Doesnt he only install cachy?
And then says he will talk about how its been to use in a month?
Overall quite a pointless video
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The video is not for us. It is for his many followers that have heard about Linux but are too scared to take the plunge.
His experience gives them a baseline for what to expect if they tried it themselves. That is massively useful.
When I saw the title I was thinking it could be about:
which is a distro that allows you to install multiple distros and have them running and interoperating simultaneously....
Sounds cool but difficult to maintain 😄
I will never understand why people would recommend CachyOS to a newbie.
First thing he do is complain about not knowing which boot manager to choose and the system not telling him. Please read the CachyOS wiki 😅
"Pls read wiki" is not very user friendly imo.
If a noob really shouldn't use it, put a clear warning or something in the beginning och the installer process or clearly on the download page.
Expecting every potential user to go through your wiki is not reasonable. I am rarher comfortable with many distros, but I have only ever visited their wikis when stuff breaks.
I have read websites and been through the instellers for the distros many times though.
If you are comfortable with many distros, you would use Cachy without visiting their wiki.
I do not think Cachy needs a warning. The fact that you cannot answer their fist question is warning enough. And either you charge ahead, read the wiki, or bail.
The problem is having new users start on Cachy.
In the early days, Ubuntu did a tonne of marketing that they were “Linux for human beings” and every new Linux user seemed to choose them. I was already a Linux user and never really used Ubuntu but everybody else seemed to be having a decent experience.
It is too bad we do not have that today, with some distro getting the word out that it is the right place for “normal” people to start.
Like a lot of other people, I point people at Mint. It is not only user friendly but Llosa maintenance and fairly conservative in terms of change. I think those are good qualities for a “normal” person OS. But, if there was an obvious alternative, I would be happy aligning with “the one” that we collectively recommend.
I love the choice in Linux but it does suck that people coming from monocultures get hit over the head with it immediately.
When we see videos like this, it should start with him discovering that we all recommend the same one or two alternatives. A quick Google or ChatGPT should produce the same answers.
Wow, never before seen stuff over here
I feel like windows users often overestimate their own technical knowledge, so when they hear that atomic distros doesn't let you tinker they don't actually understand what that means.