It is also first in the Distrowatch rank
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=cachyos
I distro hopped to it from Bazzite a couple of months ago, and I could not be happier.
If you try the installer, be careful when selecting multiples DE/WM as the conflicts were not listed anywhere for the installation process.
Picking a single environment and then adding the others later was what worked for me.
I’ve thought about making the switch but what holds me back is stability.
I don’t mean stability from a software perspective. But from a distro perspective. Distros come and go all the time. Four or Five have stable enough support through community developers and industry sponsorships that they’ve managed to become large enough and supported enough to be considered Evergreen Distros for lack of a better word. In other words, distros where the support base is large enough to be considered “too big to fail” (Ubuntu, Mainline Arch, Manjaro, Fedora, Gentoo, etc…)
The rest eventually just fade away. I’ve always avoided distros that are maintained by a small community of enthusiasts because enthusiasm goes away really quickly once the real work of maintaining a distro rolls around.
I won’t pull the trigger on any small community project until I’m reasonably sure I’m not going to have to jump to a new project a year from now when the developers get tired of it and move on to something else.
I would not consider Manjaro too big to fail considering what they’re currently going through. The distro has been stagnating the past few years tbh. The community wants collective ownership but the founder is stalling more time. If you’re curious they made a big post about it on their forum. Not a Manjaro hater btw its was my first distro that got me into Linux and now I just use mainline Arch. I liked the config, look and feel and polish it provided. If I started today I’d probably go Endeavor or Cachy probably.
agree. I used to have time to tinker and if things break, I distro hop. Dont have time for that now, I want things to work.
The stability issue is why I am waiting for SteamOS Desktop. I don’t want to distro hop, I just want to install a single OS and never have to worry about it for the rest of my machine’s life.
I like CachyOS but I don’t see it’s worth it to reinstall the OS for 3-5 extra fps on an rtx 4070 laptop with ryzen 9 8945h with 32 gigs of ddr5. It probably might make sense on much older and/or weaker hardware. I mean I can just switch to the cachyos kernel on current Arch install if I want but I am just too comfortable with my current setup.
You can switch back to arch pretty easily and also just upgrade from arch. That’s the real benefit of cachy is standing on the shoulders of giants like Arch.
Does that mean moving from EndeavourOS to CachyOS is also easy?
Maybe I should first look into what the difference is between EndeavourOS and CachyOS. Is it even worth it to switch?
bruh, no Debian?
Debian’s the grand-daddy from which the others all were born.
I mean , from the ones that are listed, it’s only ubuntu, but Debian has spawned A LOT of other distros; and is the literal granddaddy of mint.
True. But I was meaning more spiritually.
If Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, Suse, etc… are the Greek Gods, then Debian and Slackware are the mythological Titans that preceded them.
Distros that come after the Greek Gods (Elementary, Manjaro, CachyOS, etc…) are basically the equivalent of every time Zeus or another god would go down to earth to have sex with a mortal and create a demigod (Hercules, Achilles, Aeneaus, etc…)
Wow, I did not expect Fedora to be this much of a Johnny come lately. Debian is 93, Fedora 03! Even when you consider Red Hat, which is basically fedora , RH is STILL from 95.
Asking the real questions.
Or Suse
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