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What Linux Operating Systems do you like?

I came here looking for answers and only found more questions :cry:
Is Bazzite still the go-to easy option? I'd love to try SteamOS but alas my leather jacket-wearing GPU disallows that.
 
Also been using Cachy for a few months now and it's been flawless. For software development, design and gaming, not a single hiccup. A select few games have some extra steps when it comes to modding, but that's all kind of expected regardless. Everything I need and want runs out of the box so far.
 
Do you guys not bother with secure boot at all?

Did when I dual booted Windows as needed it there but I don't even have a Windows install anymore so didn't see the point of keeping it on for Linux.

Epic Games just launched a Linux native launcher however, which will require Secure Boot amongst other things for any anti cheat enabled titles.
 
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There's actually a very long list of requirements. Its all part of the entire eco system Epic are stating is required to deliver a Linux version of their anti cheat. Secure Boot is one part of the chain that provides integrity and other checks.
Tbh I'm just hopeful it leads to EA doing something similar, I'd love to play BF on Linux but more importantly I want F1 26 playable cause why the F does the single player portion need kernel level anti cheat??
 

Talking of secure boot , Ubuntu has taken a wrecking ball to it unless you use ext4 or fat.
That sucks. Btrfs has some really nice features. Having said that I've only actually used btrfs on OpenSUSE Tumbeweed so it is not a great loss for me.

Edit: Should have read the article. This change only affects the /boot partition. Other partitions can be whatever filesystem you like.
 
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That makes two of us, The way people kicked off on reddit wrongly gave the impression it was ext4 drive or nothing.
Tbh it's par for the course for Reddit, I don't think any of the subs I'm apart of actually read the article/link and just rage based off title

Tbh I didn't even think the boot partition could be BTRFS, I've only ever seen ext4 and fat32 iirc
 



The chap at explainingcomputers just done a review.
I have been using it on a Nvidia Optimus powered Thinkpad P50 for ages and on a older Haswell based desktop with a Vega 56. No issues to report in either case, it is a good alternative to CachyOS if you want a cutting edge (for Debian) rolling update system. I was going to use it on my main desktop, but CachyOS has been great and hasn't died badly enough I haven't been able to fix it to allow PikaOS a chance. :)

Edit - does that count as my obligatory pimp of PikaOS?
Additional edit - Don't let the whimsical default wallpapers put you off, PikaOS is a serious bit of kit.
 
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