I wasn’t talking about Arch based. I was talking about Cachy specifically. It’s even more unstable. Good Arch based distros can be decent if you don’t mind occasional troubleshooting. Also Arch is more stable than Windows.

Sure but Flatpak is the package format for new users and it’s a very bad decision for a beginner focused distro to restrict it.

Still it’s ridiculous they only allow submissions via a gitlab account.

It’s not as ridiculous as only accepting translations on GitHub/GitLab imo.

Oh then create an account there I guess.

I guess it’s time to create a GitLab account.

No it’s just a license breakage. It happens sometimes.

Well technically Mint has one terrible default nowadays that is hidden unverified Flatpaks.

the best way to help a non-enthusiast use Linux, is to maintain their system for them, so they don’t have to.

Uhh that’s a very unpopular approach. Nobody wants to do that.

Nix? Nah better stay away from that one.

Another thing that’s needed is icon labels or alternative text. Apps like LibreOffice suffer from icon-heavy UI which is hard to understand and remember for new users and even for me without any explanations.

No. Old UI is terrible. The newest UI with extremely rounded corners is bad too but I’d much rather use it than old stuff.

It’s not very stable though. It failed majorly in my case.

Minding wallpapers if they’re not questionable or illegally obtained sounds like a symptom of a disorder to me. That’s my answer.

The real thing is: can you update the microcode of older CPUs? If not then it’s a marketing strategy.

BIOS doesn’t matter for gaming as long as you don’t use modded GPU drivers.

KDE always gets more stable after a lot of minor updater. But it can’t be completely stable and then big updates ruin everything anyways. KDE has a ridiculous update model for a serious project. There’s not enough testing.

Uhm but I meant a regular app update? It’s done the same way on F-Droid, Play Store, GitHub and manual APK installation.

Way too boring.

I’m sorry but I can’t resist mentioning it. Manjaro implemented quite sus telemetry recently so you should keep it in mind when choosing and using it.

I can’t define one favorite distro. I change my daily driver sometimes but it’s always something Arch based, even though I think OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is the ultimately best distro/base.