ubuntu user for almost 20 years,tried many distros in the past,now feel it's a solved problem for me: just use ubuntu lts.
one reason is better sw support,e.g. Arduino, android, vivado,cuda,you name it,all are supported out of box, saves a lot of time for me
> Sure, but lts often doesn't work for other use cases like gaming
Bullship, I've used it since it came out in 2006 for everything including gaming (I'm a gamer). And that is on nvidia since then too. Not the same card, various nvidia cards over the years. All worked great. Ubuntu works great.
Ubuntu is formally supported distro, probably the most common throughout all enterprises in the US (because Red Hat and all RPM based distos suck due to RPM has repo bugs still) while deb works great.
> Sure, but lts often doesn't work for other use cases like gaming. For example the experience on lts with this year's AMD gpus will be extremely poor if it works at all.
I'm using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with a Radeon RX 9070 XT (currently the most recent and highest-end discrete GPU that AMD makes), and it works fine, both functionally and in terms of performance.
> I run Arch and my 9070 xt experience was poor for several months after release. I can't imagine modern gaming on an lts release.
Maybe instead of imagining it, you should just try it?
Sure, but lts often doesn't work for other use cases like gaming. For example the experience on lts with this year's AMD gpus will be extremely poor if it works at all.
I run Arch and my 9070 xt experience was poor for several months after release. I can't imagine modern gaming on an lts release.
Cachy being Arch based and recompiling with modern cpu flags doesn't seem to be targeting the users who want unchanging boring software.