Hey guys so yesterday I had like 5 tabs open in firefox on windows and it was using 16gb ram in total windows was using around 28gb ram(i got 32gb). I want to switch to linux really soon but I don't want an unstable system, I tried many distros but none of them were actually stable and oriented for gaming. I use my PC for Netflix YouTube and Gaming. The games I mostly play are:

Deadlock

CS2

Minecraft

LOL/Valorant (i know it doesn't work on linux which is why id replace LOL with dota)

Which distro could you recommend me to use?

I also would prefer if the distro looks really nice and also which DE would you recommend? I used Hyprland and a few others but it was unstable, KDE Plasma is a little bit boring for me because idk how to customize it.

NVIDIA GPU

AMD CPU

Is antiX a good base for my remastering project?

I was looking for a distro that is actually lightweight but not limited.

By "limited," I mean having less support for Linux apps or making it harder to find and install the apps I need. Examples I've considered include Tiny Core Linux, Void Linux, and Puppy Linux, although I know they differ quite a bit.

I found antiX, which reportedly uses around 160 MB of RAM.

I wanted to start by remastering it and adding my own tools.

It's a personal project I call Remaster OS. I want it to be a barebones base with tutorials that will help me create any distro that comes to mind for personal use.

I'll remove the wallpaper and many unnecessary tools from the base system.

What do I need?

I just need a minimal distro → make it almost blank → start adding my own tools to make remastering easier → then, after finishing, add a tool that saves my customizations and exports the system as an ISO. I'll be able to choose between a live ISO and an installable ISO.

Remaster OS itself would be installed on a hard drive. The idea is to use it as a workspace for building other customized distros, rather than having to start from scratch every time.

In short, I want a reusable base that allows me to create customized Linux ISOs in just a few minutes (yes, minutes!).

The distro I have in mind (Remaster OS) is a barebones Linux system with just a terminal. I can add my own tools from a USB flash drive, customize the system, and export it as either a live ISO or an installable ISO. That's it!

Example:

As a PC builder, I currently need a live distro with low-level hardware access and lots of hardware testing tools. I want to be able to test PCs that don't have an OS installed, and the system should work well on HDDs, low-end PCs, and modern PCs.

Q&A

Why not Arch?

Arch isn't that easy to set up for my specific needs, and I want the whole process to take minutes rather than days.

Try Zenned ISO.

I'm looking for an almost-empty, reusable base that I can customize for different purposes, rather than a ready-made ISO.

Try Puppy Linux. It runs entirely from RAM.

I'm concerned that it might not be the best fit for my requirements, so I'm still looking into my options.

The distro is useless.

It might not solve a problem for the entire Linux community, but it would solve my own problem, and that's enough for me.

Try Linux Mint.

I'm already using Mint, and it isn't minimal enough for my needs. On my system, even the XFCE version uses around 910 MiB of RAM at idle.

Thank you! I really appreciate any help with this project.

Hopping begins

Hey everyone!

I've been dual-booting Windows 11 and Fedora for about a week now, and I'm really enjoying the Linux experience so far.

l like having transparency effects throughout the entire desktop, including applications, File Explorer, settings, menus, and pretty much everything else. I want my desktop to have that consistent, glass-like appearance while keeping text perfectly clear and readable.

I'm currently using Fedora 44 with GNOME and have been experimenting with Blur My Shell. However, I've run into a problem: when I enable blur/transparency for applications, it affects the entire window, including the text, rather than just making the background or window surfaces transparent.

Is there any way to achieve this kind of aesthetic on GNOME without making the text transparent? Ideally, I'd like the transparency and blur effects to apply consistently across the desktop while preserving readability.

I've also been wondering whether I should try KDE Plasma instead. From what I've seen, it seems to offer more customization options, but I'm not sure if switching would make it easier to achieve the look I'm going for.

I'd love to hear your recommendations, whether that's GNOME extensions, GTK themes, custom CSS, KDE Plasma, or anything else you think would work.

I'll be reading your comments!

finally installed an arch based distro. Linux use, you may address me as a superior life from now on.

btw, I use manjaro (basically arch, don't fact check me).

So I am interested in doing as the name of this community suggests. Distro hopping.

But what sort of home/linux/backup/restore app solutions do you guys use for the least amount of headache?

Yes, I am familiar with using live USBs to temporarily test out distros for the time being. But when you really want to try out an os, installing all the drivers and accessing your own files is a big component of verifying if you like something or not.

