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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.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fedora is sponsored by Redhat it is true. Not the only sponsers of course. And I get that Redhat is IBM (sadly). I would be a lot more concerned if Redhat was under Oracle, so while IBM isn't great, it could be worse.

But other than that, it is a community driven model, I don't believe they take direction from Redhat or exclusively obfuscate or hamper OSS because of Redhat.

I mean if you go down this rabbit hole, take a look at all the major contributors and sponsors for the linux kernel itself....

[–] VivianRixia@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

That's fair. I had to deal with RHEL at my job for almost a decade and I guess it just made me biased against anything related to it. I had completely written off the entire branch of linux as corporate linux, which is not a fair assessment of it. OpenSuse similarly had corporate roots, but I feel they did a better job at distancing their image from it.

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