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Doing my part
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Same
One day it will reach 5%.
More people should use EndeavourOS. It’s fantastic for gaming.
I mean, that’s basically the same as Arch.
Yeah, just much easier to install, which is what I want from it, I never got the argument that by installing arch manually you “learn” what’s on your pc, idgaf, even as a software developer let alone a normie, I want a working system, that just works
You could still wonder why endeavour in particular is so great though, in the end it’s all linux.
I just installed Mint and picked the nvidia drivers in the manager. Am I doing something wrong?
Sounds fine to me. What i meant to say was that since it’s all linux, the distro you pick is just customized for a certain usecase, but you can pretty much do whatever you want to do with any distro, but if you don’t want to bother setting it up yourself, a distro that is already configured a certain way is more convenient, but which one is “best” in that case purely depends on what you want to do with it, but there isn’t really an absolute “best” distro that everyone should use.
As I just migrated from windows this year it’s just wild to me that “comes with x pre-packaged” is an argument at all. That sounds like having a windows version that already has, say, steam preinstalled, which takes 2-5 minutes to do myself (in Windows or Linux). I wouldn’t specifically pick that to save the 2-5 minutes. Researching it would take longer.
Now, if we’re talking about things that are actually hard to integrate into some distros that’s a different question, but I clearly am not informed enough to imagine what that could be.
I think that once one goes into software development professionally, mucking about with Linux configuration stops being something one does as a fun learning hobby and becomes something one does for work and hence can’t be arsed to also do at home during one’s free time.
Certainly that’s how it goes for me: all I want from my Linux machine at home is that it delivers the least hindrance possible to my web-browsing, gaming, 3D printing and so on, whilst still protecting my privacy and letting me to a little bit of playing around with its more powerful features but only when I feel like it, not as a requirement to use it.
The same also applies to other techie stuff, by the way: I’m no early adopted of latest and greatest because I don’t want to be somebody’s beta tester, since I have enough hassle already testing and fixing my own code (were I can actually deploy good practices to reduce the amounts of bugs and hence frustration, unlike the vast amounts of amateur-hour crap out there being shipped as final products that are just beta tests that never end).
/RANT
Then arch is not a good choice. If you don’t know how your arch distro works, it will break at some point and you won’t know how to fix it. That’s the issue.
Seems a little extreme. If you’re new to Linux every distro is going to have a learning curve and you’ll start at first boot not understanding it.
If you’re not new to Linux, then it’s just another distro. For me, the only “new” thing was learning pacman’s option flags since I’d only ever used yum/dnf and apt. And of course, finding out the joy that is yay and the AUR.
Not everyone wants to spend a bunch of time tuning the install just so, and just want to be up and running fast with the bare essentials they need. For me, Endeavour is a clean and fast, has rapid kernel updates, and includes most of the things I need right out of the gate.
Cachy is just endeavour but with like 20 hours + of all the extra stuff you do after an install already done if you are only focused on gaming.
Endeavour is fantastic but it’s a general purpose project. Cachy IS first and foremost gamer/performance focused.
So if you love endeavour but want to only game then cachy saves endless time and effort and for new users or gamers wanting to be lazy it’s just a no brainer to go cachy
I’ve already used Cachy, but went back to Endeavour. I found Cachy’s “optimizations” to be a bit janky. At the time they enabled some items for ntsync that were clearly not ready for primetime.
Performance-wise, I compared the two head to head and found Cachy and Endeavor to be equally performant for gaming. Cachy just didn’t offer anything for me that Endeavor didn’t already do.
On top of this, I found Cachy’s packages to lag a bit behind the Arch and Endeavor repos, particularly in the Cachy-extras repository, and it ended up causing me issues with things I used from the AUR due to packaging conflicts (the old Manjaro type crap).
Cachy isn’t for me, though I get why people like it.
It is. The switch last year, coming from windows, was a bit rough but that’s also partly due to the nvidia drivers. They got way better in the mean time. And then it’s just learning how things work and how to troubleshoot if I do something stupid.
We still have a long way to go but we’ve already come so far!
Nice.
where is fedora?
In other
Definitely surprised to see it’s such a low percentage that it was swept under the Other category.
Nice, I’m part of that .05% Debian 12 crowd.
We’re doing our part!
I’d guess that desktop Linux users are statistically using their PC in summer more than the normal PC user (using windows).
once during summer i just stuck my pc out the window in a screened off porch, shoved the cables through the window, boom… no more heat :3
Not sure wtf those 97% are thinking
They did not use their brains enough.
Just use linux, it can do literally everything (via VMs) linux can; but better, faster and more customizable.
Just use linux, it can do literally everything (via VMs) linux can
Hmm, Linux is better than Linux? What a world!
Signed out of windows and into Mint when steam went to ask this time, the last 2 I said “sure” while playing cod on windows so it wasn’t tracking me
So I’m now doing my part
I’m just glad that I’m not the only one running steam on Debian.
I’m sorry for your drivers
It’s okay, it’s AMD, so it mostly works. I had trouble with my Bluetooth, but then remembered that I don’t really care enough to fix it.
Yeah arch! We are legion!
I take it, you use arch?
BTW
Why are some in quotes?
Because that’s people not using Arch Linux but “Arch Linux”.
I use (pause) “Arch” btw.
It’s actually Ubuntu with the default Arch wallpaper.
Every part of this sentence makes me sad.
Just a guess, maybe those don’t have explicitly set distribution names and are basically named by Valve themselves.
$ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Arch Linux" PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux" (...)Because this is how distributions declare their names
I’m somewhat surprised there isn’t a Fedora there, it’s a pretty great and up-to-date distro.
I’m also somewhat surprised Flatpak isn’t higher!
Fedora or Bazzite (Fedora-based) are my top recommendations for new Linux users. I’m constantly surprised at Mint’s general popularity, especially for gaming. Even openSUSE Tumbleweed is a better option when it comes to gaming.
Wanted to try bazzite but on my 13 year old cpu and mobo it wouldn’t boot. Mint ran perfectly.
I’m not a new Linux user but am a new Linux gamer. I landed on endeavorOS a few months ago and like it enough I converted my other two desktops over. Whether it’s just dumb luck or not it has been noticeably more snappy on all three of the workstations I put it on than anything else I was using. It’s honestly kind of eerie, after putting my work laptop (windows11) away for the day and jumping on one of my systems they are so responsive now that sometimes it feels like it’s predicting what I want to do before I do it.
There’s a reason it’s not up there and cachy is, bazzite is in basically just a worse version of what cachy is setting out to do.
Also surprised about that. I use Nobara and that too is based Off Fedora.
Yeah, it seems there’s something going on with what’s listed here. It doesn’t match any other measurement.
