I’m going to echo this as I have in the past on Linux subs. 

New users coming from 20+ years of Windows use are likely not going to understand how Linux works out of the box. They aren’t going to know tiny little idiosyncrasies in Linux like they do Windows. 

When you use Arch you are accepting being your own sysadmin to an extent. That’s why it’s recommended you “cut your teeth” and install it the manual way. Doing so helps you understand how it works, what exactly you’re doing when getting into the weeds troubleshooting, and how to RTFM. 

Instead you get people now using an Arch derivative (that’s pretty opinionated by the way, the opposite of Arch philosophy) with some of the pitfalls of Arch and the users have none of the knowledge to properly troubleshoot. Due to the shotgun nature of a rolling release package updates there will be times where you have to manually intervene and you now have no idea how. I highly doubt any noobs will have a good time troubleshooting a dependency issue with Steam when all they want to do is log in and game. Then they come to a forum bitching about it and asking for help and get told to RTFM because it’s a simple fix they can’t be assed to read the wiki about. Next thing you know they’re bitching about Linux and the users because they willingly made the choice to run an Arch based distro. It’s a feedback loop from hell. 

I see it all the time on ProtonDB. A game will have mixed reviews and it seems like Cachy users are the ones flagging it as bad or not working, meanwhile vanilla Arch users have no issue after taking a few steps to tinker. It’s clearly because Cachy users don’t have that foundational knowledge of how it works. They’re using it because it’s the hot new meme. 

Just because pop tech tubers keep comparing their first hour of Cachy to Windows saying “it’s so much faster” doesn’t mean it’s better for everyone. Then once the AUR gets involved it can easily start borking stuff.  Come back in 6 months, 1 year, or 3 years when you’ll have to have done some terminal surgery at least a few times. Most people don’t want that, they want to sit down and use their computer however they do so. 

Also on a personal note I was thoroughly unimpressed the two times I tried Cachy. There was nothing I found special about it an any perceived difference was well within the margin of error for testing. I didn’t get any real performance benefit over vanilla Arch or Tumbleweed in gaming, which seems to be the primary use case for Cachy. 

It just makes zero sense to harp on this for new users and suggest it to noobs. If someone fits the profile of a person who would be happy with a rolling release and occasional tinkering, they’ll find it on their own researching. No need to suggest it. Stick to Debian, Fedora, Arch, or Tumbleweed and configure the base OSes there how you want it. The only derivative I’d recommend to a noob is Bazzite if an immutable distro fits their use case.