Since PopOS isn’t really going anywhere since 2022. I’m looking for a new distro that out of the box works with Nvidia and is optimized for gaming. I looked at Bazzite and CachyOS. Does anyone have experience with these?

  • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    PopOS isn’t going anywhere?

    They’ve been working on their own Desktop Environment (COSMIC) for quite a while, an alpha and a beta already exists and the release is planned for December 11th (source).

    • darkmogool@feddit.orgOPDeutsch
      4·
      2 days ago

      Well, that’s good news (thanks, it’s really new to me)… there where long time nothing really to hear about that. But implementing an over 1.5 year old os? I’m sceptical…

      • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        2 days ago

        This toot is a response to a very similar question from someone else.

        Also keep in mind, LTS versions always offer 5 years of support, so the current PopOS 22.04 LTS will receive support until April 2027, and the new PopOS 24.04 LTS will receive updates until April 2029.

        • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Its been SUUUPER stable on my systems. That and they are doing things slighly different than Ubuntu, which I really like.

          • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
            31·
            2 days ago

            To be fair, your “SUUUPER stable” is another person’s “not really going anywhere”…

  • Botzo@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    I run Bazzite and Garuda (with the cachyos kernel). Only the Garuda box is Nvidia and has been great since kde+Wayland+Nvidia stabilized a year or so ago.

    I think any of them (including cachyos) is a good choice. Optimization is diminishing returns, so I’d be looking for a distro with the default settings and tools I like as a much higher priority.

    For example, I like Garuda’s btrfs with automatic checkpoints on upgrade so I can just send a garuda update (which is pacman Syu with bells and whistles) and almost ignore the output even when I get lazy and don’t update for a month. Don’t take this as a recommendation to ignore updates on an arch-based distro. There will eventually be consequences.

    With bazzite, updates really are in the same class because of the immutable base. But I’m also deep into containers and have no issue with the ergonomics of layering and management, which are improving, but definitely not very newbie friendly.

    Anyway, give them test drives. You’d be surprised how much changing a package manager can impact your ability to do things for a while if you aren’t familiar.

  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I’ve been daily driving CachyOS for a while now. It’s fast, and I like the rolling release model. It pretty much worked with my 4070 out of the box I believe, I don’t think I had to do anything special there. I started with Cinnamon as my DE, but eventually moved to Gnome (Cinnamon still uses X11 I believe, and there were things that just worked better with Wayland, and with a handful of extensions, I can get it to look the way I like).

    That being said, I wouldn’t recommend it to people less comfortable with Linux. CachyOS has its own repositories (which is the whole idea, the software is compiled specifically for more modern hardware), but it can sometimes be confusing when choosing packages to install. The wiki is pretty helpful though, especially with getting games up and running.