I moved my handheld from Bazzite to Cachy to SteamOS. Bazzite was quite slow, where Cachy felt a bit unstable. I gather that the desktop edition is much more mature so might be better?

I’d be interested in this! I moved my handheld to SteamOS from Cachy HE because it felt kind of unstable.

Back when I was first trying Linux out on my parent’s PC a decade ago, I’d have agreed.

But these days it’s legitimately easy. I’ve got Mint XFCE on an ancient Toshiba from 2014, Nobara on my gaming system and Fedora on my main laptop, and all of them just work. I installed Linux and the only maintenance is updates, no fresh installs or anything, and they’re all still working years later.

I recently updated to Windows 11 on my Mum’s PC and it took me an hour and a half. She also frequently messages me to ask for support. I wish I could convince her to move to Linux too…

I’m generally a KDE guy but this is clean af

I use Transit for public transit, and I find the bike routes here in Amsterdam are better on CoMaps than on Google. Google Maps is notoriously crap for bikes in Europe