Distros based on ArchLinux, that ship breaking changes and expect users to read .pacnew config files and update their own config accordingly (CachyOS)
A bunch of shell scripts and Hyprland config masquerading as a distro, made by a white supremacist and used to promote their brand (Omarchy 🤮)
NixOS. I don’t even known where to begin with this one.
To be 100% clear, I use and like CachyOS and Nix (home manager).
CachyOS and NixOS are great projects with good technical performance toward their respective goals (good defaults and performance on Arch, and declarative configuration, respectively), but they are not beginner friendly.
I’m on Bazzite now, but I was on Fedora for a looong time and I even moved the same installation from one laptop to the next, just dd’d the drive, zero problems.
In an ideal world.
But in our world, newbies are being recommended:
.pacnewconfig files and update their own config accordingly (CachyOS)To be 100% clear, I use and like CachyOS and Nix (home manager). CachyOS and NixOS are great projects with good technical performance toward their respective goals (good defaults and performance on Arch, and declarative configuration, respectively), but they are not beginner friendly.
Meanwhile my Fedora ass whos done nothing but run updates for like five years
I’m on Bazzite now, but I was on Fedora for a looong time and I even moved the same installation from one laptop to the next, just dd’d the drive, zero problems.