I’ve been using cachyos for a couple years and had no issues with it. For me it has enough ‘out of the box’ functionality to jump in, but also allows you do do whatever you want to customize it. I will always recommend it to people who have at least a bit of tech knowledge and just want to get started and not have to build everything from scratch.

I personally don’t see an issue using scripts early on when learning as long as it’s allowing you to focus on a specific part of development.

Ultimately the way I learn is:

1. Find a problem/project
2. See if I can solve it 100% on my own
3. Find an actual solution/script online and compare it to my terrible one.
4. Break down each section of the script I found so I fully understand why/how they implemented it that way.
5. Repeat