I don’t spend much time on my desktop computer but if I do I tend to game a bit. OW II, CS, Helldivers, Tabletop Simulator mostly. And of course need Discord.

I am considering a minor upgrade to the hardware and would need a fresh install (currently Win 10). I’ve been out of the distro game for a while and currently only have one old thinkpad running Debian and an X1 Carbon gen7 I want to use for experimentating/ distro hopping.

I want a daily driver OS that can play games. I also edit photos and might to the odd “flash a CFW to an old phone” or similar light tasks. Where do I start?

I hear PopOS because “it just works” but also CachyOS because “performance, muh”.

I have experience with Ubuntu (first was 6.06) and Fedora mostly but have played around with a lot that came with at least a barebones UI (crunchbang anyone?). My life has changed so I have less time to nerd out with this than I used to. But I feel the itch to experiment now and maybe use Linux on my main desktop again after some years with that mentioned upgrade soon.

  • AmbiguousPropsEnglish
    131·
    2 months ago

    Bazzite is where it’s at for gaming. Even more stable than PopOS and runs games very well out of the box.

      • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
        7·
        2 months ago

        Generally; CachyOS is Arch Linux, which means all the good sides and down sides of Arch.

        Bazzite is universal-blue. Which is immutable Fedora. You can’t really mess around with the system. You install software via flatpak, everything is a very controlled environment.

        • 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.deOP
          5·
          2 months ago

          Thanks, that’s a great explanation! So in my terms, Bazzite is what I should consider for my daily driver, CachyOS might be worth fiddling around with on my “just for fun” thinkpad :)

          • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
            41·
            2 months ago

            Depending how familiar and comfortable you are with linux, that could be right.

            Bazzite is a dependable experience that you setup it up to do a job and just use it. Tinkering around with it isn’t really a thing.

            CachyOS being basically Arch with some performance based modifications is absolutely for tinkering with, customising, learning to get under the hood with Linux… but also very breakable.