NightFantom

Absolutely, it looks like it’s mostly managing expectations that come with calling something arch based.

In your recipe analogy, calling your new cookie recipe, which you based on your granny’s chocolate chip cookie recipe, “chocolate chip cookie based”, but ending up with a raisin cookie (you removed the chocolate chips) would be false advertising, even if technically true in the way you describe.

https://linux.kde.org/#what-kind-of-base-technology-does-kde-linux-use

They disagree with calling it arch based:

What kind of base technology does KDE Linux use?

KDE Linux is an “immutable base OS” Linux distro created using Arch Linux packages, but it should not be considered an “Arch-based distro”; Arch is simply a means to an end, and KDE Linux doesn’t even ship with the pacman package manager.

KDE Linux leans on Systemd for a great deal of functionality. Updates are atomic and image-based, with the last 5 OS images cached on disk. Only the Wayland session is supported. Apps primarily come from Flatpak.

Learn more about KDE Linux’s architecture.

Kde is building their own non ubuntu Linux distro, pretty cool imo

“catch his” is cachy os?

I think the joke is that a pot smoker would answer “smoke what?” to the question “do you smoke?” (As opposed to yes/no for people who smoke cigarettes, and people who don’t smoke, respectively), in combination with implying pot having beneficial effects.

I have no clue what Pirate Software is (from context it could be a game developer?), but it sounds like they already hint at an alternative solution in the name.

For me the biggest leap was letting go of my local settings. My kubuntu has about everything I want out of the box, then I install zsh with omz and I’m pretty much done.

So whenever I break something it’s an easy fresh install.

My data (steam games, code) is in a separate drive, and especially with cloud saves / git everything is available even if I were to break that drive (would just suck to remember which things I need to redownload from where).

So that helped me release my tinkering spirit as much as I wanted, and while I’m far from a Linux guru, I’ve definitely learned a lot from that.

Edit: not to say that I don’t try to fix things, just knowing that I can easily restart is the main thing.

I think it strongly detracts from the post. I basically skipped right to the comments without clicking the link because I’m assuming it’s AI slop, and I’m hoping the comments are interesting.