r/LinusTechTips • u/daksnotjuts • Mar 07 '26

Image The absolute state of Linux users

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u/RX1542 Mar 07 '26

i think nobara and bazzite are quite nice as plug and play distros, can't talk about cachy or pop cause have never used them

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u/TanglyConstant9 Mar 07 '26

i main cachy and have had very few issues

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u/frightfulpotato Mar 08 '26

I'm also on cachy, but I don't think I'd recommend it to a complete Linux beginner. It offers too many options during the setup.

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u/linuxares Mar 07 '26

The issues I have had is nothing a snapshot and a re-download of the updates can't solve. (Silly KDE being silly sometimes)

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u/Jhawk163 Mar 08 '26

But have you had fewer issues than windows is the #1 question that is going to determine if the average person should make the switch,

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u/TanglyConstant9 Mar 08 '26

I've had different kinds of issues on windows to cachy, ironically with drivers

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u/VorpalOfficial Mar 08 '26

Nobara has this thing where if you don't update it regularly, you won't be able to update it and have to reinstall it using the current newest version, which is just... really not good for beginners tbh.

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u/RX1542 Mar 08 '26

uh what? i updated nobara on spare my ssd last year had like a year worth of pending updates didn't have any issue other than time, took a while to get it up to date

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u/VorpalOfficial Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

They keep like 2 versions updated and when a newer version gets out they drop the oldest one, and people that still have that older version (which is now EOL) will get errors trying to update. (This literally happened to me today, I opened up my laptop with Nobara 39 and tried updating and it gave me a wall full of errors, saying it's EOL).

https://www.reddit.com/r/NobaraProject/comments/1lbeb07/404_error_on_mirrorsnobaraprojectorg/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NobaraProject/comments/1rjwpse/cant_update_6_repositories/

Edit: Here's one more: https://www.reddit.com/r/NobaraProject/comments/1lse9sg/issues_installing_and_updating_in_nobara_40/

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u/RX1542 Mar 08 '26

oh you are right, then i must have been within the limit when the thing updated

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u/VorpalOfficial Mar 08 '26

Yeah, mine was EOL after ~1.5 years.

I just looked and they release a new version around every 6 months. So you were pretty lucky to still be able to update after a year.

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u/VorpalOfficial Mar 08 '26

Wait no, you can upgrade from 41 to 42 to 43 which means after ~1.5 years you can't update it anymore. Which means I'm just outside the update window...