So been trying out Garuda Linux for a while now (my first distro), but feel ready to try another distro. Therefore looking for a distro that suits my preferred requirements, anyone has any tips?
- Uses Wayland
- Supports flatpak
- ButterFS format
- KDE Plasma
- “Good for gaming”
Note: Got nothing negative about Garuda, I just want to explore the options out there :)—
Fedora KDE, Kinoite, or Nobara could all be of interest to you
Try openSUSE Tumbleweed
Nobara, it’s literally all the things you mentioned above
Neat! ✨
As as hell to install too.
Arch is great, I’m using Plasma on Wayland and it works really well.
I can also attest to this. And apparently kde support for Wayland is supposed to get way better with plasma 6 in February.
Good to know thanks
What about Arch (BTW)? You can decide exactly what do you want to have there.
Bleeding edge packages are great for gaming, and it supports everything else.
You don’t really *need* Flatpaks, but you can install them, if you want to.
Throwing Debian in there. Switched from arch 6 months ago. Still running x11 because xfce doesn’t support wayland yet, but KDE does. I run amd cpu and gpu and have no compatibility issues. And with lutris/bottles/proton games run with minimal issues. Plus most every is based on Debian, so why not just use the original.
To add to this: Debian is pretty conservative in regards to package versions. The current and LTS versions usually have slightly older packages.
If you don’t mind tackling more updates, I suggest Debian Testing. That is the stable development branch for the next major release, currently rocking it with Wayland GNOME on my DELL notebook and very happy with the results.
Im thinking of hopping over Debian soon. I heard i should use steam as a flat pack for best support. Is that true or not?
I installed from the contrib repo, from the wiki,no issues at all so far.
I do run a Debian server actually. So I guess i wouldn’t be sailing unfamiliar waters if I were to try it i guess.
That’s what happened to me. Switched all my servers to Debian 12, figured I’d give it a try on desktop, now I tell everyone to try it
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NixOS, it has some learning curve, but your configuration is stored in git so you can always access any solutions you have employed at any point or any packages you used before
Of course, that also means you can roll back easily and there’s also reproducible builds
It is completely different, so worth checking out even as a package manager
NixOS is a decent leap from Garuda as a first distro. And it may not be that good if the user isn’t a programmer, which I’m not sure if OP is.
Not a programer, but doing a master in Cybersecurity (Digital Forensics), and have previously programmed a fair bit. But yeah, although nix sounds great I’m not quite looking for the steep learning curve quite yet at least. Might treat myself to NIX further down the line 😉
To be fair, nix is not super hard, it’s just that its more than your typical distro. You’ll run into rare compatibility issues. Yes, rare, but if you’re not a tinkerer, you may not like it.
To could to try to distrowatch.com to
Thanks didn’t know about this resource :)
Welcome. It’s pretty good for getting an overview of a given distro. Very well organized. Also if your are into distro hopping for whatever reason, they have a random button somewhere on the site to view a random distro.
Haha that’s fun 😁
A lot of the comments don’t fit your criteria. Everyone is just recommending the distro they like. Which is fine, but they should at least say that.
I personally don’t have a good answer either. Most my experience is in minimal distros that let you built out those components yourself. It may be worth considering that option (in which case, Arch is a natural next step), but you have to explicitly install wayland / flatpak / kde / etc to fit your criteria.
Yeah figured so, think i will go for this option actually :)
That’s awesome! Good luck on your journey and ask if any questions come up!
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Try Parrot OS, Home edition. Smooth, reliable, does everything well and super easy to add your favourite opensource software. It’s flagged as a security distro, but it’s actually a highly rated Distro without any of that
EndeavorOS.
Kubuntu with the ubiquity installer will install onto btrfs. Flatpack is easy to add.
Add in system76 scheduler and an up to date kernel like xanmod and youve got 90% of what gaming distros will do.
If you’re using flatpak you don’t have to worry that the host system has old mesa.
This sort of setup is probably trivial to do in arch as well.
With Gentoo, your system can be anything you want it to be ;)
