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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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[–] MutatedBass@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Pop!_OS and have been happy with it for the last couple years or so.

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[–] Nyanix@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I've been on Manjaro for 3 years, honestly love it, it's treated me great for gaming and given me so little to have to fix that my wife has also been running it for 2 years.

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[–] Bright5park@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have been quite happy with Arch Linux, up until I got my Steam Deck, at which point I stopped playing on my non-Deck PCs, so... SteamOS, I suppose.

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[–] jakepi@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I would take a look at pop_os. It's Ubuntu, but without Snap and a closer to mainline kernel version. They have a lot of great usability tweaks too.

I run Arch BTW. I just like to make things difficult :)

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[–] brotherballan@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I've been running Linux Mint for a few years now and it's been really good for me. Runs games through Steam and Lutris about as good as I've had it.

I've also run other distros like Pop! and Fedora here and there but they seem to give me more issues.

[–] lertsenem@mastodon.lertsenem.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I weirdly did not see anyone mentioning SteamOS? Formerly based on Ubuntu, now based on Arch, I believe.

It's the distribution that the #SteamDeck is packaged with, and so it's become my main gaming distrib now. :]

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Are they providing the arch based version for download now? I was under the impression they've only set it up for steam decks but not for general use?

[–] EmpiricalFlock@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the website the public release is based off of Debian still.

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[–] ladydascalie@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A very simple, almost stock setup of Arch + KDE.

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[–] Peeko@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Save yourself a lot of trouble and get a secondary SSD to put Linux on instead of doing a traditional dual boot. Normal dual boots with windows suck ass and lead to problems.

As for a distro, I keep going back to endeavourOS. It's just so minimal out of the box, and I still can't find anything to match the convinience of the AUR + Pacman for package management.

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[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] Mr_Vortex@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

I'm currently running Nobara and I really vibe with the Gnome desktop and Fedora in general. However, I recently installed Linux Mint for my girlfriend's gaming rig and I was surprised by how lightweight and responsive it felt. It was also dead simple to use during the entire setup process and I can absolutely see how you'd never need to enter a terminal if you didn't want to. If I ever have a reason to leave Nobara, I'm definitely going to go with Mint!

[–] OneDimensionPrinter@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

EOS / Arch.

[–] DaveedMee@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I use Arch with KDE Plasma for that comfy desktop environment feel but switch to BSPWM ever so often for productivity or to use my pc as just a media center

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I use Arch, but I have two graphics cards in my system and I run a stripped windows VM for any game that I want ray tracing or 4k in.

My arch setup has an older Nvidia Quadro card and can run everything on like medium settings, but my virtual machines have a 3080ti. I didn't want the wear and tear on my 3080ti just to watch YouTube or play indie games that don't need the horsepower, but I still want to try stuff like portalRTX or stable diffusion and the like that needs an enthusiast graphics card.

This to me is the best of both worlds. I can run the VM in the background so I can use my desktop(connected to the TV) as a media center and have cyberpunk playing totally hidden and streaming to my steam deck for ray tracing maxxed settings.

Hell I even play Half life:Alex VR in a virtual machine and stream it over wifi to my Oculus quest.

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok, I want your setup. Can I have it? Please? :)

Sounds pretty nice!

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[–] simonced@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In my case, I use Fedora exclusively (no dual boot).

I tried PopOS, but I had problems with each update.

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[–] Xeelee@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been using Mint without any issues for a while now. I only play Steam games, though.

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[–] dragnet@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am on Mint, but I have a GPU accelerated VM running Windows 10 for gaming.Its performs very well, but you run into the occasional game that detects VMs and will refuse to run.

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

You get a decent performance out of that? Sounds like it would take a bit of a hit?

[–] Nicbudd@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pop!_OS. It just works, it's easy, and it makes me enjoy using my computer.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fedora, KDE spin. Been working great, and I'm kinda liking DNF

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[–] spark947@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu's done. Use Mint now.

[–] CadeJohnson@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] milo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a former Arch user, Fedora has been so amazing for me. It's so rock solid and simple to use. It also has great software compatibility because lots of software is distributed as rpm due to businesses using CentOS and RHEL.

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[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pop!_OS ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ

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[–] Nyaa@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] rjh@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] ANuStart@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Tumbleweed, but waiting for VanillaOS 2.0

[–] elehayyme@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been running Pop for a bit over a year now and am (mostly) satisfied with it. The only issues I had were due to kernel updates, it would cause flickering on my screen and (like someone else mentioned) had to revert to an older kernel until the situation was resolved.

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[–] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been on arch with swaywm for about 3 years now, have't really had to tinker with it at all after getting everything set up. Mesa drivers with amd cards are awesome. Biggest issues I've had were not with gaming but with proprietary codecs in firefox or getting MS Teams to play nice for work. Other than that once in a blue moon the gpg keys for pacman may need to be updated before running the regular update command. I don't recommend sway for everyone, i just find it convenient for me, gnome or kde is fine too.

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Teams us a hurdle no matter the os you use..

[–] m105@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] CloveR333@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] s900mhz@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A little background for context. I’m gamer and professional software developer. I’ve been dual booting windows 11 and pop os for awhile. Windows for games and pop os for everything else… Over the weekend I switched to NixOS. This came with a learning curve which I spent a day or so learning. I’ve been getting the hang of it now and I love it so much. I definitely recommend it. I managed to get steam working without much fiddling and my emulators. It’s been great! The benefits for programming are obvious. Allowing me to basically stop using docker dev containers.

I completely removed windows from my computer and I’m very happy.

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[–] AWizard_ATrueStar@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like several others here I am using pop_os. I bought a System76 laptop though so they kind of go hand in hand.

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[–] hoyland@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] flakusha@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] VasyaSovari@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@nlm CachyOS. It's Arch based with a bucketload of performance tweaks & bespoke patches, including a kernel scheduler developed by distro maintainers. It also has a small but super-responsive community that tends to resolve issues quite rapidly

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[–] SavedTheCat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Running Ubuntu 22.04

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