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Why cachy
Here’s his reasoning from the article:
I installed Cachy recently too and I really like it, after using Mint and Arch for several months (and many others previously).
What really are these magical "optmizations" besides installing the default packages available on every distro?
I’m not exactly sure, but a few things have worked better out of the box than other distros.
For example, it boots up faster than any of the other “simple” distros I’ve tried in some time. I tend to like lightweight things that seem to install a “bare minimum” to start, and Cachy appears to do that. It was dead simple to install my favorite window manager, even using X11 instead of Xorg.
The equivalent minimal mint installation took considerably longer to boot, using pretty much my same settings.
I somewhat broke my Linux mint Debian edition and decided to distro hop a bit. So I wanted to try popos but when trying to install it the windows and everything were broken like when you dragged the windows it left shadows and you couldn't see anything on it. So I ended up with CachyOS and so far that was awesome. Especially like that you can just clone the bottom panel which I struggled with on mint. The only "problem" I have with it is that there's no app manager like on mint just octopi that is too minimalist and doesn't seem to search well and some apps I assume aren't for arch so looking for some app manager to install that would be similar to mint or just more noon friendly, just normal GUI. Well, there's my short story of finding CachyOS is good so far.
I believe when you say app manager, you mean a package manager GUI. If so, you might like GuiMan
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Sorry, English is not my native language.
Don't apologise to the grammar police, they are more afraid of you then you are from them.
...yes I'm AFRAID of unclear communication.
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interesting, I'd never heard of it!
I love Cachy, it's the distro I use in my dual boot.
Because Fedora is extra steps for nonfree codecs and firmware, and PopOS has an old kernel that doesn't support the latest AMD GPUs. This was my logic when installing linux on the gaming PC of a windows user who wanted to make the switch, recently
EDIT: genuinely curious about the downvote lol
You’re also a cachy?
I personally run Gentoo btw, but was not going to subject a first-time Linux user to that lol. So I installed CachyOS on their PC, yeah
TIL people still use Gentoo.
There's really never been a better time to run Gentoo tbh, processors are so fast that compilation does not really take as long as you'd expect anymore. Probably the best hardware support of all Linux distros, and its good for gaming or workstation.
If I wasn’t so intent on going to Nix, I’d give Gentoo a try. Currently an Arch user due to laziness and AUR, but the AUR is not as consistent an experience as memory serves so if it doesn’t fulfill laziness I might as well move on.
And I subjected a first time user to Debian 13 lol
I'm currently using NixOS and I constantly switch back to CachyOS every now and again. By far the best Arch based distros and one of the best overall distros available.
Maybe I should do some researching but what do you like about Cachy over plain Arch? That it’s gaming optimized?