I’m currently on Win11 but I’m getting that familiar Linux itch and want to dual boot a while again. I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it’s so big and well supported by most things.
I’ve run Arch in the past but I’ve gotten too old and lazy for that if I’d be completely honest. I have played with manjaro and endeavour though… and opensuse tumbleweed, rolling is kind of nice.
Not sure what I’d try out first this time so I figured I’d get some inspiration from you guys!
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EOS / Arch.
PopOS is best for out the box gaming, its similar to Ubuntu so you’ll be familiar with it
What’s their biggest advantages against Ubuntu?
Truthfully it comes with nvidoa drivers pre installed.
Personally I run mint and its just a couple of clicks to get it installed in mint. I tried pop is didn’t like it that much and gave me less stability with some of my use cases
Yeah, that’s basically what I figured. Plus some bells and whistles in the design department. Might just as well go with *buntu and install drivers then.
Don’t know how different it is with buntu I know mint does extra things. I’d you like the cinnamon desktop mints the best bet
Now I am on fedora. Before I used debian stable and before that I tried some other distros, like some flavors of ubuntu, endeavor, mint, manjaro and so on.
Wonder how redhat’s latest move to keep the source behind a paywall will affect fedora?
I don’t think I’ve actually tried a red hat based distro since… eh… the late 90’s maybe. Been a while :)
Wonder how redhat’s latest move to keep the source behind a paywall will affect fedora?
It shouldn’t, because Fedora is upstream of those changes. But in terms of the ‘principles’ of the organization, who knows? It might just be the start of IBM finally manipulating it’s marionette.
Oh yeah, true, I keep forgetting how the red hat/fedora setup is like.
Let’s hope it’s not the start of them going too iffy
I am on Manjaro. To be honest there isn’t a big difference between distros nowadays because more and more apps are on the web or deployed via AppImage/shell script. Manjaro does rolling updates, makes it easy to install drivers and the install is easy, but you can still follow the Arch wiki and use AUR.
It runs Steam totally fine. Thanks to Steam (and WINE) I basically don’t use Windows anymore.
I do remember enjoying Manjaro when I ran it back dutin Uni studies… I don’t even remember what made me switch tbh. Probably some distro hopping itch. :)
I use Pop!_OS and have been happy with it for the last couple years or so.
I think I just might have to give pop a go and see what all the fuss is about. :)
Arch/EndeavourOS. Updates for the recent hardware come pretty fast and they are stable. Most of the time I use gamescope from Valve to get better latency.
I’m not a heavy gamer, but I’m content with Manjaro. I don’t dual boot, though I do have access to an older computer with Windows 10. I haven’t had cause to use it for games, though.
Ubuntu 20.04lts
Don’t see it mentioned here - Nobara. Fedora tweaked by Glorious Eggroll to be as compatible as possible with games ootb. Worth looking at.
I used to use Arch but Nobara works too well for me to go back.
A big thing for me too is the custom version of OBS that the welcome GUI installs is excellent and allows for application specific/exclusionary audio sinks so I can screen record games without having audio from discord/music.Seconded for Nobara, gaming is a smooth experience with it
I’ve been using PopOS for about 3 years now. I found it easier to get Steam to work compared to Linux Mint (can’t remember why though). I’ve never tried Ubuntu or non-Debian based systems.
Like several others here I am using pop_os. I bought a System76 laptop though so they kind of go hand in hand.
Nice!
I use Arch with KDE. I’ve been daily driving Arch coming up a decade now and despite testing various other distros on laptops over the years, I haven’t seen anything yet to tempt me away. I heart Pacman.
Personally I find most of the laziness factor with Arch is a non issue once you get installation done. My previous install was 6 years old and the only reason I reinstalled was because I got a new PC.
That said if an installer is a must-have then I would recommend Endeavour OS or Manjaro for best of both worlds.
True, it’s not that hard to get going either I suppose. Isn’t there a bunch of manual configuration after updates though? I have a faint memory of pacman telling me stuff that needed fixing after each update?
Last time I played around with Arth i tried their archinstall script I think it was. Pretty neat cli installer that worked rather well.
Endeavour is nice as well…
Gah, you guys are making me want to spin up a whole bunch of distros :D
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - it works perfectly all the time now. I have no idea at this point why anyone would continue to use Windows, tbh. A couple of years ago, audio management and networking were still a little bit fiddly, but I have not typed SUDO in almost two years now. I game with Steam, and Proton works with pretty many titles, but not all; I guess I am not that heavy a gamer - having a hard time getting past Kerbal Space Program 1.0 with its endless variety of fanbase mods and CKAN for mixing and matching them.
That’s pretty much how I feel about Ubuntu as well.
It’s not exciting or cool but it just works without effort.
Ubuntu is pretty solid, but there are definitely still issues. Things like screen sharing on Discord etc cannot also share your sound, and it’s still difficult (some cases impossible) to manage lighting and macro keys on gaming keyboards.
It’s not big issues, just a series of small pains that you have to deal with repeatedly.
EndeavourOS with Plasma. migrated from Manjaro after one too many questionable decision on their side.
What bugged you about Manjaro?
basically every thing on https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/, one by one. I just reached the point when I decided to hop to another distro at the next reformat.
Sure, there are some bad mistakes in there but that site feels like a personal vendetta though.
I’ve been using base Debian with KDE Plasma for the past month or two and gaming on it, and it’s worked really well, about as good as any other distro I’ve used. I always eventually end up back on Debian regardless of what I try using. I could technically get a better experience on rolling release because of mesa and kernel updates, but I’ve never noticed much of a difference, ymmv depending on hardware though.
They recently started supporting closed-source firmware officially so there’s no longer that notorious hunt to find the right .iso just to get your wifi and nvidia GPUs to work.
That’s really the nice thing about linux, as long as you know what you’re doing you can probably get any distribution to work pretty much just as well for your own needs.
Interesting that they’ve started supporting closed source firmware… I thought they were very much against that?
They’re still very focused on having a primarily open source system, but they held a vote and it was decided that it’s best for the computer to actually work and then try to be as open source as possible after that.
They did offer the firmware before, but you had to go out of your way to enable it and they didn’t provide security updates, was considered unofficially supported. With this, they’re considered officially supported, on by default if needed, and get security updates.
If you’re curious about the vote they did, it was this one and Proposal E is what won. https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003#proposere
Stallman used to recommend Debian when it came to Linux I think… wonder what he’ll say now :)
