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

I just installed NixOS and the repeatability of it is pretty neat. I like the idea of having one file that sets up 90% of any pc going forward. Not sure how often I'll use it, but feels neat.

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

Interesting, the coders use it at my work for easier rolling out the setup. I didn't think about using it as a gaming pc.

[–] jokob@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I switched to it also because my debian host got out of date and now it's difficult to upgrade and I'm scared to reinstall it. If it was NixOS I would be able to redo the whole thing in a few minutes. So I'm creating / learning how to create a template to roll it out to my other builds.

[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Check out Garuda Linux. Comes with a preset catalog of gamer related nonsense on KDE - or - they offer a minimal KDE version as well if you'd rather set things up your way.

I started with the preset one and then switched my machines over to the barebones one once I had a handle on Linux. It's been a smooth ride. Things only break when I break them touching things unnecessarily out of curiosity because I don't know what I'm doing.

Garuda is arch btw

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[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I haven't seen many mentions of Nobara but you can try it out.

It's essentially a gaming-centric version of Fedora. I was in your position a few weeks back and decided upon thing. Latest drivers and packages.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you are an expert, why are you asking pee ons like us?

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[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So you have a lot of suggestions in this thread.

I have an unconventional one:

Red hat.

You can use it for free as long as you register on their website.

The benefit: lots of documentation, a significantly different way of thinking about things (it asks you to define a compliance posture out of the box lol) and a package manager that does a lot of things right.

You said yourself youve been in the game for a while. Why not try being agent smith instead of neo?

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

No, thanks.

[–] prancing389@monero.town 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've bounced around alot, have numerous distributions on my Proxmox Hypervisor, but my favorite daily driver, for a really old computer, is ( MX Linux ) I've twice tried other distros to see if I could improve upon the stability and performance, as well as the very convenient availability of a feature rich KDE Desktop environment, and I came back to MX twice now. When I get a new fast computer, I'll switch to Qubes OS, for it's built-in hypervisor and security/privacy and isolation features, but until then, I'll stick with MX.

IMHO, there are excellent reasons why MX ranks highest. I think it's original roots in AntiX with the elimination of systemd has afforded it a substantial advantage over stock-standard Debian, my last daily driver which always had performance issues. With MX, on same hardware, system lock ups are far less frequent when the system is overtaxed.

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