What Linux distro is the most Plug-and-play with Comfy?

[clover1980]

Maybe you have answer?
I've checked all distrowatch portal for perfect Linux "ready for Ai", but haven't found anything usable for plug and play (without wasting hours to tune the Linux for future work, which is double work in fact). There's "Linux for gaming" but no "Linux for Ai" still!

1. Ubuntu, Nvidia supplied, kinda everyone uses this in Ai industry, also most releases tested only in this distro. But it's incredibly annoying how Ubuntu restricting pip, so you can't install anything there by pip without error messages and breaking system packages flag. Also their GUI kinda strange, its same Gnome like everywhere but with weird color themes its making strange feeling, no flatpak by default.

2. Ubuntu-like distros, so Ubuntu without weird colors & snaps. Zorin was my choice, but recently at fresh disk install i've got many problems only because of very outdated Python it's supplied by default. I've compiled new Python but got many missing libraries errors, i just dropped it, wasted whole day to tune all errors and don't want to spend another hour or more on this.

3. MxLinux-ahs latest, i deleted it, as i remember i was stuck at Cuda compiling step and just dropped it, Nvidia provided in form of install script but driver is behind other distros, it's GUI theme really hard to use on big 4K screens, breaks with any scaling. Although that distro is good and i use it on very old computers mostly, just not suitable for Comfy.

4. Red Hat Linux and alike, nvidia drivers not supplied, everything must be compiled, so wasted day or two just to install everything. RHEL itself very sturdy and fast but empty. Not for novices.

5. Fedora and alike, i've tested Fedora distros, but not with Comfy. There's Nobara which supplied with Nvidia drivers right away, but why i'm not use Fedora after these tests - for some reason it's slowest from all Linux distros, even visually Fedora distros produce some lag on clicks or any app start in GUI in fresh install, i don't know why, there's no such in Ubuntu(which is really fast on same hardware). Maybe it's not optimized, i have 20 cores Xeon CPU and RTX 4070 Ti Su.

Which do you recommend? It must be supplied with latest Nvidia drivers(many distros come with very outdated driver, majority without any) and come at least with Python 3.12 TODAY. Also flatpak support.
Yes, there's no Linux which comes with Cuda, it's all must be manually installed. I'm not sure when we'll get a ready to use distro without wasting hours on tuning and preparations (Rocky Linux have Nvidia instructions on their website but not in form of script, such instruction could be automated easily, i don't understand this), maybe Nvidia or Comfy will make their own Linux distribution...plug and play solution.
P.S.: I have Windows 10 on other SSD and mostly using Comfy there, but most speed optimizations (flash-attention) is in Linux, that's a headache to install triton or etc in Win and wasting 40 mins on Wan generation (with Teacache) is hard.

[LaVie024]

Arguing "what distro is best for x" is honestly one of the most pointless and circular questions outside of very specific niches (eg. servers)

It's all down to what the distros supply by default (eg. nothing at all like Arch, Gentoo or absolutely everything, Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora), and what gets supplied in their package managers. That's it. Unless if you're on a distro like Alpine that uses musl so it can't use Nvidia, pretty much everything should be able to get CUDA running fine. If you're having issues with something, this is far from the best place to ask. Go to a distro's forum and ask around for help.

[clover1980]

the pointless is to offer toxicity and answering wrong. That's not about "where Cuda can run", it's about what people use as most easy and fast distro