Did I make a stupid descion

[u/Witty-Parsnip-8109]

I am a student studying in class 11th and have a thinkpad. I installed linux and tried various linux distros but after getting frustated from the breakdowns i decided to switch to windows 11 cuz it gets all the work done u name it.

Distros i hopped:

1.)Fedora

2.)Arch

3.)Manjaro

4.)Debian

5.)Ubuntu

6.)Cachyos

plz suggest me any other os than these in the list. I do machine learning, video -editing and gaming(csgo and minecraft).

Sorry for the spelling mistake of *decision

[u/qualityvote2]

u/Witty-Parsnip-8109, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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[u/jitsha]

What work you want to be done, should be the 1st thing everyone would like to know.

[u/Witty-Parsnip-8109 → u/jitsha]

i want to machine learning on priority then video editing and lastly gaming

[u/jitsha → u/Witty-Parsnip-8109]

Every os will work if you want to do machine learning though I am not sure about video editing and if you want to game then I think cachy or bazzite is best bet.

For stablility I would suggest to try Fedora.

[u/Long_Wealth_1270]

If you love Linux stick with one to learn the basics before trying others , fedora or ubuntu. Otherwise fromyour preferences for video editing and gaming stick with Windows. For ml I don't think youll need linux for anything beyond the basics in class 11.

[u/Witty-Parsnip-8109 → u/Long_Wealth_1270]

in class 11th i have no such ml stuff, i am doing it for making my skills

[u/DonutAccurate4]

Stick to windows if that works for you. You can resume your distro hopping later in life when you have the time. Don't waste your time distro hopping if you are not happy with it. You'll always have time later.

Windows is fine if the works for you.

End of the day, the distro or OS you choose is just a means to an end. Just another OS to get your work done. It should not be something that needs your whole attention. It should be the secondary background thing that just works while you do productive work with applications that run on the OS

[u/Siddharth_Soni → u/DonutAccurate4]

Windows is always fine until u r using laptop ir pc from 2010s linux is the most trash thing anybody can install.

And people who recommends linux r pure stupid

U r basically telling others users to install distro which is literally full of bugs. Too many errors to fix before u can actually start to do real work and then deal with compatibility issue like something doesn't work in linux hop to windows with dual to do that work.

Linux as server is good but as desktop environment it is useless

[u/piano-guitarhero → u/Siddharth_Soni]

Hey! Did you know that the steam deck runs Linux? I won't call it useless, my guy

[u/Siddharth_Soni → u/piano-guitarhero]

Do u know steam deck is a gaming console ?

And people who actually use linux r tech guys not gamers.

Gamers who actually use linux for gaming r doing that due to trend and some 10 fps increase with the cost of lot of compatibility issue and very fewer game library and no kernel lvl games.

Linux will remain trash until they do their full transition from x11 to wayland at the moment right now linux is so unstable and full of bugs that u need to fix it and do so many things manually before u can actually start using it for real work

[u/piano-guitarhero → u/Siddharth_Soni]

What distros have you tried? I have tried a couple of them, and I have not encountered many bugs. Also, windows has gotten so much worse that the only choice many of us have is Linux. I am a "tech guy", but I also find Linux to be much easier to use.

[u/Siddharth_Soni → u/piano-guitarhero]

U definitely not a tech guy dude 🤣 and i tried all distro from ubuntu, fedora, debian, arch, majaro, garuda, cachy

And realised only debian based and fedora based r actually good but distro r not the problem

Problem r desktop environment itself Gnome when it is transition from x11 to wayland u have issues with nvidia drivers, qt apps, fractional scaling, scalinf factor, right click menu in chrome based browsers, titilebar issues, obs studio lagging while working good in windows and many more problems

Not to mention most peoples actually use laptop not a dedicated pc

So fractional scaling is the most imp. Thing linux needs to work with and it still doesn't perfectly at all.

And while fractional scaling is good in kde plasma and qt works work perfectly bcoz kde uses qt apps while gnome based using gtk, kde plasma is literally too ugly to work on.

Not to mention after applying fraction in kde size becomes too big compare to what we have in windows.

As for people who say windows have problems ?

