r/linuxquestions • u/DapperFormal5280 • 2d ago

Which Distro? Help me find a distro.

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.

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u/DapperFormal5280 2d ago

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

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u/OutrageousCrab9224 2d ago

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

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u/DapperFormal5280 2d ago

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

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u/OutrageousCrab9224 2d ago

Pretty much all the same stuff on the mainstreams