So I decided to give in to the hype and install CachyOs. For context, I've only ever used Linux Mint before.Here's my current thoughts:>Very smooth installation, I left everything on default and it went smooth as hell, surprisingly fast too.>It comes with KDE Plasma as an option, and I'm loving it so far>OS and browsing feel pretty damn good and clean on a Thinkpad T14 Gen1, I assume the effect is even better on newer hardware but so far the computer feels brand new.>Getting to download all the important gaming-related packages with one button was neat.>Default packages are a little bit barebones but nothing that installing a few packages didn't solve. For my needs I only really needed to download VCL and Libreoffice>Weird selection of desktop wallpapers (picrelated) but whatever.Still haven't tried downloading games yet, but I'm feeling way better with Cachy already than I did with Mint, and I liked Mint.
>>108868184Stop using forked distros.
>>108868196Every Distro is a forked Distro dipshit, it came with your FOSS operating system.
>>108868184>OS and browsing feel pretty damn goodAs is typical with the distro hopper, no real work is being accomplished.
>>108868184They have open Nvidia drivers, I recommend using OpenRazer if you have that. I switched back to X11 since a lot of things weren't working right on Wayland. I removed the stsrt up graphics. If you use a laptop, it will default to the integrated graphics card for some reason.
>>108868276I'm using an AMD CPU with no discrete GPU, so I think I'm good on that front.
>>108868184cachyos is what new linux users recommend each othermaybe cachyos actually worksbut i know i can get everything working, easily, on either debian or fedorai won't list everything, but i need clang, clang tools, a recent texlive distribution, nonfree codecs, etc.and not from some literal who on the aur
>>108868184I don't get the hype about this distro. Is it just because of gayming?
>>108868196>nooooo you HAVE to use the distro I like!!!!kill yourself along with whoever maintains your OS
>>108868203That's where you're wrong.https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=Linux&basedon=Independent
>>108868184been using it since nvjewdia fuck 10 series driver (too dumb for old driver/weird bug were my gpu didn't get recognized)its fucking bloat, to much useless shit oot, but stable af and still no suprise update that brick everything like manjarotl;dr good for brainlett, bad for minimalist cunts
>>108870251it's just an arch installer and it happens to be the best one I have personally triedthat's literally it
>>108868290Yeah, using an MSI laptop isn't ideal but not impossible.
>>108870251It's arch but even a newbie can go from installer usb to playing vidya in 10 minutes, and it has the benefit of timing by landing right as linux gaming is starting to take off.
>>108870296>just an arch installerwith custom packages and repos for gayming and support for older nvidia card (nouveau is trash for gaming)
>>108870251Yes. From what I understand it has some optimizations in the kernel specific for gaming, but it only amounts to a ~5% performance boost. I like to think of it as the new "endeavorOS"
>>108868184CachyOS-tan... sex...
>>108870971It does a lot more than. EndeavourOS.. For better or for worse. EndeavourOS by comparison is basically GUI based Archinstall.
CachyOS both looks and sounds really cool but it's basically just regular Arch in its core, which implies broken packages and dependencies once every 2-3 days. I think I'll install Tumbleweed instead and cope with the 1% gap gaming performance.
>>108870277Nice job retard, you just fucked yourself as well.
>>108868184I dont like that it spams updates every day, and every update needs multiple confirms (press y/n etc)
>>108871819Arch is not the one with codecs stuck in a repository that goes out of sync all the time so you won't have a problem with that
I use fedora, is there a reason to even switch to this?
>>108872009sudo paru -Syu --noconfirm
>>108872255>codecs stuck in a repository that goes out of sync all the timeYeah, not being able to read to follow the official guides to install things correctly must suck...
>>108868184Nice tranny wallpaper lol
>>108872009It's the nature of rolling release distros
>>108872376why do you think of men whenever you see women?
>>108868184I switched to CachyOS from Windows 11 this week.Linux experience: 1 yearthe good-the steam games do run-it's faster (file explorer loads immediately)-nearly every software I used on Windows 11 is on CachyOS or has an alternativethe bad-dragged into using Arch Linux-lots of copy pasting ai chat tweaks and fixes for software that only has .deb or .rpm (like Mullvad)-KDE plasma still has weird ui issues (windows don't open on startup in the same place, missing file thumbnails)
>>108872791>like Mullvadis it not in the application store (Discover, Bazaar) or package manager repo?>windows don't open on startup in the same placedoes Plasma still struggle with Waylandshit lacking features?
>>108872930>>like Mullvad>is it not in the application store (Discover, Bazaar) or package manager repo?doubt it>does Plasma still struggle with Waylandshit lacking features?yes
>>108872661>woMENCheckmate faglord.
>includes haruna (mpv based, integrated with kde)>still go and manually download VLCyou have much to learn>>108872791>dragged into using archthe bad?>no mullvadhttps://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mullvad-vpn-binhuh, you can extract .deb files too>windows don't open on startup in the same placewayland issue, not plasma, zones protocol was merged less than 4 months ago
>>108873207>aur mullvadhttps://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mullvad-vpn/it's an upstreamed official pkg now anon
>>108873207>>108873215mullvad hasn't added arch linux to the page yethttps://mullvad.net/en/download/vpn/linuxand 5-15-2026, that official pkg is new?
>>108873314it is pretty new, aur package has been around for a whileaur is prebuilt binary from the official source packaged for arch, the official pkg is built from source and a bit slower at updating, but also supports arm64
>>108873314>>108872791>like MullvadI also had problems with Mega Desktop also. their offical software keeps crashing on startup, probably from Wayland
CachyOS is so popular, maybe more software downloads will have a CachyOS/Arch section
>vlc user>worthy opinion Pic one and only one.
>update>'manual intervention required for *package*'>do nothing>nothing negative happens.Is this the Arch experience?
>>108873417are you actively using that package? worth a read, otherwise don't even bother
>>108873425It was for Kea.
>>108873417it's dumb but there to prevent someone hijacking the package obviously
>>108872354>sudo paru -Syujust type paru, retard
>>108873539meant to say pacman, not paru, my bad
