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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?
There’s a bunch of gaming/performance settings out of the box ranging from custom helper scripts to ananicy-cpp kernel scheduling tweaks and more. Here’s CachyOS’s page on the “tweaks” they have: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/cachyos_settings/
They also include an easy to use kernel manager that gives users a lot of options for kernel customization: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/kernel_manager/ (I may have spent some amount of time borking my system with it… repeatedly 😅)
And they have package repositories that are optimized for newer hardware like Zen4/5 and AVX512 instruction sets: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/optimized_repos/
I’ve been using Cachy for a while now and it’s been great for gaming. I don’t use it for much else tho. As a sysadmin by trade, I do like the support for ZFS on root (which varies between other distros). Although it was a bit tricky to set up, now it’s running smoothly and my snapshots/backups are working great.
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.
In practice I've noticed very little difference between cachy & other distros in terms of performance.
I think it's mostly convenience & marketing. I've run most mainstream distros and cachy definitely worked "out of the box" for gaming. I don't think it's worth swapping for if you're already using Linux.
Nothing wrong with cachy, I just don't think there's any special magic I've noticed that sets it apart from arch.
I love Cachy, it's the distro I use in my dual boot.
interesting, I'd never heard of it!