OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
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And if it does, roll back to the previous snapshot.
Second this
Tumbleweed
I love openSUSE Tumbleweed. It has a solid automated testing process that means packages will be held back rather than updating and breaking things.
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Happy Tumbleweed user here, since 2006!
Ok thanks for your Amazing experience
I've been running the same arch install for atleast 5 years... I honestly can't recommend any other distro because I haven't used many for a long enough period of time
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Most Linux distributions are quite reliable, even rolling ones. What usually causes instability are the closed source applications people choose to run on them.
I'm not just pointing out nVidia drivers, I've seen Teams and Visual Studio Code crash an otherwise stable Ubuntu LTS.
Debian stable
Liquorix kernel
Flatpak the apps
thanks will do later
I have used debian for 20 years, I am very happy with it. Also zero problems with gaming nowadays
NixOS because you can roll back when anything breaks, install stable versions of packages, and put your configuration in version control
And if you need to reinstall -- look at that, your whole config is documented as code.
I mean it's not really rolling, but since this is Linux Gaming, I recommend checking out Nobara Linux. It's a Fedora fork made by GloriousEggroll of the proton-GE fame. It's the easiest Linux gaming experience I've had so far, at least with the non-modified Gnome version.
IMHO, you should avoid KDE -- I've had nothing but bad experiences there -- but if that's your favourite poison go ahead.
It's always really interesting seeing how people can have completely different experiences with kde and gnome!
I have had nothing but a great experience with kde for years but every time I've tried gnome it's always been a buggy experience!
Yeah, I wonder about that too sometimes. Perhaps a matter of hardware choices or just plain taste.
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Debian testing or unstable.
Ok do you know sparkly Linux is great rolling distribution in addition to pclinux os
Debian hands down delivers the most stable experience of em all -- even after updating from stable to sid.
t. Did exactly that on a unsupported sbc, "Orange pi zero 3", and everything works.
thanks but Debain isn't easy to use
just use arch and don't do anything stupid (like not updating regularly)
I don't know how there are people that wait a month between updates, it's like they don't actually want a rolling release.
I'm curious -- what's your motivation for doing this?
Why do you want to use a rolling release over something built for gaming?
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Have you considered a fixed release in combination with rolling applications (i. e. Flatpak, Snap)?
If you choose Fedora (preferably one of the atomic variants, like Silverblue), you would also get a rolling kernel and rolling KDE Plasma desktop, so overall the experience can be quite close to a rolling release distribution if you install the desktop applications via Flatpak.
Ubuntu "interim" (non-LTS) releases are usually also fairly current and could be a good choice if you don't mind Snap. There's also the option of following the Ubuntu "devel" branch, which always refers to the current pre-release version of Ubuntu (e. g. 24.04 at the moment) and is rolling.
Just wanted to give you a different direction to think about. ;)
thanks I haven't known about it but I have Opensuse Tumbleweed for gaming use and endeavour os for the aur
Just FYI, if you like EndeavourOS, you should know that it's essentially an installer for Vanilla Arch (unlike Majaro which is Arch-based).
So you may have just had bad luck when you tried Vanilla Arch that you didn't have with EndeavourOS -- but there's no real difference between the 2 besides manual vs GUI installer.
I'd say Tumbleweed is what you're looking for. They have some sort of automated testing process (OpenQA, I think) and are far more stable than Arch, while oftentimes having newer versions of packages before Arch.
What about the gaming benefits like using Lutris and Steam Proton In case i want to game after i installed all the necessary drivers
If you want a desktop distro up to date with kernel, DE, etc. which does't crash I can advice Fedora. Aftet the six month release cycle it is easy to update. I used it for a couple of years on my home pc and it was very good.
Give void a try, setup was pretty easy for a more diy style distro.
But is void a really good choice for gaming
There are Nvidia drivers and steam in the nonfree repo (it's a one command to get access to it), they are easy to install. I haven't tried any gaming but don't see why it wouldn't be just as good as any other distro.
Thanks again dude i will check if void is comparable to arch and opensuse tumbleweed plus giving you my thoughts later
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Garuda Linux is basically Endeavour OS but more gaming oriented, might be worth checking out.
Long time arch user (amazing distro). Recently moved to Fedora Kinoite to try it out. I like it so far.
Ok thanks but why not use bazzite its way better for Gaming
Cause those are nothing more then distros that come with some prepackeged apps. Nothing I can't easily do myself and prefer more vanilla experience and minimal bloat distros.
Bazzite is just an immutable fedora image with preconfigured containers, among others an arch container for running steam and adjacent apps.
Overall fedora (whether immutable or regular) feels like a rolling release. By the time a new release comes out, most packages are similar, except maybe a big suite (e.g. new gnome version). Upgrades are also pretty seamless too. My grandpa's pc has been running Fedora since 27 (or 29) and it's now on 38. Never reinstalled
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