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vanishedchief2021 has Steam for Linux

15 Oct @ 7:14am

Best Linux distribution in 2024

whats the best one to use today

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Originally posted by Kepos:

Wrong question in my eyes. Better would be to ask 'Best Linux distribution for me'...
There are several main distributions with interesting forks, but also independent ones availible. Have a look at Distrowatch [distrowatch.com] to see most frequented, news about, but also a mask to filter them for your needs.
So, what is 'best' in my eyes. Well, first of all, get used to one of the plenty desktops, watch out, which distributions core philosophy and weight mostly fits to your needs, combine them two and your list of possible candidates shrinks. Then cut out those that are only maintained by a handfull of people, because you want a bigger user base and friendly forums to ask question when you stumble over an issue.
I for myself migrated a couple of times, starting with the obvious Ubuntu, tested their forks Mate and Mint, before I finally found Arch based distributions to fit me the best. Actually I'm on Garuda Linux, because they are targeting for gaming support, working with Cinnamon DE (as an compromise) as I do not like the other availible DE's there. If you like the Arch way, give it a try, but if you are more familiar with one of the other main distributions, go ahead and find the one that suits you best. Linux is not a competition, but a common interest to have a free and trustworthy operating system. When it comes to gaming on Linux, try to avoid flatpak and snap for Steam, as they are known to use different paths, so some games get major issues.

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target_changelevel has Steam for Linux

15 Oct @ 7:18am

Gentoo obviously.
But better to use FreeBSD instead of Linux though.

Last edited by target_changelevel; 17 Oct @ 7:41am

Hazeezie

15 Oct @ 7:22am

For gaming, I guess any rolling release distro is good enough

sweetiebot has Steam for Linux

15 Oct @ 7:23am

arch btw

Visualvengeance has Steam for Linux

15 Oct @ 7:25am

Oh ♥♥♥♥ here we go again....

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Kepos

15 Oct @ 7:30am

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Asha

15 Oct @ 8:20am

There is no ‘best’ distribution. There are certainly bad distributions, but one should find that which most closely fits what’s required for its given purpose.

r.linder

15 Oct @ 9:10am

I went from Mint, to Pop!_OS, to Arch (EOS, Garuda, CachyOS), and back to Pop!_OS because it was good enough to begin with, and now it has COSMIC

Rolling release is only really necessary for newer hardware that needs the latest drivers right away. But as a consequence, things can be less stable or not work as intended. Cachy has been described as fast, but tripping over its own laces.

Last edited by r.linder; 15 Oct @ 10:31am

i_nive

15 Oct @ 9:58am

If a newcomer, the best distro is the one your friend (or the circle around you) runs.
Experiments needed otherwise.

Viphyte

15 Oct @ 11:49am

I mainly use Fedora for everyday use.

Last edited by Viphyte; 15 Oct @ 11:49am

Xenophobe

15 Oct @ 3:04pm

for coming from windows into linux for the first time, linux mint with the cinnamon desktop environment. it's stable and has a very similar feeling to the windows desktop.

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grzegorz77 has Steam for Linux

15 Oct @ 3:46pm

For beginners steam and games, mint and pop os.
Once you have some experience with Linux, it's like Kepos wrote.

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Stamper

15 Oct @ 7:37pm

Try em, try em all.
Make yourself a minimum of 4 partitions (but leave some space for system and boot partitions) (5or6 if you still want Windows)
1 Partition for your current favourite distro and daily driver.
1 Partition for potential next distro to replace your current and for playing without risk of breaking your daily.
1 Partition to test out other and new distros
1 Partition for Data (with your home directory) shared/mounted on the other distros.

As you install distros they may create smallish system partitions for Boot and backup/recovery etc. Just left them do it.
If you want to have Windows, I also suggest a 2nd NTFS partition for data, games, media etc. You can them mount the NTFS Data partition in any of the Linux Distros to access that data.
Now have fun. So much to explore so little time to do it.
You didn't want to have time to play games as well did you? ;)

Last edited by Stamper; 15 Oct @ 7:39pm

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petran79

16 Oct @ 12:36pm

there is no best distribution, but if your system can't handle it, there are lighter distributions for Steam. That would be like running Win10 games on lighter Windows XP.

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grzegorz77 has Steam for Linux

16 Oct @ 2:38pm

If you want to try multiple distributions, I recommend not separate partitions, but separate disks. Linux works fine, but windows is better to be on a different disk. When it comes to ntfs, it's better to be careful with it, I've never had problems with reading, but it's better to be careful with writing. Personally, I use fat32 to move things to windows.

When it comes to Linux, there is complete freedom. You can have a single boot partition for multiple kernels and init. But I prefer to have one partition with the bootloader, and each partition for the distribution contains system+boot. As for home, each distribution also has its home on its partition. But for some distributions I have mounted single directories from other partitions. Symbolic links also work well so as not to duplicate large things. Home directories contain settings for e.g. programs, and I have different settings for different distributions.

But linux is freedom of choice, let everyone have it organized as it is more convenient for them. The possibilities are endless.