's never as straightforward as they claim, because there are just way too many different specs possible.
The best thing you can do for Linux, is not use Nvidia. Just don't. The drivers are just bad, and no distro can ever fix that. If someone wants to give Linux a fair chance, I'd say invest in a decent but not expensive AMD GPU first. You'll save yourself headaches, and it will still run about 90% of indie games easily. It is possible to use Nvidia on Linux, but it's very likely it won't give you a good impression on Linux at all.
I've tried a few distro, the only one so far that really worked for me is Mint. Almost everything works, and I haven't done a lot of setup. Even softwares like FL Studio (Audio workstation) with complex audio system works almost perfectly through Wine (which really impressed me). I also use Godot with C# on it and it works just fine as well.
I have had issues with nvidia, but I have had one of the worst most infuriating bug with AMD that to this day still isn't fixed and causes issues for people at random(fill gpu crashes). I liked my old Vega card, I even switched it out for TWO different modern ones with similar errors. Put in my old GTX and it ran without issues. I would not discourage people from using nvidia, it just isn't as smooth sailing with it sadly.
I'd argue Linux is never a smooth sailing, which is its main problem since forever and what is stopping it from rising. If you have an opportunity to reduce the risk, especially if you're not a tech-nerd and new to Linux, I'd really try to focus on that.