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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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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I've started with Mint, switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed soon after because I wanted KDE. Swtiched to Fedora now.

IMO, if you can use Mint, you can use Fedora or OpenSUSE. They're just as easy.

OpenSUSE comes with easy BTRFs snapshots and home folder encryption setup in the installer. But it is a slightly oddball distro and a few things sometimes work a little different which sometimes requires workarounds. It comes with decent gui tools as well for maintining your packages and repository (yast)

Fedora is more mainstream, but doesn't have the abovementioned features easily accessible in the install or out of the box. You can have nice gui for managing your packages and repositories but it has to be installed by you. I still made the btrfs and encryption happen by following a tutorial on youtube. I'm happy with it.

IMO btrfs snapshots are essential to making the distro beginner friendly. It significantly simplifies fixing something that broke.