Ranking Linux Distributions for Gaming and Content Creation in early 2025!

[@Fezzy976]

That thumbnail was pure bait putting CachyOS at the bottom. You know what you did Max! 😂

[@TryffeliPossu]

@@Fezzy976 this is why I use dearrow

[@A1RM4X]

I plead not guilty

[@Ud4cznik]

@@A1RM4X 🤨🧐🤔

[@paultapping9510]

that is 100% why I'm here. I'm outraged 😂

[@gilbertdauterive668]

If I had a nickel for every time I found a really cool linux-themed youtube channel run by a French person, i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[@jonleemonty]

@@gilbertdauterive668 Phineas and Ferb reference, nice

[@zor8952]

I'm really looking forward to the day that SteamOS is ready to go on this list.

[@A1RM4X]

Same!

[@shadyKING057]

Yessss, finally this video out. Waited really long this one 🔥🔥🔥

[@cybernit3]

I just went from Ubuntu 24.10 / Gnome to Cachy OS / KDE and it is quite true what you say. Nice to point out a good debian based distro for gaming/content, PikaOS, didn't know about this one. Thank you for this review and have a good Xmas/New Year.

[@dukejukem413]

Thank you for the video and all the extensive testing you do for us :D.

[@UltimateGM_6]

babe wake up, a1rm4x uploaded a new distro review video

[@atlantic_love]

This "babe wake up my lord and savior has uploaded" meme is really getting effing tiring.

[@Schwinni]

Disclaimer: I haven't completed the video yet. What I found very funny is that you talked about "working out of the box" and then I saw the Gentoo logo. 😂 FYI: I love Gentoo and my first usage was 20 years ago.

[@CaptainDangeax]

Reminds me my first compilation for enhancing my linux multimédia experience with 3dnow and sse on AthlonXP, later I switched to AMD64

[@philipbtz]

After trying a few of these I agree that CachyOS is beast. Everything so far just works on it. The games I play work (with highest performance I've ever seen btw) but also all my development tools seem to work on it so far so not only a gaming distro.

[@Vinceff]

I’m so hurry that a community engage work to transform Nix in a OotB gaming Linux distribution. It could be so powerful !! 😮 32:00

[@Vindisify]

Great video, I agree with most of the tier list. Keep up the good work bro. I'd love to see you do a benchmark comparison between a base distro and a "gaming" fork. Like fedora vs nobara, debian vs pika or arch vs cashy to show how much extra performance (if any) you get.

[@walidbaz924]

manjaro is only arch distro that run my nvidia gpu fine

[@maciejmatasek]

I switched from Linux Mint to PikaOS, and my gaming performance improved by 20%! KDE with Debian is an excellent combination for me. Thanks for the video A1RM4X!

[@EternalServantCharles]

I loved Cachy. But i ended up getting BAD VRAM issues where it'd max out and error out my games. I used Endevour prior, so i tried that again but i had the same issues. Spent awhile trying to figure it out but to no avail.... Had to temporarily move to Mint.

[@凸Bebo凸]

Manjaro unstable sometimes holds packages back 1-2 weeks if they have regressions. I had way less bugs on Manjaro compared to CachyOS, but no bad problems with either. Overall it's not worth losing a ton of performance with Manjaro, but I do think it's the least buggy Arch distro if you don't mess with the AUR and install from multiple repos. I agree with you though, once you learn Arch with Manjaro there really isn't a point in using it and deleting it and installing something else makes sense. Using BTRFS and snapper and chroot you can pretty much solve anything that would ever happen on CachyOS related to having a problem with a buggy too new package.

[@ramonantoniom.dangond5462]

Excelent video!! what did you use to make the chart??

[@mikepreamp6053]

Hi Max. Have you tried the french rolling distro Open Mandriva Rome? Cheers from a fellow french man😉

[@Ud4cznik]

Clickbaiter... That thumbnail with CachyOS at the bottom does some emotional damage, you knew what you were doing.

[@A1RM4X]

I plead not guilty

[@Ud4cznik]

@@A1RM4X 🤨🧐🤔

[@SirVisigoth]

Thanks for another great Video, intertesting to see the changes within Linux Distributions from last year, niceley explained why you thought each was where it was placed. I do not do content creation so which of the top 6 would recommend for gaming. Keep up the good work.

