Went through all the questions and it told me to use Arch. Which is what I’m using…btw…
assuming that this is supposed to be for beginners it should just lead you through a rabbit hole of questions and then say that you should use mint
MehhhH… KDE is such a prettier DE than Cinnamon, and more beginner friendly in my opinion.
Unpopular opinion: throwing mint at beginners isn’t a good thing
Question 1 should be “Are you a beginner?” Answering
Yesmakes the answer Mint regardless of other answers.Edit: Answering
Noshould allow other outcomes of course, but still allow Mint to be the result if it’s a good fit.
- Do you mainly play games? -> bazzite, nobara
- Do you want to get to know your system and read package updates on a daily basis? -> arch
- do you want to control your system? Nix
- do you want an end user system? Fedora, opensuse or mint
- do you like pain? -> ubuntu
do you want to control your system? Nix
Spend more time reading documentation, writing config files and managing your system than using it*
What’s wrong with ubuntu? It’s likely the most common Linux, and I’ve used it for years without any major problems
It’s bloated with Canonical BS, from their custom extensions (which break touch on Wayland) and Snaps abviously
Put CachyOS in the first bullet point too. It’s in a really good state right now
I’ve been using its handheld version for over a month on my Legion go and it’s great.
But I installed it on my main PC wanting to go back to Arch and had to force a shutdown because my monitor is picky about being turned on after the PC and it fucked the OS. It needed to boot a live USB and introduce some command to fix it.
First time I see something like that, although I have to admit that I’ve been daily driving Linux for only ~3 years.
No, because they don’t deviate enough from arch to avoid issues with breakages on updates. Just recently on lemmy someone was wondering why all their vlc plugins were uninstalled. Easy fix for someone who knows how to use pacman, but that and similar incidents make cachyos not really a “just works” system.
I kind of think Ubuntu or Fedora with Gnome or KDE will be the best, given the support and development.
