Was looking into Nobara, realized its a solo dev, wondering if cachy is the best pick for compatibility. I play a lot of different stuff , use blender, controllers, flightsticks, etc. Not really into flightsims rnow and im dualbooting for now so its not a major issue on that front. Just want most steam games and controllers, drivers, etc. to work and get the best performance.
Update: Went with Cachyos for now, but first sign of any issues and I’ll switch to bazzite since it seems to be safer and more reliable. Havent had any issues so far.
It sounds like this will be your fist time running Linux. In that case I would recommend against using CachyOS or Arch. Those distros are meant for experienced users that are willing to solve problems on their. In the words of the Arch wiki:
In general, you can have a good gaming experience on almost any distro. The main limitation is probably running brand-new hardware, which can be a bit difficult on some of the slower distros (Debian, Ubuntu LTS, Mint, …). There are only very minor performance differences between distros.
If you’re a new user that wants to use a fast-moving distro with many options for customization, I’d recommend Fedora (e.g. Fedora KDE).
And most of the things that impact it can be changed (relatively) easily once you know enough about poking around in config files, so if you like how Cachy or Arch or whatever does it’s presets you can definitely model your own machine after them. Just be careful, cause you’re talking about kernel-space for a lot of that
I think it’s important to realize that these old stereotypes aren’t necessarily as true as they used to be. I started on Bazzite and it was great, but I didn’t like immutability so I switched to Garuda. It’s an Arch distro and is dead easy and super beginner friendly.