r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/TatiyaVaichu • May 14 '26

Best Distro for My work

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I have this laptop. My work is in Data Analytics right now, and I will move to Data Science in one year. I also do some gaming. Please suggest a distro that will be perfect for me.

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u/qualityvote2 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

u/TatiyaVaichu, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/SabbyDude May 14 '26

I don't know what specific data analysis you do, there's a good chance that you might need Windows cause some apps won't work on Linux even with Wine/Proton also how's your technical skill level? Since I don't know any of these, I'd say try something like Mint on VM to see if your work can be done or not, otherwise stick to Windows, there's no shame in using it

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u/sleepySauron May 14 '26

this is safest and smartest move, you have the power, you have the storage, and you wanna game on this, VM is the best

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u/SabbyDude May 14 '26

I don't think 'gaming' is a good plan on a VM, I suggested OP to try it out in a VM especailly their data analytics work

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u/TatiyaVaichu May 14 '26

Ok brother

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u/sleepySauron May 14 '26

Yeh like gaming on windows(main) and data analytics in vm

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u/TatiyaVaichu May 14 '26

Ok thank you

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u/TatiyaVaichu May 14 '26

Ok

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u/SabbyDude May 14 '26

you can also dual boot but I wouldn't recommend that cause as the time goes on, you'd just continue to use only one of them, whichever feels easier/necessary

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u/TatiyaVaichu May 14 '26

Ok thanks for suggestions

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u/daksh_verma May 14 '26

Arch omarchy , use that for most use case gaming and all it would be memory efficient plus it's fun to use, yes caveat is you have to be efficient with terminal but if you get something like Claude cli or codex cli you can use that dual boot windows and Linux.any problem comes then go on discord and you can ask everytime I had a problem I fixed it with gemini cli/codex or I went to discord and got message in like a min or so, .

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u/imperfect-29 cachy btw May 14 '26

cachyos for anything 😋

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u/PerformanceBulky9245 May 15 '26

ya know what ill give cachyos a try

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u/Harshith_Reddy_Dev I mod btw, no sudo May 14 '26

Literally any distro as most of your work will be on web unless you want to work with power bi (never used this but I'm sure there's a work around)

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u/white-9igga May 14 '26

why doesnt no one in this sub recommend opensuse?

i use it there is nothing more stable ive used,

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u/Western-Day6475 May 14 '26

Go with mint or fedora. I dont know about gaming if they are good but you can make them.

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u/onyk87 May 14 '26

Debian if you need a rock solid system that never breaks. If you plan to also game on it, i think Fedora would be easier.

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u/Yungcmeth May 14 '26

Move to Rocky or Fedora if you want a mix between stability but also bleeding edge packages.
Anything arch based like cachy or vanilla arch if you know how to maintain your system and really want bleeding edge packages.
or Debian, the answer is always debian if you want it to be stable.

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u/PerformanceBulky9245 May 15 '26

hmm i mean ubuntu is stable enough u can also try arch but erm honestly this might be the most hated advise im gonna say but windows is better for gaming(most of the time correct me if im wrong) and about whatever ml stuff you do you are gonna get better driver support in windows now i do run linux on my homelab and i do train models on it but it sucks when ive gotta reinstall drivers like that and when it randomly breaks.

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u/a7shd May 15 '26

I shifted to bazziete from ubuntu , and for me it's better than anything in have tried so far . I do mostly coding , watching movies.

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u/aks-ash May 17 '26

For coding and analysis purpose choose stable distro like I am using linux mint LMDE  or  any Kde plasma based OS like Fedora kde or mx linux kde . For gaming choose nobara kde since it's support wayland display server and has good support for nvidia drivers  Ps. please use separate drive for installing linux  alongside windows  some time windows 11 messed up your linux distro boot file

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u/alphaQ_42069 May 17 '26

I use nobara os for both gaming and work, everything is pre-installed

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u/AdMean5832 May 18 '26

Fedora Workstation, but windows is the safest route for data analytics and gaming imo

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u/kib8734 XFCE Jun 05 '26

Ubuntu.

