Which distro?
Which distro?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19744473
I'm going to be building a new computer soon for myself. (Going AMD for the first time, since intel microcode issue.)
I would say I'm an expert or advanced user, as been using pcs for 25 years and set up arch and slackware in the past. I have tried many distros and would like some feedback.
I mainly use my pc for gaming. I want something customizable, KDE ish, and without bloatware. A good wiki is a plus.
I think that i may end up with arch... is it better for gaming since it's bleeding edge and isn't steamos built off it?
Side question is distro chooser accurate?
how has no one rec'd bazzite, yet? It's literally 'THE' KDE/Gaming linux distro lol
Interesting, built off fedora, I'll check it out.
I tried bazzite and nobara which are both the big gaming distros. Bazzite worked the best but I had a ton of just weird little issues with stuff randomly not working unless I restarted it. I don't have much to say about nobara because I couldn't actually get steam to work for some reason.
I went back to mint and honestly it's been the smoothest and easiest to use distro, plus it has a larger user base so it's easier to find help.
i wish i could like fedora based distros, but they always make my hdd unmountable and it's really hard to revive it :(
Arch. Bazzite/Nobara are for noobs (in a positive way, don't get me wrong). Gaming is in spot where you want stability but also a rolling release, since we have daily improvements on essential packages; as an experienced user you can use Arch for that; consider also even Valve is on it with the Steam Deck (Arch-based).
Thanks, I was leaning towards arch. I like it's wiki.
Rolling distro, up to date kernel, very good KDE support, stable?
OpenSuse Tumbleweed has got you covered.
Though this weird bloat fetish usually leads to Arch...
Understood, not really a fetish, more of I don't want extra stuff that I don't want to use or take space for no reason.
I want to use every drop of my system for performance, maybe that's from my "old person" in me.
Non-running software doesn't affect performance as it isn't anywhere near your RAM or CPU. What often people perceive of bloat is frequently software dependencies that are likely to be used over the course of the OS's usage.
Often I have found bloat free setups end up taking hours of digging out dependencies on multiple occasions. Life is too short. I have things to build.
Gentoo lets you trim the fat even more by adjusting your packages at build-time. It has great KDE support. It comes with LTS kernel, but lets you opt for newer ones.
is also quickest penguin and best meta-distro (only one of it's kind really)
Right, built for my system.
Hmmm... thanks for the response, I like how it's more built for your system since you compile it locally.
The USE flags (feature compilation option) can be a bit tricky to manage, but they've tidied up the defaults quite a bit.
The one thing that might still be hard to get right is having all the media codec you need. I wish they'd include it in the default so I didn't have to fine tune it myself, but well, that's just part of the fun, and I already got my battle-tested set, so I got nothing to complain.
Anything popular enough that you can easily google any issues you need to troubleshoot. Beyond that it truly doesn't matter.
Well, one could make the argument about driver support.
My first and current distro is Pop_OS and it’s been a bit of a pain in the ass. I need to run terminal commands to get Bluetooth to work, Rocksmith is a lost cause, my display signal dies randomly, forcing a restart.
Thinking about Bazzite, but read this article and maybe Ubuntu is just easier, for now?
(Nvidia gpu giving me pause over which will support it better)
I use PopOS on my rig which is primarily gaming. It does great and gets out of my way.
Thanks for your response.
Arch, void, fedora, parabola are pretty good
Thanks
EndeavourOS has been my daily driver for over a year now has been mostly completely smooth. I went from Windows to Linux with no Linux knowledge beforehand.
I've had some issues pop up, but thanks to Arch's very detailed documentation, I've been able to fix them myself or find answers online. Most recently and update yesterday broke yay (AUR package manger) for me, so I searched the error code that popped up in the terminal and found a discussion at the EndeavourOS forum (great resource) where a fix/workaround was posted. A couple of terminal commands later and yay was reinstalled and working again.
That's been my experience with any problems that have come up. Very manageable.