BurntWits

I’ve been distro hopping a little bit and honestly in my experience, anything based on Ubuntu has been inconsistent at best. Stock Ubuntu (or specifically Kubuntu since I prefer KDE) was the worst but Mint gave me issues too. Meanwhile, Fedora- and Arch-based distros have been perfect. Literally more consistent than MacOS or Windows for me, every single time. Personally I wouldn’t try another Ubuntu-based distro unless it was highly recommended.

Good to know, thanks!

I’m not super tech savvy but have used both Bazzite and CachyOS and find them both pretty straightforward. I personally prefer Cachy and it’s what I’m currently running, but both are great for gaming. Bazzite comes with gaming stuff out of the box, and Cachy has it all in one package you can download with a single command, so they’re pretty comparable on that front. I just prefer arch as a base. Hope this helps OP as I was recently in a very similar situation.

I haven’t even heard the Castle Crashers name in YEARS. I completely forgot it even existed. I used to play it a fair bit with friends back in the day. That makes me feel old now.

That’s crazy that it got a new update. I’ll have to check it out for sure. I owned it on the 360 way back, I’ll have to buy it again on steam. $17 though seems like a lot for a 17 year old game. I’ll have to get it on sale.

I’ve been running CachyOS for a couple weeks now and so far it’s been fantastic. Very user friendly and great for gaming, as well as other tasks. I’d highly recommend it.

Everyone I’ve read that’s used Fedora has liked it. I’d consider it on a secondary machine or something maybe.

Cachy has been awesome, I’d recommend it if you decide to change distros in the future. I’m enjoying Arch as a base more than Ubuntu for sure. I haven’t tried anything based on Fedora though other than Bazzite which is immutable, so I’m not sure if that really counts.

Nix seems cool but its big selling point that I’ve read is easy reproduction which I don’t think I’d utilize much. I might be missing something, but Arch seems more for me personally.

I distro hopped a bit but landed on CachyOS, which is arch-based (btw) but a lot more straightforward to install and has a faster kernel supposedly. It’s been fantastic, I much prefer it to windows. Still getting used to the occasional hiccup but it’s worth it. I was never too attached to windows anyway. I’m currently running KDE Plasma but I want to try out Hyprland or something similar. It seems really cool. I have to look into how to download it though.

I’d love to build my own pc, maybe in a few years. I’m currently using a gaming laptop which is good enough for most games, but when I feel the need to upgrade I’m gonna build.

I’m so glad I switched to Linux when I did (a couple months ago). I was dual booting for a bit but two weeks ago I removed my windows partition. Feels good to be free.

I just threw it together for a joke, I could try to make a high res one after work tonight if I remember

Tildearth desktop wallpaper

I wasn’t allowed to play violent video games as a kid, but the other kids on my street were, so when it was too miserable outside for playing road hockey or shooting each other with toy guns or whatever, we’d play whatever games they had (a lot of Halo especially). Halo CE was my first ever video game, and it never scarred me or anything, and I turned out fine. Obviously everyone’s different and YMMV.