- 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
Put CachyOS in the first bullet point too. It’s in a really good state right now
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’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.
Went through all the questions and it told me to use Arch. Which is what I’m using…btw…
Witchcraft! It chose Debian for me. I use and enjoy Debian.
HOW DARE IT BE MILDLY ACCURATE!
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