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Reccommending a Linux distro for a friend (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago by muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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A friend is due for a gaming PC build. But he’s super pissed it needs to run windows 11. I told him just run something else. He said his job needs something that runs windows-only and on the odd occasions where he needs a desktop to do something he’s not buying a second computer just to run windows.

Dual booting exists but Microsoft likes to clobber boot loaders. So I reminded him he could just run windows 11 in a VM when he needs to, everything else in bare metal Linux.

He’s now sold on moving to Linux.

The question is where should he start? It used to be as simple as “if you aren’t sure, use Ubuntu.” But his use case kinda seems like what everyone has been crowing about using bazzite for.

I have zero experience with bazzite but the page does describe something built for his use case. There are 3 concerns I have though.

  1. Is it common enough that he can Google an answer?
  2. it’s an atomic distro, so classic Linux answers he might find online won’t always be applicable here.
  3. selinux, ugh.

What’s a good gamer Linux distro? He’s not super into tinkering. He just wants it to do the thing without Microsoft’s invasive bullshit.

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[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I have a specific use case for CachyOS but I see two categories:

  1. Bazzite, not intending to use the terminal much. Also less frequent updates which ought to be very stable. Atomic.
  2. CachyOS, using the terminal and frequent updates. Rolling, and good support base.

Both use flatpaks which will keep apps sandboxed. A lot of users don't seem to like snaps being pushed by Ubuntu so flatpak is the big choice.

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cachy at least doesn't do flatpaks out of the box.

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Ah my mistake, I must've installed it shortly after installing CachyOS.