Well, technically that’s true but figure of speech. :)

EOS is one of my most used distros to this day and I agree it’s one of the best minimalist distros with a GUI installer out there. It gives you nice defaults and cover almost everything out of the box. However OP is new in Linux world and in my opinion they shouldn’t use Arch at all for the transition period (though that part completely depends on the person). But Cachy has many tools pre-installed comparing to EOS so that’s why it would be easier.

Good luck! :)

Note that, EndeavourOS is stock Arch with a GUI installer, if you don’t mind theming which is optional. CachyOS is a tailored Arch so it would probably be easier for you.

I see. I don’t like flatpak Steam either but someone on Lemmy told me recently that it got better. But it seems it still has its quirks.

No problem! Yeah, you might have problems with an extension card but it probably would work, might need additional settings though. On the other hand, installing Resolve on Cachy is simple, so there is that too.

Yeah, that tends to happen. It’s not a good idea to mix old and new packages.

Gaming on flatpack just adds another layer of complexity to a system the op already doesn’t understand how to use.

I completely agree with this. But flatpak at least wouldn’t cause the same possible problems with Nvidia repo.

I think using Debian Testing would be saner than adding Nvidia repo to regular Debian. Mixing old and new packages is not a good idea, or disturbing the harmony of your distro, unless you know what you’re doing.

Addition to other comments, you can also try your chance by installing Steam as flatpak. Maybe that would work without you needing a second distro.

For DaVinci Resolve, you can try this: https://www.danieltufvesson.com/makeresolvedeb

While this is possible, I wouldn’t disturb LMDE’s (or Debian’s) harmony with adding Nvidia’s repo. By doing this you add a posibility of a broken or a wonky system after a driver update. Gaming over flatpak would be a safer choice.

That’s a vibe-code effect /s

Mostly rutracker + jpopsuki.

I used bspwm for years after using i3wm. It was exactly how I wanted things. If you’re staying on Xorg, bspwm is great. Nowadays I find Niri more streamlined though.

I see. It seems river changed a lot since last time I used it. Now I’m intrigued, it adopts the old ways. Maybe I should check it again because I haven’t seen a lighter WM/compositor for Wayland yet.

I used river for quite some time when I moved over to Wayland from bspwm. I still find it great for configuring from scratch.

No idea what are beansprout and rhine though.

Sometimes both. I recently started using an old Macbook with Void, which they have notorious broadcom-wl, so I searched a lot and a got a micro network adapter. It was actually quite hard to find with a working driver because Realtek. Anyway this one I found seemed to had a dkms driver on Void repo, so I went with that.

The dkms driver gives bunch of errors for some reason. I didn’t have time to debug it and just compiled from Github. Naturally I have to compile it every kernel update. I probably can add a hook for it but haven’t done that yet because lazy.

Edit: Added a kernel hook. It’s not harder than writing this comment. :)

It actually happens naturally, or it should at least. So don’t mind anyone. Distrohop until you find yourself settled.

You seem to know enough distros. If none of them exactly clicked with you perfectly, continue your search.

I stayed on Arch-based for more than 10 years and it was suppose to be temporary for me as I was keep saying that to myself. In reality I was settled. So, don’t mind others, find it yourself. It will happen sooner ot later.

P.S.

Void is good.

Maybe MX Linux with Fluxbox?

Ah, that’s fine. I just wondered if they removed it themselves because if so that would be first, as far as I know they never removed Denuvo from their games before.

Did Ubisoft actually remove Denuvo from a game or is this some cracked version?

I’m not addicted, I’m doing that for 20 years and I can quit whenever I want.

Eh, I guess I could’ve said bad Far Cry. The story was ok. I hate drugginess/pscyhedelic parts of them starting with FC3.

By the way, I actually liked the main story of FC6 but the game was generally so bad, it was unbearable.