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Which distro?

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/19744473

I’m going to be building a new computer soon for myself. (Going AMD for the first time, since intel microcode issue.)

I would say I’m an expert or advanced user, as been using pcs for 25 years and set up arch and slackware in the past. I have tried many distros and would like some feedback.

I mainly use my pc for gaming. I want something customizable, KDE ish, and without bloatware. A good wiki is a plus.

I think that i may end up with arch… is it better for gaming since it’s bleeding edge and isn’t steamos built off it?

Side question is distro chooser accurate?

SolarPunker , (edited )

Arch. Bazzite/Nobara are for noobs (in a positive way, don’t get me wrong). Gaming is in spot where you want stability but also a rolling release, since we have daily improvements on essential packages; as an experienced user you can use Arch for that; consider also even Valve is on it with the Steam Deck (Arch-based).

Crazyslinkz OP ,

Thanks, I was leaning towards arch. I like it’s wiki.

missingno , (edited )
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Anything popular enough that you can easily google any issues you need to troubleshoot. Beyond that it truly doesn't matter.

Crazyslinkz OP ,

Well, one could make the argument about driver support.

tisktisk ,

how has no one rec'd bazzite, yet? It's literally 'THE' KDE/Gaming linux distro lol

Crazyslinkz OP ,

Interesting, built off fedora, I’ll check it out.

Breadhax0r ,

I tried bazzite and nobara which are both the big gaming distros. Bazzite worked the best but I had a ton of just weird little issues with stuff randomly not working unless I restarted it. I don’t have much to say about nobara because I couldn’t actually get steam to work for some reason.

I went back to mint and honestly it’s been the smoothest and easiest to use distro, plus it has a larger user base so it’s easier to find help.

SolarPunker ,

Nobara is very good for middle user that just want a ready-to-game distro; Bazzite is best for noobs, thanks to immutability; for an experienced user there are no reasons to not use Arch.

pastermil ,

Gentoo lets you trim the fat even more by adjusting your packages at build-time. It has great KDE support. It comes with LTS kernel, but lets you opt for newer ones.

tisktisk ,

is also quickest penguin and best meta-distro (only one of it's kind really)

Crazyslinkz OP ,

Right, built for my system.

Crazyslinkz OP ,

Hmmm… thanks for the response, I like how it’s more built for your system since you compile it locally.

pastermil ,

The USE flags (feature compilation option) can be a bit tricky to manage, but they’ve tidied up the defaults quite a bit.

The one thing that might still be hard to get right is having all the media codec you need. I wish they’d include it in the default so I didn’t have to fine tune it myself, but well, that’s just part of the fun, and I already got my battle-tested set, so I got nothing to complain.

CrypticCoffee , (edited )

Rolling distro, up to date kernel, very good KDE support, stable?

OpenSuse Tumbleweed has got you covered.

Though this weird bloat fetish usually leads to Arch…

pastermil ,

On the other side: point-release distro, LTS kernel, also very good KDE support, practically unbreakable?

Debian to the rescue.

This one won’t lead to Arch.

Crazyslinkz OP ,

Isn’t debian a bit behind on graphic drivers?

tisktisk ,

you must have missed the part where OP said he was going AMD this round lool

degen ,

Fair enough, but that is OP, my friend

tisktisk ,

it would seem I missed that point entirely bahaha
fitting username to you sir

Crazyslinkz OP ,

What’s amd have to do with graphics drivers on debian? I’m out of the loop.

tisktisk ,

I'm just fanboying for amd and an idiot. please disregard my trolling

Crazyslinkz OP ,

Does amd have better or faster support for drivers then nvidia?

tisktisk ,

ime yes, but only because well...there is no such thing as nvidia driver support

Crazyslinkz OP ,

😆 good point.

pastermil , (edited )

They are, but for AMD, it won’t matter much as the driver has matured by kernel 6.1

Crazyslinkz OP ,

Understood, not really a fetish, more of I don’t want extra stuff that I don’t want to use or take space for no reason.

I want to use every drop of my system for performance, maybe that’s from my “old person” in me.

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