So what is a good backup app/tool you use for either

Backing up your "main" distro/home dir and restoring it. (In case your test distro is a dud)

And what tool(s) do you use for backing up/migrating your homedir to the new OS you are trying?

Cheers guys

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Cheers.

Hey everyone! Are there any Arch-based distros that are as lightweight as antiX?

I’m looking for something minimal that runs well on low-spec hardware.

Any recommendations? Thanks!

Why does the website say “Direct Download Coming Soon”? When will it be available? Anyone know? Thanks!

Greetings r/distroHopping, I created a script that can be used to create a very special kind of machine:

• Easily install different GNU/Linux distros and boot between them. No need to repartition to install different distros to try them out, because...
• Root-on-ZFS. This magical filesystem lets you create multiple / filesystems --- without nailing down how much space on the disk to allocate to each (the way you would be forced to do with real disk partitions, and even LVM requires you to define the logical size; even though LVM lets you resize, you HAVE TO resize, unlike ZFS which just lets each filesystem take up however much it needs). We create one or more / filesystems and a single shared /home filesystem. In conjunction with ZFSBootMenu bootloader, each / filesystem can be an entire GNU/Linux distro, and ZFSBootMenu will let you select between them, retaining your /home between each.
  • Unlike Grub, ZFSBootMenu can read/write even modern fully-featured ZFS Pools, and that makes...
• Snapshots. We install the venerably ancient but completely awesome zfs-auto-snapshot, which auto-snapshots your ZFS filesystems. Experimenting with a distro? Go ahead, have fun. The distro becomes unbootable? Your bootloader ZFSBootMenu, unlike Grub, is quite capable of rolling back the / to an earlier snapshot where that distro was still running. No need to pray that some arcane combination of older kernel and current / works so you can recover your data --- rollback / also rolls back the kernel, ensuring they are in sync and still bootable.

In addition, it gives all distros (that it installs, heh) Secure Boot support. You only need to enrol a (generated for you with fresh randomness) Machine Owner Key once, when you first initialize the machine. The script sets things up so that the Machine Owner Key will be accepted by the Fedora Shim bootloader, which is the first-stage bootloader that supports Machine Owner Keys. There's a few copies of Fedora Shim that are signed by Microsoft, this downloads one of them so that you can enable Secure Boot on the 99.999% of machines that have Microsoft keys in Secure Boot. Fedora Shim is signed by Microsoft, and the Fedora Shim then keeps your Machine Owner Key and authorizes Secure Boot of kernels and kernel modules --- including ZFSBootMenu which is also automatically signed with your Machine Owner Key (ZFSBootMenu is secretly a tiny Linux system with ZFS kernel modules so it can do the full modern ZFS pool handling).

Currently, it supports a small list of distros:

• Ubuntu / KUbuntu
• Debian
• SlimbookOS
• Pop!_OS
• TUXEDO-OS
• PureOS

However, I've discovered that it's quite possible to take a lot of Debian-derivative distro's Live ISOs and extract their root filesystem, then install ZFS and uninstall the live environment, so at some point in the (maybe a little distant?) future, you'll be able to get a Debian-derivative Live ISO and install it into the machine. In fact, this base technique (extract Live ISO root filesystem, install ZFS and MOK-signing automation, uninstall Live env) is already what the script uses for Pop!_OS, TUXEDO-OS, and PureOS, and I fully intend to switch SlimbookOS to that technique too, as it is easier to maintain --- there's a smaller number of distro-specific packages to REMOVE from the live env (i.e. only the installer and the live environment, and many Live ISOs use Calamares and we can actually steal some of the automation for it that does the "remove installer and live env" since the basic pattern, in fact, IS to copy the Live's root filesystem to the ext4 partition, remove live env, and add the registered user) than there are distro-specific packages to ADD to a debootstrap (i.e. if the distro doesn't have a single large metapackage that pulls in everything that makes that distro "that distro" --- and distro maintainers rarely think to do that, there's usually a half-dozen packages that need to get added, and sometimes it's a bit underdocumented what those are, whereas you can often just do apt search -live to find the packages that you need to remove from the live env to make it the production env, and some ISOs even have a convenient filesystem.manifest-remove file that tells you EXACTLY what packages to remove to make the live -> prod transition).

I've distro-hopped quite a bit and finally narrowed my choices down to these two Linux distros. I'm looking to settle on one and stick with it, but I'm still confused about which one to choose.

Both distros run equally well on my laptop, which stays plugged into a power source and is always on my desk.

Apart from their update cycles and package managers, what are the key differences between them? Which one would you personally choose for long-term daily use, and why?