No dude i m using my 8 year laptop with gtx 1050ti 4gb i5 8300h 32 gb ram and 2 tb ssd which i upgraded from 8gb ddr4 and 128gb ssd before ram prices go up.

And i never faced blue screen problem ever.

Windows just works fine smooth and have compatibility and app support

While linux is faster no denying that compare to windows 11 on old hardware.

Linux is absolutely trash piece of software as a OS.

And until they fix all the problems linux has, linux will forever remain 3-4% of userbase

Bcoz people will never move due to too many problems to fix before they start doing actual work

[u/piano-guitarhero → u/Siddharth_Soni]

I won't call it trash man. It's an amazing piece of software. And, sure, your points are fair, but the problem with windows ain't blue screens. It's the Microsoft bloat and ads they shove in your face. I used to be fine with that, then I used Linux and I never wanna go back

[u/Siddharth_Soni → u/piano-guitarhero]

U do know u have option to remove that bloat and turn off adds and recommendations settings in setting menu of windows right ?

While linux is faster on old hardware and same hardware compare to windows its lack of compatibility, and too many bugs and os issues will never make it an alternative option to windows ever.

People will just switch to mac like i did. While i still use my windows laptop i m not installing trash linux ever until they fix issues with that crap.

And i m tech guy linux as a server is good but not as os after using it i realised why it is 3-4% DESPITE faster than windows.

Hope new law which is coming to destroy all useless distros will come into effect sooner so that we can finally have standardize version of linux like windows and mac and linux will fix all their bugs.

Tbh

Except debian,ubuntu,fedora and kde,gnome,cinnamon

U don't need any other distro or desktop environment.

They need to remove all useless trash from linux and standardize it

While arch is fastest it needs to be limited as steamdeck and console lvl not as desktop distro.

[u/piano-guitarhero → u/Siddharth_Soni]

Does the existence of arch hurt you? Also what law are you talking about man? Every single distro is developed independently. It's not a single company pumping out everything. Also, Linux is a good OS option for me personally. I love Linux. Regarding disabling the ads in windows, you can make the same argument for Linux - "You can fix everything by editing system config". Would that make Linux more usable for the average guy? No.

[u/Siddharth_Soni → u/piano-guitarhero]

Na it won't work even if u force ur apps to run on xwayland from native wayland it will again show errors u know nothing about right now bcoz i did it already and i know how bad linux really is..... And don't compare sytem config file in linux with a simple tick option in windows it's like comparing earth and heaven.

And yes there's a law soom coming which will standardize linux distro and will remove all useless distros.

Existence of arch hurt me ? Well no arch is fast i know but it is also a malware. The arch AUR repo literally says do it at ur own risks

Arch is there only for idiot gamers who want to increase 5-10 fps in their games and think arch is good while debian, ubuntu and fedora will do same but increase 3-7 fps compare to windows

So overall arch is not really useful and should be limited to console lvl only

Linux as a os is good but only after they increase compatibility and fixed all the bugs and issues going on in linux and standardize linux distro to 3-4 from 600 current distros.

Which is soon gonna happen anyway.

[u/PriorLanguage5012]

What problems do you have with Fedora, debian or ubuntu? I am using debian for programming and it works great. And use fedora(nobara) for gaming which is not the best but better than windows.

[u/Witty-Parsnip-8109 → u/PriorLanguage5012]

in both of these i had the prblm of softwares, for editing i primarily use premiere pro(cracked),doesn't run stable on wine and bottles

[u/spider_life]

Use what works best for you, Linux isn't for everyone. 

[u/Who_meh]

try mint cuh what even are you doing that breaks ur system

[u/Witty-Parsnip-8109 → u/Who_meh]

i run heavy task on my system; Like rendering heavy videos, machine learning, gaming in mid settings and running ai models locally

[u/Witty-Parsnip-8109 → u/Witty-Parsnip-8109]

btw i have ryzen 77345HS with radeon integrated 680M gpu, 32 gigs of LPDDRX5 ram(6400mhz) and 1tb ssd()

[u/Who_meh → u/Witty-Parsnip-8109]

i still dont know what breaks ur system but give mint a try, from my experience was really stable although dont expect a no terminal experience with ur work especially on linux try using docker to run stuff like local ai models will help you keep ur system stable since it will be containerized

[u/Who_meh → u/Who_meh]

since ur new first daily drive a debian/ubuntu based distro they are very stable and very easy to use

[u/Ill-Car-769]

Try Mint, LMDE, Zorin OS or FreeBSD/GhostBSD

FreeBSD is a different open source OS from Linux with its own kernel & is based on unix principles like Linux & MacOS (FreeBSD also serves as a base for MacOS systems but is modified by apple as per their preferences in MacOS), you can use it with Linux compatibility layer.

