CachyOs vs PopOs vs others?
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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.
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Then it's your anecdotal experience vs mine, I've been using a better main drove connected to two NTFS drives, one for torrents and videos and downloads and another for games. 2 years almost like this and all games run perfectly fine. Souls games, path of exile (quite read heavy), league, hots, last epoch monstwe hunter... You name it, it has worked perfectly fine for over a year.
Maybe it has improved since that happened to you idk, and I agree that threshold not allow NTFS for the main drive of, but for external ones it's just silly.
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Bazzite does support ntfs. I have ntfs partitions on my system and they work perfectly fine in Bazzite.
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Bazzite does support NTFS. I use Bazzite on one of my devices with ntfs partitions and I haven't had any problems so far. Unless you mean installing Bazzite on the ntfs partition which yeah I guess it doesn't but Im not sure if any other disro has support for it.
But fair enough, immutable distros have a read-only system so making certain changes might be difficult and the usual commands might not apply. They are not impossible though, just require different commands since you have to layer those changes on top of the system. I have been able to make pretty much any changes to my Bazzite system that I would do on an ordinary distro.
Bazzite also has a really nice community that will help you with any issues and you can also ask for help in Fedora Silverblue/Kionite communities since Bazzite is just an image of Fedora (Kionite).
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Ah, I do use Mint on my dev laptop but Bazzite on my gaming PC, each has their own usage.
It's really just Fedora with different defaults, pre-installed software (mostly for Steam, MangoHUD, etc.) and a welcome-screen that helps you set up different software.
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I use cachyos for gaming and work. It's amazing. Stable, fast, drivers all work with no extra setup. Just select Ext4 during installation if you want the fastest hard drive performance.
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Bazzite does support NTFS
That's great news then, I found this on their official documentation concerning external partitions so I assumed that it was updated:
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/GNOME_Disks_Auto-Mount_Guide/
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/KDE_Partition_Manager_Auto_Mount_Guide/Bazzite does not support NTFS
I'll tell my friend so they can stop swapping back to windows to watch stuff.
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Yeah the docs are a bit misleading but they are mostly for complete linux newbies. Its basically saying that to scare away any newbies from relying on ntfs because ntfs on linux has quite a few issues (in general, not exclusive to Bazzite) and might break unexpectedly since it is reverse-engineered so it is not perfect.
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PopOS is in a rough state. The stable ISO is using absurdly an absurdly outdated desktop, and the beta using COSMIC desktop. I personally love COSMIC, but it is far from stable, so I would not recommend it to most users.
CachyOS is a great distro. The performance gains from its changes won't be huge, but the people acting like its nonexistent are silly. They also make many upcoming performance improving features like NTSYNC available early in their default kernel.
I definitely wouldn't go Debian or Mint for gaming personally. I don't like stable distros with such slow release schedules for gaming, mainly because of stuff like the prior mentioned NTSYNC. You don't get those new features for a long time.
I saw people recommending Bazzite, which is a distros I highly recommend. The only issue I have with Bazzite is that installing kernel modules they don't ship is pretty much unsupported and requires a lot of jumping through hoops. Most people won't need this, but it matters from some use cases like if you need steering wheel drivers.
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I had been rocking CachyOS for a year or so but the recent Nvidia drivers or something caused me a shit load on instability so I'm back on windows for now. Got tired of tinkering.
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While I like tinkering, I do want it to be relatively stable, not suprising me with issues when I need it.
I would suggest avoidig pure rolling distros then. Also bear in mind that usually the performance difference between distros is not really big enough to make a difference for most things.
I would consider something like Mint. But what I did on my new laptop was that I installed PopOS 24.04 Alpha and used gnome-session ("sudo apt install gnome-session") on it, though I've switched over to COSMIC now as I'm writing apps for it and it works for my games. It'll get regular kernel+mesa updates but the base os will remain "LTS stable".
You could also go the Fedora (KDE or GNOME spins) route, it has a regular update schedule, this might be a great option for you.
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but I wouldn't recommend it on a computer you're actively using
Debian is my daily driver on all my computers. Servers, desktop, laptop. Its called the universal operating system for a reason
Packages are regularly updated with bug fixes for security issues. Do you absolutely need the latest features for every software? Debian is fine unless theres some killer new feature you absolutely need.
Hardware support is mostly fine unless you have the absolute latest hardware (which OP doesnt). And backport kernels should take care of newer hardware
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Gnome 42.9 feels attacked.
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Debian 12.9 was released a few months ago based on kernel 6.1 LTS, the latest kernel is 6.13, with 6.12 being the new LTS.
Debian packages are updated for bug fixes and security updates, but they generally don't update to new versions.
If you're running KDE Debian, your version is plasma 5.27, meanwhile 6.3 was just released.
There are a massive amount of quality of life improvements that debain 12 stable will never get. Sure you can backport some, but then it's not really debain stable is it?
Meanwhile there are plenty of other distros that are almost just as stable, but have newer versions of everything. Not to mention the stability improvements of the newer software (one example is plasma 6.3 is a massive improvement over 5.27)
Like I said, I love Debian, but if you're doing daily driving of the computer, I think there are better alternatives
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It should lol. I'm not the biggest fan of Gnome but the newer versions have made so many improvements, I don't think I could stand using 42.9.
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is it really gnome 43+ that's better or that it has better wayland support?
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Wayland on Gnome 42 worked well enough for me, I definitely think the newer versions have made good improvements to Gnome itself, it just feels way more polished. The last 5 Gnome releases have so many improvements and are just way more polished. Some I can think of are the files refresh, quick settings redesign, new activities indicator (which would be especially useful with PopOS's tiling plugin) and that's just what I can think of between 42 and 45, when I stopped using it, I'm sure 46 and 47 have more. 48 will also soon be releasing with triple buffering support, which I love on laptops.
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There are millions of people out there who do 99% of their stuff in browser, and never need the newest shiniest features for graphics, or gaming or whatever. Plasma 5.27 works great for years. People only get fomo if they follow this stuff constantly. And most people dont. Lemmy/linux is a very niche gathering of nerds
To say that debian is not a good daily driver for most people, i still disagree for the above reasons
I'm not a professional or anything, but i get my basic photo and video editing just fine on debian.
For example, i used to chase all the latest and greatest digikam versions because "ooooh! New features!!"... In hindsight, there was nothing really that groundbreaking each update, and i just go back to using the core features that have been stable for years.
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Honestly you should be getting similar performance and package quality on all modern up to date distros. Pick whatever looks good to you.
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If it's worth anything I daily drive Bazzite but also only game around 20% of the time. It's still a great daily driver, does all I need it to do. Let me know if I can answer any questions.
