GormadtWith the latest changes from Microslop, this has been me in my friend group lately.
rozodruCachyOS is a good option. maybe not as a brand new person to Linux but it’s fast and has everything you need.
Bazzite is fine too if you just depend on flatpaks which might make a windows to linux transition easier.
I’m currently trying PikaOS for the week and it’s ok. It’s fast, games as well if not ever so slightly better than CachyOS, but it feels a little TOO opinionated. For example if you install the Niri version (and I assume the hyprland version also) Kitty is baked into it to the point were potentially removing kitty breaks other dependencies. I don’t like that. Kitty is a bloated mess of a terminal and I’d much rather use Foot. Also the Pikabar thing is garbage. it’s a fork of Noctalia with ALL the options stripped out of it for whatever reason. But PikaOS is very easy to install and fairly minimal with what it does install. It’s nice but it’s kinda all over the place with things.
I’ll probably just end up going back to NixOS in a week anyways.
desertdruidsounds like PikaOS would be cool if you just stick to GNOME or KDE
it’s a weird distro for sure. it’s kinda all over the place with stuff. for example on the distro itself they recommend installing Cosmic-Store as your package manager even if you’re not using Cosmic. they also use Nemo and a few other GNOME things baked in if your running the Niri or Hyprland iso. it’s odd. Add to the fact like i said if you want to remove Kitty you cana potentially break your system especially if you have an Nvidia GPU as it’s also baked into it for some reason.
This as opposed to Nobara where you can literally use the officiall or KDE iso version and then completely remove Plasma in favor of a WM and you’re fine.
sounds like a chimera of a distro, i think i will star with whatever cachyos or fedora is doing