They say debian is free and has its promise, but Arch has like 2-4 maintainers?
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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Debian is rock solid, there are even more user-friendly distros though. In a few edge-cases it will expect you to know your way around things, however there are a lot of guides for it. Going with this will cause the growth of a mighty white beard!
Arch Linux will make you cry. If you want to learn how to fix and configure things it's great (and their wiki arguably is the greatest of all), but their lack of QA and expectation to do that yourself often causes issues. You'll probably cut your fingers on its bleeding edge. If you want to learn with less bleeding I'd recommend CachyOS these days. I'm certainly not saying this because my computer didn't boot after updates multiple times. /s
HOWEVER if you have an Nvidia GPU, first off: I'm so sorry. Secondly, you absolutely (!) should use a distro that takes care of their driver for you. Their drivers are hot steaming garbage that you do not want to meddle with (many distros try their best to do it for you, but often enough it won't work for some people). See below, Nvidia distros marked with recycling symbol.
A few other options to consider with noticeable features:
And three others interesting if you might buy new hardware soon (damn, you rich):
I didn't game, but use Bazzite. It has worked on every system I've installed it on, even an old AMD A6. I just feel safe in there, but it's not perfect. And the distro is large.