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Hehe manjaroty

It had its place in 2015. It was my introduction to Arch-based distros. Nowadays, I use EndeavourOS.

I'm not familiar with Manjaro, what was wrong with it?

I think it's important to recognize that if something is working well for yourself you don't really need to change it

this might be something you're doing already but you can use VMs to try distros before fully committing

It's essentially Arch with a custom kernel and repos. That being said the Kernel and repos are REALLY good. very optimized. I use the CachyOS Kernel on my NixOS system and I use the repos as well as the kernel on a regular Arch system. If you're a gamer then you'll notice a definite increase in performance. the devs/maintainers of CachyOS are also very transparent and provide constant updates.

Now you'll probably ask "well why not just use CachyOS itself?" to which I'll say they pack A LOT of stuff into the distro most of which I just don't need. It can result in a long install time, much longer than most distros. But if you want a solid easy to install distro right out of the box you can't go wrong. They also support just about every DE and WM under the sun. Seriously when you install it they provide you with options for everything AND also provide you with custom configs for everything so you can say use Niri or Hyprland or whatever right away without having to do much if any further configuration. They also have configurations for shells too. They also have their own version of Proton which is quite good, I also use that. They also provide you with the option to have snapper/timeshift set up for you right off the bat so you don't have to worry about rolling back if something goes wrong.

They also have a fairly new updating feature which I love. Basically it's a version of pacman where anyone can use it/figure it out. Like other distros like Fedora or Debian it'll notify you when there are updates and will walk you through the process of updating, providing you with recent Arch News while you update, then clear out orphaned dependencies and clear your cache for you. it's really a very good updater.

Overall it's a very solid and easy to use Arch based distro and a fantastic introduction to Arch.

You can also look into PikaOS if you want gaming features and drivers baked into Debian.

From what I understand, it is the arch approach but with package binaries compiled to target newer hardware instead of the largest set of hardware. Their homepage claims they enable several performance-type optimizations in both the kernel and common system libraries. It's not surprising to me that protondb, a repository of "how well can I get this game to run on Linux through proton?" reports, is studying an outsized proportion of users on CachyOS.

If you go that way, you also gotta count ubuntu and all its derivatives towards debian.

But if you look at the plot you can see the only ubuntu based ones are mint, ubuntu and pop which add up to 20.6% and thats still less than cachy. So unless you add the 2.7% of debian to make a "debian based" cluster, cachy still wins with 21.1%

All this to say, cachyos is fucking boomin.

that would barely make a difference? because then you would just have arch take over

@NinjaTurtle @otter I've been using CachyOS with Plasma for a few months and only one time experienced major instability. Switched to an earlier snapshot and then waited a couple more days to update again, no other problems since.

No. It may be worth to try on the side for fun or science though.

Does it? I haven't seen complaints about bricking, and limine should make it trivial to undo a bad update. It wouldn't need a redownload

Also these stats aren't based on downloads

From the article:

Flatpak is NOT a distro, but that’s what Steam reports when it’s running on Flatpak, and Flatpak being distro independent we report it as a separate environment, if that makes sense. Feel free to ignore it if you wish.