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What’s the best distro for my desktop? I’ve been mucking around with some on an old laptop but haven’t attempted any gaming on it outside of some simple emulation.
Bazzite seems to be the go-to answer for linux gaming.
Though, shouldn't it not matter? It's all linux. It should all perform just the same.
To me Bazzite is for game-box console-like PC you leave in your living room. If you want to also have a desktop experience, pick a desktop OS. EndeavorOS for rolling release. Anything Ubuntu or Debian based for stability. LMDE comes to mind.
In any event running games through steam/proton will be mostly plug and play anyways. Kernel mods are a thing but pretty much just extra and not really necessary.
This is a great start, I’m using arch on my laptop which has been working for me but sometimes I spend more time troubleshooting settings than actually doing anything productive.
And yea I hear a lot of good things about Bazzite but the form-factor feels maybe just a bit too steam-machine/game oriented.
it's a perfect desktop os
i think they have installed too many extensions to the desktop environment to make it appear console-like, but i disabled almost all of them and use mine for development and everything desktop-oriented
it just happens to do gaming flawlessly at the same time unlike many other distros i've tried over the years
Bazzite isn't really limited in any way, there are just different ways to do certain things because it's immutable.
Assuming that's what your meant by "form factor." Aside from that, it just runs like any other distro with KDE
Bazzite is great for a desktop PC
It doesn't all perform the same. The kernel itself is extremely configurable, and some distros tweak it for stability, others for performance. Others again largely just leave it alone. Some distros also apply their own or other third party patches to the kernel.
Linux mint installs easily (to be fair they all do), is familiar to Windows interface and has a big button to install nvidia drivers.
Mint or CachyOS.
CachyOS runs 10% faster but it's Arch-based so it's not as easy as Mint.
Good to know, I’m hesitant to go 100% arch on everything until I have a better handle on CLI.
You can either get a usb with ventoy with Fedora, bazzite and Cachy is and try them all out or there's a website that lets you use any of the distros from your browser, it's called distrosea
Amazing, thank you!
Ive had the least trouble with kubuntu. Im running steam vr and it doesnt officially support all wayland distros.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/18A4-1E10-8A94-3DDA