discussion What Linux distro do you use?

[JasonCam5]

i use Fedora for my daily tasks, but find it poor for gaming

 

[kaynlol]

Pop but I might switch to Mint soon just cause my friends like it so much and I want to try something new

 

[KrealMarks]

i use Fedora for my daily tasks, but find it poor for gaming

why? i use fedora too, but new to it

 

[KrealMarks]

Fedora is aggressive about only including open source software in the base distro, and so lacks a bunch of common stuff most people will want like Nvidia drivers and video codecs. You can just install all that yourself, it's not limited in any way, but it's not automatic.

Bazzite is Fedora based and a better choice for new users who play games, as it comes out of the box ready to work with any hardware, and has user-friendly GUI package managers.

The key thing is that there's nothing the 'gaming' distros do that you can't set up on a normal distro like Fedora, Arch, Mint, etc, they just automate and streamline the process.

yea, it was a pain to install nvidia drivers in secure boot

 

[Tir]

I've used Ubuntu for a few months now, like it so far.

 

[UnflavSardines]

Mint on my PC and Steamos on my steam deck.

 

[Anon7483]

Debian, Ubuntu and all it's flavors, Mint, Fedora, Kali, Alpine, Artix, Alma, Arch, EndeavourOS, and CachyOS.

Do yourself a favor: get CachyOS for desktop and use Debian for servers. If you don't like Arch-based distros, use Kubuntu or one of the other flavors of it since Ubuntu-based distros have the best user-friendly documentation, period (IMO). Fedora wasn't awful, but installing everything using flatpaks and appimages is ass.

Oh, wait, you mean which one we use right now. I'm using Endeavour on the computers I actually use and Debian for all of my servers.

 

[jesman_8]

Linux distro is like favorite food. Everyone has their own but no one can decide on clear best. I suggest mint to anyone asking because it work like windows. I use debian as base for home things. Virtualize from there.