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Sorry, but which of these distros is right for me? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by ClockworkN@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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I'm currently trying to decide between CatchyOS and Nobara.

I'm sorry to be generating another of this kind of conversation as I can see they are getting pretty tedious. But you see I'm finally getting ready to take the plunge and try Linux again (after a brief encounter in the early 2000s).

I'm a gamer and I care a lot about gaming but I'm also a game dev. I need to be able to use Unreal Engine, Blender, Gaea, and other dev tools. My understanding is that something like Bazzite isn't right for me there.

So I've been looking at CatchyOS and Nobara. I've read their documentation and so far leaning toward CatchyOS. But sometimes people say Nobara is easier to use. I am not afraid of a command line, but frankly I don't tinker with my computer for fun. I get in and get what I need set up so I can get back to making things.

So what do you all think?

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

What is your current OS?

I am also trialing cachyOS as a win10 replacement and I am liking it.

If your current OS supports virtualisation (as in not a home version of windows) run them in a VM and see how the os goes with normal tasks you do.

[–] ClockworkN@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Windows 10 Pro. Yeah I guess I could do that. But I have multiple drives and was going to just install one of these onto it and boot into it or back to Windows if I have to. So either way, yeah if I don't like it I can switch. But I'm worried that either will seem fine and It's going to be months later when an issue or an advantage of one of the other would creep up. I want to get ahead of that.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Be warned that Windows Update can see your other partitions. It ate my boot partition, then choked on it and took the entire system with it. That was the last time I had Windows on my computer.

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