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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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[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 50 points 15 hours 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.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] determinist@kbin.earth 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 7 points 14 hours ago

I made the transfer couple months back. It's fantastic. Best distro I used so far. Sounds settings took some time but it's the best...

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 19 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Why cachy

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 37 points 18 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 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours 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 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 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 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the recommendation. That looks much better than the default app manager!

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

I mean, personally, I just use yay in the terminal and if I need to research a package I use the arch wiki or aur website. But this does look promising for people that aren't used to that or who might be intimidated by a terminal.

[–] Excel@beehaw.org 1 points 13 hours ago

If you want something that hides all of the ugly console garbage, well that’s not an option on Arch because reading the pacman output is mandatory; using something like Discover (which hides it) will break your system eventually.

On the other hand, if you just mean “a small curated list of apps for specific tasks”, there actually is one, it can be launched from CarhyOS Hello.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org 2 points 16 hours ago

interesting, I'd never heard of it!

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 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

EDIT: genuinely curious about the downvote lol

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You’re also a cachy?

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours 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 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

TIL people still use Gentoo.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours 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 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe I should do some researching but what do you like about Cachy over plain Arch? That it’s gaming optimized?

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

one of the main things is it's just painfully easy to install and have set up. I've installed regular arch countless times but sometimes I just don't want to be bothered with that so installing CachyOS just makes things easier/smoother.

Their repos are great, their kernel is great (to the point I'm even using it on NixOS) and it's just an overall smooth experience.

Plus I like the options they give you for DE's and WM's on install which they provide just about all of them with their own tailored configs.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You're spreading straight up false info here about Pop_OS. My kernel on Pop_OS is updated quite frequently and it supports my ~2 year old AMD card flawlessly. My current kernel version, 6.17.4, is about two weeks old...

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

No, actually I am not. 2 year old AMD cards are not the latest.

I tried to install PopOS for them first, however the LiveISO does not boot with a 9060 XT, because the PopOS kernel is quite old. If it was compatible with the latest AMD GPUs, they'd be running PopOS right now instead of CachyOS.

Are you on the 24.04 Beta version of PopOS?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You are wrong about the kernel. I'm not on the beta, I'm on a stable release I installed like 2 years ago and have updated many times since. The kernel is exactly what I just said.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Dunno what to tell you lol, maybe it is possible to update an already existing install to a newer kernel version, but the LiveISO hangs when booting on a 9060 XT, and "sorry, it is unsupported by the PopOS kernel" was a common/known issue when I searched for the solution. This was only a few weeks ago.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 12 hours ago

It's interesting you say all this because as others have said in the past, pop os pulls upstream updates so often, some say it's practically rolling release at least for many important packages

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe their live iso isn't as maintained?

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

That's my guess based on what you've said

[–] alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 16 hours ago

Good choice with cachy