Made a fresh account just for tech/linux stuff

I've been a self taught linux user since around 2010, my first taste of it all was like most - ubuntu. I was a huge computer geek since I was about 8 (2002) and mostly focused on windows because I had always used it and even went to vocational school for software engineering my last two years of HS. My coding experience didn't get too far past visual basic and some C#. My real natural skills were more along the lines of HTML/CSS/JS scripting, almost entirely self taught in middle school making Myspace layouts that I even had a few other students pay me to put together lmao.

Since HS, I've dealt with a lot of drug addiction issues and basically just did drug addict stuff for 8-10 years after graduating HS in 2012. This BS essentially put anything else going for me in life to the side so I can focus exclusively on IV coke and H/fent addiction.

I'm sure no one cares but I'm just trying to get involved in positive internet activities and now I'm sober for ~2 years so my natural interest in computers is coming back.

Over the 18 or so, I've been pretty deep in to linux. I've gotten pretty dang good at terminal commands - at first in Debian and now I've been stuck on CachyOS for at least the last 8 months.

Debian is excellent in general and its extremely important to the community. I honestly just got bored with it. The stability is excellent but I kinda always felt like I was behind in terms of packages and overall look and feel. It was an integral part of my self learning journey with linux and I'll always respect Debian.

Anyway, got pretty well acquainted in debian terminal with apt and such - not a ton of super technical commands but I could install software and basic cd/ls/update/upgrade/etc. By no means an expert but far more advanced than average computer users.

Once I got comfortable, I did the distro shuffle again and again and again. I've probably fresh installed 30 differents distros, most of which I'd wipe off my drive within 30 mins or less of playing with it. I still wasn't grasping how different distros utilized different sets of terminal syntax for the same command - I probably dismissed 10s of distros just because I didn't understand why sudo apt install wasn't recognized and whatever other foolish reasons.

Anyway, I tried CachyOS when it was around the 14th most popular distro on distrowatch. My laptop with an i5 and 12gb ddr4 RAM handled CachyOS with the stock KDE Plasma desktop environment so freaking beautifully. All of my system was working proper and smoothly so I just decided to quit switching around and focus on getting more comfortable with CachyOS specifically.

This is where I discovered the differences between debian-based and arch-based distributions of linux. I've grown to learn that Arch Linux's philosophy aligned better with my own views. Arch-based systems = up-to-date - like beta testing kinda. And Debian-based systems = enterprise-type application, older but trusted and stable.

I know this is a massive wall-of-text at this point but I'm just really happy I've found the right distro for me and I'd like to have some kind of community that can help me with issues, lead me in a better direction, etc. I made this reddit account specifically for my tech hobbies. A more immediate chat/discord server would be nice to, not sure if invite is required.

Thanks to any who read.

TLDR - new to cachy/arch. happy to have found cachy. interested in finding pals to chat with about our issues or just conversation :)