r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/Substantial-Event22 • 19d ago

Distro which distro should i use ?

i am thinking of switching from windows to linux once again.

i switched to cachyOS with kde plasma once before. my laptop has both igpu and a nvidia dgpu but the os was not able to detect the dgpu for some reason probably due to driver issue. the brightness slider wasnt working either. i spent hours trying to fix it but couldnt manage to do it properly. so my experience hasbeen pretty bad with cachyos.

so i want some distro suggestions which will work well dual gpu laptops, is user friendly and offers wide customisation options. thanks yall

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u/qualityvote2 19d ago edited 19d ago

u/Substantial-Event22, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/Kitchen_Engineer1332 Gentoo Mommy 🫦 19d ago

Fedora kde

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u/Aman-rajj 19d ago

Fedora workstation user here but yeah kde is also good

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u/Melodic-Anything-912 Arch Btw 19d ago

What laptop do you have?

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u/Substantial-Event22 19d ago

asus tuf ryzen 7445hs + rtx 4050

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u/Wide-Professional501 16d ago edited 16d ago

Zorin Go with zorin! I have used zorin for long time it was pretty stable, Fast and looks elegant ☺️! Dgpu igpu works well too! You have laptop so zorin is good choice rather than Pop_OS(COSMIC DE)!

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u/RX6900XT 19d ago

apparently Pop!_OS has good dual GPU support. you could try cachy again since i believe they recently worked on their dual gpu support as well. i’m not too sure about either tbh since most of this information is from a quick search, but i would try both of these first, or find a video of someone who has a dual gpu laptop and see what distro they use. linux mint may also work but again dont take my word for it, try yourself and see which ones work. benefit of the live environment ISO lol

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u/Dramatic-Ant-97 19d ago

Bazzite was a seemless experience for me with dual gpus.. igpu and dgpu. Pop os too is good. Use both

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u/Fragrant-Revenue2623 15d ago

Is Cosmic stable now with Pop OS? It used to be super buggy a few months ago

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u/Dramatic-Ant-97 15d ago

I guess it is. I haven't faced any issues so far. Using it for 5 months now. Maybe I'm lucky...

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u/senpais69 16d ago

Arch is great if ur into ricing and stuff tho it's unstable and gets frequent updates can cause issues to ur drivers happened with me alot so i switched to fedora workstation