I think you need to reassess your position on gaming distros. Nobara and Bazzite both use CachyOS’s optimizations while based on Fedora. And Nobara adds less software than Cachy’s gaming package, I think there’s only one package in Nobara I haven’t needed. And the documentation for Nobara has been easier to follow than Cachy/Arch.

Granted, a decent chunk of Nobara’s benefits are from being run by Glorious Eggroll, the lead maintainer of CachyOS

Why Ubuntu first? Because millions of people have been using it for years. When something breaks, you’ll be able to fix it because someone else would have already encountered this issue before and reported it.

Funnily enough, that’s actially a source of some of my headaches with Ubuntu. I tend to run into really weird errors, and while there’s usually someone who’s dealt with it before it’s sometimes so long ago that the fixes are outdated

Tbh, I kinda wish it wasn’t so up-to-date. Lately they’ve had multiple updates every week and it’s getting a bit annoying

I didn’t use ‘my documents’ and I don’t use ‘home’ either. No doubt there are some benefits to doing so though.

On my setup, I have the files I care about on separate storage drives, but I link them into the various home folders. I get the convenience of home, with the advantages of a separate drive

I am curious if you have examples when you needed something that didn’t work with bazzite, as my opinions are opinions that can be changed

Fyi, I’m not the same guy, and I haven’t used Bazzite. But on SteamOS, Syncthing has been a headache to try to get working right. The flatpak for it is unmaintained and the only other way to get it working is setting up a systemd service that gets wiped with every OS update

No, you’re entirely misunderstanding distros.

Jfc you could write this better to not sound like a dick.

OP’s a newbie asking for advice, not someone with the completely wrong idea despite 5 years of experience

• stable workhorses, i.e. they don’t break on you as easily as rolling release distros like CachyOS.

I disagree. When I had Ubuntu on my old server it would randomly break every few months. It was generally because I had an Nvidia card and the drivers needed updated, but it makes no sense for graphics drivers suddenly causing issues without an associated OS update

Seeing as you have an Nvidia card, I’d caution against Ubuntu. People talk about how “stable” it is, but it’ll break on it’s own even if you don’t try to update it, and it’s all because of Nvidia drivers.

I recommend getting a distro that has the Nvidia drivers baked it, which mostly narrows it down to Bazzite, Nobara, CachyOS, or Pop!OS.

I’m personally not a fan of Pop! since it’s based on Debian.

I personally use Nobara right now since it’s essentially Bazzite if it weren’t immutable. It’s OK. It does some things well and has some headaches.

I recently had to dual-boot CachyOS alongside Nobara. I haven’t had much time to tinker with it, but it’s definitely different. But one big benefit to Cachy is that you can pick whatever desktop environment and bootloaders you want. Just pick the correspondjng option in the installer.

At the end of the day, Bazzite, Nobara, and Cachy all have the same gaming-focussed system optimizations. It just boils down to specifics from there

Or that corporations are allowed to do them at all.

That power if corporations is invested by individual states, and 2 have already taken it away from them

Doubt. Sounds more like you being a Schrödinger’s Asshole

Fuck off with that defeatist bullshit.

Make them drag you ckicking and screaming. Only morons and cowards walk in lock-step with the corpos

vendor lock-in and potential future corporate enshittification are non-issues.

For now.

In some countries, banks require users use their app on IOS or Google’d Android. You can’t use their services via browser, LineageOS, GrapheneOS

If Syncthing is working on your immutable distro, it’s probably packaged with the distro withiut you being aware of it

Bazzite probably has Syncthing baked into the distro, like Nobara does. That is not the case with SteamOS, so it gets wiped with each OS update

Syncthingy is just a dashboard. It doesn’t have the service packaged in, you have to set it up separately as a systemd service if it isn’t already included in your distro, which will get rewritten by SteamOS

Not quite. I’ve run into a gaming case where immutability becomes a problem: Syncthing.

If you want to synchronize emulator saves between devices then Syncthing is great at that, but it takes a lot to get around the immutability without relying on unmaintained flatpaks (aka Syncthing-gtk). At least not on Steam Deck, which doesn’t have Syncthing baked into the main distro

They really suck to use in Firefox

In Chromium browsers you get “Open tab in group” in the context menu when you tap & hold a link, which makes a tab group if your current tab didn’t already exist in one, then add the link as a new tab in the group.

In Firefox, you don’t get that option in the drop down menu. You can only open a new, completely separate tab. To make a tab group, you have to manually combine 2 tabs, and if you want to add tabs to the group you have to make them outside of the group first and add manually.

Also, in Firefox you can’t remove tabs from a group without closing the tab.

After getting feedback and suggestions on how to make tab groups worthwhile, they promised to add the fixes in either 155 or 156. It’s looking like we’ll have to wait until after 159 for the fixes.

And I’m already not a big fan of Mozilla at the moment. I recently switched phones and found out that they only let you sync bookmarks between devices if you have an account with them and sign in.

Brave browser doesn’t require a sign in for sync. They let you sync E2EE’d by connecting individual devices without an account similar to Syncthing

Still no update on when mobile tab groups will be in a usable state? What the hell? They promised to have them fixed in v155.0

A used Steam Deck with a dock could work. It has HDMI CEC built in and you can install the GrayJay flatpak (or any other Youtube frontend) and hook it up to a lot of video platforms. That’s what I do with mine most of the time

Screw the haters, I like the logo