r/DistroHopping

I love Linux and won’t ever be switching back, if that wasn’t obvious, but I really don’t want to be locked down to just one distro. I realized that Cachy usually runs higher 1% lows and higher FPS, or at least it’s at Fedora’s level, so it would be an upgrade. I already run it on my laptop, so I understand it pretty well. But the question is: is it really worth it? I don’t know the actual FPS differences directly, and I can’t seem to find a single thread or video on it that helped me decide. I don’t use this PC for anything but games and entertainment.

Here are my specs: 9070 XT, 48 GB DDR5, 7800X3D, 2 TB NVMe, AIO cooling, and whatnot. Overall, I can run any game at max graphics over 100 FPS, ignoring RT and PT.

Repost because deleted i guess on other sub

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This distro seems "hot and best" right now. I went head and dove in, first distro.

Duel booting windows 11 and it works flawlessly. Cachy can browse and game just as good, maybe even better. Seems to load the graphics with like, no bloat. It's incredible.

Installing stuff is crazy, like, what the heck is going on here? Just type a name in terminal, press enter and trust me bro?

Only other i wish ableton and fusion(360) worked but, i shall give others a try. Freecad, opencad(?), and blender which I've always wanted to try. Can figure out reaper if i need it for music.

I run intel processor with an rtx gpu.
Ideally i want controller first setup similar to big picture on steam. My main usecase is tv gaming and movies.

I tried pop os but i had reliability issues where every time i would sit down to play i would need to spend 10-20 mins troubleshooting something. And at the end of the day i want to grab a controller and sit down.

I work with linux servers so i am ok spending a day or two for setup but after that maybe quarterly maintenance is all im ready to commit for.

Tldr: suggest the least frictionless controller first setup for gaming and movies.

Hi after a long time I settled with a distro, I've used Kali, Ubuntu, popos, Manjaro, Arch, cachyos and fedora and non of them felt like MX Linux ahs, it's stable and still having good amount of bleeding edge packages. But there's a problem at each major release of debian you need to do a clean install and that's a deal breaker for me so I'm looking for a distro similar that doesn't need a clean install at major releases

Llevo usando windows ( 10 para ser exactos ) desde que empecé a manejar un ordenador pero desde que se ha acabado las actualizaciones solo tengo problemas tanto con los drives de mi tarjeta de auido como con la tarjeta de red.

Lo gracioso es cuando he investigado a usar algunas distros de Linux y he visto que el problema desaparecía.

Esto ayuda mucho a que mis ganas de cambiarme a un SO libre como Mint u otro que se parezca aumenten pero no estoy seguro de poder sentirme igual de cómodo que usando windows, aunque a la vez sienta que no estoy seguro teniendo la telemetría y la gestión automatizada encima mío sin que me pregunten si quiero o no quiero compartir mi información personal con millones de socios interconectados para terminar vendiendo mis datos en sitios como eGenetics.

Necesito que alguien me diga la verdad sobre como es pasarse definitivamente a SO Linux.

I just want to thank this subreddit for the people in here who have used Mactoy as a way to create Ventoy disks on MacOS. Special thanks to those who have submitted Github issues for the issues that my first couple releases had. I think my one post here is a large portion of the 40+ stars on github my tool now has, and it's by far my most popular repo at this point. As a newer developer, having people actually use my stuff for real work warms my heart.

As I've gotten older, I've begun to realize that probably my greatest joy and fulfillment comes from feeling helpful and useful. Thank you guys for making me feel that way.

Been using CachyOS for a while and recently got a new used laptop that came with windows on it. Promptly trashed that and wanted to try something different so I put Fedora KDE on it for a few days.

All I learned is that I missed CachyOS because it's what I'm used to now, and was getting frustrated with the package manager in it. Should I just stick to arch based distros? I was also considering tumbleweed because I like the rolling nature of arch so far.

For gaming and general browsing with a little libre office work too what would you guys recommend if I want stability and my system is good but not the most recent (RX7600, Ryzen 5 5600x)?

I’m leaning towards Debian Stable rather than Ubuntu. Also don’t recommend me Cachy and Bazzite or “gaming” derivatives. I don’t like the immutability and don’t like rolling release. I’m talking about Debian Stable or Ubuntu only. Also since backports is a thing old Mesa drivers is not an issue.

With Ubuntu I like that its corporation backed OS, is reliable and hassle free. But Debian Stable is rock solid one where you control everything. So both are very much appealing to me.

Can't really finda a definitive awnser for this, but I'm torn between Fedora KDE, Tumbleweed or CachyOS for my gaming PC.

Between CachyOS and Tumbleweed, I think I'll go with the more stable OpenSUSE distro, but am I really gonna feel a difference in performance if I just go with something even more stable like Fedora, even though it's not rolling release?

Help finding a distro.

hello,

i used Linux mint 5 years ago. Currently running windows right now

let's get to the point.

I like how windows reads and notified external hardrvies and their contents out of box.

i have a nivida GPU, ryzen AND CPU.

i game with steam, epic games, emulation and itch.o

I use it daily use.

which distro would you suggest based on these key features?

My desktop PC is not only my daily driver, it’s my gaming PC as well. I have been running Manjaro for about two years and I have to say, it was fun. But, lately, it’s been struggling. WiFi works intermittently, it can’t update for whatever reason, and it’s become unstable. It’s not the first time it’s corrupted itself. So I need a new distro.

