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It is also first in the Distrowatch rank

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=cachyos

I distro hopped to it from Bazzite a couple of months ago, and I could not be happier.

If you try the installer, be careful when selecting multiples DE/WM as the conflicts were not listed anywhere for the installation process.

Picking a single environment and then adding the others later was what worked for me.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

I've thought about making the switch but what holds me back is stability.

I don't mean stability from a software perspective. But from a distro perspective. Distros come and go all the time. Four or Five have stable enough support through community developers and industry sponsorships that they've managed to become large enough and supported enough to be considered Evergreen Distros for lack of a better word. In other words, distros where the support base is large enough to be considered "too big to fail" (Ubuntu, Mainline Arch, Manjaro, Fedora, Gentoo, etc...)

The rest eventually just fade away. I've always avoided distros that are maintained by a small community of enthusiasts because enthusiasm goes away really quickly once the real work of maintaining a distro rolls around.

I won't pull the trigger on any small community project until I'm reasonably sure I'm not going to have to jump to a new project a year from now when the developers get tired of it and move on to something else.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

In other words, distros where the support base is large enough to be considered “too big to fail” (Ubuntu, Mainline Arch, Manjaro, Fedora, Gentoo, etc…)

bruh, no Debian?

[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

Yggdrasil Plug and Play Linux!

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You can switch back to arch pretty easily and also just upgrade from arch. That's the real benefit of cachy is standing on the shoulders of giants like Arch.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

Does that mean moving from EndeavourOS to CachyOS is also easy?

Maybe I should first look into what the difference is between EndeavourOS and CachyOS. Is it even worth it to switch?