CachyOs vs PopOs vs others?
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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.
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Bazzite is terrific
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Debian laptop user here, left Windows on my gaming desktop for a decent while. Now that I'm more accustomed to Linux DE's I installed Nobara on it about a month ago. Zero issues with the NVIDIA variant on my 3080 so far
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A friend installed it and it's been terrible doing tech support about it. All the obvious fixes don't work because it's immutable, all the obvious fixes like editing fstab don't work, you need to use their hip programs and special commands to install things. The arch wiki that usually helps any distro doesn't work and you need to almost exclusively use their own docs. Terrible experience.
He has somehow managed to break the glorious immutable distro twice in two weeks while I'm happy with life in EOS for a year since the full swap.
Oh, and bazzite doesn't support NTFS drives. They say it's because the NTFS conversion layer has issues but I've been living with the games ssd drive being a NTFS drive because I need space to swap it to brtfs and it works FINE. Games run at the same speed, the drove doesn't lock, there's no weird write issues or anything. Bazzite devs are cowards that don't allow NTFS drives for dual booters either.
Doing tech support for it for a month now, I've come to hate all the stupid limitations for the so called glorious immutable distro.
