I've been using Pop OS on an old surface pro I have. I was surprised everything just worked out of the box. I've been enjoying it so far but haven't done much other than web browsing and using a few applications. I'll have to try a dual boot on my gaming PC.
Due to some recommendations I have used Bazzite.
I thought it was a bit of a locked down OS due to what I was used to. I realized that's because of what it's built on top of on? Like you should be using distrobox to boot up different terminals to install packages and stuff. It took me a little while to get used to it.
POP OS has been pretty good for me as well. Overall, quite happy with my Linux experience.
Bazzite is great if you want to just game, but you run into trouble if you're trying to tinker with it because of the immutable nature of it.
This. I'd say it's perfect for people who don't want to tinker at all, and it's excellent for experts who either know or will enjoy learning how to make its containerization/sandboxing/whatever approaches work out. "Tinkering" is the specific doughnut hole where it is a problem. I replaced it with Tuxedo OS because I was frustrated with trying to set up the toolset for the QMK keyboard firmware, and it turned out there's a whole layer of things you have to do to make it work, and some of the simpler ones simply break the immutability. A few other tools I wanted to use were running into similar hurdles.
NOw, it's not that I beleive any of this stuff was a showstopper for everyone; I have too much confidence in the community for that. I am just old and dumb and while I love using Linux, I don't necessarily want Linux itself to be my hobby. Now all that said, my Minecraft and Starfield installs were working really well on Bazzite, and I haven't done any gaming in recent weeks so I hope they'll be as good on Tuxedo.
Bazzite works pretty well on ASUS laptops, just be sure you select the ISO for ASUS so you get the ROG control software to manage stuff like your fan curves.
I love POP OS, but it being stuck at 22.04 until Cosmic is done is less than ideal. But I'm hoping Cosmic's full release is both awesome and ready when 26.04 is upon us.
Even if it's out of beta for 26.04, you'll probably want to wait a few releases before giving it a go. It's bound to be quite unstable for a few years.
Been running cosmic as dialy driver for a few months now. It is good enough
I went from PopOS to Bazzite on my desktop. My take is things feel smoother and well polished on Bazzite and I could customise it to my liking (using KDE). I have other machines to tinker with so I’ve installed other distributions on those and the modern take on containerisation of services is something I wanted to learn!
If it's mainly for gaming Bazzite is the bees knees. I just like to get creative and try crazy stuff and Bazzite no likey. As a commenter said below though, there's some drama around future releases. At the same time I'm honestly just waiting for the proper PC SteamOS drop.
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