Literally anything. There is no functional difference between distros at almost any level but package management anymore. This honestly sounds like an environment and driver problem to me.
What's your hardware set look like?
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I'm surprised this isn't the answer more often to these type of questions. If you take the time to understand what's really happening under the hood, it's all the same; package management and what comes pre-installed and configured is the only real difference.
Sounds like it might be more of a DE problem than a distro problem. I'd recommend trying KDE Plasma if you haven't already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjABILVAz5Y
this dude twitch and yt streams from linux and everything you listed seems to work for him
Sounds like you're looning for Nobara.
- Stable Fedora base, optimized for games and creative work.
- WINE, OBS, codecs, and third-party repositories preconfigured.
- Less time in the terminal, more time playing and creating.
Decent audio experience?
You can tweak any distro but, pay attention to using Jack + PREEMPT_RT kernel + Xlibre (X11).
Avoid Wayland (especially with nvidia GPU), avoid Pipewire and avoid Gnome desktop.
I suggest starting out with Debian stable as the base. There are specialised AV Linux distros available but nothing beats knowing what you're doing from the outset.
If you need the very latest version of a particular app not available as a distro package, Flatpak is your friend. Again, Debian '.debs' and AppImage are most prevalent third party packages outside the proprietary app stores of Flathub & Snapcraft.
Avoid Wayland (especially with nvidia GPU), avoid Pipewire
Why? I have multiple devices running on Wayland (incl. 1x NVIDIA GPU), as well as Pipewire, and they run fine; what was your experience?
How is your experience with screen sharing?
Fair point, I haven't tested that yet
I’d recommend cachyos because of cachy update which runs updates all your stuff regardless of where you got them. Flatpak, Pac-Man, appimage whatever
I’ve used it for 3 months or so and it’s great, just works.
OpenSUSE Aeon
It's just Aeon btw
Thanks for correcting
This might be wrong but I think many of screen sharing related issues actually come from wayland. If you're on wayland and can switch to X11 on your current system I'd try that first before deciding on a new distro.
Wait, huh? Where'd you get this idea from?
Personal issues I've had and other questions I've seen online. It's not necessarily wayland itself, it might be how other programs treat screen sharing in it. In any case it's worth a try if it's an easy change.
Sorry to say, but no, it's the most problem solution.
I won't even get into the details, but it's like a heart replacement, and there are many issues by simple swapping packages from the default in this sense. Everything is shipped expecting whatever distro defaults, and just swapping things out doesn't work that easily.
It sounds like you probably had issues with specific apps that didn't properly support Wayland, and you couldn't tell the difference between the entire composition environment, and a single app having issues because it only support X11.
Some distros come with both pre-installed so you don't really need to swap out anything. If it's not pre-installed, I don't know, you might be right and it won't fix anything.
I've had issues with specific apps that just don't support it, others that require installing more packages and others that I didn't care enough to look into. That's a significant enough number to take it into account when trying things.
Literally doesn't matter
LMDE Cinnamon. Boring. Rock solid.