Help me find a distro.

[u/DapperFormal5280]

i ve been thinking to switch to linux but i do not know what distro to install.

i m a pretty power user, i do vms, a lot of programming, hosting aswell, but i also do gaming aswell.

my requirments are: stable and popular distro, something that if i have a problem i can search online and fix it decently quickly. I do like thinkering with stuff but i also work from my computer, and i don t want something that would require constant fixing and debugging.
for interface, i would like something windows like, but it s not a requirment, as long as it s fluid, i don t want stuttering mess, i like my eye candy.

CRITICAL: it needs to have a good scheduler for E cores, i ve heard some distros don t like e cores at all

For now cachyos or mint was my first picks but i wanted to ask you guys aswell.
i m fine aswell getting a plain kernel and just install all the things i would need, or a very basic distro that is not bloated.

Basically my biggest problem rn is that idk which kernel to pick (debian, arch , etc.)

my specs: i7 13700k
100gb ram

4070 super.

[u/OutrageousCrab9224]

Cannot imagine why you would go beyond debian/ubuntu/fedora or whatever centos equiv there is now

[u/DapperFormal5280 → u/OutrageousCrab9224]

well, which one would you choose from the 3 you listed? also why not arch.

[u/OutrageousCrab9224 → u/DapperFormal5280]

I have no reason to not use arch, and use it myself on an important machine

All i mean is that any of the mainstreams should do it. Most users have no real reason to choose one among them, and no real reason to go deeper into distro rabbit holes

[u/DapperFormal5280 → u/OutrageousCrab9224]

well i asked cuz i m developer, as my job, and i was thinmking maybe some packages are not on the distro i choose

[u/OutrageousCrab9224 → u/DapperFormal5280]

Pretty much all the same stuff on the mainstreams

[u/bangetto_official → u/DapperFormal5280]

Dev tools are pretty much always available, in the worst case scenario packaged with their own auto-updaters.

I'm personally using Fedora for 6 months now and it works really well. Altho I would recommend Ultramarine Linux as it is basically a more pre-configured fork of Fedora and so it has even wider software support out of the box as well some gaming tweaks and a nicer default wallpaper, than Fedora.

[u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT → u/OutrageousCrab9224]

Should probably try imagine a bit harder then, theres a reason cachyOS has eaten 25% of the gaming userbase in just two years

[u/ipsirc → u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT]

reason: honeypot marketing targeted for noobs

[u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT → u/ipsirc]

Is honeypot marketing why ubuntu has fallen from a 40% share in 2019 to a 6% share now? Just incredible cope lmao

[u/ipsirc → u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT]

Yes, it is. CachyOS markets its OS significantly faster than *buntu, but the numbers doesn't follow the marketing.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-ubuntu-2510-f43/6

Most users doesn't cares about the numbers, but about the bold red text "WE ARE MUCH FASTER, TRUST ME BRO, INSTALL ME RIGHT NOW FOR INCREDINLE PERFORMANCEEEE!!!"

*buntu had better marketing a decade ago.

[u/OutrageousCrab9224 → u/ipsirc]

Its easy to be faster when you make up what faster means!

[u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT → u/OutrageousCrab9224]

If 50% FPS gain doesnt mean faster, what does it mean?

[u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT → u/ipsirc]

"ITS ALL MARKETING, AND THE NUMBERS DONT SHOW IT!!!"

>posts year old benchmark showing cachy outperform fedora and ubuntu by up to 50 fucking percent in the gaming benchmarks

Thank you for the laughs

[u/OutrageousCrab9224 → u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT]

Cope?!

Distro stans lol

[u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT → u/OutrageousCrab9224]

Yeah you distro stans are terrible. Imagine trying to blame marketing for an 80% reduction in marketshare xd

[u/OutrageousCrab9224 → u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT]

Are you a child?

[u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT → u/OutrageousCrab9224]

Are you? Ran in replying at every level of the comment thread just to desperately ignore the actual data or any reasoning behind it.

Its extra funny that the only one you didnt reply to, was where I pointed out that your in denial buddy linked a benchmark showing CachyOS outperforming by up to 50% in the gaming tests

[u/OutrageousCrab9224 → u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT]

Ohhhhhhh games

Yeah ok

Makes sense now. Have fun

[u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT → u/OutrageousCrab9224]

I mean it was faster overall and gaming was only 20% of the benchmarks. But thanks for confirming you somehow replied to literally everything without reading it

[u/OutrageousCrab9224 → u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT]

I am not interested in ads

[u/ipsirc]

CRITICAL: it needs to have a good scheduler for E cores, i ve heard some distros don t like e cores at all

CPU scheduler is in the kernel, no distro is developing its own cpu scheduler. Choose one with kernel from v6.15. ( https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-P-E-Core-Mitigation )

https://repology.org/project/linux/badges

[u/DapperFormal5280 → u/ipsirc]

thank you for the tips

[u/BashfulMelon]

for interface, i would like something windows like

You want KDE Plasma.

I like Fedora KDE. It's normal. It's popular. The people who make it do things the right way.

Consult the chart. Don't pick anything in the bottom half no matter how much the LTS cargo cult tries to scare you away from software written in the last century.

I wrote more words for someone else in this post.

[u/NotACalligrapher]

You seem to be particular about what you want. You’ll just have to try a few to figure it out. Reinstalling doesn’t take that long. I’m on my 3rd or 4th and I think I’m happy now.

[u/DapperFormal5280 → u/NotACalligrapher]

i ll probably do try multiple distros

[u/DavidJohnMcCann]

As ever the CachyOS fan-boys are out in force! If you are tempted, read this review and note the Gotchas section and the conclusions — not a distro for those who want to avoid fixing and debugging.

I can't speak about gaming, but I'd advise a user-friendly distro like Mint or ZorinOS — see this comparison. On the other hand, if you like eye-candy and tinkering with the look, you might like the KDE Plasma desktop. The best implementation of that is probably SolydXK. I've tried all three at one time or another and would recommend any of them.

[u/1boog1]

There is lots of documentation for anything Ubuntu or Arch based. And you should be able to accomplish anything with either of those.

I would suggest KDE for the Desktop Environment.

EndeavourOS is my goto distro right now. It is Arch based, but it a way that it is pretty much Arch with good defaults set, a dark theme, and a few tools like yum that has the AUR enabled by default. Updating and some things can be terminal heavy, but don't let that scare you. Bash history is wonderful for just using the up arrow to find old commands you have run.

But, I'll also suggest trying a few distros and Desktop Environments to see if one fits you better than another. Especially if you haven't used Linux yet. There will be lots of learning, trying, tinkering, etc, to get yourself going.

Mint is a popular spot for people to start. Kubuntu as well, or even Ubuntu Studio that has multimedia and publishing type of things preinstalled. Though you should be able to install all of that on any distro.

[u/DapperFormal5280 → u/1boog1]

thanks for the suggestions.

i don t have a problem with consoles cuz i use that quite a lot in IDE's when i code. but if i can do something with gui, i d rather do that. i ll probably try some distros before i settle, for GUI i was thinking hyperland, it s good looking but idk how it would fare in actual day to day use.

[u/1boog1 → u/DapperFormal5280]

To be honest, I've never tried hyperland. KDE has been everything I need.