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yeah, that's completely fair. I haven't had any noteworthy issues but I understand that isn't exactly typical with a rolling distro haha

otoh, I migrated to cachy from Windows just over a year ago, and haven't really encountered any friction whatsoever despite my only prior Linux experience being installing Mint on an old laptop (which was a miserable endeavor, but that was entirely due to the sorry state of the laptop).

I'm probably a lot more willing to tinker than the average non-technical user, but it can be fine for newbies if they're willing to learn