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What Linux Operating Systems do you like?

ic1male said:
So far, so good. It even wakes from sleep which caused problems with every other distro I've tried. Yet to try again games but expecting no problems if you believe what Valve says! :D
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Bazzite is awesome. Having now tried it on my second PC I love the implementation; part of that immutable Atomic initiative, built-in useful apps; topgrade, heroic etc. As someone that generally prefers the concept of sticking with the big three distros over derivatives; Bazzite along with Cachy, SteamOS and Mint would be my four exceptions.
 
Yeah, it being atomic was of great interest. Played Horizon Dawn on it last night, seamless. Apart from no rumble or speaker noises from the DualSense controller.
 
ic1male said:
Yeah, it being atomic was of great interest. Played Horizon Dawn on it last night, seamless. Apart from no rumble or speaker noises from the DualSense controller.
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I need to re-buy a few of the Sony games I had on PS5 on PC. Horizon: ZD is one of them. As I understand it the Dualsense proprietary features like haptics and feedback triggers are only supported when wired on PC. But I did find this very cool project called DS5 Dongle; https://github.com/awalol/DS5Dongle . Which just uses a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W to basically match the PS5's full wireless capability. I've not got around to building one yet, but will do at some point. There's also some really cool community forks adding DS4, or other interesting options. I think there's some who claim wireless adaptors from Gulikit can emulate the same functionality, but as far as I'm aware that isn't correct.
 
I really like Debian 13 but what I seem to experience is that there is no auto update or at least its not enabled... perhaps there is something I need to do in the terminal because what I don't want to end up doing is using something where security updates are not installed. I have tried to manually do updates in the terminal but I often get errors. One small issue I need to solve when I get some more free time on my hands.
 
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Retro6 said:
I really like Debian 13 but what I seem to experience is that there is no auto update or at least its not enabled... perhaps there is something I need to do in the terminal because what I don't want to end up doing is using something where security updates are not installed. I have tried to manually do updates in the terminal but I often get errors. One small issue I need to solve when I get some more free time on my hands.
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Take a look into using unattended upgrades :) https://wiki.debian.org/PeriodicUpdates
 
I'm currently giving Bazzite a whirl after persistent windows driver issues did my head in - and I'm wondering why I waited so long. Sure, it's not perfect, there's a few things I'm missing but all of a sudden driver issues have completely vanished, world of warcraft runs waaaaaaaay smoother and my little touchscreen monitor has started working without having to make it my primary monitor (something that windows wouldn't do). I'm impressed.
 
Even though I’m loving Bazzite, I stumbled across FreeBSD randomly watching YouTube. Now I feel compelled to dual boot and try it out. Not for gaming but mainly as a dev environment.
 
I still want to try Linux as a main OS (probably CachyOS, maybe Bazzite, or may get a bit more in depth and go more 'nuts and bolts' with Arch), I think for most games it'll be absolutely fine, but there are a few games that will keep me on Windows at least as a dual boot (and that's purely because of anti-cheat, aka a business decision, rather than any technical limitation!)

But I persuaded my dad to try Linux a couple of years ago and he's loving it, he's using Zorin as his main 'daily driver' OS and for someone who's only ever used Windows, since 3.1 or earlier, it's intuitive, lightweight (at least on a reasonable system that was just about useable on W11 for basic use) and does everything he needs.

He's even been trying other distros on his more powerful PC (music production etc.) and despite some snagging, is getting on pretty well with it (last I heard he was getting on ok with Kubuntu, and had even tried out some games on it!)

Main point - As a 'Windows replacement' for day to day desktop use, I'd recommend Zorin 100% as a starting point - Low learning curve, fans don't spin up because it's not wasting all it's power on telemetry, easy to use 'app store'/package manager and most things you need are built in :)
 
I have been using EndeavourOS for some years now with no problems. I keep looking for a lightweight easy distro to put on an old laptop but I am struggling to find one that is suitable. Bodhi seemed to be the best but it looks like development has stopped and the current version is nearing end of life.
 
freebooter said:
I have been using EndeavourOS for some years now with no problems. I keep looking for a lightweight easy distro to put on an old laptop but I am struggling to find one that is suitable. Bodhi seemed to be the best but it looks like development has stopped and the current version is nearing end of life.
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That's my poison at home too. I did a bit of bistro hopping and keep coming back. Just the right amount of hand holding and default settings for me. With all the AUR issues recently I've been considering a Fedora based bistro though.

I have to use Ubuntu 24.04 its for work. I can't complain, it was 22.04 for a long time for software compatibility. I was very glad to move from that!
 
