Are you from the US by any chance?

Totally agree. But if a change has no downside for any of these I’d say it would be a good idea to implement it.

Thanks for the tip. Running Bazzite now but your suggestion seems like a great recommendation too. I’ll check it out.

Thanks for the tip! I didn’t know that distro existed. I’ll definitely look into it.

Thanks! And that’s true. Also part of the beauty of Linux IMO that it actually (almost) always can be repaired. Although it is quite involving at times.

Thank you for your in depth reply! It totally makes sense. I think some distros limit some freedom at first but still allow you to nuke your system if you’d want to although I can’t straight up mention examples.

There’s always the option to run Debian. Rock solid but as said that might come with the downside that newer hardware isn’t (properly) supported yet.

As with anything in life everything is a trade off.

Seems fair. Can always test too

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.