So I’m trying to pick between Fedora Linux 44 and Opensuse Tumbleweed.

Keep in mind, I have Nvidia hardware, 4k monitors, and gamer specific keyboards and mouse. That’s why I need something that has the newest drivers and kernels.

I have an ASUS Laptop with Intel Celeron N3350 and a 4GB of ram with a 120gb SSD. I first stumble apon Linux when LTT was doing a video about PopOS. PopOS is my first ever distro. After some time, i started hopping from one Linux distro to another.

These are Linux Distro's i have tried, use for a bit, and reinstalled from for the past month :

- Ubuntu (6 Hours) (2x)

- Lubuntu (2 Hours) (2x)

- Kubuntu (1 Hour)

- Debian (30 minutes up to 5 Hours) (4x)

- Zorin OS (2 Days)

- PopOS! (4 Hours)

- Steam OS (40 Minutes)

- Arch Linux (1 Day)

- NixOS (45 Minutes)

- Elementary OS (2 Days) (2x)

- Red Hat Linux (2 Days)

- Linux Mint XFCE (1 Day) (3x)

- LMDE (30 Minutes)

- Alpine Linux (1 Day)

- PostmarketOS (5 Hour)

- Void Linux (2 Days)

- CachyOS (1 Hour)

- OpenSUSE (1 Hour)

- Deepin (1 Hour)

- Fedora Workstation (3 Days) (6x)

- Fedora KDE (1 Hour) (2x)

- AntiX (1 Hour)

- Chrome OS Flex (3 Days) (4x)

- Q4OS Trinity (Currently, but might hop again)

With some DE or WM that i switched to :

- Gnome (12x)

- KDE Plasma (6x)

- XFCE (8x)

- Cinnamon (2x)

- LXQT (3x)

- Cosmic

- Pantheon

- i3

- Sway

- Hyprland

- And many more...

You maybe wondering, why did i go for all the trouble of wiping the SSD and instialling a new distro on my laptop just to wipe it again for a new distro or coming back to certain distribution (like Fedora Workstation or Chrome OS Flex)

Well... Its quite complicated. For the past months i was sailing and searching for the best distribution with these 4 requirements and specific use cases :

- I want to do heavy Browsing (mainly i do graphic design in Figma, Photopea, or Canva) with 4-5 tabs open for Pinterest, YouTube, Browser Games or Googling.

- I don't like Inconsistent, Cluttered and Crowded Desktop Environment or Window Manager.

- I just needed things to work and not stutter or lagging or glitching when i have to do important work at limited time.

- Sometimes i have to use real and native application like Gimp, Krita, Kdenlive, or anything else.

- I don't like configuring my Distro too much to meet my optimal use.

With those Distros, it feels like i cannot achive 4 of them without ditching my Celeron Laptop for a Used good and sexy "Thinkpad" which i don't have the money right now.

What should i do right now?

Hi everyone! I’m looking for lightweight or well-optimized distro recommendations to extract maximum performance out of my 2-in-1 Windows tablet.

Since the CPU is low-power (4.5W TDP) and fanless, thermal throttling can happen under heavy loads, so I need an OS with minimal background overhead.

Hardware Specs:

Device: Fujitsu ARROWS Tab V727/V (2-in-1 Detachable)

CPU: Intel Core m3-7Y30 (2 Cores / 4 Threads, 1.0 GHz up to 2.6 GHz, 4.5W TDP)

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 615

RAM: 8GB LPDDR3

Storage: 128GB SSD

Display: 12.3" IPS Touchscreen (1920x1280, 3:2 ratio)

Input: Touchscreen, Wacom AES Stylus pen

Primary Goals:

1. Maximize CPU Performance: Minimal background resource usage to prevent thermal throttling on a fanless chip.

2. Touch & 2-in-1 Support: Good out-of-the-box support for touchscreen gestures, screen rotation, and stylus/pen input.

3. Battery Efficiency: Good power management out of the box (or easy setup with ⁠tlp⁠ / ⁠auto-cpufreq⁠).

What distro + Desktop Environment combination would you recommend to strike the best balance between low CPU usage and good 2-in-1 usability? Thanks in advance!

I'm using fedora kde plasma but curious to see what else y'all use and why, is there a performance upgrade, or just easier to use or what. I'm all ears

fedora with 2 extensions

Hi everyone.

I'm glad that I found fedora workstation to be my favorite of all the distros I tried since last month.

It all started with Windows 11 not launching a game which was perfectly working on older version (22H2) of it but not after I updated. No matter what I did. I have been windows user since Windows 95 but 11 is getting very annoying lately.

So just for sake of trying I installed linux mint and set up lutris/wine and game launched immediately. And thus began my journey to move away from Windows to Linux. I always had like MacOS design and wanted something similar so I tried shaping mint as MacOS which was good but It still felt lacking.

I switched to cachyos with kde plasma. Customised it so much and finally got the look i wanted but turned out rolling releases were not my thing as i wanted something which require less maintenance.

So here i am with gnome and only two extensions, blur my shell and dash to dock. I like tinkering but now i feel like my primary OS should be minimal and just let me focus on my work. End of distrohopping for me.

Hoping to learn linux fast.