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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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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Fedora.

Possibly Open Suse

As a first distro why make it more complicated?

BTW: Never Ubuntu.

CachyOS, at the end of the day feels and acts like a bleeding edge linux distro. Fedora on the other hand hides all of that and yet is also bleeding edge. I usually get packages BEFORE CachyOS with Fedora (matter of days usually, but just highlighting how current it usually is).

[–] VivianRixia@piefed.social -1 points 5 days ago (5 children)

The one thing I don't like about Fedora is how close it is to the Red Hat corporation. I know modern RHEL is downstream from Fedora so they can't suddenly end it, like they did with CentOS, but it still left a sour taste in my mouth.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

🙄 this again.

[–] VivianRixia@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I dont hang around here often, so I dont know the discourse. How is my prejudice against Fedora wrong? I've never used it because of this.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If you've never used it, don't seem to understand how the FOSS ecosystem works and the interaction between the things you speak about, why are you even commenting? Your opinion is literally based on nothing.

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