CachyOs vs PopOs vs others?
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Nobara looks interesting for fedora, do you have experience with it? Or anyone else seeing this comment.
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Have you tried nobara? Seems to be another good one for gaming that is fedora based
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There's an atomic Fedora spin made for gaming, Bazzite, and the experience has been to install, and just go. Everything works, everything is set up for gaming and performance monitoring, it's actually baffling how good this is!
I realise I' sounding like a shill, but genuinely it's great and seems to be what OP is looking for and it suits your reccomendation.
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I keep seeing people recommending Debian. Its a great OS, especially for server stuff (which I use in multiple VMs in my home lab), but I wouldn't recommend it on a computer you're actively using. They take so long to update packages you're always multiple versions behind. This really makes it difficult to get bug fixes and patches for software that you're using on a daily basis. The hardware support is never as good as other options.
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There's an atomic Fedora spin made for gaming, Bazzite, and the experience has been to install, and just go. Everything works, everything is set up for gaming and performance monitoring, it's actually baffling how good this is!
I realise I' sounding like a shill, but genuinely it's great and seems to be what you're looking for.
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Have you looked at tumbleweed? Its a rolling release so its always up to date but opensuse's testing is fantastic. It's very stable and on the off chance there's a regression that impacts usability, it has built in version snapshots. It takes literally 45 seconds to roll back to a previous working version.
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I'm quite happy with CachyOS but use whatever makes you happy. Just pick something with a desktop envionment you like (KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, GNOME)
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The only issue I've had is that the system will completly freeze up, although it only happens everyonce in a great while. I never had it happen on any other Arch based distro.
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Get Arch if you really want to tinker and learn about linux.
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Ill check it out, only time I heard it mentioned was someone saying cachyos is superior if you dont mind a bit of tinkering
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Bazzite seems superior for handhelds or just pure gaming setups, I game like 20% of the time maybe less these days
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Well I also want it to work, cachyos is archbased
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Actually I had this one!
Something about their swap config makes it very fragile unless you use RAM swap as enabled by default, and I kept having this when I disabled it for reasons. It was much better once I re enabled it, though occasionally I still have issues goes way, way, over my RAM pool.
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Not just any dude. That's Glorious Eggroll! As in GE from GE-Proton.
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Try NixOS. The killer feature is mixing old and new packages because deps are not globally installed
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I skipped nobara for that very reason.
And I was more familiar with Arch anyway.
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Exactly, and you can get mesa git and some other “fix” packages natively with community integration if you find you need them, without veering off track all by yourself.
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I haven't touched anything related to swap or memory managment. They said they don't ship with a swap partition of file. I figured the devs must know best.
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Yeah, it uses only ram swap by default. If you aren’t going over a ton, it shouldn’t matter.
I just have weird workloads that spike memory usage a ton for short times.
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I have 64 GB of RAM so I have never gone over. Except once when I had a memory leak lol.
