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.
Because it is the only distro I tried so far that works 90% smoothly for a MacBook with T2 chip. Wifi doesnt work yet… but with fedora, ubuntu, mint, pear and debian I had no wifi, keyboard or trackpad.
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
There’s at least a small part of it related to the name ‘Fedora’
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
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?
Probably the same reason people were pushing to get people on MX Linux not that long ago.
I installed it on my Lenovo Legion Go, as a recommendation from Google Gemini after the fallout from Bazzite. It has gone well overall, with only a handful of issues (controllers not detected, SD card mounted as an SSD, screen not always turning on, Bluetooth headset connecting at low quality, WiFi dropping signal) that were all solved with a few minutes of querying AI and running the recommended commands in Konsole. Without AI, though, I’d have been lost.
Genuinely curious but what was the fallout from Bazzite? Wondering what I missed lol.
This is the “post-mortem”: https://ba.antheas.dev/bazzite-postmortem.html
Because it’s cachy \s
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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.
