I would also add that it heavily depends on the setup a user is running. I had been running Arch with XFCE and dwm for years on a machine with a Nvidia card and I can count the number of issues I had which were not induced by my wrong-doing with three fingers. When I switched to Plasma Wayland on my new machine I faced more issues in one and a half years than with my old setup. Also, none of these issues were mentioned on the news section but were due to Plasma updates. There are just too many moving parts under heavy development with such a big DE and Wayland is also not quite 100% there yet, so for some people it can seem like Arch is rather unstable although it still is a heavy generalisation.

I don’t have any slowdowns or freezes. Do you experience this with other distros as well?

I see what you mean. Sometimes I wish I could tinker with it the same way as I was used to with Arch. But in the end, it just works and goes out of my way.

You have complete access to the AUR via Distrobox. Also, how do you conclude that it has “many issues”? I do get that Bazzite might not be for everyone, but please, elaborate.

Bazzite is absolutely great, if you just want a very reliable system that just works and goes out of your way. I lean nowadays way more into recommending Bazzite to new Linux users, since there is literally not much to initially set up, no matter the hardware. Gaming works perfectly fine and any regular users software needs get easily satisfied by the Bazaar.

This game was a fever dream. Played through it in coop with a friend. Given the fact that this game is not what Serious Sam typically is associated with, it really is nice that it received an update like this after all these years. TSE is still my favourite (love the jungle/Aztec themed levels).

I second the atomic Fedora ones with Plasma. Very stable system, updates run automatically like she is used to, and the Bazaar software center is a great and well organized central repository for flatpaks.

I give you a thumbs up.

When I was running XFCE with Arch, my Installation was several years old and I only had a handful of incidents that needed manual Intervention, which was very manageable for me, so at the end of the day, it was the most stable system I had by far compared to other distributions I used, although I had a Nvidia GPU.

When I switched to Plasma with Wayland on my newer AMD only machine, I constantly had issues especially with Plasma after updates. And these were things I could not fix but rather needed to find workarounds until it got fixed with a later update (for example NTFS support on Dolphin not working properly, panels crashing constantly, configurations that partly got reset etc.)

Arch can be really stable but only if you use conservative Software for your DE/WM and critical infrastructure.

You can just use yay , since you will be prompted for your password anyway.

Not all anticheat-games won’t run on Linux. For example, I got Wuthering Waves running on Bazzite, although it uses kernel level anticheat. If a game does not have any anticheat software, it will probably run fine via Proton.

League of Legends used to run on Linux in the past, but I haven’t checked how the situation nowadays is.

Yeah, I remember. You can actually unlock it when doing this knockout championship. I also remember that knockout was kinda buggy when playing multiplayer.

NFS2 Special Edition was so good. My favourite of the series. The menu music alone were bangers.

Randy Bobandy would approve

Paysage d’hiver in Femcelmemes? This is so weird that it circles around to be good again.

Thank you for your input! NixOS sounds very intriguing to me but it also appears to be an absolute beast. I’d need time to dive into the Nix world, but I definitely will do so!

Yes, so far I am happy with it.

Thank you guys so much for all your recommendations and thoughts! After some further analysis I decided to install Bazzite for the following reasons:

• shares a lot of similarities with other Atomic distros
• but has all the nice gaming related things pre-installed and configured and it uses a properly pre-installed Steam (not the Flatpak version) (the main reason why I chose it over Aurora, which would have been my next best pick)
• my qemu virtual machines run perfectly fine (also the shared folder)
• some dev stuff already pre-installed (don’t think I need more than there already is)
• fast and the OS feels like made out of one block, very consistent
• I was ready to use my machine like I want to in basically no time
• I already love the atomic way of handling updates
• so far no issues

The only thing left for me to do is to figure out how to properly install SyncThing and Zerotier-One, then I am absolutely set.

Oh, this sounds good! Thanks a lot!

I think I will opt for one of the atomic distros like Bazzite or Aurora, since yes, it seems very interesting and a nice project, but learning Nix just to get eventually a working system running again won’t be the right thing for me. But I will definitely load it into a VM and try it out when I have more time at hands!

The problem is with Arch. Not that it is by design bad, it is just that with software under heavy development will add new issues more easily, especially if you roll out updates very fast, which happens with a rolling distro. And like the other user already said: not updating your system is a bad idea.

Sounds good! Bazzite seems to be very similar, just with more gaming related stuff pre-installed.