Was looking into Nobara, realized its a solo dev, wondering if cachy is the best pick for compatibility. I play a lot of different stuff , use blender, controllers, flightsticks, etc. Not really into flightsims rnow and im dualbooting for now so its not a major issue on that front. Just want most steam games and controllers, drivers, etc. to work and get the best performance.
Update: Went with Cachyos for now, but first sign of any issues and I’ll switch to bazzite since it seems to be safer and more reliable. Havent had any issues so far.
It sounds like this will be your fist time running Linux. In that case I would recommend against using CachyOS or Arch. Those distros are meant for experienced users that are willing to solve problems on their. In the words of the Arch wiki:
Whereas many GNU/Linux distributions attempt to be more user-friendly, Arch Linux has always been, and shall always remain user-centric. The distribution is intended to fill the needs of those contributing to it, rather than trying to appeal to as many users as possible. It is targeted at the proficient GNU/Linux user, or anyone with a do-it-yourself attitude who is willing to read the documentation, and solve their own problems.
In general, you can have a good gaming experience on almost any distro. The main limitation is probably running brand-new hardware, which can be a bit difficult on some of the slower distros (Debian, Ubuntu LTS, Mint, …). There are only very minor performance differences between distros.
If you’re a new user that wants to use a fast-moving distro with many options for customization, I’d recommend Fedora (e.g. Fedora KDE).
They’re all pretty much the same now as far as distributions go. Kernel and driver versions paired with whatever versions of wine/proton are what will get you better performance now.
If you want to stay more towards the bleeding edge of things, go with a faster releasing rolling distro. Fedora or Arch, but the former unless you’re really familiar with what you’re doing.
Bazzite is the best currently, based on fedora so it’s up to date, atomic so it stable AF
Atomic has nothing to do with stability. Really wish these kids who have no idea about it would stop with that noise.
it means if you break your system you can rewind to a previous working stable configuration and it makes it slightly harder to muck around with os level stuff helping prevent breakage, also many apps are containerised further limiting their side effects on the os’s stability
is that the noise you were talking about?