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I made the unfortunate post about asking why people liked Arch so much (RIP my inbox I'm learning a lot from the comments) But, what is the best distro for each reason?

RIP my inbox again. I appreciate this knowledge a lot. Thank you everyone for responding. You all make this such a great community.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man, I wanted to try Garuda a couple of weeks ago and the thing would never even boot into the live environment. Went ahead and installed Cachy OS and it's been great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I dunno what to say. It 100% worked on install for my laptop, even the weird ASUS stuff that can be finicky.