recently i just finished building a new pc. mostly for gaming since my only exposure to linux is steam os and i heard its uses arch with kde plasma so i try to emulate it as close as i can. however soon i realized how different it is and it requires more setup than i initially thought. i spent a whole day or two setting it up and i read now im responsible on maintaining it, what does it mean? is it just finding and testing drivers? or system update? what is the easiest way to do it? and what i getting myself into?

when i was about to install steam i found a tutorial on it with 3 - 4 pages full of text and was a bit overwhelmed, i decided just set it up using discover with flatpak, the problem is when i was about to find out how to do that i read mostly people really hate when you ask how to enable it in arch, is it really bad? should i just use konsole instead?

im not very tech savvy and at first I was really reluctant to use konsole but since i decided to use arch its inevitable that i have to use konsole and so far its not that bad, yet.

I’m just wondering for the long term, should i just change distro? or i should just powertrough arch and see where it goes.

thank you for your time.

  • Cikos@lemmy.worldOP
    9·
    11 hours ago

    It sounds like you’re thinking of Arch + KDE as similar to building a PC, where if you get the same parts you can hook them up for the same experience.

    yeah you nailed it.

    i think ill keep learning arch and see how far i got, when it inevitably break ill choose later if i want to retry it or just go with bazzite, its a mostly pc for gaming so there isnt much important stuff in it

    • folaht@lemmy.ml
      3·
      9 hours ago

      I think you’re better off with CachyOS than Bazzite to be honest.
      It’s Arch-based, comes with an installer with KDE Plasma as default and on top of that is optimized for performance and geared towards gaming.

      The only reason people are recommending Bazzite
      is because CachyOS is only a year old, while Bazzite is two years old,
      unless someone can prove me otherwise.
      In any case Bazzite is RHEL-based, so it won’t have the AUR or pacman,
      which are the two things that set Arch-based Operating Systems apart from the rest of the pack.
      AUR and pacman are superior to all other repositories and package managers.

      • pyssla@quokk.auEnglish
        4·
        8 hours ago

        is because CachyOS is only a year old, while Bazzite is two years old, unless someone can prove me otherwise.

        CachyOS has been installable (at least) as early as November of 2021. Its GitHub page is even older, going as far back as October of 2021.

        Bazzite, on the other hand, is at least a year younger as it dates back to December of 2022.

        Bazzite is RHEL-based

        Bazzite is based on Fedora Atomic. FYI, Fedora is not based on RHEL. Quite the opposite, actually, as Fedora is “upstream” of RHEL.

        it won’t have the AUR or pacman, which are the two things that set Arch-based Operating Systems apart from the rest of the pack.

        Come out of your cave, fam. Distrobox has been out for years now. And, with it, everyone has access to every other repo (including the AUR). We’ve finally evolved.