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[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

After Bazzite I went to Garuda, is also gaming focused and has a handy helper app that helps you install common software, run updates, and more.

If you need a new distro it's worth a look.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I went to Garuda

THERE'S DOZENS OF US, DOZENS!!

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hell yeah brother, make it 11 of us!

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

💪💪💪💪

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I go with CachyOs Ik ik the compiler optimizations only give a minor difference and maybe major in latency but am just comfy with it.
I just like how minimal is the distro

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cachyos has some great default setup choices too. Limine with btrfs + snapper, all preconfigured.. spot on!

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ohh yeah true I forgot they offer alterntive bootloaders that arent grub

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Grub was really the only option if you wanted a snapper rollback though.

But now Limine is the new choice for me.

Systemd-boot doesn’t play with snapper.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True but systemd-boot also worked for me on opensuse?

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Interesting. I wonder if opensuse wrote up their own solution to this. I did find a post from Cachyos Petr last year responding that he’d like to see more how opensuse boatloader is managed.

I only ever used grub with tumbleweed.

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[–] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why not just install the CachyOS kernel onto Fedora (like me)? I then deleted the stock kernle and now make sure to use --exclude=kernel* when updating. Works like a charm.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Isn't Garuda also based on Fedora?

Edit: I was thinking of Nobara.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

god these names just sound the fucking same, garudo nobara banuda ronada, talking about linux gaming distros is liable to summon a demon

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 17 points 1 month ago

I guarantee you will summon a number of daemons running any of them though!

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Genuinely funny comment, thank you.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

bapacka balunch
bapick banick..
BA'NOODLE

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Honestly go for EnOS. Garuda is neat and has a good default setup, but they've gone a little far with their modifications imo

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly go for EnOS.

Is that the whole name? Because searching shows YenOS, EndeavorOS, EventOS, EndlessOS and one ENOS based off Xubuntu (a single 2020 mention for a 0.4 version)

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

EnOS is generally EndeavorOS

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh? I'm still a Linux noob, educate me.

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just don't like their candy design that much and it's effort to undo post-installation

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I assume you are taking about desktop environment stuff? I installed the xfce version and it's been pretty streamlined.

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, I'm talking about their pre-installed software and custom theming

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's fair, but as a Linux beginner, I was happy to have more software than I needed at the start rather than not enough. If you know what you are doing, I could see how you could have a different opinion.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is a lite version, but sure whatever you prefer.

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but it's still more work to remove KDE and things... EnOS has an installer that allows you to cherry-pick your preferred packages