• James R Kirk@startrek.website
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    4 months ago

    🤞pleasejustpickbazzite pleasejustpickbazzite pleasejustpickbazzite🤞

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

    oh god dammit

    • wendigolibre@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      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.

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          4 months ago

          They didn’t say it required documentation, they said it had plenty of documentation should you need it.

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              4 months ago

              Just a heads up- You appear to be interpreting things in a strictly literal sense.

              Some people might view this as trolling.

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              4 months ago

              Damnit, you’re right!

              But for real, I think you misunderstand the point of documentation. Even if something were truly, literally flawless, having documentation would still be a net gain. It isn’t only to fix something when it goes wrong, but explains how things are working. If the only way for something to be literally flawless in your world view is for it to be so self explanatory that an idiot seeing it for the first time still understands it perfectly, nothing in computing can be flawless in that way.

              The pedantry on this point is so unhelpful as to be actively harmful to the rest of the discussion.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      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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      4 months ago

      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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      4 months ago

      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.

      • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        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.