There’s no single perfect distro.
Some are stable, some run light. Some are fully featured. Some are bleeding edge.
And some are for plotting world domination.
But there’s only one for saving the world.
Wrong, my distro is the perfect distro, everyone else is just adding to fragmentation
Arch can be whatever you want it to be 😇 you just have to form it yourself.
My experience tends to be
I hop and hop but always return to POP
For me it’s become all about convenience. Is Ctrl-Alt-T preconfigured to open a terminal? Can I move it around with Super-[arrows]? Are all the drivers and codecs I need in the standard repos? No (or little enough) bloatware? Then I’ve found a distro for me. I don’t care about anything else anymore.
I was hopping several distros.
Ubuntu. Nah not my thing.
Fedora. Mhh yeah but I have Nvidia isn’t there sth. For me?
Ah yes Nobara. Nice a distro from the glorious eggroll guy.
Switched because of stupid reasons… To:
Debian-trixie. Cool that’s the distro I will stay.
My system gets somehow into a boot loop after 60 seconds of logging in…
Ok let’s try Linux Mint. Mhh on my laptop it works better… Nah my hardware doesn’t like Mint.
Nixos. Holy shit is that difficult to use. I love it! Stable as fuck. Bleeding edge almost. Newer gonna use sth. else. That thing is amazing and a ton of work to do anything.
NixOS? Ain’t nobody got time for that. I still try to not struggle with weird flickering while gaming using EndeavourOS + Hyprland using Nvidia graphics. It’s a pain. But one day I’ll make it work and it will feel so good.
I didn’t say EndeavourOS was a pain. Read it again. The combination of hardware and software is the problem, not the OS.
I think that’s entirely a Hyprland problem. Iirc there’s some option in the misc config group in the config to help mitigate that.
E: I meant specifically opengl:nvidia_anti_flicker
Yeah I tinkered around with it a bit yesterday. There are some tips in the hyprland wiki, talking about adding nvidia specific modules in mkinicpio that might help. Problem is that, seemingly by default, it’s using dracut. Right now that whole construct is going a bit over my head tbh.
I also tried adding those custom rules:
windowrulev2 = fullscreen,class:^steam_app\d+$
windowrulev2 = monitor DP-3,class:^steam_app_\d+$
windowrulev2 = workspace 10,class:^steam_app_\d+$
workspace = 10, border:false, rounding:false
But they don’t seem to work
Good news! The flickering issue has been solved a couple days ago, with new support for explicit sync in Wayland. The fix just needs to be merged into wlroots and hit the Arch repos, then your troubles are over.
