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Where to start? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don’t spend much time on my desktop computer but if I do I tend to game a bit. OW II, CS, Helldivers, Tabletop Simulator mostly. And of course need Discord.

I am considering a minor upgrade to the hardware and would need a fresh install (currently Win 10). I’ve been out of the distro game for a while and currently only have one old thinkpad running Debian and an X1 Carbon gen7 I want to use for experimentating/ distro hopping.

I want a daily driver OS that can play games. I also edit photos and might to the odd “flash a CFW to an old phone” or similar light tasks. Where do I start?

I hear PopOS because “it just works” but also CachyOS because “performance, muh”.

I have experience with Ubuntu (first was 6.06) and Fedora mostly but have played around with a lot that came with at least a barebones UI (crunchbang anyone?). My life has changed so I have less time to nerd out with this than I used to. But I feel the itch to experiment now and maybe use Linux on my main desktop again after some years with that mentioned upgrade soon.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Bazzite is where it's at for gaming. Even more stable than PopOS and runs games very well out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And the download page is so simple

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How does it compare to nobara?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Way more reliable, and just as optimized for out of the box gaming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Loving Bazzite so far! I think I’ll make the switch on the desktop rig too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Glad to hear! :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting, I’ll have a look! Any ad-hoc comments why it’s better than Cachy OS?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Generally; CachyOS is Arch Linux, which means all the good sides and down sides of Arch.

Bazzite is universal-blue. Which is immutable Fedora. You can’t really mess around with the system. You install software via flatpak, everything is a very controlled environment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks, that’s a great explanation! So in my terms, Bazzite is what I should consider for my daily driver, CachyOS might be worth fiddling around with on my “just for fun” thinkpad :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Depending how familiar and comfortable you are with linux, that could be right.

Bazzite is a dependable experience that you setup it up to do a job and just use it. Tinkering around with it isn’t really a thing.

CachyOS being basically Arch with some performance based modifications is absolutely for tinkering with, customising, learning to get under the hood with Linux.. but also very breakable.