I bought one of the £600 9070XT's nearly week ago, same day I got it I installed Fedora 44, and yesterday I wiped my other 2 drives, reformated them into BTRFS and re-downloaded everything on them

I've had a few minor issues but overall it's been solid (it is Fedora so I should expect as much really), I just wish you could have limine and snapshots setup during installation like Cachy offers
 
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I see Xlibre is still causing controversy with right wing ideology and badly coded patches being accepted!

Apparently Artix Linux is the latest to drop any testing or support for it, Yet Peppermint OS has announced they are going to use it as their default.
 
will13 said:
I bought one of the £600 9070XT's nearly week ago, same day I got it I installed Fedora 44, and yesterday I wiped my other 2 drives, reformated them into BTRFS and re-downloaded everything on them

I've had a few minor issues but overall it's been solid (it is Fedora so I should expect as much really), I just wish you could have limine and snapshots setup during installation like Cachy offers
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I got one of the 9070XTs too. Took out my 6800XT from my Bazzite PC, popped in the 5070XT, booted it up, started playing Doom; The Dark Ages. Such a smooth process I had to double check everything was working as it seemed
 
Bluecube said:
I got one of the 9070XTs too. Took out my 6800XT from my Bazzite PC, popped in the 5070XT, booted it up, started playing Doom; The Dark Ages. Such a smooth process I had to double check everything was working as it seemed
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Yeap it's certainly pretty smooth going nowadays, I feel like RDNA4 still has some performance left on table (especially in RT) but that'll come as Mesa matures for them

Was it also the prime you got? I've got mine running at 270w + -80mv and it performs same or better than stock but lot quieter and bit cooler (700rpm less fan speed)
 
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will13 said:
Yeap it's certainly pretty smooth going nowadays, I feel like RDNA4 still has some performance left on table (especially in RT) but that'll come as Mesa matures for them

Was it also the prime you got? I've got mine running at 270w + -80mv and it performs same or better than stock but lot quieter and bit cooler (700rpm less fan speed)
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Yes it was. I’m at the stage where I can’t be bothered fiddling with voltages, overclocking or anything else. Been there, done it, got the lead pencil for the Athlons… My PC is purely for gaming though and sits about 10 feet away. Once the sound bar is cranked up and Doom is on, any fan noise is lost. Out of interest what did you use to tweak the voltages?

I quickly tried ray tracing in Doom and CP2077 but found the differences quite subtle despite the massive fall in fps. It has a future but until I get a minimum of 60fps, preferably 120fps at 4K, it’s not something I worry about.
 
Bluecube said:
Yes it was. I’m at the stage where I can’t be bothered fiddling with voltages, overclocking or anything else. Been there, done it, got the lead pencil for the Athlons… My PC is purely for gaming though and sits about 10 feet away. Once the sound bar is cranked up and Doom is on, any fan noise is lost. Out of interest what did you use to tweak the voltages?

I quickly tried ray tracing in Doom and CP2077 but found the differences quite subtle despite the massive fall in fps. It has a future but until I get a minimum of 60fps, preferably 120fps at 4K, it’s not something I worry about.
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I use LACT, to be fair didn't take me long I just watched one video where he benchmarked different OCs + UVs and went a bit safer, I haven't done any stability testing yet but it's been fine so far in games I've played, I've thought about seeing if I can push further but haven't been bothered yet

To be fair I regards too Cyberpunk it does look much better in certain areas, and path tracing + ray reconstruction can look insane but at a hefty cost
 
I started on Red Hat back in 00/01, moved to Fedora Core a few years later, stuck with Fedora until Silverblue was made available around version 27 or 28 and have been on it since. I've dabbled with other distros but ultimately end up back with Red Hat or a derivative. Ultimately it all boils down to release schedule, package manager and init system between distros. I like Fedora's 6 month release schedule because it's relatively up-to-date without being rolling release, For servers I use Rocky for long support and stability, previously CentOS. I like yum/dnf over apt but mostly deal with flatpak and rpm-ostree now and I absolutely couldn't care what my init system is these days. When it comes to DE I'm perfectly content with GNOME since I got over needing a million customisation options as found in KDE 20 years ago and with the birth of Compiz. I am also one of the extremely rare weirdos that doesn't require a single GNOME shell extension to "improve" my user experience.

The only other *nix operating systems I use are FreeBSD in the form of OpnSense on a firewall and OpenWRT on a wireless access point. I will say, FreeBSD's pkg and ports system is probably my second favourite package management system after yum/dnf.
 
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