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Screw it, I’m installing Linux (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 hours ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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Windows is getting worse, while gaming on Linux is getting better. I’m gonna move my desktop to CachyOS. Wish me luck.

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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 25 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Here’s his reasoning from the article:

an Arch-based distro optimized for gaming on modern hardware, with support for cutting-edge CPUs and GPUs and an allegedly easy setup.

I installed Cachy recently too and I really like it, after using Mint and Arch for several months (and many others previously).

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

What really are these magical "optmizations" besides installing the default packages available on every distro?

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 1 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

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.

[–] Emi@ani.social 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 points 1 hour ago

I believe when you say app manager, you mean a package manager GUI. If so, you might like GuiMan

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 hours ago

interesting, I'd never heard of it!

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

I love Cachy, it's the distro I use in my dual boot.