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🤞pleasejustpickbazzite pleasejustpickbazzite pleasejustpickbazzite🤞
oh god dammit
I'M FED UP, GOING TO INSTALL LINUX!
I'M FED UP, THIS IS TOO HARD, I'M GOING BACK TO WINDOWS!
Every. Single. Time.
Not really..
Cachy is one of the easiest distros to use
For real, it is 100% arch done "the right way" with sane defaults and thoughtful optimizations. Made the switch a few months back and hadn't looked back. CachyOS is a wonderful project.
Easy for Arch. The Arch community is far too hostile for the first run for newcomers
Are you saying seasoned windows users can't cope with LFS (linux from scratch) first time around? /s
I see your /s but we all watched Linux Sebastian burn an easy distro to the ground with ample warnings while refusing to read any information about the distro. And he's on the long side of the Dunning-Kruger curve for windows.
I think we need everything to work out of the box on all major hardware, no terminal commands, video accelerators working by default and steam to be a one-click install.
Its been incredible watching him while my own IT career has grown and watching my networking knowledge continuously remain noticably ahead of his entire company's. They finally have an actual network admin on staff so maybe they'll actually have a network that isn't completely flat...
I see your point but there are to many options and preferences. For one, the borders to what is "Major hardware" are very subjective. So are people's need. (I'm your opposite: I must have a terminal, I don't care one bit about video acceleration and and my interest steam is an absolute zero)
So do that and you might end up with a windows-alike crappy platform. My expectations (and/or) hopes are that different distro's will keep focusing on different users groups. Some perfect for gaming, another for developers, a few for daily usage of email & browsing and so on
What you need isn't what everyone needs. I suspect you'll have a very hard time finding massive numbers of windows users who only need a terminal.
I sincerely hope that you don't need one distribution for games and another for developers, Having to reboot to play games is why we've had such bad penetration for years.
Every distro needs to be able to handle all the video cards from the last decade. Lutris and Steam need to run really well everywhere or we'll take forever to get proper market penetration.
Cachy's not that bad for beginners. I just did a test install on an old Nvidia PC, and it works for gaming OOTB.
We've come a looooong way from Manjaro. I wouldn't wish Manjaro on my worst enemy, to be clear.
I haven't used Manjaro in many many years, but IIRC it was the first distro I used that reliably supported Wi-Fi.
i think i absolutely loved manjaro for the first week. then it just went downhill. i still think that manjaro had cool things. it’s been my favourite grub because of it being somewhat riced and always picking up whatever dual boot i had on different drives. still i would recommend manjaro only to those people who need to practice fixing broken distros. its really good at that.
I'm kinda surprised it's still around, and popular.
I guess it still has a lot of SEO and such.
CachyOS has been flawless on my S/O's desktop. From an easy install to plenty of documentation available, I couldn't have asked for much more. During install, there's an entire step dedicated to checking a box if you want to play games. (To enable non-free drivers).
I don't think it was a poor choice.
Bazzite is much worse for a new user then cachy. Worse documentation and a load of quirks from being immutable.
Frankly they would be better off with mint unless they need very up to date hardware support for like a laptop.
I installed CachyOS for a weekend and it’s now been several months. I love it.
But I would never, ever recommend it to a new user. It still requires someone to be comfortable on the command line and it’s possible to break it if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Bazzite just works. You install it and start logging into your accounts. It’s nearly impossible for a newcomer to break, and perfect for the vast majority of new Linux users.
Recommending Cachy to new users hurts not only those users but the entire Linux ecosystem.
I don’t recommend Mint, either, but only because I am a KDE cultist, I hate Cinnamon, and every time I’ve tried it on anything I’ve had frustrating hardware issues that I have never had on Fedora.
I’m BlameTheAntifa and I have a distro-hopping addiction.
"Hi, BlameTheAntifa." The circle of disto-hoppers echos.
Huh, I've been running Mint for a couple of years now and the only thing I have had it not talk to was an obsolete audio interface.
Bazzite is good for people who break their computer constantly because it's harder to break. Cachy is better for people who can be trusted with sudo
This. I mained Arch for 2 years and still can't be completely trusted with sudo. Moved to Nobara, would recommend as well. Its a bit more advanced, but you don't have to touch the command line if you don't want to and setup is right there step-by-step when you first boot.
I did try Bazzite first. I just couldn't get used to living the Flatpak life. I know you can force install native packages, but at that point why wouldn't I just use Nobara, lol.
Are you looking for fellow Bazzite users? (I'm one of them)
Good to meet you brother/sister! We walk a rather lonesome road but glad I stand alongside you
I'm standing slightly to the left of you.
Sometimes I feel like I have to physically pull people away from things they aren't going to like. Everyone wants to learn how to drive a semi with a b-train, but they should be starting on the good old reliable Camry.
As a veteran geek but absolute Linux noob, can you explain a bit the differences of Bazzite vs Mint? Just recently installed Mint on an old laptop, and it went quite smoothly... But the real test will be my plex server!
Mint is Ubuntu/Debian based and uses their Cinnamon desktop environment.
Bazzite is Fedora based and uses KDE as the desktop environment.
The biggest difference is that Bazzite is atomic or immutable distro. The core systems are read only so it's harder to break. It's also harder to tinker with. You're mostly limited to packages that are available in their package manager. You can install other stuff via layering if you really need to tinker.
Bazzite is good for noobs looking for a gaming option because it's "immutable" which means the OS filesystem can't be edited, which makes it nearly impossible to break.
Mint is still very noob friendly, just not immutable. Both are solid options because neither one requires any command line to get it on-par with Windows.
Just went from Bazzite to Steam OS on my TV PC. It's a little less flexible but I don't use desktop mode for much on the TV or want to install anything outside a few emulators and external game launchers. I've had too many updating issues with Bazzite over the years. The recent deal breaker was sunshine broke preventing it from updating.