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LMAO Cursing your friends isn't nice, CachyOS is for those that are comfortable with Linux...And the dreaded Arch.
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Better than normal Arch I guess.... idk I would give beginners Mint, Ubuntu or maybe Debian.
I'd recommend Ubuntu or Mint for most new users; straight up Debian only in cases when the user don't need the latest or greatest in terms of updated packages. As Debian is great, I've used it as extensively as Ubuntu...
However, Debian is built against older drivers and kernel, making it stable, if not a bit stale.
Ubuntu is a bit fresher with a higher kernel version (packages can still be behind something like openSUSE or Arch, Debian based distro truth). However, flatpaks allow for more recent software versions!
I install most of my software via Flatpak and Snap anyway, so I don't need the latest and greatest in terms of apt packages, and Debian brings the benefit of a rock solid base.
I agree, so many people disregard Debian, but if you're not gaming and don't need to keep up with the latest things - Debian is rock solid and most of your packages you can just use flatpak. For the majority of daily users who aren't gaming, I think it's a super solid choice.
I game on debian and I don't run into problems. I use lutris and have played pragmata with no issues (other then some nvidia reflex issues)
I heard cachy was better than average arch in complexity. I am very new to Linux with minimal computer skills and have been very happy with bazzite but most of my friends I try to convert are cachy loyalists
CachyOS is still going to demand more from you than Bazzite in terms of computer skills...Manual interventions (because the Arch Team cannot help themselves but move too fucking fast). Not like I can complain about that, given I have openSUSE Tumbleweed installed and am in SELinux range.
Bazzite is nice, as it can be as simple or as complex as you'd like!
Arch isn't necessarily unstable or "dreadful". It's a distro that requires the user to know what they're doing and to be a tinkerer by nature. Whether this is a feature or a downside is dependent on the user.
But I agree with you, recommending an Arch based distro to someone who is not a tinkerer and just wants to use the PC - which is the vast majority of PC users - is a mistake.
PS: I use EndeavourOS btw
recommends arch based distros to everyone
βWait why do you guys say linux is complex and difficult!?β
It just works out of the box. Not much tweaking required with cachy. Arguably less than other distros since all my weird niche prigrams are available on the AUR and not apt or flatpak.
Eventually some update will break stuff, and you'll be expected to know how to web search and fix it yourself