Amen

I feel like the other side of that coin is that some stuff might not work/be supported or takes long to fix though. I mean the most stable system would be one where the hardware or software would never change. But that’s quite unrealistic.

I was never talking about either of them being noon friendly. Also, updating and failing to boot is kind of breaking easily I’d say. So I don’t get what point you’re even making.

True, but isn’t that a risk too? LLM’s can be powerful but also produce garbage sometimes. Especially with niche stuff?

I switched a couple of days ago. Seems very good so far!

Well I was mostly curious about what your ultimate distro looked like.

If I’m in the middle of something and want to keep the current state I want to reboot later. But then again, it’s probably a bug not allowing me to do that.

Idk there’s so many distros that there should be one for everyone I think? If you’d want you could create a very close to windows like experience (as Zorin or Mint already kinda do).

That’s fair, a bus is a bug.

Sometimes takes a bit of fiddling but when you get it done it is bliss!

Yeah for some people that could be enjoyable but the philosophy is pretty cool regardless. I’m surprised no one packaged it in a “easier” way.

For sure. I mean it’s fair to assume you have internet otherwise installing will be an issue regardless. But it’s not as easy as thinking: I wanna install Firefox so I download Firefox.

That’s true yeah. I did get a bit fed up that something like this happened again. But the nice thing about Linux is for sure that (almost) always anything can be fixed.

True. Emergency mode or something similar might also be an option. But a live USB certainly is a good method. It’s just frustrating that it’s needed.

I don’t see how using an OS is playing with fire. I understand that sometimes comparability issues arise but on the other hand it’s not like I’m on a release candidate kernel or trying to slim down my OS to a single megabyte by removing stuff. Sometimes bleeding edge can actually be needed when installing new hardware. When stuff is released it should just work I think?

As a newbie it is easier to set up Cachy. When shit hits the fan either fixing it on Arch or Cachy would give a similar experience to a noob I think.

I understand it might be a fluke or that I am at least a minority in this issue. But that makes troubleshooting harder. I’m even on all AMD hardware.

It’s interesting that the whole idea about stability (the system not breaking) shifts from the developer to the user.

I can totally get behind that. But then I’m left wondering: if that approach minimises the risk of interference, then why don’t all distros work that way?

Yeah the issue is a weird bug that broke my install. The thing is that it can be fixed but the fact that it has to be fixed is already sucky.

NixOS seems to be agnostic of hardware and more serious about software compatibility. Hence my hunch that it would be less likely to bork.

Thanks for your very detailed explanation. That seems annoying for sure. Your used features might be niche (I’m not even sure they are) but it is always very annoying when they remove something you use daily.

Maybe extensions might help?

I’d argue that CachyOS is more noon friendly than arch. As would EndeavourOS be. People fail to see my point that sometimes Linux breaks very easily and I’m not blaming Cachy or Arch specifically but a simple update and sleep should not result in a black screen on any OS IMO. It’s just off putting… If this would happen on windows I’d definitely complain too. And there have been plenty of instances where microslop added OS breaking things…

Love the condescending tone! Definitely helps people figuring out Linux. Very helpful reply too. Please keep adding to the community.

You clearly missed my point and instead of adding a helpful reply you decided to get on your high horse…

Thanks! I tried before. I think I just need some persistence to catch the drift. I’ll try bazzite first but then maybe switch anyway.

I did try vanillaos seemed like a nice distro but a bit too generic IMO? Bazzite was suggested before. I’ll daily drive it to test for a while. Thanks!