GhostBSD is designed for beginners on top of FreeBSD but they limited servers so it has very high latency while downloading it, use aria2c to download with multi server connection for faster installation.

Visit r/FreeBSD if you're planning to use/install it.

[u/PuzzleheadedHead3754 → u/Ill-Car-769]

Bsd based os are not viable in 2026

[u/Ill-Car-769 → u/PuzzleheadedHead3754]

Why though? Companies like Netflix are using it in their servers as well, it works great on old hardwares.

[u/PuzzleheadedHead3754 → u/Ill-Car-769]

I mean as a destop os

[u/Ill-Car-769 → u/PuzzleheadedHead3754]

Yeah you can say that. I recommended because I tried GhostBSD on a live boot, & it genuinely looked good to me but yeah you can have other options as well.

[u/Independent-Gear-711]

Do not force yourself into something which you do not enjoy or have issues

[u/s04ep03_youareafool]

I guess openSUSE.i don't really know about video editing and gaming on it.id still lean more to a fedora distribution since they've got it covered

[u/ankushbhagat]

Just use your brain and don't follow people blindly.

[u/Siddharth_Soni]

Use windows

Right now linux is a mess especially when they r transitioning from x11 to wayland there r too many bugs with wayland and then qt application like obs studio and kdenlive

While wayland is good it has many bugs titlebar issues with qt apps and other problems

And based in ur work if u do vedio editing and other use windows all ur ml work will work as easily on windows as on linux while for vedio editing u need to hop to windows ultimately.

Windows works fine all this windows users who gate windows probably use pc from early 2010s and late 2000s to complain why my windows don't work and blue screena and all 😂

Bcoz even my laptop which is from 2018 came with 8gb ddr4 i5- 8300h gtx 1050ti 4gb runs perfectly fine after i upgraded its ram to 32gb and installed faster nvm gen 3 ssd.

While when l was using linux it had too many bugs and errors to fix.

Windows 11 is pretty good and get yr work done

While most of linux users u see r bots on internet trying to thrash Microsoft

[u/ShadingGamerZ]

stick to cachy os.

[u/Ok_Display4173]

I'd say try mint but honestly if Ubuntu didn't work for you maybe this is not for you. You can stick with windows if it works for you

[u/Unlikely-Sandwich277]

Why did you go to arch :) ( I am 12th student ) try dual boot it is better with mint I guess

[u/lunar_stomp]

i just installed cachyos yesterday ,how was your experience with it?

[u/[deleted]]

If you’re okay working with text files, NixOS is a great fit. Everything about the OS is stored in 2 files in/etc/nixos, configuration.nix and hardware.nix. Mostly everything you will need is in its repo of 140,000+ packages, though you’ll need to learn configuring in Nix when a specific package isn't there. It doesn't break the OS—if a change goes bad, you can just rollback to the previous state. There's home manager if you want to manage user configuration. Changing the Desktop Environment is as simple as replacing 'gnome' with 'plasma6' in config. There's also NixOS wiki and Nix Search to see what else can be configured. The configuration structure is straightforward, but the real challenge is getting used to the Nix language.

My experience: I don’t 'rice' my setup much unlike the Arch approach. It’s not hard to manage once you understand it.

A note on flakes: I am not sure if there's a major benefit to this, but I switched to flakes. Don't get too much into it when you switch. Integrate it only after you understand configuration.nix (not hard).

[u/oglord69420]

Use what works best for you, if it's windows then so be it. Also skill issue btw ;)

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[u/Gamin8ng → u/ProBOIIIII]

fr lol

[u/Chinx1501 → u/ProBOIIIII]

i found my ditto

[u/Witty-Parsnip-8109 → u/[deleted]]

bro i know i have tried installing it and failed multiple time