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

Please do a video on gaming on QubeOS - there doesnt seem to be nearly anything covering if its even possible to do. I would love to know how viable it is to game on the world's most secure distro

[@rick_mars3599]

32:40 Fun fact, You can install the Kernel and several CachyOS packages on NixOS by configuring it on a Flake, great experience with NixOS by the way, I have a year without wanting to change Distro 👌🗿

[@Masta_E]

I know a dude who runs a CachyOs kernel on Arch. Smart idea honestly

[@JonSmith7676]

Linux Mint really helped ease my switch away from Windows earlier this year. Started distro hopping about a month back, saw your videos and settled on CachyOS and it's been great. The community was also quite helpful when I was having install issues which was also a plus.

[@MyouKyuubi]

I use Nobara, currently, and i will say, it is a bit disappointing. Gaming-wise, it's great, but, it... definitely feels like the OS is still in alpha-test... It's missing a video-player out of the box, you can install whichever you want, obviously, but it doesn't come with a video player by default. And the "app store" is text-based, and confusing AF, it desperately needs an overhaul ASAP. It also has some issues with certain flatpaks, i can't tell what, specifically, is wrong, but i had a very weird issue with JamesDSP where Nobara couldn't read certain files and folders, because they were using Norwegian letters or something, which is weird, because i can write Norwegian letters just fine: "ÆØÅ æøå". And because Nobara couldn't read those files and folders, it was ALSO unable to delete them properly when i tried to uninstall them... I had to force-delete them via the terminal. So yeah, Nobara works for gaming, but, it's lacking a lot of things that make it a FINISHED, COMPLETE operating system... If i ever swap OS again, i'm swapping to PikaOS or CachyOS next... I need an OS that can handle Parametric Equalizers, like JamesDSP.

[@spageen]

Come for the accent, stay for the linux knowledge

[@VictorSouza02]

I respect the BigLinux developers for their work and also for being a Brazilian distro, but I always told the developers to stay away from Manjaro and use the Arch repositories... It's very complicated because they modify KDE a lot and any big change will throw all their work away. So it seems like they hide behind Manjaro for the pace of updates.

[@NekoGuruu]

What's interesting about being Brazilian?

[@VictorSouza02]

@@NekoGuruu Simply because that's where I'm from, nothing more than that xD

[@NekoGuruu]

@@VictorSouza02 Just for that? Well, whatever, it's not relevant anyway.

[@VictorSouza02]

@@NekoGuruu Yea, It's not common to have a Brazilian distribution, so when I see one I try to help 😁

[@deultima]

The top 4 are what I expected, I would be outraged otherwise. I loved Cachy when I played with it. I only ended up picking Nobara as my distro because a couple things were easier out of the box for my needs. I use Bazzite exactly in that context, it's in Steam mode on my living room TV. It doesn't get any easier out of the box than that. I have not tried Pika, but I look forward to playing with it in the near future. I do favour Debian over Fedora as a base, so it's got a real good chance of being my next distro when I get the next itch to hop.

[@CDMS_pt]

I would like you to try Aurora and Bluefin, and bench it against their cousin Bazzite.

[@onethatwas]

Great video - thank you for the time and effort that went into making it! The only missing distro that I am curious about is ArcoLinux Pro.

[@ssdemon96]

Yep, agreed I've been distrohopping ever since I jumped into Linux. I've tried a bunch of distros, and a while ago, I was using Nobara, and now I use Bazzite full time with the steam os interface. Not going back to any other distro than Bazzite. I've finally been on Bazzite for a few months now, and I'm not going to switch anymore. I found the perfect distro for me. So glad you put bazzite on one of the top ones it's literally amazing.

[@lobotommy2557]

Me who's gaming everyday with Kinoite : "Dude, WTF?"

[@A1RM4X]

MOUAHAH! You: "Rebasing on Bazzite right now"

[@airmaik]

Lmde is the same with Debian about the gaming?

[@BjørjaBear]

Great video as always.

[@A1RM4X]

Thanks!

