Cachyos is fantastic. I installed it 7 months ago and I can never go back (I previously used Mint for years). It's the best distro I've used. Best of luck.

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 1 points 39 minutes ago

To be clear, my desktop works fine on Windows 11. But the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low. I do not want to talk to my computer. I do not want to use OneDrive. I’m sure as hell not going to use Recall. I am tired of Windows trying to get me to use Edge, Edge trying to get me to use Bing, and everything trying to get me to use Copilot. I paid for an Office 365 subscription so I could edit Excel files. Then Office 365 turned into Microsoft 365 Copilot, and I tried to use it to open a Word document and it didn’t know how.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Good choice with cachy

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Why cachy

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 17 points 2 hours ago (3 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).

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org 2 points 44 minutes ago

interesting, I'd never heard of it!

[–] Emi@ani.social 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 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.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

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

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You’re also a cachy?

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 1 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

TIL people still use Gentoo.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 points 32 minutes ago

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.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 52 minutes ago

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