While both Mint and Zorin are good "beginner" distros, they might not be the best choice for gaming. Since your primary use seems to be gaming and you're on an nvidia GPU, you may also want to have a look at distros, that make it easier to set them up for that. So apart from Pop_OS you could also look at Nobara Linux or Bazzite. Not to confuse you with even more options, but it's good to know what's out there and try some stuff out to see what works.
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There are definitely a of of options, but I think thats a good thing in this case. I've seen quite a few people mention Pop_OS. I'm leaning towards giving that a shot and seeing how I like it. Thank you for the input :).
I'm really excited about where Pop! is going, and I plan to make it my next os. I've been using Ubuntu for a while now.
Well it's the one I'm testing. Spun up a vm just to take a look. Still trying to wrap my head around some stuff but overall I like it. It seems mostly intuitive and the ui is easy on the eyes.
Recommendations are only recommendations. Try the distros out yourself in a VM like VMware, configure it, spend some time in them, and see which you like the most. It should only take a few hours
You might want to know about discord updates, if the maintainers of the distribution don't update discord as fast as the discord developper, it will fail to launch when major update happen since those don't go through the internal updater of the client, and discord only provide a .deb package, which you can install with a simple double click on debian based distribution (ubuntu, mint, mx, zorin etc), and a generic linux exectuable, which can be launched in any distributions but won't be automatically integrated in your application menus
Try tweaking this, courtesy of the slackbuild page for discord:
If you'd like Discord to continue working after an upstream update is released, but is not yet available on SBo, add the following to your user's ~/.config/discord/settings.json file:
"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true
Thats super helpful, thank you!
Thank the maintainer of that slackbuild who probably got tired of people bugging him to update the script every time a new release came out and threw up that helpful note!