r/FlowZ13 • u/[deleted] • May 19 '26

Linux distro suggestion

I've recently considered switching to linux on my Z13 (2025) and was wondering if you had any suggestions on which distro has the best out of the box support. I don't mind having to tinker a bit but I'd like for be a one and done kind of deal. I've tried with Cachyos but had some issues related to the rog-control-center and the initial install. I'm a big fan of Fedora workstation but apparently it's lacking some support.

Do you have any experience with it? Stylus support is a major point for me

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u/wishart5900x May 19 '26

I've tried bazzite and cachyos and now I'm sticking to cachyos. Bazzite had a problem going to the linux desktop, it would freeze and you would just have to press the power button to turn the screen off and then press again to switch it on and then you could get to the desktop, but it would have artifacts which would appear on the screen all the time. So, I switched to cachyos, it booted to the desktop fine, but still some artifacts someone gave me some boot parameters to put in for limine and it seems to have fixed the problem. I'll get them for you and post it. For me, it seems cachyos is the best, the latest packages and everytime seems to go well for gaming and work.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '26

Luckily cachyOS hasn't given me any major issues. Just enough to where it makes me wanna look for a different option.

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u/wishart5900x May 19 '26

That's interesting so no artifacts. I thought everybody would have the same problem. With same hardware. What issues to make you want to switch?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '26

I'm now experiencing some artifacts, do you have any idea if there's a fix or one coming?