[@Telorand1]

Love this one. Been waiting for a while to see what you thought, and I agree with most of your choices. PikaOS has been a bit of a surprise for me, and I'm currently waffling between that and Cachy as my daily driver (Arch/AUR is hard to deny). I was kinda suprised by NixOS being in slot three, since it takes so much know-how to get set up (I've tried and given up several times), but I agree that once it's set up, you're set for life. I've also seen some projects to try to make gaming-oriented nix configs, so it's definitely something the community is interested in doing. If the main team can iron out the onboarding process for new users and improve some of the documentation, I think they'll have something that's at or near feature-parity with Bazzite.

[@LoorHenz]

Is it bazzite good also for a stable linux desktop experience? Like doing office work, programming, web development? Is it a reliable experience? Or its heavily a console-oriented distro?

Hot take: most (if not all) the issues with the 'problematic' distros are NVIDIA issues. Gaming on an AMD system the experience is similar with any choice.

[@LivingByFire]

I agree on the sentiment regarding Fedora. I love Fedora. It’s home for me. It’s reminiscent of the days when I first started in Linux with RedHat 8, 9, then Fedora Core. That being said, to get Fedora to the place that gaming and content creation is feasible, one must install non-free packages via the command line.

[@vijinho]

After a few months running CachyOS with a shared homedir partition alongside Nobara which I'd used for a year or two, I made the permanent switch to Cachy and wiped Nobara clear, no regrets! I prefer the way arch is put together over Fedora, and Nobara graphical and cpu performance is improved further. Incidentally I run Debian 12 on my laptops because I just want them stable, and fewer OS updates, is fewer changes, and with the same flatpaks I used on my desktop.

[@jb1139]

Garuda was the first distro I tried. It is okay, but I've had issues, like not being able to get the discover app to run and gpu drivers not working as intended in games I know should run great. Now that I will have a ton of time, I'm going to check out so of these other distros.

[@nordiquefb]

Discover app is not supported in Garuda

[@Vinceff]

You aright A1RM4X ! You are a mine of gold ❤

[@A1RM4X]

No You

[@Califr-ong]

finally a Linux Distro tier list from A1RM4X!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@youtubevanced4900]

The important part of Arch which I feel like you missed is that I can say “by the way, I use arch”. That level is smugness is hard to quantify but should push it up a couple of levels.

[@skorne7682]

I kinda disagree putting nobara and pika in the top row, they are both good but not quite there yet imo. Both have quite a few bugs and nobara is a pain to install with manual partitioning, requiring a separate boot partition or it fails.

[@chrissncrossn6770]

I changed from Windows, first with Mint22. Needed to tweak a lot for Freesync, Gamepad drivers, poblems with nVidia. After mint22 i tried nobara 40. Only use vesktop instead of discord. All running "out of the box". Gopd nVidia support. Using it since 4 month

[@xyic0re714]

Where is bluefin and Silverblue sitting? - flatpak based

[@fooboomoo]

good to know that i went from hell no to the best in one fell swoop 😂 switched to Cachy after 8 years of Manjaro

[@weench]

I use Void Linux, use native Steam and have NVIDIA RTX4000 series card. I can play on Void. I like XBPS package manager and RUNIT. But Void is as Arch - need many steps to play games. Not easy and not for newbies.

[@VraccasVII]

I've had a great time on Endeavour, but an even better time on CachyOS! It's been a great experience for sure. I'm also curious about Pika and will definitely be watching them.

[@H725-0]

Bazzite is so under-rated, many people should try it, so i agree with this chart

[@Theblackdevil31]

Yeah Bazzite offers a great out-of-box experience for gaming, it is very similar to the SteamOS with better defaults and more poweruser features. Personally, I've already used it on Steam Deck when it was still in the early adoption phase, but it was rather unstable in terms of performance and user experience, so I went back to SteamOS. It only had a single maintainer and they did a lot of work alone. I am glad that there are now more contributors and my issues seems to have been fixed since then (or got stale). I recommend using it if you intend to install the same set of software for gaming. Also, please don't use Gnome if you plan to use a touch screen.

