CachyOs vs PopOs vs others?
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Not familiar with either arch or cachyOS, but I'm gonna go and guess that cachy isn't immutable(?) At least to me it's nice to know that neither myself or anyone else can break my system as all system files are read only. Additionally I quite like that I don't have to think about configuring or updating anything - it's all handled by the devs. That might not be for everyone but personally don't want to tinker with my PC that much, I have a server for that
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Yep, that was actually my second distros when I switched to Linux a few years ago (right after PopOS). Its a good distro, essentially Arch with a better out of the box setup. If were to go with an arch based distro today, I'd probably choose CachyOS for the package and kernel optimizations, but both are good.
Arch-based distros are definitely CLI centric, but if you don't mind that then its great! Just keep in mind it is a rolling distro, breakages aren't super common, but they can occur. A backup using Timeshift is probably a good idea. Also, I wouldn't rely too heavily on the AUR, remember they are unofficial packages and are more prone to breakage. Id prefer flatpak for GUI apps at least.
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It's really just atomic Fedora [..]*
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But we know based on OPs usage requirements, he's not one of those people doing everything in the browser.
Updates are important regardless of fomo. They're not only for adding new features, they're for fixing bugs and improving stability and these changes rarely get backported unless their critical.
The core Debian might be stable, but, for example, plasma 6.3 is much more stable than 5.27
Debian is stable and will work, but there are other options that are basically as stable and have much newer packages - improving desktop stability and user experience
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Have you checked out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed? Very stable rolling release. I've been using it for a couple years without issues.
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I think flatpaks aren't supported by cachy because they inherently have some performance issues?
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You can install them, just not by default and not reccomended*
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they work, they just don't have the same optimizations as the packages in their repo. that's also true for AUR packages.
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That only holds true if you choose to download the version with Steam Game Mode, which boots directly to Steam's UI, this version is called bazzite-deck. If you go with the no game mode version, it boots like a normal PC: to the desktop.
The non-game mode version is a solid choice as a daily driver. I use Bazzite on my main PC, I work by day and do gaming at night. Bazzite excels at both.
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Seems annoying for tinkering, but good as a daily driver with minimal issues, i'm going bazzite if I get any issues with cachyos, reccomending bluefin/aurora to family that want to switch depending on if they like plasma or gnome, I like universal blue and how those distros work, if Linux was the only OS on this computer id go bazzite, for now I still have windows as a backup, so i'm going cachyos. I haven't opened the windows side in 2 days tho, so I might just fully make the switch.