Under perfect circumstances, nothing should require CLI crap.
Just saw this old post and want to announce my agreement. Good GUI > Good CLI.
And look at the only instances where the public has accepted Linux: Android, Chrome OS, etc., whose highest virtue is hiding the ugliness and messiness of Linux by having highly controlled hardware environment and a shiny custom UI to hide the Linux.
And all the gNu/LiNuX dumbos here and elsewhere completely miss the fact that Android, Chrome OS and most likely this, have nothing to do with GNU and only opportunistically using “Linux”.
Look it's a fine OS when the GUI hides the messy parts. but it is far from polished and every now and then (quite frequently actually) you have to spend time wading through config files and docs to make something work. Most people are not interested in wasting time this way. I use Debian which is supposed to be rock solid and about as far from bleeding edge as you can get, but I have still had many instances where things needed tinkering to work correctly. Bluetooth, network config/wireless drivers etc. Doesn't bother me but I can see it's hardly user friendly.
This is fully untrue. I run already 5 years Linux on my main laptop I use overseas. There is zero tweaking involved. Zero. You are doing something wrong if this is your experience. You tweak during first install, you tweak and retweak, but once fully configured, there is zero tweaks needed!
The average GPU UPDATE DOT EXE process results in more tweaking it seems
Well, there were shitty drivers for certain radio chips which did require messing around (not on Debian but generally), but the situation should be stable enough now.
Everything just works out of the box now, so no need to tinker with anything lol Gaming is not there, but improving, and I'd rather have no gaming, than the alternative shit on offer, which is a rat infested dung pile heap of disease, festering at all corners, and folding inwards to meet the utter turd that it is, while spouting out utter shit trodden waste, ready to be foot pathed back into the shit it is.
And all the gNu/LiNuX dumbos here and elsewhere completely miss the fact that Android, Chrome OS and most likely this, have nothing to do with GNU and only opportunistically using “Linux”.
It seems obvious that most people do not really care about open source software. And some do a little bit. Convenience is the easily the driving factor.
And on that note, GUIs have higher potential convenience than terminal anything, I would say.
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I'm on Linux since last August (CachyOS) on Laptop with discrete NVIDIA card and except GTA V, everything works fine. I'm not playing online games, only SP ones. But no issues with old and new titles (GTA V excluded ).
None of SteamOS, Bazzite or CachyOS are really suitable for a desktop environment really. They are all rolling distros, so they bring the worst of Windows to Linux, bombarding you with constant updates. The least offensive in that regard is SteamOS, which is on a more relaxed schedule, but is so far very tightly focused on Valve's hardware. The next pain point is one that is shared by Bazzite and SteamOS and that's being immutable, meaning they use a layout of multiple partitions, with the system partition being mounted as read-only. You can still install software, but changing a system component is difficult, requires mounting the system partition as read-write, overriding parts of it and resealing. This is error prone as updates that follow are not meant to update a modified system partition, and will at best override your change, so you need to make the same change every time, or, at worst, break your system completely. On top of that, Bazzite is a very opinionated distro, which is not a good thing as a desktop OS, so it comes with a peculiar list of software preinstalled, and that software changes from time to time at the whim of its developers (like the store software changing months ago with no notice).
Immutable distros are great for devices such as handhelds, where you don't spend much time doing anything but gaming, so you don't mind the desktop side of things changing or not being exactly as you want it.
CachyOS is the least offensive of the trio, as it is not immutable and not very opinionated, but it is based on Arch and is quite the volatile experience. For example, Arch (and by extension CachyOS) relatively recently moved from X11 to Wayland display server, causing desktop environments to break in what appears as a routine update (but is the equivalent of jumping from Windows 98 to Windows XP in behind the scenes complexity). Such updates are much better handled by LTS distros, such as [U/Ku/*]buntu LTS.
A stable LTS release has issues of its own. A stable release often brings a well tested, mature Linux kernel, but due to how Linux is architected, drivers came as part of the kernel ( ), so you are not getting the best gaming experience. You can recompile the kernel to include the latest drivers you need, but .
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), so you are not getting the best gaming experience. You can recompile the kernel to include the latest drivers you need, but 
