Using CachyOS for all my work for around 18 months now. Super stable, fast and up-to-date always, highly recommend it.

I still haven't found a stable Linux distribution. I used to like Debian years ago. Dependable, reliable.

Now none of them seem to be. Went distribution hopping and trying to find something. I'm a FreeBSD guy mostly - and in my experience its still not year of the desktop for Linux despite me wanting to ditch Windows 10. FreeBSD is way behind as a desktop OS, although it doesn't have the ridiculous baggage of Linux's audio subsystem.

Had CachyOS lock up on me tonight, but its still been the least problematic most dependable variant of Linux I've tried so far, even if its sproriadic in failing to correctly mount shares. Pop-OS has been the next-best, but they're falling behind some of the other distro's.

The fucktards at Fedora(/Redhat) closed a "I can't boot because of an error in fstab" in Fedora as won't fix. I couldn't even get to a superuser shell - so the system is in an unrecoverable state even from console. Rescued it via a livedisk and manually mounting filesystems, but the response was inexcusable given the time I put into the bug submission. Trying to mount network drives and failing to boot, as a result of not checking there's a valid network connection first is not something I'd expect in 2025...

Tried Ubuntu and its a complete mess compared to its former self, and Debian is so far behind, I may as well use FreeBSD as a desktop.

And the fact they've ditched ifconfig for a more painful user experience is just dumb. It's still the least problematic of distro's I've tried though. Gaming (somewhat usable on Linux) and audio (still a mess) are what keep me on Win10 even though I want to ditch it. Apple can go get fucked, but their TV shows are kind of impressive.

The BSD's just keeps working (yes, there's less hardware support) and you don't have to keep learning a new 'dialect' because the kernel and OS stay relatively consistent over time. I still think the sudo command on Linux is dumb. Let me explictly su, get stuff done and log out. None of this type your own password to get to do superuser stuff. I mean seriously...?

Edited: Downvoted because they can't handle my personal experience? With no rebuttal? Even HN isn't what it used to be.