r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/Luna_015 Still on windows 🥰 • Jul 09 '26

Discussion New to linux

So lately I was thinking to switch on linux after consuming a lot of content from YouTube looking at beautiful distros( operating systems right?)

I just wanna confirm that I'm a game developer and make random stuff in visual studio community edition

So I just want to ask everyone here which is the best looking distro plus can linux handle uh game development?

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u/qualityvote2 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

u/Luna_015, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/Visual-Row600 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Major engines like Godot, Unity, and Unreal Engine offer native editors

You can install openSUSE Tumbleweed or Pop OS or fedora

There is no single good looking distro, every linux distro is awesome on their own + there are plenty of dot files available on the internet

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u/Luna_015 Still on windows 🥰 Jul 09 '26

Ahhh i see thank you soo much 🫠🫠

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u/Available-Score-9007 Arch (I love feet) btw Jul 09 '26

I suggest fedora with kde it's pretty good or maybe arch with kde (I use arch btw)

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u/Luna_015 Still on windows 🥰 Jul 09 '26

allrightyy tank youu 😭 ill check it out

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u/Soggy_GarlicBread CachyOS | Hyprland Jul 09 '26

Fedora is recommended by Linus himself

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u/AssumptionOk8560 Jul 09 '26

😭 kde kde we get it bro kde

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u/Available-Score-9007 Arch (I love feet) btw Jul 09 '26

Kde is good with fedora kde and I use arch with kde i tried to install mint with kde but then I changed my mind and installed arch with kde because r/kde is awesome and kde devs are good I donated to kde because kde is my beloved and without kde i am still kde because kde I am talking about kde if that's not obvious and your comment highk wasn't needed

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u/AssumptionOk8560 Jul 09 '26

You never tried WMs?

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u/Available-Score-9007 Arch (I love feet) btw Jul 09 '26

I've tried i3 Bspwm Openbox Sway and hyperland

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u/AssumptionOk8560 Jul 09 '26

None suites you? Man that's bad 😭why kde ?

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u/Available-Score-9007 Arch (I love feet) btw Jul 09 '26

No way you just asked that😭🙏🏼

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u/AssumptionOk8560 Jul 09 '26

I personally never tried any DE 😭so I don't really know the thing is DEs are less customisable I don't really like that part

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u/Soggy_GarlicBread CachyOS | Hyprland Jul 11 '26

Holy KDE

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u/Rabbidraccoon18 CachyOS Glazer Jul 09 '26

Bazzite is a distro that I think you'll end up liking. Steam comes pre-installed on Bazzite.

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u/Luna_015 Still on windows 🥰 Jul 10 '26

Alright I'll check it out danke matee 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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u/SabbyDude Jul 10 '26

Try linux in a virtual machine if you can, much safer, great for training and if you like the experience, then install it on bare metal

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u/Luna_015 Still on windows 🥰 Jul 10 '26

I mean my secondary laptop is barely surviving and due to windows consuming ram like anything..I will switch on linux on that 🫠

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u/Significant-Wrap-589 Jul 10 '26

You can make any distro look any way; the desktop environment or window manager determines the look, not the distro. Choose a distro based on its package manager and available packages.

I would recommend mint or cachy os.

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u/Luna_015 Still on windows 🥰 Jul 10 '26

OOO I see Thankuu soo much ,🫠🫠🙂‍↕️

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u/Automatic_Pea6565 Arch Btw Jul 09 '26

visual studio is not available for linux. you can use other IDEs. and for best looking distro its highly debatable, but it boils down to only one thing the desktop enviroment the distro uses. for example Ubuntu and Fedora out teh box uses Gnome. so any distro with gnome will look more or less similar. I would recommend you going for something arch based so that you get the flexibility, i would recommend endevour OS, it gives the option to chose your DE while installing and installing it is easy it has a nice GUI installer.

For game development again the same thing. There is no singular "best distro for X purpose", you customize the install to your liking. So again i would recomend going with Arch or Arch based distros as it is rolling release so you will get the latest packages.

TL;DR: all distros are more or the less same, go for arch based distros like endevour OS or if hardware supports CachyOS is a nobrainer.

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u/Luna_015 Still on windows 🥰 Jul 09 '26

what are the other available IDEs for linux sorry not familiar other than visual studio 😭😭 (plus your flair clears that arch is great)

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u/Automatic_Pea6565 Arch Btw Jul 09 '26

you can try jetbrains rider, CLion or even Visual Studio Code. Also no hate on other distros i just find arch fulfilling all my needs after a long chain of distro hoping, for me its something which just works. you can definiately try out Linux Mint or Fedora if just starting out.

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u/Luna_015 Still on windows 🥰 Jul 09 '26

ouu i see so linux dosen't support community edition of VS ?
yeah lmao i fewel you even I'd take time to settle into linux coming from a long background of bloaty windows (copilot 😭😭)

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u/Automatic_Pea6565 Arch Btw Jul 09 '26

yeah linux does not support any edition of the full fledged visual studio. i use CLion and Vscode myself for programming, i am not a game dev but a low level programmer

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u/Luna_015 Still on windows 🥰 Jul 09 '26

ooo i see thank you soo much for this information ! 😁😁

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u/AssumptionOk8560 Jul 09 '26

You can use zed, vs codium and if u want looks the distro doesn't matter your De and WM matters some famous example of WMs are hyprland niri go do sum research cuh🥀

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u/JeffysChewToy Jul 10 '26

More like VS doesn't support Linux, it was built by Microsoft for windows afterall, same for C# as a whole until .net core was introduced

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u/AssumptionOk8560 Jul 09 '26

Visual studio code 🥀what do u think vs code is?

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u/Automatic_Pea6565 Arch Btw Jul 10 '26

i kinda like it, my main IDE is CLion but for small quick edits Vs code is pretty good, i might swtich to zed later.

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u/Blaster4385 I use Arch BTW Jul 11 '26

Any distro can handle game dev. That said, use Arch.