Cachy OS is gaining popularity on Distrowatch. A not of buzz around it: better Arch. The most fast/speedy distro ever.
OK. Let it be good (or even the best) OS for gaming.
What about photo processing, image design, content creation (audio, video, text, etc.)?
Is it still in the raw phase? (I mean a lot of bugs, shortcomings, omissions)
All that optimisation, can it lead to incompatibility with Arch?
Any real experience?
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It seems the distro was first released about 2 years ago and it seems be Arch, but made easy to install and with some low level optimizations being made. Considering that it gains traction, it is probably decent enough to be usable.
Two things to note:
- DistroWatch seems to be unreliable at best when it comes to actual distro usage. Most people that run Desktop Linux probably run Ubuntu or, maybe, Fedora.
- If something works for you, no reason to switch. Switch only if something doesn’t work and you really can’t find any solution to your problem on your distro OR it is different enough and you think you will benefit more from the changes being made to the distro. I personally switched from EndeavourOS to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, as I was getting sick of the DIY nature of Arch and I wasn’t able to figure how to setup
btrfs. I ended up enjoying the distro and I stuck with it.
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I’m currently running cachy on another machine
So far, it’s fine.
The installer seems kind of buggy though, attempting to select any file system other than btrfs caused it to freak out and lock up access to my drives requiring a reboot to unlock them again.
This means I’ve had to go ahead and just use btrfs instead of the ext4 I know and love, but it’s not caused me any problems as-of yet.
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EOS is the system I can install WITHOUT any bootloader. I let MX-Linux GRUB command the booting process.
Does it possible to install Cachy OS without any bootloader?
What about real speed of the system (I don’t mean games, just the usual procedures: open, close app, etc.)?
- I tried OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but couldn’t install Brother printer via WI-FI on it, and I have no idea how to install conky on it. So, I left it.
- So you are using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and it is a great OS. But EOS forum is a great place. ))))
I stick around here mainly because these forums seem pretty active outside of just helping people out. The OpenSUSE forums don’t seem that active. Alongside this activity, this forum is miles better and more mature than another forum I used to frequent.
Also, installing conky is just sudo zypper in conky on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. As for the Brother printer, not sure there. My printer is rarely used and when it is used, it has the drivers built-in the kernel, so I don’t have any issues whatsoever.
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I don’t use anything in a multiboot environment I’m afraid so I can’t really answer your first question because I didn’t look into the bootloader options beyond mashing the systemd button.
As far as the system goes, it’s very snappy but I wouldn’t say it was a significant boost over any other decently lightweight OS I’ve ever used.
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Yes, you are right! This forum is really active and pleasant. And we can not only discuss OS, but we can communicate and have a great fun!
And I’d like to ask you for a favour now. Please, go to the LOUNGE - ENDEAVOUR OS PUB - Photos you’ve taken and make any comment under the last photo of a swan and a paper boat. ) I posted 3 photos and I can post next photo only after somebodies comment. This is the forum rule. Please. )
i personally did the opposite. i switched from tumbleweed to endeavour. What do you mean by setup btrfs? you mean snapper snapshots?
Oh, hi. Yeah. Setting up snapshots correctly and receiving them when necessary. It goes over my head. Again, though, I went away from the Arch more because of its DIY nature. I had some issues too with random freezes during updates, leaving the system in a state of disrepair I couldn’t fix on my own and I don’t want to spam threads every 3-6 months about this here. Having a distro that, more or less, works without much issue is what I want. If Debian Stable wasn’t so old, I would have gone with it. Maybe with Debian 13, I can switch to Debian full time and just don’t worry about updates messing stuff up.
I gave it a try on a spare laptop. It is pretty old now. 2017. Dual core i7. Installed KDE Plasma, my desktop environment of choice, but for some reason various features of my touchpad didn’t work. Not like I forgot to go into system settings and enable tap to click. Which is default by the way and shouldn’t need to be done, but it straight up didn’t recognize my touchpad.
I haven’t had that happen on any other distro on that laptop and it still works on other systems I tried on that same day. I’m thinking perhaps some over optimization resulted in my hardware not working correctly as collateral damage.
You can try MX-Linux. It’s built on Debian stable base, but you can use the latest kernel (curated) and the latest soft. And there are a bunch of easy to use tools to easily setup everything. That’s why I decided to try EOS and do everything by my hands. )))
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actually i made a switch when i figured out how to do it. It appeared to be super easy yay -S snapper-support btrfs-assistant. And that`s all. To me it seems like snapper is working exactly like in tumbleweed. It creates pre and post on every yay command, putting them in grub menu, and self-cleans old snapshots.
well, its my first time using arch full time on real hardware, hope i would not get disappointment with it like your experience. actually i am curious how and when it would break for me so i cant fix it
If you like OpenSUSE Thumbleweed, just use it and don’t distrohop. It is really good distro. Reliable and cutting edge.
I like CachyOS very much. They care a lot about optimizing Linux for desktop usage and shipping the latest and greatest.
On one hand that is very convenient because they apply 95% of the settings I would do manually anyway. Spares you a lot of Arch wiki reading. They also offer a lot of kernel options with different schedulers and run their own CPU-architecture optimized repos.
On the other hand they ship kernel 6.11 right now, while it is still in Arch testing. Or they ship mesa x.0.0, while Arch usually waits for x.0.1.
In my personal, subjective experience the perceived desktop performance is outstanding, going so far that other distros feel “slow” now. But the cost to that is it introduces a new edge to Arch, an edge that is dulled by projects like EndeavourOS.
So if you’re a person who tried the Arch zen kernel and judged it equal to the standard Arch linux kernel - “This is fine” - there’s probably nothing CachyOS has to offer to you.
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Can you tell me if CachyOS give more speed and productivity for image processing and designing tasks?
I’m not in that business, but I very much doubt so.
When I say “feels slow” it isn’t about raw performance, e.g. “some CPU heavy task is noticeably faster”. That doesn’t change. It’s more like the system is tuned to be more responsive esp. under load.
So let’s say you export a video file via CPU and want to keep working while the export progresses in the background. Did the UI ever feel slow? Did some stuttering occur? That’s where Cachy has to offer some attractive choices.
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I have switched my laptop to cachy from eos and it performs noticably faster. Yes you might need to take more care to have a working system backup in case of problems. But I say if you want performance go for it, it is fast.
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I installed EOS and set it up and running. Everything works OK.
What’s about CachyOS after installation setup process?
Is it too hard, or too different from EOS? Is there any real difference?
Thank you for your useful info!