CachyOs vs PopOs vs others?
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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.
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that sounds terrible
yes bazzite does have a specific command to install stuff (like all other distros)
yes bazzite is atomic so the os changes are managed differently, the standard linux hacks in Arch wiki won't work but might help you debug the problem
if you really need to use NTFS or Bazzite doesn't work with your hardware then go for something else. i'm a big ZFS fan but Bazzite don't work with that so i have other ways of using my ZFS drives.
those stupid limitations have given me a very stable and fast experience with my AMD/Nvidia laptop, but that's just my individual story
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I use Nobara on my desktop and Fedora on my laptop, they both work fine, although I've had a few audio issues on Nobara, but it could be the different hardware. I don't play emulators, but every game I've tried on Nobara worked with no fiddling, just recently: Cyberpunk 2077, Subnautica, Horizon Forbidden West, X4...
I've been using Fedora for I don't know how long, over a decade I'd say, and it's hard to overstate it's stability, it just works, and has great repos. My main annoyance is the frequent major version updates, it's a quick process anyway, and I never had problems.
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I skipped Nobara cause there is only KDE And Gnome and it's based on a Fedora base.
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If you want CachyOS I highly recommend you to have atleast Haswell or Alteast Ryzen If you use AMD due to their Compiled packages and stuff.
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I have ryzen
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Its a surpsingly good gaming laptop performance wise I was running vr flight sims (with hella tweaking) at usable fps
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That said, it isn't fun for firmware development.
I have daily driven it for 6 months or so. Most things work great but more niche uses like embedded firmware development, digitally signing documents (impossible on bazzite as far as I have found) and anything that requires udev rules or interplay between software.
Otherwise it is great! Much better day to day than opensuse Kalpa.
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I didn't know about bazzite not supporting ntfs. I do agree with you that it's silly that they don't allow you to use it, but from my own experience i will say that they are probably right about ntfs having issues in linux. I was using an external drive formatted to ntfs to move stuff between windows and linux, and at one point the entire partition just broke when it was connected to linux. It didn't seem to be a faulty drive cause after a reformat it worked just fine, but i try to avoid ntfs as much as possible now.
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That is muy point, a lot of people that swap from windows probably have several drives for the HDD or just extensions, being able to access that stuff is key for a smooth transition.
Also, im going to ignore you calling basic Linux commands to enable services, swap DEs, install and uninstall stuff hacks, but as a side note, if the OS limiting you from fucking up your system is what gave you a stable experience... Maybe don't fuck it up? BRTFS has snapshots, you can configure the system to snapshot every time you install stuff... Idk.
