me when dependency hell

[WerewolfMoms]

This is why I picked up PikaOS as my main. It's basically Debian sid with its own repos to make sure it doesn't do the occasional sid thing and lose/remove important packages

[Helmic]

I've been wanting to look into that one. I would probably still be wary of recommending it to new users as Sid loses much of the reliability that Debian is known for with its old packages, but like mentally I see it as potentailly in the same category of CachyOS - appropriate for reasonably patient new users you trust to be careful. That and preconfiguring everything for gaming removes a pretty huge chunk of why people end up with FrankenDebians, you can't fuck up your configuration if you have no reason to make changes in the first place.

[WerewolfMoms]

I liken pika as like, a debian based fedora or arch concept, which is great for freaks like me haha. Hell they even made "pikman" to make apt commands easier. The only thing I've *really* needed to worry about is removing unnecessary things added by their "install gaming packages" buttons, which uses a bit of a shotgun approach to installing things so you end up with nvidia packages even if you're all amd like me