[@nex7053]

I had less frustration with gaming on Fedora than with Garuda. Those bolocks like "ooh its optimized for gaming" and other bold claims are maybe true to some extend but making that distro useless for day to day came with that. Maybe you get +5 FPS on average, but the system is broken with too many customizations, dependencies so after every update I was figuring out what exactly went south.. I was troubleshooting broken dependencies in updates like 4 times before I just wiped this garbage from my drive. Installed Fedora, ticked the box that I want to access third party repos, installed nvidia drivers and had absolutely zero problems since. And every update on fedora I do not have to figure out what package I have to put to exclude list every 2 damn weeks

[@Excalidrake]

One thing for me is that for OpenSuse Tumbleweed you will also need to install the Nvidia drivers manually for the best experience, Because they ship the stable branch of the drivers and for me that's was not very smooth.

[@skorne7682]

Yeah I was a tumbleweed user before, it's a great distro but I had a lot of issues with nvidia drivers which made me hop. I use Cachy now but there are things I miss like bootable snapshots and sane package manager syntax.

[@Excalidrake]

@@skorne7682 Yeah lol Arch can be headache although in the cachyos hello app there sould be at least be a start for using snapper with it. I switched to Pikaos personally which is debian sid based with some custom updated packages like drivers also they have documentation for setting up snapper.

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

NixOS is the only distro I know, I stay on and do Content creating, ,music stuff, gaming etc its amaizng!

[@whyouread]

It all comes down to personal preference. Top-6 is fair, everyone will have their own #1

[@ferreo]

❤ awesome tier list

[@needsLITHIUM]

Legit, all I do is content creation, other than when I consume media, and MX has been great. The others might be better for one or the other, but for the type of media creation I do, it works really well.

[@patrickprucha5522]

CachyOS is definitely a very good distro. I find it between number 1 and 3, where i put Debian and Slack. I find these clean and quick. But im not a gamer. I find that the games distro's are usually my choice because of the configuration and optimizations that make it quick. Cachy has proved to be a gem. I like debian because i can communicate with all my other nodes using ssh which i find as a quick way to get files from and to the nodes. Slack is sleek and very powerful. I usually go for gaming laptops because they are more powerful. I like a system that doesn't lag at all. Cachy on VM is amazingly fast. Imagine it on a new baremetal system! WOW im pretty sure. One of the determining factors is the DM. i was xfce now im kde but i never liked gnome. So i stay away from gnome based Distros. I used DWM but in the end, if you like to fall down the configuration rabbit hole, its a gem as well. I like to get in do my stuff and make changes effortlessly so i can go do what i turned on the computer for.....scripting, note taking, and films thanks for the excellent video.

[@Goodborni]

Just got Nobara on my main rig, even though it has many good things to help out, I am still struggling to get programs like: Cisco Packet Tracer Virtual Machine (running windows 11/10) But since there is nothing better, guess i gotta tinker around till it works.. 😪

[@JohnDoe-z4l5l]

Can you include Porteux Linux in your testing? I mean Porteux, not Porteus. It would be interesting to see the results compared to CachyOS and maybe Clear Linux for Intel CPUs. In future videos and tests, it might also be worth trying Clear Linux on an Intel CPU and perhaps a B580 Intel GPU. Clear Linux has best drivers and optimizations specifically for Intel CPUs and GPUs. Additionally, CachyOS has excellent optimizations and tweaks that can significantly improve PC performance and gaming. Porteux Linux is also very fast and responsive. Some tests show it to be one of the fastest distributions, and it definitely has the fastest boot speed. I think we should give it a try for gaming to see how it performs.

[@skeemwoods7915]

hi i like your vids but tell your viewers that this findings are based on your hardware like pop os runs good on intel with NVIDIA GPU

[@A1RM4X]

Hey. My findings with PopOS are not related to my hardware.

[@Hid4ri]

I agree with all personally, except I would put NixOS as almost the best, just from my personal experience. I am always fighting between NixOS and CachyOS. Also would be curious where you would put Rhino OS looks interesting, but I have not tried it. Thanks for the cool vid!

[@Aqvalar]

I mean, I believe optimizing is something *anyone* should understand, at least a little bit. I mean, I've been using Linux for like 20 years on servers and on-off on desktops. Currently I have openSUSE Tumbleweed on my gaming PC and Debian Trixie on my laptop. Also... literally: sudo zypper in wine winetricks protontricks gamemoded is kinda enough on openSuse (well, at least when running AMD!) :D But pretty good ranking in my opinion! Though putting Nobara as #1? Yeah, Gloriouseggroll is amazing. But he kinda tuned it a bit *too much* for gaming forgetting some sane security stuff, which probably is not an issue but.. yeah :P

[@CaptainDangeax]

Cet accent français, j'adore!

