For me Fedora is my go-to, but I'm looking at moving to Nobara
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I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it’s so big and well supported by most things. I’ve run Arch in the past but I’ve gotten too old and lazy for that if I’d be completely honest. I have played with manjaro and endeavour though… and opensuse tumbleweed, rolling is kind of nice.
Are you me? Did you also use BlackArch for a while, and still use Rainmeter? :P
Ubuntu does make things easier.
I had everything set up the way I wanted it in Ubuntu the other day.. but something still itched a bit so now I'm on Tumbleweed and feeling better. :D
Though Diablo 4 tends to crash after playing it for a while.. not sure if I'd have the same issue in Ubuntu or not, might have to triple boot for a bit just to try it out. I really do want to stay here in chameleon land though so it would probably be better to just try to find the cause of the crashing.
I do think this is a pretty common thing among us linux geeks though, never really feeling content and just wanting to try everything. :)
Never did try BlackArch or Rainmeter though!
I've played around with plenty of distros though.. Slackware, Redhat, Gentoo, Arch, *buntu, SuSE (before they split into openSUSE), openSUSE, Manjaro, Endeavour OS and probably a bunch more that I can't even remember but those are probably the ones I've played around with the most.
gentoo!
i love the versatility it offers, but it's very much so DIY. it has great documentation. anyone who considers themselves a "linux enthusiast" should try an install in a VM at some point or another, if nothing else it's a great learning experience.
for gaming in particular: flatpak steam / lutris / bottles. it's great because it's completely distro agnostic. i can take the $USER/.var directory and put it on any distro with flatpak installed and it'll just work.
I am starting to realize how handy flatpaks can be!
I've been distro hopping like a madman these last couple of days and it's gotten so much easier to get going with my games now!
Arch Linux. Been using it since long ago and play most of my games on it.
Been gaming on Gentoo for over a year, even if I haven't found much time for gaming in the last few months.
Don't do it if you've gotten too lazy for Arch though. Try Pop!_OS or Linux Mint or something. Enjoy an easy distro for a bit, till you get the itch for Arch back.
Oh I've tinkered with Gentoo plenty in the past (I still miss OTW if that rings any bells) and no, I really don't have the patience for it these days. :)
And yeah, I'll probably end up installing something a bit more fancy soon-ish.. for now I plopped Kubuntu 20.04 on there and Diablo IV is downloading as we speak!
I'm on Slackware - it's a bit of a pain because Steam is 32 bit so you have to install the compat libs.
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I'm using Gentoo.
If I wanted a smooth no-tinkering experience, I'd use Ubuntu. Or hell, steamos.
I use Arch with KDE. I don't recommend Manjaro because it has historically had some serious problems, so for people who want Arch without as much hassle, I'm recommending EndeavourOS. It's what Manjaro should be like.