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Why cachy
Here’s his reasoning from the article:
I installed Cachy recently too and I really like it, after using Mint and Arch for several months (and many others previously).
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.
I believe when you say app manager, you mean a package manager GUI. If so, you might like GuiMan
Thanks for the recommendation. That looks much better than the default app manager!
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.
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.
Wat
Sorry, English is not my native language.
Don't apologise to the grammar police, they are more afraid of you then you are from them.
That's spelling, not grammar.
Your a much smart than?
Yes.
...yes I'm AFRAID of unclear communication.
Than*
It's not about unclear communication. You know exactly what they meant.
Yes if I can figure it out with extra effort then I'm evil for saying anything
If you genuinely didn’t understand, there are nicer ways to ask for clarification than “wat”.
No one said I couldn't understand. If it were up to people like you, we'd not even have standard spelling because you pretend that the ability to eventually understand something is all that matters.
...Alright then.
If you genuinely had difficulty understanding, there are nicer ways to ask for clarification than “wat”.
How are you not getting this? For a moment I was trying to understand what they took the sides off of. Because they wrote "desided". I then figured it out via context but it was confusing where they even got that spelling from, especially given that spell check is a basic feature on every device.
I have absolutely no idea why you think I am claiming it was incomprehensible or that I owe randos online some arbitrary amount of being polite that you define. "Wat" has been a meme for, what, 15 years? And many would've taken it as playful, which it was. Get off my back, jfc
What really are these magical "optmizations" besides installing the default packages available on every distro?
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.
I love Cachy, it's the distro I use in my dual boot.
interesting, I'd never heard of it!
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
You’re also a cachy?
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
TIL people still use Gentoo.
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.
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
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.
Maybe I should do some researching but what do you like about Cachy over plain Arch? That it’s gaming optimized?
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.
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...
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?
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.
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.
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
Maybe their live iso isn't as maintained?
That's my guess based on what you've said