I’m a heavy user of macOS, primarily for its smoothness and efficiency, as well as the programming workflow. However, I’ve been considering trying Linux, and I’m curious to know what /g/ suggests.
Cachyos
CachyOS + KDE. Also this thread will be a list of distros, and shortly afterwards a lot of cope and seethe.
>>108344968This is the first time I’ve heard about it. Is it stable?
Try Debian with Gnome it gives you probably the best desktop experience you can get on linux.
>>108344955Just install arch using archinstall. It's literally all anyone needs.
>>108344983Well I've been using it for over a year without issue, before it even started getting (rightfully) popular, it's functionally arch linux with packages optimized for newer cpu instruction sets and you have the option to install some pre-configured desktops, the founder is also an arch dev.
>>108344955Linux is similar to Macos but much rougher around the edges. I think you should just try the basics, ie Fedora or Mint. Debian is good and I use it, but it's more intermediate and has stale package problems unless you use Debian testing or sid, which require a decent amount of Linux knowledge.
Don’t listen to the zoomers telling you to use CachyOS it’s a meme distribution that will be gone in a few years just like Clear Linux after all its improvements have been added into the mainstream distributions
>>108345067I had heard about Debian before, but someone told me that it’s “old” or something like that. Does that mean that it doesn’t receive updates?
>>108345202a meme distro? what does that even mean
arch
>>108345202if u use arch u can just cop their kernel if u think its good too. is there really anything else they have done?
>>108345231"stable" but old software versions, no focus on performance whatsoever. in most benchmarks CachyOS can be 10% faster than debian(-based) distros. that's significant for some workloads.
>>108344991do you mean fedora? because debian is dogshit and broken
>>108344955arch with archinstall to get into itarch without archinstall if you wanna have some learning experiencethats it, no need for cachysoy or other garbage.what i recommend is to pick KDE, its kind of windows-like environment but its smooth and works well.if you are down to spend hours learning, tinkering and u want something ricefags are using - go with hyprland but i dont reccomend this route.
>>108345279do you mean debian? because fedora is dogshit and broken
>>108345233It means something that is cool to look at but no one unironically uses like Haiku or Temple OS
>>108345279Are you having fun being a bugtester for Red Hat? and you do it for free
>>108345283Yeah, I think I’m going to choose Arch Linux. I’ll install it tomorrow after work.
>>108345322and yet cachyos is #2 in the steam hardware survey, but I dont think cachyos is that different from arch except for being more newbie friendly and less of reading arch's docs and a slightly better performing kernel.
