I tried it recently and had so many issues with it like apps not indexing in the “open with” file menu, and flatpak apps not interfacing with any system functionality.
I tried CachyOS. Took three tries for the installer to install without bombing on an error. Third time I got it after changing file system type to ext4 and not using full disk encryption.
Then I updated everything post-install. Black screen. No boot. AMD CPU and GPU.
Installed Fedora KDE. Works perfectly. Haven’t looked back in three months since leaving Mint.
I, too, don’t understand it. I’d rather install straight Arch. The archinstall works fine.
I’m almost in awe at how unlucky you were. Out of hundreds of cachy installs on countless system. Iv never seen or heard of such problems.
Hey! You took all his installs! Give them back.
It’s weird how that happens sometimes. Back when endeavourOS was all the hype i tried installing it in a vm multiple times, and for some reason the installer would always fail. But everyone was singing it’s praises, so i’m assuming i just had bad luck and tried it at a bad time.
Yeah I’m sure it was an outlier. I’ve never had such a hard time installing a distro before.
As far as Arch-based distros go, CachyOS has a lot of helper tools included, and a lot of GUI programs. That’s probably why people consider it beginner-friendly.
I wouldn’t really consider CachyOS as a beginner distro. It’s probably the most accessible for anyone looking for something highly optimized, but there are plenty of others that are easier to set up and use.
Been daily driving Cachy for a couple years now, and I love it. It’s not for everyone, though.
I’ve always been very confused why fedora isn’t the go to distro…I mean I do understand why Ubuntu is so popular to newcomers but I’ve never understood why fedora always goes unmentioned
It’s by far been my easiest out of the box experience for regular desktop use
At least for a long time, you had to set up RPMFusion to be able to play media, and having the additional repos tended to break on major upgrades for a bit after release
So, for beginners, it was a bit painful to suggest
Yes, thank you! Ubuntu, in my opinion, is not a beginner friendly experience. It also tends to break easily, at least in my opinion. I’ve had ongoing problems with Ubuntu, as soon as I installed Fedora all the problems went away.
Probably the same reason people were pushing to get people on MX Linux not that long ago.
Just use EndeavorOS
Bingo! Arch with an easy installation and core tweaks almost any user needs. Then you install just the apps you want.
That said I believe CachyOS has some out of box apps that make sense for the gaming oriented user base it is usually aimed at. Not sure the performance difference is worth the hassle beyond some very specific use cases.
Cachy is literally just more sane gamer defaults. It also holds your hand with updates more then endeavour with it’s updater. That would be why.
Because it’s cachy \s
It is certainly debatable whether cachyos is a beginner distro. That aside though, there may be some “lost in translation” effect going on in regards to flatpak. I’ve used arch for somewhere in the ballpark of 15 years, and have still to find a usecase on this distro.
I can certainly see the benefits on less bleeding edge distros though. Are you positive your issues come from lack of flatpack integration, and not from using flatpack in the first place?
How to define a beginner? A kid, new to computers or someone who was able to install a local win11-user and now switches to Linux or maybe a bankruptcy mac-user?
