It’s the year of Linux on my desktop.

Windows is getting worse, while gaming on Linux is getting better. I’m gonna move my desktop to CachyOS. Wish me luck.

  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
    72·
    1 hour ago

    Because Fedora is extra steps for nonfree codecs and firmware, and PopOS has an old kernel that doesn’t support the latest AMD GPUs. This was my logic when installing linux on the gaming PC of a windows user who wanted to make the switch, recently

    EDIT: genuinely curious about the downvote lol

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      23·
      1 hour ago

      You’re spreading straight up false info here about Pop_OS. My kernel on Pop_OS is updated quite frequently and it supports my ~2 year old AMD card flawlessly. My current kernel version, 6.17.4, is about two weeks old…

      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
        3·
        42 minutes ago

        No, actually I am not. 2 year old AMD cards are not the latest.

        I tried to install PopOS for them first, however the LiveISO does not boot with a 9060 XT, because the PopOS kernel is quite old. If it was compatible with the latest AMD GPUs, they’d be running PopOS right now instead of CachyOS.

        Are you on the 24.04 Beta version of PopOS?

      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 hours ago

        I personally run Gentoo btw, but was not going to subject a first-time Linux user to that lol. So I installed CachyOS on their PC, yeah

          • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
            3·
            4 hours ago

            There’s really never been a better time to run Gentoo tbh, processors are so fast that compilation does not really take as long as you’d expect anymore. Probably the best hardware support of all Linux distros, and its good for gaming or workstation.

        • hddsx@lemmy.ca
          1·
          4 hours ago

          If I wasn’t so intent on going to Nix, I’d give Gentoo a try. Currently an Arch user due to laziness and AUR, but the AUR is not as consistent an experience as memory serves so if it doesn’t fulfill laziness I might as well move on.

          And I subjected a first time user to Debian 13 lol

          • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
            1·
            2 hours ago

            I’m currently using NixOS and I constantly switch back to CachyOS every now and again. By far the best Arch based distros and one of the best overall distros available.

            • hddsx@lemmy.ca
              1·
              1 hour ago

              Maybe I should do some researching but what do you like about Cachy over plain Arch? That it’s gaming optimized?