• Matty_r@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      I’ve been thinking of switching back to Arch. Currently using Nobara, and its moved to rolling release anyway.

      • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        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.

      • Read Bio@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        And if you like Manjaro your better off using another Distro in my opinion

      • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        13 days ago

        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

        • juipeltje@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          13 days ago

          You could still wonder why endeavour in particular is so great though, in the end it’s all linux.

          • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
            2·
            13 days ago

            I just installed Mint and picked the nvidia drivers in the manager. Am I doing something wrong?

            • Attacker94@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              13 days ago

              I wouldn’t say so, for most people what you have done is good enough. However there may come a time where you have to do something janky, at that point you’ll probably wish you were on a different distro, but for 95% of people, they will never run into any issues with mint.

            • juipeltje@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              13 days ago

              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.

              • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
                3·
                13 days ago

                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.

        • littleomid@feddit.orgEnglish
          21·
          13 days ago

          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.

          • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            12 days ago

            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.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          12·
          13 days ago

          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

    • Senseless@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      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.

    • Read Bio@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      personally any Arch based distro is not great for beginners its alright for intermediate Linux users and great for advanced Linux users
      but Arch based distros are the best for gaming cause newest packages and its quite easy to get game packages (especially when you put repos like Chaotic-AUR

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    13 days ago

    I run Mint Cinnamon on a machine in my room for media. But also run a Jellyfin server off a pop_os server. My partner has a laptop that she updated to Win 11 that has had Audio issues ever since. When I boot to a live disk (linux), no issues. I’ve tried so many fixes for her system and it appears her step mother is having the same issue on another Win 11 machine. I’ve been trying to find a way to ensure she can run all the games she likes on an OS without being a headache. The Sims (probably 2,3,4). Stardew Valley, and such. Steam I have had luck with, but The Sims seems to come from an EA app which I believe I can run through Lutris. I have been hesitant to move that laptop because I want to be sure all of her games will end up working without hours of configuration that may break when she mods something in the game and needs a reinstall of the game itself. Has anyone had any luck with the EA app? I figure if she’s paid for the licenses, I would rather use them than torrenting it all.

    Mint Cinnamon was what I figured I’d use for that laptop, but if someone has a better suggestion I’d like to hear it

  • PanArab@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    13 days ago

    Nearly a third are coming from the Steam Deck and other Steam OS handhelds. Impressive.