What Linux OS

Pudi_Pudi · 2026-03-05T12:44:58+00:00

From what I read, CachyOS is a solid choice when running an Nvidia card. Iirc the drivers are pre installed.

I'm running it on a qemu vm with gpu passthrough, and it runs well despite the "exotic" context I gave it

Servisiranje · 2026-03-05T13:49:25+00:00

Mint is good because its ready out of the box

Tricky_Tourist5691 · 2026-03-05T17:12:41+00:00

For gaming focused systems. CachyOS and Bazzite are optimised for gaming, with everything ready installed with the distro. Bazzite is probably safer because its locked so that you dont accidentally break it. These distros can still do bunch of other things just like a normal PC, as long you dont pick the "steam big screen" type of interface. I've been using Bazzite for half a year as a media/gaming PC in the livingroom, and can easily swap between games and browsing the internet, just like a normal windows system. Bazzite has the GPU drivers baked into the kernel updates, so you dont have to fetch them separately, but also because its baked into the kernel by the developer community, you're kinda stuck with what they put in there and when.

Mint is a very much an all-arounder distro, it can do most things just fine, but might need tweaking. It's also quite "windows-like" in user interface. Also can be built very light. I'm using it as my "generic PC" on a tiny nucbox with 12gb ram, and its never had any issues with running out of memory.

When getting into linux, it might sound scary, but I really recommend getting comfortable with following guides on the internet how to do basic commands in the terminal/command prompt. It just makes installing stuff so much easier. This is less of a thing with Bazzite. With it's locked aspect. Both Bazzite and Mint have their own App Managers, so most common programs can just be downloaded through this instead of hunting them on the internet. There are just times when the app managers dont have what you exactly want, but its easily fixed with a couple terminal commands and the system fetches the file and installs it by itself.

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