All my servers are Debian based (on Proxmox as hypervisor)
I used CachyOS for about 3 months. CachyOS is basically Arch with lots of optimizations for gaming. It a lot more bleeding edge than Debian. I would not recommend it for new users, but experienced Linux hands will find it comes with some very powerful tools.
Bazzite is more the middle of the road option and the one I have been using for 18 months now. Its fedora workstation atomic at its core, with gaming optimizations baked in. Its the one that I would recommend for most new users. Its very difficult to break, due to its atomic nature, but it does add some steps if you want to customize the base OS too much. The main item you will find is that installing non-flatpack applications is not recommended for most. But I found that using distroshelf to run other applications in OS containers works very well.
Especially if you don’t give the child’s account admin rights, there is very little they can do to break it.
Thank you for the detailed info. I dont think I can consciously curse her to only flatpacks, so I’ll check out CachyOS. One thing thats for sure is all of them sound like better options than windows.
Regardless of CachyOS or Bazzite. Distro shelf works very well as it gives you the option to export applications installed in the container into the KDE interface. Its how I run Brave Origin all the time. With it you can essentially install any app from any Linux OS without cluttering your host OS. You also have the advantage of getting them directly from the developer repos regardless of the packaging method they prefer. While I appreciate the work done by the AUR community, I prefer getting the software directly from the developer where I can.
The containers only run when you use the app and only add about 0.5 seconds to first time startup as the container starts.
All my servers are Debian based (on Proxmox as hypervisor)
I used CachyOS for about 3 months. CachyOS is basically Arch with lots of optimizations for gaming. It a lot more bleeding edge than Debian. I would not recommend it for new users, but experienced Linux hands will find it comes with some very powerful tools.
Bazzite is more the middle of the road option and the one I have been using for 18 months now. Its fedora workstation atomic at its core, with gaming optimizations baked in. Its the one that I would recommend for most new users. Its very difficult to break, due to its atomic nature, but it does add some steps if you want to customize the base OS too much. The main item you will find is that installing non-flatpack applications is not recommended for most. But I found that using distroshelf to run other applications in OS containers works very well.
Especially if you don’t give the child’s account admin rights, there is very little they can do to break it.
Thank you for the detailed info. I dont think I can consciously curse her to only flatpacks, so I’ll check out CachyOS. One thing thats for sure is all of them sound like better options than windows.
Regardless of CachyOS or Bazzite. Distro shelf works very well as it gives you the option to export applications installed in the container into the KDE interface. Its how I run Brave Origin all the time. With it you can essentially install any app from any Linux OS without cluttering your host OS. You also have the advantage of getting them directly from the developer repos regardless of the packaging method they prefer. While I appreciate the work done by the AUR community, I prefer getting the software directly from the developer where I can.
The containers only run when you use the app and only add about 0.5 seconds to first time startup as the container starts.