I appreciate you sharing the music of your people!

If I understood right, a lot of the "complaints" relate to how they handle their default settings and how they're laid out. Both aren't too bad out of the box, bazzite comes pre-arranged and Cachy has rock solid community support through the wiki?

It sounds like the biggest trouble you came across was your tendency to tinker is what got you in trouble. Typically, I'm pretty set-it-and-forget-it, so playing with it shouldn't get me in too much trouble. God forbid something goes wrong, my knowledge triples every time I have to fix something haha

I also got a distinct "but also, distro-hopping is fun, don't be afraid to mess around", which I think is what I'm trying to answer 🤔

Yeah I've read good things as well. I'm not familiar with Arch at all, but it sounds like Cachy might be a good stepping stone. I did Ubuntu for many years, bazzite just recently and only because it was less intimidating than Cachy when I just wanted to get it up and running haha. But now that I've settled in, I find myself thinking I might try dual booting it just to see 🤔

Staff criticized a very specific thing, not a vibe: the approach for installing software.

You don't really need to use the terminal at all if you just stick with the software that's available in flatpak / bazaar. If you had to use the terminal then that means you most likely wanted to install software / tweak stuff outside of the intended channels.

I don't think Bazzite is very suitable as an all-purpose distro or a distro for people who want to tweak or use the terminal much, it was originally designed as a SteamOS distro (before Valve made available their own SteamOS image), intended to be installed in Steam Deck / Steam Box style devices. I use it in a living room PC for gaming and watching videos and it works perfectly for this usecase. For desktop / laptop I run a different Linux distro.

I do not have an Nivida card, but I udnerstand Nvidia on bazzite (and linux in general) is tougher than AMD to get things working nicely. As for the terminal, I have never once NEEDED to use to terminal in the last year. I have of course used it to do things, but it was rarely the Only way to do what I was trying to do.

Maybe what I am about to say is unpopular, but once I stopped trying to install programs that dont have a flapak from the bazzar store, my life got easier. Of course to counter that statement, I have several programs that are appimages that I control via Gearlevel, then a few windows apps running via faugus.

Also if anything tells you to use lutris, it is wrong, lutris imo is crap, and should not be sued ever; Lutris has not worked once for me.