Proprietary software is fine (if sandboxed)

I switched from Mint to CachyOS also as a developer. As I do a lot of piracy I depend on Bottles and flatpak to play pirated games a bit more securely. When flatpak had an issue a few months back with signing their programs bottles didn’t work properly as I had different versions of Nvidia drivers. Up to date native and almost up to date flatpak. I am not sure how others distros handled this, but be prepared that updates might break something. Study a bit about AUR if you decide to go there and try out Cachy for a bit before fully switching on a spare disk or something. I wanted to run a local LLM and virtualbox but I had problems with that likely due to my kernel??? So I am not sure how well it works with docker. All in all, try it out and expect a slight increase in difficulty.

My system once refused to boot, because I deleted a partition and didn’t remove it from fstab. Thankfully it was an easy and fast fix but I would expect it to just boot and give an error.

Limited only in the about the amount of packages and major updates have not yet destroyed anything on my computer for the last 2 years. The reason I have it on my laptop is to be honest… I put it there a year ago before hearing of Cachy, and I only want the laptop for uni which I got for free since it was family electronic junk before used for heavy mechanical engineering computing for which it is now not usable. All in all it gets the job done. It has IntelliJ and most software is aimed at Ubuntu if they have Linux support, so I don’t have to think when I have to install VPN a day before exam or something.

Same but I use Mint on my laptop