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CachyOS with KDE, it works well rounded and has easy to use apps to maid arch super easy and if you need help there’s a convenient discord server filled with helpers, it’s well documented, and we use it so if they need help it would be easier to guide them through things. Heavy recommend. Plus if they don’t like pacman they can always get the flatpak store
I love cachyos with KDE! Not sure if I'd recommend it to a complete noob, but if they're familiar enough with computers in general, then go for it!
Thats totally fair, its what we recommended our partner who is a complete noob as-well and they really enjoyed it! The only set up thing we had to help with was the FsTab situation with multiple drives.
That was my only initial struggle too! The rest is so comfortable, coming from Windows the whole experience is just so much better and I'm a total Linux beginner myself. But I was somewhat of a Windows power user, so the transition wasn't bad at all.
Glad to be rid of Microsoft. I just miss DxO Photolabs (because fuck Adobe). Haven't tried Darktable yet but the workflow supposedly is a bit cumbersome.
Heard Rapid Raw might be a good alternative though i can’t say for sure since we don’t edit raw photos too often. Might be good to check out, At the very least!
Also yeah, but so glad there’s good documentation for fstab. Wish there was just an option for Dolphin to auto add drives to fstab for you with a context menu button or something
Thanks! Rapid Raw looks good, I'll give it a try!