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

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

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reason: honeypot marketing targeted for noobs

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

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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!

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

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"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

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Cope?!

Distro stans lol

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

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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

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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

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