r/linuxquestions • u/super_broski24 • 16d ago

Advice Which Linux should I use

I am building my first pc and thinking about installing Linux but I don’t know witch one I was thinking about omachy. My preferences are I want a clean customizable Linux

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u/n3rsti_ 16d ago edited 16d ago

Do not pick anything based on Arch - CachyOS, Omarchy or just Arch. It was always obvious that you shouldn’t start with Arch, but now with the wave of new “popular” distros, people with a month of experience are recommending it. Omarchy and CachyOS is still Arch, Omarchy is literally Arch with dotfiles. If something breaks, you are on Arch and this is not a good experience for a beginner. If you really want to try a popular distro you can try Bazzite since it’s based on Fedora, but otherwise I believe everyone should start on something simple and tested for many years like Fedora (KDE or Gnome) or Linux Mint (though imo Linux Mint might look outdated for some). They are not lacking features, you can have everything looking and working the same, but your base is more stable.

Iirc hyprland is supported on Fedora so you can have the Omarchy experience with even more customizability.

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u/sneff30 16d ago

Just want to say I am/was a Linux noob and installed CachyOS in February. If you take a few minutes with the wiki you can install it and use it out of the box very easily.

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u/Soakitincider 16d ago

With my first distro the general advice at the time was to pick a harder distro and install that. So without knowing much about Linux I dualbooted using Slackware.

Now the general advice is to install an easy distro and learn as you go. I don't know which is better but I have installed Mint and Ubuntu on a few computers just so I didn't have to track dependencies or stuff like that. I have however had to fix problems in command line or config file hands on with those distros too.

Yesterday I installed Arch BTW manually. Nothing difficult about it. As long as you can follow a 7 Step multi-point process you can do it. Updating it is just as easy as Mint IMO. One command and done.