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What Distros Should I be Considering For my Old win10 Gaming Laptop? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I've got an old win10 laptop. It's nothing fancy in 2025, but I use it now and then while traveling, just to have a proper computer on hand. It's time to move it over to Linux, and I have A LITTLE Linux experience. I work in software dev, so I know my way around CLI, but I don't have much firsthard experience, other than occasionally using Kali for offsec tools. What are the distros I should be considering for a personal gaming laptop for occasional use for both gaming and occasional general use? Why?

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[–] BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I’m not super tech savvy but have used both Bazzite and CachyOS and find them both pretty straightforward. I personally prefer Cachy and it’s what I’m currently running, but both are great for gaming. Bazzite comes with gaming stuff out of the box, and Cachy has it all in one package you can download with a single command, so they’re pretty comparable on that front. I just prefer arch as a base. Hope this helps OP as I was recently in a very similar situation.