The only correct distro is… not windows

I put my mom on Mint a few months ago. Since she's not super into computers and mostly uses it for email, light browsing, and playing simple games, she likes it way more than Win11.

The stages of using the terminal are:

- I can't do this, I'm nowhere near good enough
- Ok, I kind of get it but it's so complicated I'm not sure it's worth my time
- Alright never mind I have the essentials nailed down and this is now perfectly fine
- Ok now I get it, I'm really feeling this, I have total control
- The hell do you mean I can't invoke this command?
- Watch Chris Titus videos
- Customize your system update to the point where you can audit updates on your own because you want to know what having autism feels like
- Maybe Windows wasn't that bad
- go back to Windows the hell do you mean I have to open my browser to install something? wait for the file manager to search for my downloaded file on Bing
- Back to Linux in a cold sweat feeling grateful that you have an operating system that can run software just by you typing it's name in a fancy black box you spend 500+ hours customizing
- Do a neofetch to feel happy

CachyOS comes with a program called "Shelly". It's a GUI package manager, no command line needed. You can enable downloading from the AUR as well as other sources, and it will handle everything you want to do.

Cachy needing internet for the install is actually more of an Arch quick than a CachyOS quirk.

The lion does not concern himself with checksums.

After 30 years on Windows PCs, I switched to Zorin. I tried Mint and Zorin on usb sticks on old laptops before installing it on an old tower. A month of testing before I installed it on my main tower. I've been running Zorin for 6 months without any need for windows.

CachyOS comes with its own Package Installer and Shelly preinstalled which are what you should use for installing most applications. Both have an actual GUI for installing things without having to touch the console to do so.

No joke, Ventoy is the best mention in this video. Install to USB, drop in whatever ISO you want. Boom. Simple.

Distro hopping is addictive as hell man.

I play games.  Installed Bazzite and haven't booted back to windows in over two months now.  I do EVERYTHING in Bazzite.  Game, write, emails, videos, recording, research, program, compile, manage other computers, network, play more games, listen to music, organize photos, EVERYTHING.

I really like these longer-form videos

It's so awesome to see you using Linux, trying out different distros now, and most importantly that it's going well.

I moved my father over to Zorin OS in ‘24. He loves it. Not just it, but also that it’s not HIBslop’s Window$.

HIBslop kept somehow turning on “updates” malware and trashing his PC.

After I quit windows I went from Mint Cinnamon for a few months, to Cachy for almost a year, now I'm on Bazzite and very happy. Fear not the Terminal!

4:05 minecraft literally is a benchmark, ESPECIALLY when modded

started on linux 18 months ago, started with bazzite, tried mint, fedora, debian, zorin etc all in around 3 weeks, installed CachyOS and just stopped distro hopping, very happy with it.

Cashyos rules! Moved from windows 10 months ago and haven't looked back.

There's a new distro that you could try. It's called GLF OS, and it is targeted at gaming and content creation with 0 tinkering needed.

Nobara being based on Fedora, is usually going to be the nice middle ground for people who find linux "scary" - With Mint being "stable" but not gaming focused and not getting updates fast enough - And CachyOS being Arch based, so its getting updates super fast and usually results in things breaking. Nobora is that sweet spot that just works, performs just as well as CachyOS in gaming, and you can do updates without multiple things breaking.