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CachyOs vs PopOs vs others? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by 3dmvr@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What would you reccomend/use for an alienware laptop m17r5 with amdcpu (idr) and gpu 6850mxt. Idc about adjusting the keyboard lights, I changed it once and never touched it again. I play games like cities skyline, noita, etc. and some vr stuff rarely like vtolvr and warthunder. I use blender and houdinifx.
I've seen PopOs reccomended for Blender users but I think thats because it comes with a lot of stuff you need for Nvidia, which isn't relevant to me with an all amd setup.

Cachyos seems to be the move for best performance with rendering and simulating, was wondering about other options I have since I dont need to worry about nvidia drivers.

I dont like the idea of using ubuntu because of snap packages, but its not a big deal.

While I like tinkering, I do want it to be relatively stable, not suprising me with issues when I need it.

Currently Interested in: CachyOs Debian (leaning towards here if I go the stable route) EndeavorOs Mint (seems popular, is it just simplified?)

EDIT: Went with CachyOs for now, works well, only issue was auto install didn't work and I needed to manually partition and set the flags for boot and the os drive, other than that it's been very fast and intuitive using KDE plasma. Recently tried Hyprland with the JaKooLit config, since ML4W didn't want to work and had bugs, , I like it more than I thought I would.

Might try EndeavorOS and Bazzite on another ssd, they also look interesting.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cachy - you might have some extra hoops to jump through. The performance difference is negligible for just desktop usage.

PopOS - no real benefit unless you're running Nvidia, and then it's only for the moderately useful graphics switching stuff.

You sound like you want Fedora for simplicity's sake, honestly. There's really no other major performance differences between desktop distros. Any tunings that one has you can just apply to another if you know their benefits.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't necesssrily care about simplicity because I do plan to tinker a lot, I just dont want too frequent updates that arent thoughly tested, I like the 6months to yearly more than the frequent rolling updates, I do plan on messing with the theming a lot since I do that on windows with rainmeter (something would always break with windows updates for anything else)

[–] statue7559@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Get Arch if you really want to tinker and learn about linux.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well I also want it to work, cachyos is archbased

[–] statue7559@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago

I've been daily driving arch since 2021, it just works. In my experience, mother distros like arch tend to work better than downstream distros like manjaro or endeavouros. I haven't had any expreience with CachyOS yet though.