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It's not bad. It's just assumes you know what you're doing. That y/n option there, is one of them. I'm not a power user or anything, I know my way around a computer.
I've been using CachyOS Linux since last October as my one and only OS on my laptop. It going great. There are some annoying stuff as well but that's because of Linux in general and not CachyOS specific. Laptops have many Linux unfriendly hardware in them so, you don't get full support out of the box if yours is brand new, however if you have a 1 or 2 year old laptop than it will most likely work out of the box. As for other examples of annoying stuff, I had problem with making my gaming mouse work and map the buttons, I went and asked AI to how to fix it and I've got it done. Because I couldn't find anything specific in the forums. Or just the other day I was having problems with my gamepad button mapping and had to ask AI again to fix it and it did.
As for what I'm doing when I'm asked a y/n question like the example given I do a quick search and 9/10 times the first link would be the answer I'm looking for and I choose accordingly. Or you can go the ignorant way and just chose yes to everything (which I did before) and you'll be alright 99.9% of the time. I don't remember having problems because of it...
So, it's not that mysterious or hard to understand and as a side effect you learn new stuff. Which is fun for me.
Yeah, 'y' every time should be pretty safe for updates, right? Like, the reason it's suggested is because it's the suggested alternative for the package it's replacing and the change has been tested by the CachyOS/Arch team(s) already.
And worst case, something big breaks when you reboot, so you roll back to before the update, wait like a week, and try again (lol).