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LMAO Cursing your friends isn't nice, CachyOS is for those that are comfortable with Linux...And the dreaded Arch.

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

Gone from Windows to Ubuntu based to Fedora based to finally an Arch based distro with CachyOS over the last couple of years and I have never once regretted making the jump.

Especially since I still have a windows install that I use for a couple of very specific uses that I can't do on Linux and it's a pain in the proverbial every single time.

I've only recently dipped into it

I've been using Kubuntu though for awhile on all but 2 of my systems, my NAS and my main rig. I'm testing CachyOS though and I'm seeing no issues so far.

Of course once I've got KDE up it all looks like it should lol

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!

Finally cutting the cord on Windows due to finally breaking free from the last bits of software keeping you there feels so good.

When those gaps in when you boot into that Windows partition get further and further apart until the day it finally happens. The day that you no longer remember the last time you booted into that Windows machine. The day you can finally let yourself be free.

For me the last pieces were Lightroom and Fusion360.

It's always a matter of time with Arch...Always. Hell, the damned thing wouldn't install the 4 times that I tried. (checks notes) Failed to install the boot loader, fatal issue with installing the OS, failed with installing the kernel twice. You got lucky, I swear Arch (LOL) hears the mad shit I talk and readies the mortar to blast my chosen installer with condensed malice.

Any other distro and it's installed within 9 to 15 minutes, then I'm ready to customize...

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 am loving, loving KDE and Bazzite. It feels like such a mature operating system compared to ol' Windows :D

Let me suggest you EndeavorOS

Freedom is my top feeling too! I was so, SO miserable on Windows. Every task felt like a chore. Haven't felt that way on Bazzite once, even if some things take an extra step here and there!

Yes CachyOS is based on Arch

I accidentally convinced my friend to try CachyOS last week. Despite owning a Steamdeck he didn't know Proton worked outside of SteamOS and was surprised when I said I was playing on Linux (even though I'm sure I mentioned it ages ago). He then decided to give it a go and picked CachyOS himself.

I use Mint, by the way.

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.

Extracting files from xbox 360 discs is my last hurdle. Unfortunately linux systems won't let you have files with ~ in, meaning I need to do it on windows. Once I've backed up all my discs (completely legally) I can finally ditch that partition.

CachyOS is a good option. maybe not as a brand new person to Linux but it's fast and has everything you need.

Bazzite is fine too if you just depend on flatpaks which might make a windows to linux transition easier.

I'm currently trying PikaOS for the week and it's ok. It's fast, games as well if not ever so slightly better than CachyOS, but it feels a little TOO opinionated. For example if you install the Niri version (and I assume the hyprland version also) Kitty is baked into it to the point were potentially removing kitty breaks other dependencies. I don't like that. Kitty is a bloated mess of a terminal and I'd much rather use Foot. Also the Pikabar thing is garbage. it's a fork of Noctalia with ALL the options stripped out of it for whatever reason. But PikaOS is very easy to install and fairly minimal with what it does install. It's nice but it's kinda all over the place with things.

I'll probably just end up going back to NixOS in a week anyways.

i don't recommend ubuntu anymore. recently tried it on my laptop and holy hell it's bad. couldn't install flatpaks and the only way to install from repo was to use terminal. couldn't get any version of steam to work at all. and I've been a linux user for years now...

also for some reason mint wouldn't install on the same thinkpad, the installer wouldn't boot at all, just gave some grub message. also fedora was no success, the usb media wasn't recognized. ultramarine finally worked even though it's just fedora with tweaks. some say it's a bad thing to have tons of distros, but for me it's been a blessing. one distro won't work for every pc.

has mint finally fixed the bug where autosuspend and monitor suspend stop working? the only reason i don't wanna touch it anymore, troubleshooting that almost drove me nuts

They really do be taking the pis out of pistachios.

recommends arch based distros to everyone

“Wait why do you guys say linux is complex and difficult!?”

I don't know a lot about stuff, but is there a reason you're backing up the files off the disks, rather than imaging the disks into an ISO or something? I've never owned a 360 disk, so maybe there's some reason I don't know.

