So I’m looking for a new distro rec and having a hard time landing on one. I started off on PopOS for a couple of years and it was fine, but I wanted something a little different, then I switched to Bazzite and found out I love KDE and dislike immutable distros.

I primarily use my machine for gaming and secondarily for small coding projects and a lil home labbing. And based on my previous selections you can probably tell I don’t want to have to mess with a lot of settings or configurations to get coding or gaming.

I’m currently leaning towards EndeavuorOS or Garuda, but wanted to hear some other opinions.

For a little more background I checked out Manjaro and Nobara, but liked Endeavuor a bit more. My GPU and CPU are both AMD and relatively new.

  • Arose8334@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Super happy with Fedora. Both KDE and Gnome spins are great. So far no stability issues. The only thing I miss from EndeavourOS is AUR, but honestly, most apps I use are available in flatpak or homebrew anyway.

  • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’ve never used EndeavourOS or Manjaro, but if you’re looking for something similar to Bazzite (gaming-ready, not immutable) and Arch-based I’d check out CachyOS. I’ve been using it for a good while now and I really like it.

  • Lemmist@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    In all cases when you don’t know what exactly distro you want – use Debian. Debian is a default Linux.

    • Arose8334@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Personally I prefer Debian for servers and something like Fedora Workstation for desktop/laptop. More recent packages and frequent updates on Fedora.

      • Lemmist@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        My advice doesn’t apply to you because you actually know what exactly distro you want :)

    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I’ll second that. I’ve been using Fedora KDE for almost a year as my sole desktop OS with no notable issues and really only one minor gripe. Which is that my 240Hz monitor gains a distracting flicker at 240Hz, but if I set it to 120Hz it goes away.

        • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          I can’t speak to the Quest support as I don’t have one, but my Index definitely had issues when I first switched to Linux fulltime. I had been dual-booting for about a year prior to that. But over the last year, it’s gotten better and most titles I’ve tried lately seem to just work the same way they did on Windows.

          I do still have this persistent issue where my computer treats the headset as the primary display during bootup if have it plugged in, but that’s OS independent and starts at POST.

          I’ve also seen some changelogs a while back suggesting Valve was trying to get OpenVR and SteamVR more compatible and make them both work better on Linux. I don’t know what issues you were having or how recently but it might be worth digging into again if it’s something you care about.