I was testing out Garuda (Arch) and Zorin (Ubuntu) when I was trying to get away from Windows back in late-May this year. Everything just seemed to run way smoother on Garuda even up to the point of certain installs just working on Garuda compared to me spending hours troubleshooting the problem on Zorin.

I’ve seen many-a-person break their SteamOS install on their Deck by disabling read-only mode and running random AUR packages though that’s sort of to be expected when you hit the “I know what I’m doing” button without actually knowing what you’re doing. Thankfully fixing the OS is rather trivial with no files lost.