I'm pretty sure all the Linux filesystems I've ever used don't care about tilde. You might have to escape it or quote it if you're typing it into a shell, since the shell might try to replace it with your homedir, but I don't think the FS cares.

On my ext4 FS I was able to touch me~ow just now with no issues.

I recently swapped from Aurora, a Fedora immutable distro with KDE, to Cachy on my AMD 7040 Framework 13. I'm loving it. I use plain Arch on my desktop, so I felt right at home for the most part, and it really does just work.

It also fuckin' flies my dudes.

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

So I can play them on my modded 360

It's something to do with the extraction not liking it, when I run the same disc through the same program on windows it runs fine but doing it on Linux throws an error.

It is. Fedora is on version 44

Except with a sane installer, and more performance optimizations.

First Arch based distro I used was Manjaro. Served me well for the time despite the criticism, but I had a lots and lots of configuration to do for my needs, specially as a nooby. Since moved to CachyOS after the latest Manjaro debacle and said fuck that shit.

Was pleased that CachyOS was pretty much ready for my needs out of the box.

I just use EndeavourOS. It's mostly a work machine and I have little use for performance optimizations. Besides, I think my hardware is too outdated to get any real benefit out of those.

I’m a NixOS fanboy now :/

Why is cachyOS the current thing?

YouTube and social media drive a lot of it. I call them bandwagon distros.

Yeah I thought that might be it.

I'll Bully Spam every gaming CEO until they support ONE god damn Linux distro like SteamOS. SLOP MICROSLOP SLOP, anticheat doesn't fix shit! BF6 is basically proof.

Endeavor also has a decent installer if I recall, and Arch is already going to be more up to date than almost anything else, so yeah no reason to install a new OS I'd wager.

I've been running Mint for years and have never experienced this issue. Either I'm lucky or your not. I say give Mint another shot, the devs have put in a lot of work over the years.

Because it's what I'm using and I'm a victim of the availability hueristic.

I do like it though. I didn't try Endeavor OS but figure it's similar.

It's pretty well done.

*em

It's very optimized.

i left mint about half a year ago, after using it for over two years. i distrohopped during that time, i must've done like 7 clean installs and the issue persisted. weirdly though, it doesn't happen on my media pc. it has crapped itself a few times but it always seems to suspend just fine. no idea what it is about my desktop that causes a wakelock, but ultramarine works just fine. I'd like to go back to mint just because i like cinnamon more..

i used to use cacht, but after updating to kde plasma 6.6 it would freeze after i put the correct login and password. thankfully it has snapshots, so i could just not update it for a while.

i waited for 6.6.1, and instead of freezing it just closed and reopened the login page. 6.6.2 went back to freexing forever.

so i gave up, and installed base arch to see if that'd work, and it did! i also found out that archinstall is a thing! (i had installed arch manually many times a while back, and the clock time always broke) i did break it once by not configing limine snapper correctly, but now it's great, and feels basically equal to cachy (except things don't break and there isn't a bunch of unecessary programs installed)

I am exaggerating for effect, as all of my Arch experiences (never being able to pass the installer without a fatal error or showstopper) are all I know. Its quite vexing that getting other distros installed and configured is easy for me.

I do recognize the power of and capabilities of the distro. Yet, its never been at my fingertips; I must not know the soft, gentle latin curses required to make an Arch install successful.

I even tried to install EndeavourOS and CachyOS. To be met with failure and the need to retreat to another distro.

I switched to cachyos recently from nobara, and I'm facing an annoying bug. I have a 2.1 sound bar connect to my monitor, which connects to my PC via display port. My audio keeps cutting out when watching movies on stremio or playing games on steam. It comes back whenever I press the volume key, but goes away when there's silence or low volume. It also comes back automatically when there is a sudden increase in volume. For example, during bgm, the sound cuts off, but when somebody suddenly starts talking it comes back on, but not all the time, if that makes sense.

It's worth mentioning that Bazzite is atomic, so it's a hassle if you need to install any non flatpak stuff. Installing and setting up my canon laser printer driver was such a hassle I switched back to nobara.