It’s amazing that Linux gaming is becoming a thing that’s better sometimes than Windows gaming (minus the getting banned part in some games). I also like that AMD is making some big pushes on open source drivers, plus their ROCm open-source alternative to CUDA.
I just ROCm was built in to mesa. Because either you use the proprietary drivers that have some issues, or use mesa and fight with everything (amf, ROCm) to try and get it working.
Also, don’t forget to take a look at time shift or w/e it’s called. It’s a tool that creates btrfs system snapshots. It creates them when most updates are installed, and you can make em manually too. Really good if you start setting custom kernel stuff or w/e. Allows easy rollbacks from grub menu.
Fedora or, the ProtonGE guys spin Naburo (spelling?) Is also a good choice.
But if you don’t have any complex software requirements besides gaming and the usual desktop apps, then Bazzite is a much, much better option. It gets updates much more earlier than Nobara (which is still stuck on Fedora 38), and is much more stable (immutable OS) and more gaming optimised. You can even boot directly into “gaming mode” for a Steam Deck-like experience, with all the same (+more) optimizations that you’d get from the Deck.
Thank you for the suggestions. I’ll def be looking at new flavour of distros as my knowledge of Linux expands. Garuda was just the first one that made me jump.
+1 from my side for universal-blue.org, where Bazzite is part of.
@Ultimatenab I often see Garuda and other distros like those appealing to newcomers, because they come themed ootb and look fancy af. Don’t forget that you can get every tweak of that by just installing a theme, which is a matter of seconds.
Garuda is based on Arch, which is known to be not as highly noob friendly as some others.
For “normal” users like us especially, who just want to game and do other normie stuff, the immutable Fedora variants are excellent. uBlue fixes some of their minor issues, and they run wonderfully.
They work just how Linux should do it as desktop OS imo, and how other non-Linux-OSs should supposed to be too.
Also, there will soon come a time where you begin Distro-hopping and reinstall your OS every weekend. On immutable Fedora, you can change your DE (the GUI/ desktop environment, which often defines the distro) with one command cleanly and switch from KDE to Gnome for example, which feels like a clean reinstall, but keeps your data and config.
I do enjoy a challenge and having to use cli is what got me into my profession. I did my research and found Arch to be one of the better distros out there, but I didn’t want to start at the deep end as I don’t have time like to fully delve into it like I used to.
You can always use Fedora Atomic with an Arch Distrobox.
Silverblue and the Arch container update themself, and you can always enjoy your Arch CLI if you want :) I wouldn’t say Arch is unreliable, but it won’t intervene if you do something stupid.
SB on the other hand is almost unbrickable and extremely low maintenance, which I like a lot.
But if you did your research and enjoy Arch/ it’s derivatives, then have fun! Arch is great and if it suits your taste, then that’s wonderful! 😊
Can you intentionally set various bitrate (VBR) with a big difference, like from 16mbps max to 1mbps min? Constant bitrate can be your problem. Premiere had this on media export menu, I can’t remember where others have this. And, if you want to upload it to youtube, see what size it has on a private upload by downloading it - they reencode every video themselves to their uniform standard, so maybe you don’t even need to bother with that.
Fedora has always been where Red Hat goes to force the adoption of not quite finished software. If you are not okay with that, you shouldn’t be using Fedora. This is not the first time they’ve done it, and it won’t be the last.
awk is pretty damn solid. When I was completely rewriting the gravity.sh script from Pi-hole about six years back, it was easily the fastest for parsing and uniquely sorting content from files with a couple million lines. It made things much more usable on Raspberry Pi Zero hardware, since changing to another language like Python was out of the question.
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