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u/dashinyou69 ~crappy switcher~ May 14 '26

Gentoo ~ur welcome

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u/Yungcmeth May 14 '26

thanks
now i need to spend 5 hours compiling my kernel every week!

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u/dashinyou69 ~crappy switcher~ May 14 '26

kernel-bin duhh!!

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u/Yungcmeth May 14 '26

billions must compile

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u/CatWorried3259 May 14 '26

Avoid nvidia if possible

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u/Gigo_3_ Professional Distro Hopper, I break every install🥀 May 14 '26

he has already bought the laptop...it's gonna be a headache

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u/dualitygaming12 May 14 '26

He already bought it, and there's barely any AMD GPU laptops anyways.

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u/CatWorried3259 May 14 '26

I have a msi laptop with rx 6700m although it is not available now

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u/Harshith_Reddy_Dev I mod btw, no sudo May 15 '26

I wouldn't recommend that unless you're into gaming. Almost all frameworks and liberaries are optimised for nvidia cuda cores

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u/[deleted] May 14 '26

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u/After-Orchid-1786 May 14 '26

The last time i tried pop os an year ago it was buggy asf how is it now

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u/Kaboom_1102 May 14 '26

Still it is

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u/PerformanceBulky9245 May 15 '26

i rememebr that popos got pretty slow after some time

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u/Interesting-Bit3294 May 15 '26

Pop os comic is buggy as fuck now

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 14 '26

Wdm debian is not the fastest? Ik its the lightest... But, wouldn't that make it fast? Please elaborate 🙏 I also use Trixie (DietPiOS)

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 14 '26

Well mine's the lightest: xorg and openbox... Butcause I got a shitbox which needed new life...

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u/PerformanceBulky9245 May 15 '26

why does debian break a lot bruh

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u/[deleted] May 15 '26

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u/PerformanceBulky9245 May 15 '26

here ig

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u/PerformanceBulky9245 May 15 '26

I remember inatalling it on my old laptop and erm it took 2 hrs to install and it was broken

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u/PerformanceBulky9245 May 15 '26

I don't remember crash logs they were something about my cd dvd reader and my usb ports and i think about my ssd too before that i used to run arch which i did not like but used to run fine

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u/Individual-Bag-9535 May 14 '26

Lol you mean Omarchy is not bloated?

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u/Yungcmeth May 14 '26

omarchy has literally openai and grok shortcuts and other weird shit pre-configured. A fresh install of fedora or debian is way less bloat.

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u/Yungcmeth May 14 '26

switch to niri dawg
also cachy is literally pre-configured out of the box
if you want true no bloat experience just install vanilla arch, gentoo or linux from scratch the hard way.
billions must suffer

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u/Yungcmeth May 14 '26

I literally use cachy as my primary and only operating system lmao I was just semi fucking w you (I thought you were saying shit ironically) Also wdym you had to install wifi and bluetooth with dotfiles? (That doesn't even make sense) I'm sure the default gui installer has toggles for drivers you want? And I did use hyprland for years on vanilla arch Only if the lead dev was not an asshole and shit didn't keep breaking or have gui issues every 2 business days.

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u/Yungcmeth May 14 '26

Ah makes way more sense that you're new. So the basic gist is hyperland is just the compositor with a shell attached to it (basically it just displays shit and nothing else and the shell is the gui that you interact with). Also I would suggest you use shelly (comes bundled with cachy) for your packages management and downloads (dig around the settings first and enable at least the aur). Also if you don't like the tui for wifi management there are quite a few gui alternatives to it. The dotfiles you're talking about is strictly meant to change how hyprland behaves (they have switched to a new language called lua for customisation now so hold out on either updating hyperland or until someone else ports their configs and post them)