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@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ description: one distro to rule them all.
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 # Distro of all time: Arch Linux
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 Or more specifically, CachyOS, a derivative of Arch Linux.
 
 **Or,** Bazzite. If you're new and want a zero fuss experience.
@@ -13,7 +12,6 @@ Or more specifically, CachyOS, a derivative of Arch Linux.
 Now, before you close this tab, I know what y'all think. "Arch is hard! Arch breaks every update! What about Nvidia?!" Yes, yes. Let's go through all the points. But stick around, because this post isn't going where you think it's going.
 
 # Nvidia
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 I've been using computers for 16 years and Nvidia on Linux has been bad since for fucking ever. I haven't had an Nvidia card since 2017, so I can't speak for the *current* state of the drivers.
 
 That said, I see why people recommend distros like Bazzite or Pop!_OS. They have a cute little *with NVIDIA* ISO that comes with the Nvidia driver blob pre-installed. One less step for the end user.
@@ -23,7 +21,6 @@ So does CachyOS. CachyOS has [its own hardware detection to pre-install drivers
 Nvidia? Solved. System installs for you. Next!
 
 # Arch is hard
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 So is Linux.
 
 I've been using it for ~6 years. I used to play League on elementary OS 4. Anyone remember that distro? Anyway.
@@ -43,24 +40,22 @@ I'm not blaming anyone at Valve, or the Linux community, or Mesa/kernel develope
 Keep this in mind, it'll be referenced later.
 
 # All distros suck
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 **Ubuntu?** You're stuck being shoved down snaps and wondering why things break. Every package installation comes with its own PPA. The last time I tried Ubuntu, I had to add a PPA to get up-to-date Wine, MangoHud, and fucking Node.js — which I was apparently not supposed to do and instead use nvm. Packages get stale, and Canonical doesn't — or rather, can't — do major updates before the next version releases, in the name of stability. Even then, that new version clashes with my PPAs and somehow bricks my system. So much for stability.
 
 **Fedora?** My laptop hated the fact that it had to CPU-decode AV1/VP9 videos on YouTube in 2026. So I helped it, by adding a 3rd party package repo to get GPU video decoding, which broke my system a week later because I was on the KDE spin — the base repo Qt version clashed with the ones from RPM Fusion.
 
-And has anyone actually looked at these manuals from the eyes of a newcomer? If I wanted to run OBS with GPU encoding to stream games, this is what I need to go through:
+And has anyone actually looked at these manuals from the eyes of a newcomer? If I wanted to run OBS with GPU encoding to live stream games, this is what I need to go through:
 
 ![Multimedia](/fedora_multimedia.png)
 source: [RPM Fusion Multimedia](https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia)
 
-This is what Fedora expects a newcomer to navigate just to stream a game.
+This is what Fedora expects a newcomer to navigate just to live stream a game, e.g on Twitch. Oh and hey, [look what I found](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1rezfbd/cant_install_obs_studio_freeworld/).
 
 **Ubuntu derivatives** (Mint/Pop/MX etc.)? Same core issue as Ubuntu. If it's not in the repositories, add a PPA, which *may* break your system.
 
 **Fedora derivatives** (Nobara/Bazzite etc.)? Repackages of Fedora with pre-installed apps/drivers/libs. That entire debacle about OBS and GPU encode/decode? Nobara does it for me, because Fedora won't.
 
 # Arch and derivatives
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 Have you seen how easy it is to install a package on Arch vs Ubuntu/Fedora?
 
 On the latter, you need an rpm/deb build compatible with your current release version + a PPA 99% of the time. On Arch? I dunno, I never needed anything beyond `yay package_name`.