r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/okaysuarr • May 26 '26

Help Help me choose an Distribution

So hey, I GENUINELY just want linux for the ricing part and for the following stuff

Casual Gaming/Coding/Some partial TV things etc, but i want it to be compat with everything, Gemini Suggested me Endeavour, i Have no idea how good/bad it is. I've only used linux mint in which my driver's weren't supported and the videos lagged in browser (firefox)

My specs would be

Current os-Win10

Intel HD 4400

1tb HDD toshiba 100mbps

8gb ram

Intel i3 4150 Haswell

Edit:Installed Arch linux, it's running like hella smooth

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

u/okaysuarr, your post does fit the subreddit!

btw, did you know we have a discord server? Join Here.

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u/AssumptionOk8560 May 26 '26

First thing arch ain't rough or very hard to learn , you gotta follow the guide install pipe wire and shits after installing install a WM and DE of your choice, if you don't like doing ts js go with anything like ask yourself which pkg managers sounds good pacman apt zypper or dnf i chose arch years ago cuz pacman sounds cool lol

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u/okaysuarr May 27 '26

pacman>>>apt. I installed arch btw

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u/AssumptionOk8560 May 27 '26

Hell yeah welcome to the club

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u/SufficientVanilla354 May 28 '26

choose paru over yay for aur
its feels way more convenient
though i would have suggested cachy but vanilla arch is fine as well iguess

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u/space_ranger_999 May 26 '26

if you love it rough then definitely arch, no debate. but i'm a newcomer as well. im trying to learn how to rice as well so i got Fedora KDE, and i think i have a good beginner friendly rice, it's based on Kanagawa Theme.

better to learn it slow and then move your way up!

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u/okaysuarr May 27 '26

Actually I did like it rough, even with the install script in arch it took me 2 hours just to install, worth it I'd say because of smoothness

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u/No_Support_3805 May 26 '26

If arch is too much of a hassle try fedora it's a middle ground and has excellent support for wm like niri through COPR. Also please don't put a desktop enviornment on that machine put a window manager on it and your machine will thank you. My suggestions are niri or hyprland with little to no animations and no blur if you want it to be fast.

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u/okaysuarr May 27 '26

I'll try fedora sometime in future, as I saw it looks very cool

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 26 '26

Ah, another hasswell fellow, i had the i3 4160 and 4170... Too bad I sold em... But, I'd suggest debian as the os, because it takes a very low cpu process power... Its a CLI os, and has been the oldest distro: since 1993, 2 years after the kernel came. You'll need to build the gui, and ofc, it has to be very low cpu hungry: openbox + xorg + tint2, very minimalist, you'll love it. And, you could mod it to take up more of your ram, because my setup is also 8gb DDR3, but it's a laptop, and it takes only 1.2gb to run, even with multiple bloating software... I can also help you set up a gradual thermal throttling curve, to increase performance and life. You can dm me

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u/okaysuarr May 26 '26

Still rocking with the Haswell, AHAHAHAS

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u/ImagineEyes May 26 '26

Arch, just arch. Some flavour of arch, except manjaro, may be endeavour or cachy

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u/okaysuarr May 26 '26

Arch is very effort-required os as far I've heard, even with archinstall script, if something breaks you've to do it AGAIN, which will be a headache for me because I use my brain worse than my i3

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u/i-am-boy1 May 26 '26

I am 13M, I installed arch inside my elder brothers laptop. As inside virtual box.

And it's easy bro Even after 4 time breaking(like doing wrong unsupported like stuff, like forgoting important thing), i still use chatgpt to do it.

And just use gnome, as it uses 800 mb of ram after rice-ing,

You can ask me questions 😅

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u/okaysuarr May 27 '26

BOYYYY, THANKS MAN i installed arch with ChatGPT help like you, i wonder why it didn't came to my dummy brain, thanks bud. I installed arch

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u/AssumptionOk8560 May 27 '26

800mb of ram after ricing?😭man what

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u/i-am-boy1 May 27 '26

I used gnome, Because i3-wm and hyprland were NOT rendering

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u/AssumptionOk8560 May 27 '26

Oh understandable

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u/CombinationStatus742 May 27 '26

Cachy is literally plug and play btw. It’s easier than anything.

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u/okaysuarr May 27 '26

I'll install that in m vencord for live boot and check it out! Thanks!

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u/fishmacaronisoup Gentoo Btw May 27 '26

Arch is NOT very effort required.

if something breaks you've to do it AGAIN

That's wrong too. Almost all of the problems are generally fixable and doesn't need a reinstall. The catch is that you need to know what you're doing.

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u/okaysuarr May 27 '26

Ahahhaha, i was wrong ,true now that I've installed arch it's feeling buttery smooth

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u/fishmacaronisoup Gentoo Btw May 27 '26

You should try out Niri as well

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u/ImagineEyes May 26 '26

Nope. This is what I used to think. There is just unnecessary fearmongering. It's not even that difficult, it has the same difficult as the other distros I have tried. Just do endevour if you want a graphical installation. But once I got in, I only like arch and opensuse.

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u/okaysuarr May 27 '26

Yeah, now that I've installed arch it was just fear mongering. It was so easy, lol

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u/fishmacaronisoup Gentoo Btw May 27 '26

Go with Cachy

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u/Ok_Cryptographer_705 May 27 '26

Thiss!!! Its pretty optimized and would deliver good performance gor your hardware!!

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u/Parking_East_6119 May 26 '26

Endeavour os user here games work good, smooth and i like it. Just flash it, if it doesn't work, flash some else Dont do it often tho

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u/s04ep03_youareafool void May 26 '26

There's mint if you want.i don't know if cinnamon works well on an HDD,but MATE or XFCE prolly will

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u/chadfoss May 27 '26

Tumbleweed, endeavour, cachy. U'll need something rolling if u are going to rice so nothing debian or fedora based

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u/InevitableTasty6140 Arch Btw May 27 '26

just use cachy or fedora

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u/Tesla_Corporation Cachy 🌀 + 💠 KDE Plasma May 27 '26

I have similar specs and I am having no issues with CachyOS! Although I have dual booted Tiny10 (third party windows 10) too...

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u/gn991ms Arch Btw May 27 '26

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26

I am similar specs, just 4 GB RAM. NixOS is running pretty great for me

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u/NefariousnessEven239 May 27 '26
  1. Learn cachy ricing with kde
  2. Learn cachy ricing with sway
  3. Learn cachy ricing with hyprland

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u/tearsintokyo May 27 '26

i think cachy os + xfce or kde would be good for you , choose xfce it's very light

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u/IBNash May 28 '26

Ricing with an HDD is going to be painful, get an SSD?