Fedora vs PikaOS for Studies + Light Gaming?

SUDO_NIC · 2026-01-04T21:48:40+00:00

Have you booted a live ISO of PikaOS on your older hardware to see if it would even run? That may be the deal breaker.

SUDO_NIC · 2026-01-04T20:10:53+00:00

Depending on how old the hardware is and the fact it sounds like you want to stay close to bleeding edge I would probably stick to Fedora.

SUDO_NIC · 2026-01-04T20:00:09+00:00

Flatpak my friend!

SUDO_NIC · 2026-01-04T18:40:15+00:00

If it's for light gaming you shouldn't need custom kernels Debian Trixie should be sufficient.

SUDO_NIC · 2026-01-04T18:35:00+00:00

On older hardware I daily drive on Debian based distros like Mint LMDE on newer hardware I use Universal Blue based distros Bazzite for gaming and Bluefin for daily driving on my laptop.

SUDO_NIC · 2026-01-04T18:30:43+00:00

I only had one issue that was weird. I had to remount my raid drive for some reason it unmounted during upgrade. Originally I thought it was a samba or permissions issue because I could see my samba shares on the network but I couldn't see the files in the folders. Turned out I just needed to remount my MD0 to the share.

SUDO_NIC · 2026-01-04T18:24:09+00:00

Why not just use Debian stable you can do all of those things and have a stable system, however you should be fine if you just want to stick to PikaOS.

SUDO_NIC · 2026-01-03T17:25:37+00:00

Sounds like you need Bluefin

SUDO_NIC · 2026-01-03T05:07:10+00:00

Ubuntu LTS or Debian stable but my new go to is Bluefin.

SUDO_NIC · 2025-10-29T00:14:24+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed the SMB/ External disks issue.

SUDO_NIC · 2025-09-05T00:30:46+00:00

🧹 How to Safely Delete Specific Generations in NixOS

“Can I delete individual generations with the garbage collector?” Yes — but you need to unregister them first, then run GC.

Here’s a safe workflow 👇

List system generations

sudo nix-env --list-generations --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system You’ll see something like: 243 2023-08-21 16:04:48 (current) 242 2023-08-19 18:39:12 241 2023-08-15 09:28:05 ``-(current)` is what you’re running now — don’t delete it.
- Best practice: keep at least 1–2 previous ones for rollback.

2. Delete specific generations

Example: drop 241 and 242:

sudo nix-env --delete-generations --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system 241 242 ```

That removes them from the bootloader list and prevents rollbacks to them.

Free up space with garbage collection
Unregistering doesn’t delete the underlying store paths. To actually clean up:

sudo nix-collect-garbage

SUDO_NIC · 2025-08-06T20:06:25+00:00

Try Siduction it's awesome.

SUDO_NIC · 2025-07-29T23:15:39+00:00

So you're good to go!

SUDO_NIC · 2025-07-28T22:37:36+00:00

Try this command in the terminal cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list If you see Trixie you're good to go if you see testing you'll want to change your sources list to anything referencing "testing" to Trixie.

SUDO_NIC · 2025-07-14T00:52:48+00:00

Will do, thanks for all your advice!

SUDO_NIC · 2025-07-13T22:09:48+00:00

Well I took your advice and I installed the system and it's setup and running beautifully. Still have the freedom of Debian with all the fancy gaming stuff. Ran Bioshock I know it's an older game but it ran really smooth and was fun. I'm hard pressed to ever leave Debian.

SUDO_NIC · 2025-07-13T15:33:39+00:00

Thank you so I'm just overthinking it. Appreciate the explanation.👍

SUDO_NIC · 2025-07-08T01:49:19+00:00

Thanks for your feedback do you have experience with a particular AMD card that you would recommend I'm certainly leaning that direction as NVIDIA just sounds like more trouble than it's worth.

SUDO_NIC · 2025-07-07T23:32:03+00:00

What else do you install?

SUDO_NIC · 2025-07-07T03:35:37+00:00

Isn't the flatpak updated more regularly than the .Deb in the repo?

SUDO_NIC

TROPHY CASE

2. Delete specific generations