I just noticed CachyOS is #2 at distrowatch.com. Default desktop is KDE, and based on Arch which rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it goes the right way for you. On 2025-06-27 13:07, William Park via Talk wrote:
I was going to say Mint, but it doesn't do KDE. There isn't too many "KDE + Ubuntu/Debian - snap" distro. Since you already run Tuxedo, stick with it.
On 2025-06-27 01:52, Evan Leibovitch via Talk wrote:
Hi all.
As some might have read in a previous thread, my daily driver PC has gone flaky and it's in the shop. When it comes back I will need to reinstall an OS as I wiped the drive before sending it in (and I had decent backups). I may also find myself with a new system to be used for AI and video content development.
Now that I'm reinstalling, I'm wondering if this is a time to re- evaluate what distro to use. I'm not a frequent distro-hopper but I'm not scared of it. In the last five years I've gone from Kubuntu to KDE Neon to TuxedoOS. So yes, the replacement needs to be KDE and I'm far more familiar with Debian/Ubuntu package management than Fedora/ CentOS's. And I would prefer to have one that I can stick with for many years.
I continue to hear people say great things about Debian+KDE, but my experiences with it were not good the last time I tried it a few years back. Too much hardware was unsupported, too many tweaks and workarounds just to get it to work.
Is it worth a revisit? Which version? Should I stick with Ubuntu-based TuxedoOS? Or consider something wholly new like Clear Linix?
The hardware to be used: - One system: High-end (strix halo) Ryzen CPU/NPU/GPU, Linux only - Another system: mid-range AMD CPU and RTX 3060 GPU, dual-boot - Realtek 8125B 2.5Gb Ethernet in both
Notable software to be run: - OBS - Kdenlive - Handbrake - Firefox - Davinci Resolve (maybe) - Blender (maybe) - LMStudio - Ollama - CUDA on the Nvidia system, ROCm on the AMD one
I don't want: - snapd (flatpacks are OK, I guess, for non-system stuff) - X11 (want Wayland as the default) - non-optimal drivers for any hardware (closed-source drivers are sad but OK) - old releases. I'm OK with a reasonable update frequency so long as it's not too bleeding edge.
Advice appreciated. I'm especially curious to hear from anyone who has tried Clear Linux; it's supposed to be tuned for Intel, but both my CPUs are AMDs.
Thanks!
-- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56
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