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Loving PopOS but apparently I can't get the latest Nvidia driver? (Your regularly scheduled "What Distro should I use" thread) (ttrpg.network)
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Basically the title. Loving PopOS as my daily, but I understand that PopOS uses their own process and makes sure that only a checked driver gets wide release. Great for stability, less great for playing games that just came out. Is there a distro that this community generally recommends for gaming?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

SteamOS is based on arch linux, and I joke that when someone merge a pull request on github, Arch starts to build their package.

EndevourOS is basically arch linux for beginners, they have their own repositories but just for some tools, just cool stuff.

About Manjaro I would recommend to not use it, not because of the reasons' ppl common raise, for me, it was actually good when I used it, but they try to be "stable" as PopOS in their default branch, so you will never get the latest stuff.

I don't like Nobara because it is based on Fedora, a semi-rolling-release distro, so some packages don't update regularly and wait until next release, they probably update everything related to graphics and games but I do not only play games on my machine, I never used Nobara tho.

Said that, I play a lot more than I should, and I use EndevourOS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I joke that when someone merge a pull request on github, Arch starts to build their package.

This is ideal if you have sufficient automated testing in place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As someone that was on a straight Arch install for years I've come to appreciate Manjaro + their holding back of non-critical updates for a couple weeks for additional testing. Between that and sticking to LTS kernel versions I've run into way fewer issues (not that being on the bleeding edge for updates was that bad, but problems certainly came up occasionally).