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Which distro? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://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?

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[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Breadhax0r@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

i wish i could like fedora based distros, but they always make my hdd unmountable and it's really hard to revive it :(