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CachyOs vs PopOs vs others? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by 3dmvr@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What would you reccomend/use for an alienware laptop m17r5 with amdcpu (idr) and gpu 6850mxt. Idc about adjusting the keyboard lights, I changed it once and never touched it again. I play games like cities skyline, noita, etc. and some vr stuff rarely like vtolvr and warthunder. I use blender and houdinifx.
I've seen PopOs reccomended for Blender users but I think thats because it comes with a lot of stuff you need for Nvidia, which isn't relevant to me with an all amd setup.

Cachyos seems to be the move for best performance with rendering and simulating, was wondering about other options I have since I dont need to worry about nvidia drivers.

I dont like the idea of using ubuntu because of snap packages, but its not a big deal.

While I like tinkering, I do want it to be relatively stable, not suprising me with issues when I need it.

Currently Interested in: CachyOs Debian (leaning towards here if I go the stable route) EndeavorOs Mint (seems popular, is it just simplified?)

EDIT: Went with CachyOs for now, works well, only issue was auto install didn't work and I needed to manually partition and set the flags for boot and the os drive, other than that it's been very fast and intuitive using KDE plasma. Recently tried Hyprland with the JaKooLit config, since ML4W didn't want to work and had bugs, , I like it more than I thought I would.

Might try EndeavorOS and Bazzite on another ssd, they also look interesting.

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[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Bazzite is terrific

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (8 children)

A friend installed it and it's been terrible doing tech support about it. All the obvious fixes don't work because it's immutable, all the obvious fixes like editing fstab don't work, you need to use their hip programs and special commands to install things. The arch wiki that usually helps any distro doesn't work and you need to almost exclusively use their own docs. Terrible experience.

He has somehow managed to break the glorious immutable distro twice in two weeks while I'm happy with life in EOS for a year since the full swap.

Oh, and bazzite doesn't support NTFS drives. They say it's because the NTFS conversion layer has issues but I've been living with the games ssd drive being a NTFS drive because I need space to swap it to brtfs and it works FINE. Games run at the same speed, the drove doesn't lock, there's no weird write issues or anything. Bazzite devs are cowards that don't allow NTFS drives for dual booters either.

Doing tech support for it for a month now, I've come to hate all the stupid limitations for the so called glorious immutable distro.

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I didn't know about bazzite not supporting ntfs. I do agree with you that it's silly that they don't allow you to use it, but from my own experience i will say that they are probably right about ntfs having issues in linux. I was using an external drive formatted to ntfs to move stuff between windows and linux, and at one point the entire partition just broke when it was connected to linux. It didn't seem to be a faulty drive cause after a reformat it worked just fine, but i try to avoid ntfs as much as possible now.

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Bazzite does support ntfs. I have ntfs partitions on my system and they work perfectly fine in Bazzite.

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