It is very, very similar, depending on exactly how much use you made of the welcome app.
Cachy’s equivalent of the welcome app (I think it was also called the welcome app but I’m not ant my machine to check) isn’t as straightforward or as comprehensive as EOS’s, in my opinion.
personally for me cachyos ended when i saw that their default out of the box shell is fish with some custom prompt. i understand its not that important, i just dont like it
Yeah I switched it back to bash immediately, really wasn’t a fan of that at all.
Essentially the same. You are going to pull from their repositories instead of Arch. You have some different customization and distro specific apps not unlike EOS. Just give a try in a virtual machine.
But beyond this point this discussion is probably best suited to take place in the CachyOS forum (or the more active discord).
I’m more interested in whether it would be a worthy replacement for EOS if the developers of EOS were to run out of steam at some point? I have completely given up on Manjaro for this eventuality.
as far as i understand, it seems like there is only one developer in cachyos. like he is everywhere, he is on forums, reddit, github. i guess its more likely he would run out of steam at some point than eos devs. it looks like he is doing some enormous work
The team of CachyOS consists of 4 persons. They are full of derermination now, but who knows how will they feel in a couple of years.
Personally, I feel like there’s more chance of cachy being the distro where the devs run out of steam first.
There seems to be a lot of work put in to maintaining their own repos with multiple pre-compiled optimised packages, feels like a significant amount of ‘extra’ work is being put in.
As a layman I could be completely wrong, but the implied scope of the project seems to be much more labour-intensive than EOS.
That isn’t to say that I think the EOS dev team is taking it easy (or that the Cachy OS team aren’t dedicated to their work!), but more the impression I get from the public image of both projects.
EndeavourOS is a simple distro with a simple philosophy Keep It Simple Stupid so please;
openSUSE TW is not as cutting edge as it used to be. Their forums are littered with posts about TW’s refusal to offer the latest Nvidia drivers (560 branch), which are supposed to help with Wayland. They are still on python 3.11, with no ETA as to if/when they will upgrade to 3.12. Up until a few months ago, their Cinnamon packages were almost a year behind Arch/Linux Mint.
That being said, SUSE is what got me hooked on BTRFS/Snapper (using a home-grown backup system with snapper snapshots).
You can install Python 3.12 yourself, if you really need the updates from 3.11 to 3.12.
I do find it BS that they don’t update the drivers and the Cinnamon packages is also pretty BS, but they don’t affect me that much.
I’m not switching, though, I frankly do want to go to something like Linux Mint. Too bad that they decided to make a DE that, for me, simply doesn’t work. If they provided a Plasma or even a GNOME ISO, I would have used Linux Mint happily.
True, but it would not be the system python, which I need for testing. I’m still dealing with 3.10 on systems based on Ubuntu 22.04.
Well, they used to have a KDE version. But as much as they’ve had to change in GNOME for Cinnamon to still function, that DE version will never happen. I personally ran LM Xfce for a couple of years before switching to EOS. I’m not a Ubuntu fan, and the old software base just doesn’t work for me.
It’s easy to install GNOME on top of Cinnamon in Linux Mint if that is you want. Afterwards you could remove the Cinnamon components if one wishes too.
That’s what I did here some time ago and it worked well.
Have a look at MX-Linux.
Probably for those that want “optimization” of packages for their CPU architecture. You can take their repos (which can be easily done so using their script file from github) and have 90% of the optimizations + kernel options with optimized schedulers on EndeavourOS. The rest needs to be done manually.
Personally, it’s cool. But I can’t see myself replace EndeavourOS anytime soon. I am not sure if the distro will still be alive in the future. Also, they don’t have a turkey in their forums…yet 