Yes, Bazzite was my first. Immutability sounds great in theory but it wouldn’t let me change my login screen background and wouldn’t explain why. I bricked my drive permissions trying to get access and had to reformat.

That got me looking for alternatives and I learned about immutability and found Garuda, which let me do whatever I wanted, was also gaming focused, and has great helper applications.

I’ve used both Bazzite and Garuda. Both have an Nvidia install, both are gamer focused, and both have been easy.

Bazzite was immutable, which I ended up not liking.

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All your points are valid, but I’m not going to put in 3rd party hardware and their default slicer seems great to me. There’s a group of users for who this is all more or less not an issue.

My Bambu had also been soooo easy. So there’s that.

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I tried Bazzite first and switched to Garuda after. Both were easy and good for gaming.

Garuda is a gaming focused Arch distro. Super easy and works great. It’s what I switched to after Bazzite.

I use the xfce version and it’s pretty bare bones. Other than a background image I replaced, it didn’t have any annoying UI stuff in it. It still runs all the gaming stuff just fine out of the box.

If anyone likes Bazzite but doesn’t want the immutability, Garuda is also gamer focused and easy.

Needs are always based on objectives. Need to stay alive? Food, shelter, basic hygiene. Need to stay sane? Stimulation, interaction, meaning. Need to be happy? Free time, achievement.

The important thing is they are always conditional. You don’t even need to stay alive, unless you have an objective that requires it. You don’t need to go to the movies, unless your objective is to unwind. And so on.

Most often our wants and desires are what creates need as a requirement to achieve them.

Haven’t tried Cachy, but can vouch for Garuda being stable and easy.

This is what made the difference for me.

I use Garuda, which is Arch based. Pretty much every time I’ve had a problem it’s been solved by update, restart.

If you want to try and build a raw Arch system from scratch, maybe it’s still complicated, I don’t know, but there are easy Arch options these days.

Super helpful info, thanks!

That makes total sense. I haven’t dipped my toes into AUR, so I’m not surprised I missed it.

I’ve only been on Linux about a year. I started with Bazzite and then switched to Garuda. Garuda is Arch based but has always been fast and easy, even with an Nvidia card.

Am I missing something? Arch seems fine.

Not enough plastic is coming out of your nozzle.

It really could be a lot of things… a clog, temperature to low, too much friction against the filament so it is hard to pull through, nozzle is bigger than your slicer settings say.

Try one thing at a time. Good luck!

They’re new, and they make decisions for you.

As a new user, I’ve never had trouble with them.

I don’t know what all these doomsayers are doing. I installed Bazzite and it just worked. I decided I didn’t want an immutable system so I switched to Garuda, and it just worked. I have Nvidia and didn’t have to do anything extra.

My first Linux was Bazzite. It was great but I didn’t like immutability so I switched to Garuda, which was also very easy.

As you are deciding, consider the differences between the main branches, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc., and their operating philosophy. Next look at the distro, specifically the helper apps and tools. Many distros now have “at startup” apps now that will help you with updates and installing common software. This help, or lack of it, will make a big difference to you as a beginner.