I thought I was going to be one of those, "I use Arch btw" types. Didn't work out LMAO

Given that this is the start of my days off (I get 4 because part-time employee) I decided to try to install CachyOS, as it's suppose to be an easier form of Arch-based distro to install. Now, I had thought this was going to go swimmingly and not like the disaster that EndeavourOS was for me months back, where the installer decided not to care about my partitioning choices.

I wanted to sate my curiosity after using Bazzite for more than 2 months now...I got the itch to change it up. So I created a Live USB with CachyOS on it, and got to work on it after shopping for some lunch in the late morning. Backed up all my data like a good computer person does, and summoned all the bravery that I could muster.

I first disabled secure boot and chose to boot the Live USB with CachyOS before booting into CachyOS's installer (which looks rather pretty). I selected all the correct options and let it rip. Just a small little error happened and I thought nothing of it as it continued to quickly succeeds overwriting Bazzite and adding all its software goodness into my SSD.

Except that isn't what happened, in fact CachyOS failed to install the kernel correctly. Broke Bazzite's bootloader, and generally wasted hours of my time (which isn't actually a big deal, since I'm off for days).

I had to futz around with reinstalling Bazzite and took about 2 hours and 5 minutes to get my system back to the point it had been before attempting to install CachyOS. Bazzite installs super fast and accurately, so no issue there...There are fiddly bits with working with an atomic distro. I had to set up a distrobox VM (Distroshelf makes it very easy), create an Ubuntu VM, and install programs there to pass through to Bazzite. I wanted to avoid layering packages, only Mullvad VPN is installed via that method (as that was the simpliest way to do it). The rest of the time was simply finding, installing, and configuring Flatpaks to how they were before my little experiment.

Apparently, the universe has spoken and said, "Arch, not even twice, you silly fucker!"

I learned a lot today, always stick to Fedora, Bazzite (Atomic Fedora), and Ubuntu. Those are the only ones that ever seem to install successfully on my PCs. ROFL Sorry for the nerd post, I just had to let it all out.