What's the Best Distro for Gaming: Manjaro, EndeavourOS, CachyOS, other?

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What's the Best Distro for Gaming: Manjaro, EndeavourOS, CachyOS, other? - lemm.ee

Lemmy

I’d stay away from Manjaro, personally. They’ve had a number of organisational and security fuck-ups that in my opinion makes it hard to take them seriously. Plus there’s the whole “we hold Arch packages back two weeks but not AUR packages” - which means there could be dependency issues if you like installing stuff from AUR. In fairness though, they do request that users do not install AUR software on their site.

Endeavour is good. If I was to go back to an Arch distro, it’s what I’d use hands-down. Fundamentally just Arch with a better installer and a nice theme.

I’d also consider something Fedora based, like Fedora (duh), or Bazzite (if you want an atomic/immutable OS). Up-to-date, extensively tested. Bazzite even allows you to install it with out-of-the-box Gamescope support (in simple terms, you get some of the performance options and performance overlays that the steam deck has).

Issues with using AUR was enough for me to stay clear and not recommend to people.

Not that I’d necessarily recommend Arch as something for someone just getting into Linux or anything, but if you’re deadset on using something derivative, I would just recommend going with Arch.

This install scriot makes it no harder to install than anything. And the wiki is robust.

However, if you don’t want to learn how your OS works, and troubleshoot fringe issues, don’t use Arch.

My route into Linux I wouldn’t tell others to take.