Man, you had it harder than me with the realtek drivers. PikaOS is pretty cool overall, as it does streamline some things that Debian makes annoying (graphics drivers, for example). I do hope you enjoy PikaOS, after troubleshooting that annoying issue! The good thing about anything Debian based is that .debs are probably the most prevalent installer out there (cries in Arch).

Not accusing anyone here of white supremacy but "master race" is a term we really need to stop using/normalizing.

Just a fair warning, PikaOS is a hobby project. The authors of this distribution make it very clear with a warning message when you install it. They'll try to maintain it as best they can, but provide no guarantee.

It's nice for messing around or if it's for a dedicated gaming PC or device, but it's a terrible idea as a daily driver.

Either way, I hope you enjour it!

Oh wow I never heard of PikaOS but of seems great, even though you had some difficulties. I love Debian and have it on my Server, Laptop and now also on my older Gaming (Nvidia) PC.

I feel like Debian really only needs a couple of (hardware specific) tweaks to be a great out of the box experience and it seems PikaOS tries to do that. I don't like that most other desktop first distros opt into using Ubuntu as their bases. But that is only because I'm willing to invest some time to fix stuff and understand how my PC works.

Its not 100% ready if you had to find drivers for your Ethernet and mess around with settings to get a game to launch. Most people aren't savvy and expect their programs to just launch.

In a time where Nazis have made a comeback and racism is rampant world wide, maybe it's time we dropped the whole "master race" joke

Realtek stuff is a major pain it seems. I'm guessing that is why FreeBSD is will known for being fine with nearly anything but realtek.

Not that I really use it by my AMD MoBo runs an Intel NIC for a reason. I started 10G networking a while back. Was a pain to get my Mellanox ConnectX3 working on windows. Linux didn't even blink.

I tried switching a long time ago. And every 3 or 4 years since. I'm happy I have. Things got a lot better in the last few years.

Had a Realtek network card in my gaming pc. Had nothing but problems with it under windows AND Linux. Finally ripped it out a month ago and replaced it with an intel. It’s so nice to have finally a stable connection.

Bottles is an emulator?

How people feel about this distro in general? Would one consider using it in a server? Auto updates with a Debian based distro that is using newer kernel and applications sounds promising.