[@Groovy-Train]

This time next year PAPA OS will be Number 1.

[@A1RM4X]

ROFL PAPA OS!

[@gabsriel]

Vanilla OS ?

[@A1RM4X]

I was gate keeped by my GPU (Nvidia)

[@vladito.bg_YT]

puting Nobara in the best and fedora in ok but is so wrong like when i use nobara my system always crash even if i just play video on youtube i start using fedora and i never have crash problem. Nobara is my worst distro expiriance even worse than Pop OS when turning off tiling window manager who just show one half of window out of screen will break dark theme.

[@redwithblackstripes]

I'd like to see a world where the legacy of Mandrake comes back from the dead through Mageia, would be nice to have that forgotten flavour of Linux in the top again.

[@trachinusdraco]

Nobara is alright. PikaOS is more stable tho

[@omoveja8185]

I want to try CachyOS so much, but it crashes all the time.... I have a 9800x3d with a EVGA 3080 and 7200mhz DDR5, what kernel should I use ? I tried some and all of them gave me crashes.... I'm using a SATA SSD tho... Should I try a NVME maybe?

[@MyouKyuubi]

I'm willing to bet the NVME is necessary here. :P

[@asunavk69]

try linux-cachyos-nvidia-open and the linux-cachyos-headers. for the DE use kde/gnome.

[@DreiKiekensGaming]

Im on Ubuntu 🎉 Im not an amazing gamer. But for work it is stable and works. 😅

[@Destide]

It's all that matters

[@Auxxua]

I would recommend something like Bazzite for a newbie, cause there's less things that you can break. It works out of the box, and it's very simple to use. I personally have used Pop!_OS, Mint, Tumbleweed and now CachyOS, and by far CachyOS has been the best, but I wouldn't recommend it for a total newbie, cause the usability is not as good as with something else. Terminal is like kryptonite for most newbies, so having a UI for most things is almost a must have.

[@Machad3xTV]

I've just stopped using linux for gaming. In addition to the lower performance compared to Windows, several games I like do not work due to the anti-cheat.

[@TheDrunkenAlcoholic]

RebornOS in my opinion is the real successor to Antegos, in fact they ran the cinchi installer(from antegos) for ages before finally moving to calamere, better than EndeavourOS in my opinion but the community is small, they do have a great distro tho'

[@LeHoax]

I am still in love with Tumbleweed and it games just fine. Maybe it was a skill issue, but even Debian was not as stable for me.

[@SecretlySeven]

Can't see Nobara up there till it gets cleaned up. There's three ways to update. Nobara updater. Fedora updater and the kde or gnome software store updater. Using any but the nobara one can and often will mess things up. That's confusing for new users. Hell even for me it's caused me issues. It also feels sloppy. This is why Pika is so good IMO. If feels/looks like Nobara but with the rest of the polish. Like it's 100% Pika. Nobara is 80% Fedora and 20% Nobara but the Fedora isn't even hidden as well as Mint hides Ubuntu. Also Flatpaks and why are we not talking about how that creates permission issues for new users.

[@geoffreyrenemoiens3089]

👏 Please test OpenMandriva ROME

[@xabi08]

You have a strong french accent, so i'll say it to you in french: Ce que tu as dis sur Debian est partiellement faux. Tu as dis que les version étaient vieilles. C'est le cas PAR DEFAUT. En 3 lignes de commandes, tu peux ajouter les repos backports de debian. Ces répos possèdent les dernière version de beaucoup de packages. Par exemple, je suis sous Debian 12, qui est normalement fourni avec le kernel 6.1, mais avec les backports j'ai pu avoir le kernel 6.11.10 . Pareil pour les drivers nvidia, ou encore gnome. Dès que tu actives les backports, avoir les dernières versions est simple, tu rajoutes juste -t a ta commande APT pour les prendre depuis les backports. AVERTISSEMENT: SI TU FAIS CA N'ESSAIE SURTOUT PAS D'INSTALLER LES META PACKAGES (linux-image-amd64 par exemple) CAR TU RISQUE D'AVOIR QUELQUES SURPRISES...

