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Screw it, I’m installing Linux (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 79 points 9 months ago (10 children)

🤞pleasejustpickbazzite pleasejustpickbazzite pleasejustpickbazzite🤞

I’m going to install CachyOS, an Arch-based distro

oh god dammit

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  • [–] 91 points 9 months ago (21 children)

    I'M FED UP, GOING TO INSTALL LINUX!

    • picks a complicated distro where you really need to read the manual or do some heavy google searches to do gaming *

    I'M FED UP, THIS IS TOO HARD, I'M GOING BACK TO WINDOWS!

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Cachy is one of the easiest distros to use

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    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.

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