| ▲ | rossy 4 days ago | |
The more I think about it, the harder it is to recommend anything else for the average Windows gamer/prosumer but first-time Linux user. - Rolling release, so you don't have to do a major upgrade twice a year - which would otherwise be much more often than Windows. - Latest kernel and graphics drivers, so it works with newly released hardware with the best performance. - Steam, NVIDIA drivers, H.264/H.265 codecs, Gamescope, GameMode, MangoHud, etc. all in the default repos - a huge boon for new Linux users compared to having them in an external repo like RPM Fusion or having to install them manually, which can otherwise cause confusing dependency problems over the life of the installation. - Nothing unusual about it that would be confusing or cause compatibility problems. It's just a normal mutable binary distro with a normal package manager, upstream packages, glibc and systemd. The biggest issue is the lack of an official graphical installer, but while the install process is intimidating, it's not very difficult for people who are patient, can follow detailed instructions, and have a vague idea of what a partition and a bootloader is. | ||
| ▲ | distances 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
> The biggest issue is the lack of an official graphical installer, but while the install process is intimidating, it's not very difficult for people who are patient, can follow detailed instructions, and have a vague idea of what a partition and a bootloader is. I think this is one of the main reasons CachyOS has been on such an upward trajectory. It's mostly Arch, but that installation was such a breeze. A couple of clicks and done. | ||