[@A1RM4X]

Tu peux rajouter plasma 6 par défaut ? ;)

[@Winnetou17]

Didn't knew about Gentoo's KDE Plasma late arrival. Usually most packages come pretty quickly. I guess it might've been because the team wanted to make sure everything works well and so on. Gentoo, given how customizable it is, is quite stable (as in, doesn't crash / destroys itself). I use Gentoo fyi! And I'm a gamer. On dwm. P.S.: I can't help myself and have to rant again against people recommending Fedora to new users. It's totally not for new-to-Linux users. It's for those that already know its limitations and caveats. P.P.S.: Ça se prononce "Gentu" comme "Génial"

[@Your_Degenerate]

Three birdies in the top six, nice.

[@MrFash21]

Is it from a NVIDIA user point of view or it includes AMD as a POV ? I feel Linux Mint might be a better experience for AMD users. However I would have put it in the no thanks for NVIDIA and kept it in Ok but for AMD. Linux mint is fine when it gets a refresh of its core and packages, but after two years it's getting very old. On top of it, they are 4 months late of Ubuntu which is already 1 year late of Debian. And it's not that stable when you upgrade (can even break completely). CachyOS requires urgently a KDE UI passionate. I don't know what they are thinking with this tacky layout ^^It was best to leave KDE alone tbh :D Superbe vidéo, bro

[@skorne7682]

Problem with mint is cinnamon does not yet support wayland, meaning you'll be lacking variable refresh rate and hdr monitor support amongst other things. Mint is a solid distro otherwise but should not be recommended to someone with a modern gaming rig.

[@5mrd]

NixOS Unstable + chaotic-nyx flake(cachyOS Kernel) = 👍

[@Meriamora]

That feeling when you don't run Clear Linux\with a video card and an Intel processor.

[@A1RM4X]

Hu? It has been a long time since you can run Clear Linux with and AMD CPU and any type of video card. PROOF: www.clearlinux.org/clear-linux-documentation/reference/system-requirements.html

[@Meriamora]

@@A1RM4X I apologize, the translator translated incorrectly, I mean that I have pure Linux does not run on the system from Intel. The processor is - Intel. Video card - Intel Arc A380.

[@ScottyCena]

Lol Kinoite is pretty much al most like Bazzite (atomic fedora desktop with KDE) and its on the worst Tier, while Bazzite is top Tier.A bit exagerated i think. Ok it doesn't come with all the optimisations and custom kernel that Bazzite provides, but the packages are new as it is Fedora and if you compare the two they are al most the same, you might gain 3-4% performance with Bazzite at most, if even that! I went from silverblue to Bazzite Gnome version and saw 0 noticeable difference in performance at all, they both worked out of the box. I'd say Kinoite is a great stable and reliable distro for average desktop users that want to game on the side and don't want to tweak anything , and it does just that with 0 issues (unlike the often unstable and unreliable Arch options on this list!) . It deserves a higher rank.

[@chad_8313]

Memory usage, idle, fresh install: EndeavourOS, KDE, 2.1GB Mint, Cinnamon, 2.2GB Windows 11, 3.9GB Bazzite 41, KDE, 4.9GB. That's After closing out Steam, which autoinstalled and launched by default. WTH? Bazzite feels so slow and clunky as a desktop OS. Installing software takes longer, Discover is a slug. Gaming may be fine, but jeez, what a RAM eating monster.

[@jr_Linux]

i love cachy os im glad i found someones video about it, which then lead me here, as someone who used to use arco linux, i was already a arch guy, because people may not believe it but as a new linux user, sure youtubers use arch but for me. arch is just easier to use who cares if its a distro vs arch iso, its still arch its still pacman "but honestly who uses pacman" #parugang lol. i started on pop os i tried alot of the main distros and such and just arch out of the box everything just works because its up to date, good luck starting on arch and trying to go to debian or suse or something else, becuase your gonna have to alot of work or redo your configs becuase of version differences, and im excited for cosmic!!!

