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Jeff Gerstmann tries Bazzite (www.youtube.com)
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I'm sure no one in this community needs to be convinced to try Linux. But I love it every time I see a non-Linux person trying Linux and showing other people that it works. (Also nice to see that Jeff Gerstmann is still around and doing alright after getting screwed over by Gamespot for like 15 years.)

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[–] Hond@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Depends. I'd consider myself still a Linux beginner and CachyOS is the perfect fit for me while Bazzite or Mint wasnt.

But i was already pretty geeky when it came to computers. Just not Linux levels of geeky. But i fucked around with Windows quite a bit. pOweRuSer or whatever. Also i'd say i'm capable of reading documentation/wikis. Idk Cachy strikes the perfect balance for me(!). Most stuff was super easy to setup. For other things i had to do a bit of reading in the great cachy/arch wikis. For some of the more niche stuff i want to do on my PC it was even easier than on Bazzite or Ubuntu based distros. There are still some guardrails and if i dont want to fuck around it just keeps working while i just use the computer(so far atleast).

Would i recommend Cachy to everyone? No. But if you are curious and nerdy enough its a damn great starting point IMHO.

[–] orochi02@feddit.org 4 points 19 hours ago

I think beginners usually refers to casuals but Great point