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Highly recommend Pop_OS!, it may as well be called "Ubuntu, except more driver patches and performance tweaks" haha.
by gavinray 6y ago
Highly recommend Pop_OS!, it may as well be called "Ubuntu, except more driver patches and performance tweaks" haha.
- Shared404 6y agoAnd no Snap, although I suppose that could fall under performance tweaks.
- godelski 6y ago> except more driver patches and performance tweaks Honestly, to me that's not a big sell lol. And probably not to the type of people that like distros like Arch. We just want nivida to work like AMD and mesa drivers do. (Having done some testing, I am able to squeeze more performance out of a distro that builds up, such as Arch, vs a distro that you take down, like Ubuntu).
- jaxn 6y agoThis is right. I am running Pop OS, but will make the jump to Arch when I have time. I don't want to wait for the distro maintainers to release new kernels/language versions/etc. And once you start changing those things, the benefit of the distro starts to fade away.
- godelski 6y agoA nice middle ground is Manjaro (there's a nice GUI to select your kernel). Though I'm not sure what nvidia settings Pop uses, because I still have the above issues with Manjaro. But this may again be laptop centric.
- pdimitar 6y agoI've used Manjaro on two legacy laptops and a fairly recent desktop and I can only vote for it for almost anything you would want to do with your machine. It's a very lightweight and well-supported distro that has outperformed machines that are on paper twice the speed of the one it's installed on. Not sure how easy it is to actually game on it though, haven't tried yet. For everything else however, Manjaro is an extremely solid choice, with a very recent kernel too.
- jaxn 6y agoI never really have Manjaro a look. My impression is/was that the focus of the distro was to be mac-like. Is that off base?