I’m installing a second disk in my desktop, and I’m going to install Linux.

I’ve had dual boot on all my machines since forever. As in decades. I’m an old hand. Perfectly happy in a terminal.

I have Mint in (on?) my laptop because lazy.

I’m asking about QOL. The only “Gaming” I do are flight Sims, and although I haven’t tried, I believe X-plane is Linux native. However, I do use some apps which are not Linux native, so I’d need some form of wine or performant VMs.

The PC is a Ryzen 9+64Gb, so it should handle a lot of things quite well.

I’ve been playing with both in VMs, but I can’t get a feel for what my virtualization and wine use would be.

BTW, I might do an install of both, maybe side to side, without commitment to either, and then decide. It’s going to be a blank slate install anyway.

From my trials, both seem comfortable enough.

I’ve heard good things about both.

Opinions?

  • slurp@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    I had a bad time getting Bazzite working and ended up switching to CachyOS, which I have been happy with.

    • Sina@beehaw.org
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      2 months ago

      That’s incredible.

      Imo whatever problem you had is probably way easier to solve than managing an Arch derivative medium term… Anyway I wish you best of luck.

    • goatbeard@beehaw.org
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      2 months ago

      What didn’t work for you? I’m struggling to get UE5 working and thinking about trying something else, but everything else has been pretty great.

    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      They both worked fine for me, but installing almost everything through yay on CachyOS instead of having to deal these on bazzite (link below) was a huge QoL change for me. That and the sheer amount of documentation for arch is just awesome.

      https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/

      To me, this was a mess and was convoluted. It helped me learn a ton, but if you want simple and need more than just gaming on steam, it’s not worth it imo.