[@quantusr5429]

Is he pinkman?

[@A1RM4X]

GET MY MONEY B***** !

[@mirkodiciano4647]

Alright let's go

[@johanb.7869]

I don't belong to the target group because I don't game nor create, so for me MX Linux is number 1.

[@xjax8519]

Steam OS you cant ignore them !

[@77wolfblade]

@@xjax8519 it will be up there once it comes out in public release.

[@xjax8519]

@77wolfblade SteamDeck its public release !

[@alphonsealexander]

Great Video but l would disagree on Mx linux

[@catto-from-heaven]

Putting Nobara 2 tiers above Fedora is very hilarious

[@needsLITHIUM]

I agree with putting Manjaro, Elementary and Zorin in hell no, though. Jesus fucking Christ those are terrible for anything but office work and watching youtube.

[@guryushika]

Potential statement on MX Linux "oh this the best distro" Answer from Airmax "no, it’s not"… efficiency ! I would add that it might be one of the worst distro…

[@databug]

I get That Manajro isnt going to be top by any means but Hell no? I mean OK its your opinion and fine but there are way worse distros gaming wise. As far as issues and errors. I have had way more issues and errors on distros like Endeavour and Tumbleweed. I run Manjaro Testing branch. Why do I not just use Endeavor or Arch? Because Manjaro comes with everything set up out of the box that I want. Its themed well and has a consistent look across grub terminal and the desktop theme. On Endeavour and Arch I have to do ton of setting up to get thing working how I want. So that's why I still stick with Manajro. But yeh I get this is an opinion piece and you are welcome to your opinion. But heres mine.

[@philipbtz]

I ran into an issue when first trying PikaOS then trying to do a fresh install of CachyOS on that same drive. What solved it for me was sudo wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1 Looks like cachy doesn’t always wipe the boot loader partition properly leading to failure of boot partition installation. You don’t even get the option to choose boot loader and the partition is not even shown anywhere. Hopefully this helps someone.

[@Destide]

Manjaro should be top because you'd never run out of content and drama to cover :D.

[@A1RM4X]

Great idea if I want to declare WW3 in my comment: put Manjaro #1 =)

[@gilbertrodriguez6053]

#CACHY-LYFE

[@alternatuber6698]

Your accent :)

[@GASTBF]

i'm running bazzite on my asus ROG Ally and it's been surprising however, i have to say, the fedora 41 base can be quite buggy with KDE so i switched to gnome and now my problems seem to be gone for now

[@youtubevanced4900]

All these different distros really highlights one of the major issues with Linux. It’s way too segmented. How many people are replicating the same work for all these distos? If we could get all these people to band together on 5% of the distros it would accelerate development of Linux so much. Most of these distos have no reason to exist.

[@thomaslange2262]

I have been exclusively gaming on Linux for about 4 or 5 years now as a novice Linux end user. It is night and day from where it was when I started. Gaming is the primary use of my computers at home also. However, I really want to support gaming focused distro's for the idea of the work being done on them. However, I still experience issues on every one I try. I have 3 different systems with different hardware in them, and all of them still have issues still with gaming focused distros as a normal gaming user ( I try different distros about every 6 months to check progress ). I think it hurts new users to continue to recommend these distro's to new linux gamers unfortunately. I get that some people get lucky and it works for them, but something tells me they are still needing to tinker with them in many cases because I have different systems to test, and they always run some games fine but others have issues. Sometimes I have other OS UI glitches too that seem to come from Wayland here and there. OS's I am referring too include Nobara, Garuda, and even more recent versions of POP OS. All this to also say however, all hate aside, there is one OS that happens to run plug and play excellent on every system I put it on, and the games JUST RUN, and run great at that. That OS is Linux Mint. I know people love to hate it, but if you are not a Linux wizard that can fix everything that other OS's throw at them on an individual game basis sometimes, I would stop knocking Mint. When you want it to JUST WORK... I would try it before giving up on Linux if you are having issues with the "cool new gaming OS" out there that you may be struggling with.

[@rpgmafia8363]

ubuntu over tuxedo? huh? ok. but didnt had Tuxedo like better performance on the test stream? but yes i understand the rating cause some functions are bound to special hardware but still it just works and its gets stuff done.