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Is cachyos much better than garuda? I've been on garuda for a few years now and dont know much about cachyos other than its another arch based distro.
I never tried Garuda so I can't help with the comparison.
Is Garuda debian based ?
Cachyos is the first time I touched an Arch based distro and I was very impressed by how stable and "fresh" it feels. I guess Arch deserves its good reputation.
I have been updating my cachyos like two times each week which is a quite high update rate and the only problem I had was this :
Steam stored his cache by default on my home partition and filled the disk completely. I then updated with pacman without noticing I had no space left and the process failed. The system wouldn't boot which was scary. I took a bit of time to think about it and remembered that I can revert the system with BTRFS snapshot. So I checked the cachyos wiki on how to revert and in 2mn i was back to the exact state before my failed update. It broke once because of Steam and the system was very easy to fix.
A beginners could learn to use snapshots easily in the GUI for it and I think would succeed in restoring the system. Would the same be true if a Windows didn't boot ? Honestly I don't think so.
I even was able to setup in the GUI for how many snapshots I want to keep so i constantly have around 30 snaps ready to recover my system up to a month and a half ago.
Garuda is another easy arch like endeavor/cachy. I believe they even both provide kernel images with the cachy patches. But they aren't the default. The really big negative with garuda is their default theme choice and setup. Endeavor/Cachy provide a much more vanilla setup out of the box. Making them a bit less problematic over all.
No gaming distro outperforms any other distro by any measurable means a user would notice.
Actually depending on tasks it can be up to a 25℅ boost. Though in gaming tasks it tends to be a 2 to 5% boost. Which while more moderate can still be felt. Where catchy excels is it's CPU optimization. So if you're CPU bottlenecked it can make a big difference. That said garuda and endeavor both give you the option of installing a cachy patched kernel.